In September 2020, Architectural Record interrogates the ways that racism is embedded in the profession—from the whiteness of our Eurocentric history and built environment to education, licensure, and practice. Also in this month’s issue, the Building Type Study highlights workplace projects, and the Continuing Education feature explores how designers engage communities in design. Find our annual Top Firms list in the news section, and take a close look at three new projects: the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado, a net-zero McDonalds Restaurant at Disney World, and St. Pete Pier in Florida. And don’t miss our NeoCon and HVAC product roundups!
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RECORD interrogates the ways that racism is embedded in the profession—from the whiteness of our Eurocentric history and built environment to education, licensure, and practice.
The president of the San Francisco–based architecture, planning, and preservation firm spoke with RECORD about the complexities of preserving cultural heritage.
RECORD convened a panel of three professionals in practice and education—Mabel O. Wilson, Mario Gooden, and Justin Garrett Moore—to explore how racism has shaped, and operated within, the profession of architecture.
Preservationist Susan Benjamin and architect and historian Michelangelo Sabatino survey the classic 20th-century single family homes that defined American Midwestern Modernism.
The historian of the City of Havana for more than 40 years, credited with the transformation of Old Havana into a showcase of exquisitely restored Spanish colonial architecture, died Friday, July 31.