From the Archives

From the RECORD Archives: ‘The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style’

Tue, 12 May 2026 08:46:24 -0400

In 1984, RECORD published an extensive essay by architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable about the skyscraper.

From the RECORD Archives: ‘Rakow Research Library, Corning, New York’

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:36:48 -0400

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and structural engineer Dewhurst MacFarlane partnered for this renovation at the Corning Museum of Glass, which was featured in the November 2001 issue.

From the RECORD Archives: 'A Radical Alternative'

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:12:37 -0400

This essay written by Michael Sorkin for 1972's Young Architects issue showcases work by and about emerging talent, their relationship to the profession, and the future of education.

From the RECORD Archives: 'Samuel Mockbee: A Life’s Work – AIA Gold Medal Winner’

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:35:27 -0400

RECORD’s June 2004 issue celebrates the legacy of the late Mississippi-born architect and educator.

From the RECORD Archives: ‘The Steinway Building, New York: Warren & Wetmore, Architects’

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:42:32 -0400

The 15-story office and showroom building of the famed New York piano maker opened in the fall of 1925.

From the RECORD Archives: 'House of the Tranquil Mind'

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:01:24 -0500

Bruce Goff's Pavilion for Japanese Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was featured on RECORD's September 1988 cover.

From the RECORD Archives: ‘An Architecture of Democracy: Three Recent Examples from the Work of Louis H. Sullivan'

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:42:45 -0500

Architect A.N. Rebori praises a series of small Midwestern banks designed by Louis Sullivan in an essay published in the May 1916 issue of RECORD.

From the RECORD Archives: ‘A Grand Leap: The Innsbruck Ski Jump’

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:52:28 -0500

Ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, revisit the Zaha Hadid–designed Bergisel Ski Jump in Innsbruck, Austria, which served as host city for the games in 1964 and 1975.

From the RECORD Archives: ‘A Major Synagogue by Belluschi’

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:11:42 -0500

Rochester, New York’s soulful Temple B’rith Kodesh appeared in RECORD in November, 1963, during Pietro Belluschi’s tenure as dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning.

From the RECORD Archives: ‘KTI Synagogue, Port Chester, NY’

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:24:13 -0500

The Philip Johnson–designed synagogue in suburban New York City was our December, 1956 cover project.

From the RECORD Archives: ‘Campus Center Designed to Provide Creative Arts Context for Social Activities’

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:02:42 -0400

A short December 1964 survey of the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College—recently reimagined by Snøhetta—refers to the building as a ‘valuable prototype for new campus fine arts centers being planned elsewhere in the country.’

From the RECORD Archives: ‘The New White House’

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:07:02 -0400

In the April 1903 issue of RECORD, Montgomery Schuyler dedicates nearly 5,000 words to McKim, Mead & White’s expansion and renovation of the White House—a project that included an early iteration of the now-demolished East Wing.

From the RECORD Archives: Thomas Phifer’s Taghkanic House

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:46:14 -0400

To close out a month of our latest Record Houses, we revisit an honored residence from the April 2003 issue designed by inaugural Architect of RECORD Awardee Thomas Phifer.

From the RECORD Archives: ‘The Post-Modern House’

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400

In this evocative May 1945 essay, author Joseph Hudnut, the founding dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, is believed to use ‘Post-Modern’ for the first time in an architectural context.

From the RECORD Archives: ‘The USTA National Tennis Center by David Kenneth Specter’

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:51:39 -0400

As the tennis faithful flock to Flushing, Queens, for the 2025 U.S. Open, we take a look back at the first incarnation of the USTA National Tennis Center completed in 1978.

From the RECORD Archives: ‘The Juilliard School’

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 09:14:32 -0400

In this 1970 review, editor Mildred Schmertz praises Juilliard architect Pietro Belluschi’s ingenuity in navigating functional demands and engineering constraints.

From the RECORD Archives: ‘The Goldberg Effect’

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:40:34 -0400

A July 1976 article explores how architect Bertrand Goldberg applied his headily futuristic vision for health care at hospital projects in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Tacoma.

From the RECORD Archives: ‘A Building Designed for Scenic Effect’

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:05 -0400

We revisit a 1967 review of I. M. Pei’s National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, described as a ‘direct response to a spectacular site and a highly philosophical program.’

From the RECORD Archives: ‘To Mannerism Born’

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:09:06 -0400

Read two assessments published in October 1991 upon the opening of the Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates–designed Sainsbury Wing—newly revamped by Selldorf Architects—at the National Gallery in London.

From the RECORD Archives: ‘Some Reflections on the John Hancock Tower’

Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:21 -0400

In this June 1977 article, William Marlin mulls over the deeper implications, clouded by controversy, that lie beneath the making of Henry Cobb’s elegant Boston edifice.

From the RECORD Archives: ‘Out of a Philosophy of Architecture’

Wed, 14 May 2025 03:01:39 -0400

Read a 1956 treatise on design penned by Gio Ponti during the construction of his celebrated Milan skyscraper, Pirelli Tower.

From the RECORD Archives: ‘Contemporary Town House Uses Vaulted Roofs’

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:06:34 -0400

Appearing as April’s House of the Month, this rare I.M. Pei–designed residence in Washington, D.C., was first showcased in the magazine as a Record House in 1964.

From the RECORD Archives: ‘Yale Center for British Art’

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:43:21 -0400

In recognition of the Yale Center for British Art’s reopening following a major conservation project and gallery reinstallation, read Vincent Scully’s 1977 review of the Louis Kahn–designed museum.

From the RECORD Archives: ‘Bell Labs’ Mirrored Superblock’

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:31:27 -0400

Read the 1962 assessment of Eero Saarinen’s hulking New Jersey research campus that plays a starring role in the acclaimed science fiction thriller series ‘Severance.’

From the RECORD Archives: ‘A Chapel for Tuskegee by Rudolph’

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:34:39 -0400

Read the original 1969 review of Paul Rudolph’s landmark chapel at the historic Alabama university, which is the subject of an exhibition at the Yale Architecture Gallery.