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Architectural Record editors and critics weigh in on new projects and developments from around the world.

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Bruce Mau Makes the Case That We’re All Designers

Review: "MAU," a film by Benji and Jojo Bergmann
Dante A. Ciampaglia
June 29, 2022
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"MAU," a documentary by Benji and Jojo Bergmann, delves into the famed designer's difficult past and grand plans to better humanity.


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The UK's RIBA Must Become an "Activist Organization"

Will Jennings
June 20, 2022
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A controversial leadership election has shown how RIBA falls back into bureaucracy and defensiveness when confronted with the prospect of change. 


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Architects at work

The Imperative of Ending Coerced Student Labor

A reckoning with faculty misconduct at SCI-Arc shows the need for deeper change in the industry
Russell Fortmeyer
May 13, 2022
2 Comments

A SCI-Arc faculty member on how the school's reckoning with misconduct should prompt architects everywhere to end longstanding abusive practices.


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The Renewables Gambit: Putin Loses, the West Unites, and the Gambit Pays Off

Edward Mazria, FAIA
April 28, 2022
One Comment

Pundits calling for increased fossil fuel production underestimate the rapid growth of renewable energy and its potential to undermine the geopolitical power of petrostates like Russia.


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Inside the Metaverse: Architects See Opportunity in a Virtual World

Pansy Schulman
April 25, 2022
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RECORD takes you inside the new virtual world, where designs by BIG, ZHA and other firms are rising quickly—even as critics warn of the increasing influence of big tech. 


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Lessons from Brad Pitt’s Failed Architectural Experiment in New Orleans

With Make it Right houses in disrepair, a community reckons with what went wrong
Martin C. Pedersen
March 21, 2022
14 Comments

Despite drawing world-famous architects, Pitt’s Make it Right housing initiative has been plagued by shoddy construction and safety hazards.


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Twin Parks Northwest, Site 4, 333 East 181st Street, The Bronx, Prentice & Chan, Ohlhausen, January 9, 2022

The Site of New York City’s Worst Fire in Decades, Twin Parks Northwest Was Once a Model of Social Housing

The Bronx residential prototype, where 17 residents died earlier this month, was an innovative housing prototype when built in the early 1970s
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Suzanne Stephens
January 23, 2022
4 Comments

RECORD Deputy Editor Suzanne Stephens, who covered the Twin Parks complex when it opened, revisits the project.


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Harvard's HouseZero (An Update)

Commentary: HouseZero Data Is Both “Positively Promising” and Reveals “An Opportunity to Make Improvements”

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Fred A. Bernstein
December 22, 2021
2 Comments

Harvard releases performance and embodied carbon information for its experiment in energy efficiency.


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Chicago Exhibition Explores Razed Wright and Sullivan Works

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Naomi Pollock, FAIA
October 14, 2021
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The exhibition "Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan & Wright" is on view at Chicago gallery Wrightwood 659.
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Elizabeth Diller Creates Light Show for Bill T. Jones’ "Deep Blue Sea"

Joseph Giovannini
October 11, 2021
One Comment
The architect’s latest work is not bricks-and-mortar but theatrical and ephemeral.
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