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Architectural Record editors and critics review the latest books, films, and exhibitions about architecture and design.
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"American Framing" Returns to Wood Framing’s Geographic and Cultural Origin

Back from the Venice Biennale, the show is a mediation on the most common way we build
Zach Mortice
May 17, 2022
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The exhibition, first displayed at the Venice Architecture Biennale, is a simple and soulful mediation that resonates powerfully from its new venue in Chicago.
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The Art of the Oblique: The Drawings of Claude Parent

“Claude Parent Oblique Narratives No. 1" is on view at Gallery a83 until July 3
Joseph Giovannini
May 10, 2022
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A new exhibition in New York showcases influential yet little-known drawings by the late Parisian artist and architect. 


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Frank Gehry: Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings, Volume 1, 1954–1978, by Jean- Louis Cohen.

Frank Gehry Gets the Star Treatment in Two New Books by Jean-Louis Cohen

Review: "Frank Gehry: Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings, Volume 1," and "Frank Gehry: The Masterpieces"
Victoria Newhouse
May 10, 2022
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The noted historian and critic delves into the long career of Frank Gehry in two books, one a comprehensive presentation of his drawings, the other a synoptic monograph of built work.
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Chicago Exhibition Interrogates Design Justice and the Legacy of Racism

Review: “You Are A(nti) Racist,” Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College
Michele Y. Washington
April 13, 2022
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At Columbia College's Glass Curtain Gallery, the DAP Collective asks viewers to question their assumptions about racial justice and the built environment.


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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a House

Review of 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a House'

By Stella Betts and David Leven with essays by Thomas de Monchaux
Nader Tehrani
April 7, 2022
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For 2007 Design Vanguard firm LevenBetts, the house remains a fundamental site for advancing modern architectural theory and practice.
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The Stahl House Cover.

A Hidden History of Los Angeles' Famed Stahl House

Review: 'The Stahl House: Case Study House #22: The Making of a Modernist Icon,' by Bruce Stahl and Shari Stahl Gronwald with Kim Cross
Sarah Amelar
April 6, 2022
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A new book reveals the untold stories and little-known characters behind one of the most recognizable mid-century modern homes in the world.


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Jishou Art Museum

In New Exhibit, Architecture Bridges the U.S.-China Divide

Review: "Building in China: A Century of Dialogues on Modern Architecture,” at the University of Pennsylvania’s Fisher Fine Arts Library, Philadelphia
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Clifford A. Pearson
March 24, 2022
One Comment

Beginning with a group of 23 Chinese architects who studied at Penn in the 1920s, the show looks back at a century of mutual influences.


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A Flawed MoMA Exhibition Erases the Social Context of South Asian Modernism

Review: “The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947 – 1985” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
Ranjani Srinivasan
March 4, 2022
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“The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947 – 1985,” on view at the Museum of Modern Art, ignores the failings of modernist design and planning.


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Nature Becomes a Collaborator at Neri Oxman's New Exhibition

Review: "Nature × Humanity: Oxman Architects" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Clare Jacobson
February 23, 2022
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In a time when building construction is contributing to multiple global crises, the American-Israeli designer posits that nature has much to teach us.


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Momentum of Light.

Review of 'Momentum of Light'

By Francis Kéré and Iwan Baan
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Josephine Minutillo
February 14, 2022
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Architect Francis Kéré revisits the paradoxical world of his childhood in Burkina Faso with photographer Iwan Baan, where pitch balck interiors contrast with an outdoors drenched in the sub-Saharan sun.
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Three Books on Frank Lloyd Wright

In celebration of the architect's 150th birthday, RECORD reviews three new books on Frank Lloyd Wright's life and work:

  • The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconoclastic Masterpiece, by Francesco Dal Co
  • An Organic Architecture: The Architecture of Democracy, by Frank Lloyd Wright, with a new introduction by Andrew Saint
  • Travels with Frank Lloyd Wright: The First Global Architect, by Gwyn Lloyd Jones

Scroll through the slideshow below to read a mini-review of each.

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