Izzy Kornblatt is a contributing editor at Architectural Record and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the history and theory of architecture at Yale University. Originally from Massachusetts, he studied philosophy at Swarthmore College and design studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has contributed to several books, published in a variety of publications, and curated two exhibitions, among other projects.
A team led by San Francisco's EHDD is making use of carbon offsets and new sustainability modeling software in renovating the institute's brutalist headquarters.
This year's honorees range from a public works building in Iowa City to the Louisiana Children's Museum in New Orleans to a new school and library complex in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Long objects of fascination for architects, cars blend engineering, art, and architecture—but have created or exacerbated a host of contemporary crises.