Architectural Record

An enterprising young firm is taking part in—and setting standards for—a new era of Czech architecture.

Working in both practice and academia, two Boston-based sisters delight in the unexpected.

A Dutch architect focuses on flexible designs that can accommodate ever-evolving programs.

Isaac Michan walks a fine line between the overly familiar and the eerily unrecognizable.

A Munich-based duo strives to make connections between new structures and their contexts, allowing space for collective interaction.

A San Francisco–based studio creates environments that support and even welcome diverse outcomes over time.

A young Korean firm strives to connect people, city, and nature.

A Mexican firm with an urban-centric perspective adopts an efficient, contextually sensitive approach to materials.

RECORD’s annual honors highlight 10 emerging practices from around the globe.

A new museum in Weimar is the first of a trio of structures honoring the Bauhaus centennial.

"The Bauhaus is the Keith Richards of design schools," writes John Ronan. "Influential, legendary, and stubbornly refusing to die." In this essay, the Chicago-based architect asks why we are still talking about the Bauhaus—and why no design school in the intervening century has superseded its influence.

Well before her marriage to Eero Saarinen in 1954, Aline was a cultural force and vigorous defender of modern architecture, at a time when much of America was dubious about contemporary design.

This leading 20th-century reformer and activist helped introduce the socially minded goals of European architects to America through her seminal 1934 book, Modern Housing.

In this special section, RECORD takes a long look into the short-lived school—which had a lasting influence as part of the larger Modernist project.

The Bauhaus may have been short-lived in Germany, but its reach was long.

A serene, meditative sanctuary beckons to young people on the campus of a private Catholic high school in California.

A tight site on a frenetic corner in Mexico City is transformed into a contemplative refuge.

In South Korea, a hilltop chapel's geometric forms draw on the history of sacred buildings.

In a village in sub-Saharan Africa, two buildings from different eras celebrate a shared architectural tradition.

A new building at the Metropolitan Community College in Omaha has become a versatile research, development, and training resource for students and industry.

An architect/developer devises an alternative to the traditional residential subdivision on a site two hours north of New York City.

The design of a developer's New York office pays homage to the community’s history while projecting the refinement of the Houston-based company’s brand.

Blue Bottle's new cafés around the country put the performance of coffee making on display in clutter-free spaces.

To enhance employee productivity and increase sales for a contract-furniture dealer, the architects put the products AOS represents to work, rather than on display.

An underutilized subterranean site in New York City has been transformed into a flexible underground pedestrian street for food and shopping.

RECORD's 22nd annual program demonstrates how architecture can benefit a business’s bottom line.

A New York–based law firm invigorates its workplace by reflecting its increasingly collaborative culture.

Well timed for the Bauhaus centenary, this is the first biography of Walter Gropius (1883–1969) since Reginald Isaacs’s was translated from German and abbreviated in 1991.

Frank Gehry, whose unorthodox Santa Monica house helped make his name in the 1970s, has moved to a larger glass and timber home he designed with his son, set within a lush garden.

A firm designs a flexible prototype of a self-sufficient farming system, incorporating hydroponics, aquaponics, and animal husbandry.

A vineyard in the Chinese countryside both incorporates tradition and defies it.

RECORD rounds up half a dozen new books exploring the Bauhaus from different angles.

RECORD rounds up three exploring different aspects of the Bauhaus.

Those attending the 2019 AIA Conference on Architecture would be wise to budget a few extra minutes between sessions to catch a movie.

A New York architect recalls an extraordinary birthday 45 years ago, when, as a young student, he met a constellation of Modernism's stars, all in a single day.

Called the "Library of Trees," new public park in the heart of Milan riffs on the traditional botanical garden.

A nimble addition plays off the character and forms of a modest Los Angeles bungalow.

The incoming dean of the Harvard GSD speaks with RECORD about her plans for the school and the future of architecture education.

Founded in 1919, the world’s most famous design school had a short life but long legacy.

In June 2019—during Pride month—the Los Angeles LGBT Center celebrated its 50th anniversary with the opening of its new campus by Leong Leong and Killefer Flammang Architects.

Manufacturers of everything from acoustic materials to upholstery fabric are debuting their brightest innovations at the annual trade show in Chicago, taking place June 10-12, 2019.