Architectural Record

In the October issue, RECORD highlights multifamily projects—from affordable housing in California to a climate-sensitive luxury complex in Spain. Continuing Education explores building with embodied carbon in mind; House of the Month spotlights a Casablanca villa; Landscape features a riverside promenade in Denver; a Corsica media library adheres sensitively to its site; and a U.S. startup aims to upend housing design and construction. In News: RECORD’S Women in Architecture awards, Philadelphia’s Calder Gardens, Michael Heizer’s City, the Monterey Design Conference, Columbia GSAPP’s new dean, Riding the Vortex, Anyeley Hallová, and a celebration of the lives of John Rauch and James Polshek.

Check back throughout the month for additional content.

Multifamily Housing 2022

October 3, 2022

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Innovative multifamily housing projects in the U.S. and Europe spotlight atypical solutions on typical sites and radical interventions in unusual locations that aim to address issues of increasing density.

Brooks + Scarpa Brings Dignified Design to Low-Income Apartments in L.A.

Los Angeles

Sarah Amelar

October 3, 2022

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A low-income project in Los Angeles by Brooks + Scarpa counters neighborhood opposition with a crisp design and terrace gardens.

SO — IL's 450 Warren in Brooklyn Offers a Radical Approach to Housing

Brooklyn

Josephine Minutillo

October 3, 2022

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In a Brooklyn condominium, RECORD Innovation 2022 speakers Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg eschew conventions to reinvent the design of housing.

OHLAB’s Paseo Mallorca 15 Raises the Bar for City Living

Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Chris Foges

October 3, 2022

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Built to Passive House standards, this urban complex speaks to its context with an operable facade of slatted Spanish pine.

HHF Completes a Simple Apartment Building in Basel with a Complex History

Basel, Switzerland

Andrew Ayers

October 3, 2022

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HHF spearheads an innovative densification project in the center of an urban block in Basel.

David Baker's Tahanan Supportive Housing Takes its Design Cues from the Surrounding Filipino Community

San Francisco

Clare Jacobson

October 3, 2022

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A project in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood tackles homelessness with clever financing and inventive construction.

Taking a Holistic Approach to Embodied Carbon

Continuing Education

Fred A. Bernstein

October 10, 2022

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As awareness of the emissions associated with materials and construction grows, architects rethink meeting complex sustainable building standards.

Michael Heizer’s Sprawling Land Art Piece, Called City, Opens Today in Nevada’s High Desert

Cathleen McGuigan

Ilana Herzig

September 2, 2022

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The maverick artist began work on his mythological sculptural work in the state’s Great Basin 50 years ago.

Herzog & de Meuron’s Design Revealed for Alexander Calder Exhibition Site in Philadelphia

Fred A. Bernstein

September 7, 2022

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The planned Calder Gardens will seamlessly link indoor and outdoor spaces along the city’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Monterey Design Conference to Kick Off in October

RECORD Editors

August 25, 2022

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The biennial event hosted by AIA California will be held October 28-30, in person for the first time since 2019.

Q&A with Riding the Vortex: This Year’s AIA Whitney M. Young Jr. Award Winner

The collaborators discuss supporting Black women in architecture

Ilana Herzig

August 31, 2022

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Since 2007, this collaboration of African American women architects has fought for better representation in the field.

Developer Anyeley Hallová Tackles Equity and Wealth-Building

Randy Gragg

September 15, 2022

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The Portland, Oregon-based developer with degrees in environmental systems, city planning, and landscape architecture launched her own development firm, Adre, in 2020 to serve BIPOC communities.

Columbia University Appoints Andrés Jaque as New Dean of GSAPP

Pansy Schulman

August 19, 2022

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The architect, who has led the school’s Advanced Architectural Design Program since 2013, succeeds Amale Andraos.

RECORD Announces the 2022 Winners of the Women in Architecture Awards

Pansy Schulman

August 31, 2022

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Now in its ninth year, the annual award recognizes women who lead and inspire in architectural practice and beyond.

New Startup Aims to Upend Housing Design and Construction

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

July 29, 2022

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Designed in collaboration with Ennead Architects, Juno’s first apartment building heads toward completion in Austin.

In “Inscriptions,” a Flawed Theory of the Contemporary

Review: "Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech," edited by K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder

Izzy Kornblatt

October 5, 2022

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A new volume edited by K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder argues that contemporary architecture is unified by the notion of "inscription."

Tribute: John K. Rauch (1930-2022)

The Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown co-founder, known for project management and technical design, was also a skilled designer in his own right

Izzy Kornblatt

September 7, 2022

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As a close collaborator of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Rauch helped change the course of 20th-century architecture.

Tribute: James Stewart Polshek (1930-2022)

Fred A. Bernstein

September 12, 2022

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The late architect and former dean of Columbia GSAPP dedicated himself to public projects consistent with his politics, from the Rose Center for Earth and Space at New York’s Natural History Museum to the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock.