The Rewirement Interview
This interview begins a series of conversations that we are going to publish in 2022. Many of them will focus on art making. The first interview is with the editor himself.
‘They were transforming their countries’: South Asian architecture after British rule
A MoMA exhibition takes a new look at the modernist structures that defined Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka after independence
David Hockney Rediscovers Painting
From his home in Normandy, the eighty-four-year-old artist shows off a new series of portrait paintings and discusses all of the work he still has left to do.
Reckoning and Repair in America’s Cities
Communities torn apart by racism and ‘renewal’ are slowly learning how to heal.
Interview with Lesley Lokko
The award-winning Ghanaian-Scottish architect and educator speaks to RECORD editor-in-chief Cathleen McGuigan
Lessons from a Modern Master of Low-Rise Housing
Cities looking to boost density and affordability should look to the work of architect Louis Sauer, who designed stylish modernist housing in the 1960s and ’70s.
Mark Van Proyen on Dilexi Gallery
This lavishly illustrated brick-of-a-book is nothing less than a treasure trove overflowing with valuable information about the richest decade in the art history of Northern California.
Kanazawa’s Empty Spaces
We went to Japan in December 2019 at the suggestion of our friend Yosh Asato. It was our favorite city in Japan because it wasn’t too crowded and there were
Why King Tut Is Still Fascinating
He was a minor pharaoh, and the excavation of his tomb was a disreputable affair. But, a century later, there is more to learn.
Sex, stitches and psychic wounds – Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child review
These sewn-together body parts – dangling from the ceiling, hung out on stands or having sex in vitrines – were created in the final decades of the artist’s long career.
The Many Visions of Lorraine Hansberry
She’s been canonized as a hero of both mainstream literature and radical politics. Who was she really?
Housing and the Cooperative Commonwealth
Can the limited-equity co-op relieve the American affordable housing crisis?
Carmen Portinho and the Vanguard of Modernism in Brazil
In the early 1920s, a time when women could not even work without their husband’s authorization, Carmen Portinho started an engineering course at the Polytechnic School of the University of Brazil.
Mabel O. Wilson is Updating the Narrative of American Architecture to Include Black Architects
A new book, an upcoming MoMA exhibition, and a recently completed memorial are informed by the Columbia University professor’s unflinching critique of traditional architectural pedagogy.
Why the Drawings of Louis Kahn Still Matter
In an age of ebooks and web-first publishing, Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing (Lars Müller Publishers) is a defiant throwback.