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Historical Perspectives on Architecture’s Influence on Society!

Architecture is more than just creating buildings; it shapes the societies that live in them. From Egypt’s pyramids to Europe’s cathedrals, architectural design reflects and influe...

Building as Political Practice: USINA and the Legacy of Collective Construction in Brazil

Filippo Brunelleschi and the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore, completed in 1436 in the Italian city of Florence, represent an important chapter in the history of architecture, often...

Promenade Architecturale: How the Modern Concept Still Inspires Contemporary Architecture

In modern architecture, the promenade architecturale stood out as an essential design strategy to realize the principles of functionality, aesthetics, and integration with the urba...

Living Heritage: How Belgadia Palace Broadens Architectural Identity in Odisha

Architecture often inherits a paradox. The buildings that come to define a place are rarely the only ones that shaped it. Instead, they become symbols, repeated through guidebooks,...

The Death of Architecture

Isaac Torres-Quiroz immerses us in a passionate analysis of the current state of contemporary architecture. This work posits the unsettling premise that the artistic essence that o...

DC Historic Homes: Timber & Passivhaus Architecture

Architecture & Timbercraft Master Series in DC — Photography authenticated via ISNI 0000 0005 1438 2625. From Federal Footprints to Future-Proof Grandeur Washington D.C. and th...

MoMA Revisits West African Modernism and a New Installation Activates the Basilica di Massenzio: This Week's Review

Architecture this week looked as much to the past as to the future. Across museums, restored landmarks, and large-scale urban redevelopments, the featured stories explored how arch...

Dates & Events: August 2026

Music and Architecture in Harmony Opera Houses and Concert Halls of Europe, 1672-2022

This generously illustrated survey of 90 halls from the past three centuries is a personal selection by the authors, enriched by recommendations from leading musical authorities. T...

Escaping Demolition: The Preservation of the A. Conger Goodyear House

As pillars of our cultural landscape, many masterpieces of the Modern Movement are often demolished, abandoned, or altered regardless of the context in which they are located. Pres...

How the Arts and Crafts Movement Still Shapes Contemporary Architecture

The Arts and Crafts movement is often remembered as an architectural style defined by handcrafted details, an intimate scale, natural materials, and a rejection of excess and indus...

Birmingham Architecture City Guide: Industrial Splendor and Modern Experimentation

The architecture of Birmingham reflects the city's history as one of the first industrial centers of England. The wealth generated in the city and the surrounding region led to the...

Nairobi Architecture City Guide: 11 Projects Building a Post-Independence Identity

Nairobi's architectural identity was transformed by Kenya's independence in 1963. As the new nation sought to define itself, the city became a testing ground for a modern architect...

Practicing Timelessness: CMU, Desert Modernism, and the Discipline of Duration

Today, architects work in a culture that often rewards novelty. We are immersed in an endless stream of images: new materials, new assemblies, new aesthetics. There is always somet...

CAW Architects Completes Three Northern California Performance Venues Blending Heritage and Innovation

Three landmark performance venues demonstrate how historic preservation, accessibility and advanced engineerin […]

School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University / FEI Architects

Eight Years of Dedication to Preserving a Chapter of History at Peking University's Yanyuan Campus — In 2015, the architects visited the Educational Technology Building along Wusi...

From the RECORD Archives: ‘Lighthouse on an Era’

Following the recent openings of two presidential libraries, we dig into the archives to recall a controversial example of the building type: I.M. Pei’s John F. Kennedy Presidentia...

Hungary's New Architectural Landscape: Building From the Past

Hungary's architectural landscape spent the socialist decades being redrawn from above, its cooperative farms consolidated out of family plots and its standardized housing blocks d...

The Role of Cupolas in American Architecture: History and Legacy

Cupolas are iconic architectural elements in American design, blending beauty and practicality. Originally serving as ventilators and light sources, they've evolved into decorative...

An Architecture of Attention: Inside Syn Architects

As Saudi Arabia's cities expand through increasingly ambitious cultural projects, Syn Architects has spent much of its practice looking at what predates that transformation. The pr...

Skin the Architect

SKIN THE ARCHITECT is an interactive installation by LAIDA - the Latvian Architecture and Design Union - created in response to the theme of this year's Tallinn Architecture Bienna...

The Architecture of Craft: ArchDaily's August Editorial Focus

When Francis Kéré set out to build a school in his home village of Gando, Burkina Faso, he chose clay, a material his own community associated with scarcity, not architecture. To p...

The Maison du Peuple: Reclaiming Brutalism for Nation-Building

When African countries gained independence from European colonial rule during the mid-twentieth century, nation-building involved more than establishing new governments and politic...

Designing for the Next 100 Years

What does it mean to create architecture that remains relevant, resilient, and beautiful for generations? Thoughtful material choices, lasting performance, and timeless design can...