MAIO Studio
According to the four designers behind Barcelona-based MAIO Studio, a completed project isn’t necessarily done: “There’s always something unfinished that demands someone else take over,” says Anna...
View ArticleHou de Sousa
In 2007, Harvard GSD students Nancy Hou and Josh de Sousa decided to take their three-year relationship to the next level.
View ArticleSuperunion Architects
Perusing the Oslo-based firm Superunion Architects’ portfolio is a bit like zooming in and out with a telephoto lens: some views reveal the wider picture, while others bring even minute details into...
View ArticleFirm to Watch: Emergent Vernacular Architecture
Last month, Hurricane Matthew tore through Haiti with 145-mile-per-hour winds, causing complete devastation along the Caribbean country’s southwestern coast.
View ArticleRise to the Top: Dina Griffin
The president of Chicago’s Interactive Design Architects took a leap of faith and never looked back.
View ArticleMover and Shaker: Steven Lewis
The peripatetic urban designer has long advocated for Black architects in the profession.
View ArticleFlexible Sole Practitioner: Nina Cooke John
The New York–based architect tackles everything from renovations to community engagement.
View ArticleMotor City Design Engine: Rainy Hamilton
Hamilton Anderson Associates revitalizes urban areas “one house, one block, one neighborhood at a time.”
View ArticlePaving the Way: Moody Nolan
The largest Black-owned architecture firm in the U.S. is run by a father-son team.
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2022: Leckie Studio
From high-end residences to multifamily to modular prefab, a focus on housing drives this research-driven practice in Vancouver.
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2022: Worrell Yeung
Brooklyn-based Worrell Yeung delivers stripped-down beauty in buildings old and new, in the city and the countryside.
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2022: Kwong Von Glinow
For the Chicago-based firm, the value of architecture lies in clever formal solutions that improve quality of life.
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2022: Freehaus
From thoughtful refurbishments to recent cultural and civic projects, Freehaus is making its mark on the London scene.
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2022: Group AU
Tessa Kelly and Chris Parkinson of Massachusetts-based Group AU grew their practice doing community projects, some initiated and built by them.
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2022: Line+
Part of a younger generation of Chinese architects looking inward, Line+ seeks inspiration from the country's architectural heritage and its natural surroundings.
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2022: CO Adaptive
The Brooklyn-based firm CO Adaptive focuses exclusively on renovating existing structures, transforming many of them into Passive House buildings.
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2022: Ja Architecture Studio
In Toronto, Ja Architecture Studio works at the intersection of architectural formalism and the city.
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2022: Erbar Mattes
The London-based firm's robust, solid-seeming buildings are rich in sensation and ideas, yet retain an elemental simplicity.
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2022: Only If
Adam Frampton and Karolina Czeczek of Only If share an interest in urban planning and housing typologies, most notably affordable prototypes in unexpected places.
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2022 Winners
RECORD presents an array of emerging firms from across the globe as its Design Vanguard 2022 winners.
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2023: Kiyo Takeda Architects
For the young Tokyo architect, who worked under Kengo Kuma for a decade, integrating natural elements with concrete, glass, and steel has become second nature.
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2023: Linden, Brown Architecture
Among other projects, Brent Linden and Chris Brown's Portland-based firm has transformed a postwar house into a new residence and home studio for a local design business.
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2023: Office MI—JI
Classmates Millie Anderson and Jimmy Carter began moonlighting on small freelance projects—today, Office MI–JI has introduced a refreshing new approach to the Melbourne design scene and completed...
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2023: Studio Contra
A circuitous path led Olayinka Dosekun-Adjei and Jeffrey Adjei to found their Lagos-based firm Studio Contra, which has executed increasingly prominent projects, culminating in the Institute of...
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2023: Studio J. Jih
According to firm principal J. Jih, whose studio works out of a converted warehouse in Boston’s South End arts district, architecture is a place “to dissect value, encounter the values of others, and...
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2023: Linehouse
Based in Hong Kong and Shanghai, Briar Hickling and Alex Mok of Linehouse build site-sensitive projects around knowledge of local materials and Chinese craftsmanship.
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2023: Zeller & Moye
A decade into their shared practice, Mexico City–born Ingrid Moye and Berlin-born Christoph Zeller use their bicontinental arrangement to execute projects in both Latin America and Europe, allowing...
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2023 Winners
These 10 emerging practices from across the U.S., Mexico, Germany, China, Japan, Nigeria, and Australia represent the promise of the next generation of architects.
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2023: MIX Architecture
Founded in 2016 by Zhou Suning, Tang Tao, and Wu Ziye, the Nanjing-based practice got its start in rural China, where government investment aims to revitalize areas that have long suffered from lagging...
View ArticleDesign Vanguard 2023: Future Expansion
Based in Brooklyn's Gowanus neighborhood, husband-and-wife partners Nicholas and Deirdre McDermott founded their firm “on the belief that the future provides us with opportunity to constantly improve...
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