Architectural Record

Architectural Record

Editor in chief	Josephine Minutillo
Categories	Trade magazine
Frequency	Monthly
Total circulation (June 2018)	93,469[1]
Founded	1891 (1891)
Company	BNP Media
Country	United States
Based in	New York City
Language	English
Website	architecturalrecord.com
ISSN	0003-858X

Architectural Record is a US-based monthly magazine dedicated to architecture and interior design. Its editor in chief is Josephine Minutillo. The Record, as it is sometimes colloquially referred to, is widely-recognized as an important historical record of the unfolding debates in architectural practice, history and criticism in the 20th-century United States.^[2] The magazine is currently published by BNP Media.^[3] Throughout its 133 years in print, Architectural Record has engaged readership among architecture, engineering, and design professionals through articles showcasing noteworthy architectural projects around the world. News, commentary, criticism, and continuing-education sections outline the scope of content. Of note are the glossy, high-quality photos of featured projects, which give the magazine wider readership outside of just those working in the design professions.

Organization and history

Architectural Record began publication in 1891 by Clinton W. Sweet, who also published the Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide. Sweet and Frederick Warren Dodge soon formed a partnership. Dodge published an information service for builders and architects, originally in Boston and expanded to New York with the partnership. Together they established Sweet's Indexed Catalogue of Building Construction, a publication intended to be a summary filing of manufacturer's catalogs.^[4]

In March 1938, the periodical American Architect and Architecture, first published in 1876, was merged with Architectural Record. This combined the two oldest architectural magazines in the United States.^[5]

Sweet's Catalog and Architectural Record became part of F. W. Dodge Corporation in 1912.^[6] McGraw Hill acquired F. W. Dodge in 1961.^[7] McGraw-Hill divested the subsidiary McGraw-Hill Construction to Symphony Technology Group for US$320 million on September 22, 2014.^[8] The sale included Engineering News-Record, Architectural Record, Dodge and Sweet's.^[9] McGraw-Hill Construction has been renamed Dodge Data & Analytics.^[10] On July 1, 2015, the magazine was sold to BNP Media, along with Engineering News-Record and SNAP (a bi-monthly print product associated with Sweet’s).^[11][12]

Architectural Record once held a close relationship with the American Institute of Architects (AIA), serving as its magazine of record. This relationship continues through programs such as AIA Continuing Education sections offered in the magazine and its website. A previous editor-in-chief of the magazine, Robert Ivy, was a long-term CEO of the AIA.^[13]

The editorial offices are located in Manhattan in the Empire State Building.^[14]

Record Houses

Record Houses is an annual awards program organized by Architectural Record. Winning projects are selected by an editorial jury and published in the magazine. Preference is given to "projects that incorporate innovation in program, building technology, materials, and form."^[15][16]

Design Vanguard

Started in 2000, Design Vanguard is an annual feature whereby Architectural Record features emerging practices from around the world "that are demonstrating inventive approaches to shaping the built environment."^[17] Notable firms that have been recognized as a Design Vanguard include Andres Jaque, Vo Trong Nghia Architects, Bjarke Ingels Group, nARCHITECTS, Tatiana Bilbao, Sou Fujimoto, Höweler+Yoon, Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, LTL Architects, mos, Smiljan Radic, Evan Douglis, Michel Rojkind, Neri & Hu, Jeanne Gang, Peter Tolkin Architecture, Synthesis Design + Architecture, Thomas Spiegelhalter, Oyler Wu Collaborative, SsD, IwamotoScott, Abruzzo Bodziak Architects, Merge Architects, Uufie, and WORKac.^[18]

Women in Architecture

In 2014, Architectural Record initiated their "Women in Architecture Forum and Awards" program, "as a way to spotlight pioneering women pushing the boundaries of innovation and creativity in design."^[19] Each year's five honorees are categorized as Design Leader, New Generation Leader, Innovator, Activist, and Educator.^[20]

The Wild Men of Paris

Leading up to 1910, Gelett Burgess interviewed and wrote about avant-garde artists and artworks in and around Paris. The result of Burgess' investigation, "The Wild Men of Paris", was published in the May 1910 issue of Architectural Record; after his visit to the 1910 Salon des Indépendants, the anti-establishment art exhibition in Paris one year before the scandalous group exhibition that brought Cubism to the attention of the general public. An important painting by Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, was reproduced in this article; one of the first mentions of the founders of Cubism, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Jean Metzinger to appear in the American press. Other important works were reproduced by Henri Matisse, Auguste Herbin, and André Derain.^[21][22]

References

1. "eCirc for Consumer Magazines". Alliance for Audited Media. June 30, 2018. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
2. McGuigan, Cathleen (October 2014). The Sea Ranch Architectural Forum. YouTube. Archived from the original on December 19, 2021.
3. "BNP Media Acquires Architectural Record, Engineering News-Record, and SNAP". PR Newswire. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
4. Elliott, Cecil D. (2003). The American Architect from the Colonial Era to the Present. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. pp. 60–61. ISBN 9780786413911.
5. "F. W. Dodge to Merge Two Publications", The Pittsburgh Press, February 14, 1938
6. Shanken, Andrew M. (2005). "From the Gospel of Efficiency to Modernism: A History of Sweet's Catalogue, 1906–1947" (PDF). Design Issues. 21 (2). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press: 28–47. doi:10.1162/0747936053630160. S2CID 57563862. Retrieved May 6, 2015.
7. "T. Oliver Morgan, 83, Is Dead; An Ex-McGraw-Hill Executive". New York Times. November 5, 1965. Retrieved May 6, 2015.
8. Staley, Eddie (September 22, 2014). "McGraw Hill Financial To Sell McGraw Hill Construction To Symphony Technology Group For $320M In Cash". Benzinga. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
9. "McGraw Hill Sells ENR and Construction Group to Equity Investor". construction.com. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
10. Maidenberg, Micah (December 14, 2014). "Best year since 2008 for construction industry". Crain's Chicago Business. Dodge Data & Analytics, a data provider formerly known as McGraw-Hill Construction
11. Hebbard, Douglas .B. (June 12, 2015). "Iconic McGraw-Hill B2B brands, Engineering News-Record, ArchRecord sold to BNP Media". TNM Digital Media LLC. Retrieved August 3, 2015.
12. Tuchman, Janice L. (July 20, 2015). "ENR Joins B2B Media Group". Engineering News-Record. 275 (2). New York City: BNP Media: 2. ISSN 0891-9526. Retrieved August 3, 2015.
13. "About the AIA, Organizational Structure". The American Institute of Architects. Retrieved October 24, 2014.
14. Architectural Record Moves to the Empire State Building November 2, 2015
15. "Enter Record Houses 2021".
16. "Record Houses – AR". architecturalrecord.com. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
17. "Design Vanguard – AR". www.architecturalrecord.com. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
18. "Celebrating 15 Years of Discovering the Profession's Future Stars". construction.com. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
19. "Architectural Record Announces 2018 Women in Architecture Award Winners". archinect.com. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
20. "Architectural Record Announces Winners of First Annual Women in Architecture Awards". architecturalrecord.com. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
21. Burgess, Gelett (May 1910). "The Wild Men of Paris". Architectural Record.
22. Sawicki, Nicholas. "Inheriting Cubism: The Impact of Cubism on American Art, 1909-1938". Archived from the original on February 19, 2015. Retrieved February 27, 2007.

External links

• Architectural Record website
• Early issues of Architectural Record, Hathi Trust Digital Library