Izzy Kornblatt

Contributing Editor at Architectural Record

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Design Vanguard 2025: T+E+A+M

1 week ago | architecturalrecord.com | Izzy Kornblatt

ExclusivesDesign VanguardFirm Profiles Architects & Firms Does any long-term good come out of the Venice Architecture Biennale? To this question the Ann Arbor, Michigan–based firm T+E+A+M offers an encouraging answer.
What Happens in Vegas: Three Days at Duck Duck Shed

1 month ago | architecturalrecord.com | Izzy Kornblatt

Architecture News There are a few ways a writer for an architecture magazine can approach going to Las Vegas. One is the Learning from Las Vegas way, the dispassionate mode of travel-as-study made famous by Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, whose 1968 Yale studio measured parking lots, diagrammed neon signs, mapped the strip, and then promptly returned to New Haven to report its findings. This is still more or less the usual architectural way of going to Vegas.
In Third Year, Duck Duck Shed Recasts the Vegas Strip

1 month ago | architecturalrecord.com | Izzy Kornblatt

Architecture News There are a few ways a writer for an architecture magazine can approach going to Las Vegas. One is the Learning from Las Vegas way, the dispassionate mode of travel-as-study made famous by Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, whose 1968 Yale studio measured parking lots, diagrammed neon signs, mapped the strip, and then promptly returned to New Haven to report its findings. This is still more or less the usual architectural way of going to Vegas.
Tribute: Thomas Moser (1935-2025)

Mar 10, 2025 | architecturalrecord.com | Izzy Kornblatt

Thomas F. Moser, the furniture designer and woodworker who translated Shaker simplicity into contemporary chairs, benches, and tables, in the process galvanizing a broader revival of American craft traditions, died last week at 90. With his wife, Mary, Moser in 1972 founded Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers, which developed into a national brand known for its traditional joinery techniques and its lifetime warranty on its products. Archival photo courtesy Thos.
Kris Yao | Artech's New Taipei City Art Museum Bridges Art and Community | Architectural Record

Jul 10, 2024 | architecturalrecord.com | Izzy Kornblatt

Flowing down from the peaks of central Taiwan, the Dahan River widens as it enters the southern suburbs of Taipei, occupying a broad, rocky riverbed nestled among the mountains. Alongside it runs Taiwan’s main north–south rail line, and clustered around one of the stations lies the tightly packed township of Yingge, once a center of the island’s ceramics industry.
History <em> dans le Boudoir </em>

Jun 25, 2024 | nyra.nyc | Izzy Kornblatt

In the introduction to his magisterial 2012 book The Future of Architecture Since 1889, the late historian Jean-Louis Cohen commented that he found it “impossible to limit a history of the relationships structuring twentieth-century architecture to a list of aesthetic ‘influences,’”—a term, he adds, that he has “consciously avoided.” In this desire to move beyond his predecessors’ influence-based approaches, Cohen was hardly alone.
Safe Space: A Pair of New Holocaust Museums Illustrate a Shift in the Architecture of Atrocity

Jun 9, 2024 | architecturalrecord.com | Izzy Kornblatt

This March, the Netherlands’ King Willem-Alexander inaugurated the country’s National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam—a long-planned institution that excavates a dark chapter of Dutch history during which roughly three-quarters of the country’s Jews were killed. But because of Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s attendance at the ceremony, it was met with protest. Demonstrators, a number of them Jewish, gathered to decry the killings of thousands of Palestinians in Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.
Tribute: Kurt W. Forster (1935-2024)

Feb 4, 2024 | architecturalrecord.com | Izzy Kornblatt

For the Swiss-born historian Kurt W. Forster, architecture was never singular. It was an ever-expanding constellation of people, places, projects, and ideas that bled at its edges into numerous other disciplines, and the task that befell the observer—Forster—was to draw intricate, often surprising webs of connection across it in an effort to capture and understand it in all its complexity.
The Las Vegas Sphere and the Promise of a New Earth

Dec 1, 2023 | architecturalrecord.com | Izzy Kornblatt

Architects & Firms“O Newton! With the range of your intelligence and the sublime nature of your genius, you have defined the shape of the earth; I have conceived the idea of enveloping you with your discovery.
In Lisbon, NOMOS's Vale Pereiro Unites the Local and the Global

Oct 4, 2023 | architecturalrecord.com | Izzy Kornblatt

The colorful, patterned tile called azulejo that adorns the facades of buildings across Lisbon has, like cod, port wine, and all things nautical, become a cultural signifier of Portugueseness—a marker of local authenticity so significant as to be the subject of an entire museum, the Museu Nacional do Azulejo, and the prime offering in countless souvenir shops. But, like those other signifiers, azulejo is a cultural hybrid, the product not of local isolation but of global interconnection.