Josephine Minutillo

2 months ago | architecturalrecord.com | Josephine Minutillo

Architecture NewsEditorial Putting together RECORD’s annual Interiors issue often feels like taking a break from “real” architecture. After all, restaurants, galleries, and office spaces are frequently short-lived and lack the full impact of buildings—those complex and sturdy compositions of steel and glass, concrete and brick, timber and stone. But in some cases, they can leave quite the impression.

Mar 7, 2025 | architecturalrecord.com | Josephine Minutillo

Ricardo Scofidio, an architect who revolutionized urban public space in his hometown of New York with works such as the High Line and the transformed Lincoln Center campus, died yesterday, March 6, in Manhattan at the age of 89. According to a statement from his firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), he passed peacefully surrounded by family, including his partner in life and work, Elizabeth Diller.

Mar 4, 2025 | architecturalrecord.com | Josephine Minutillo

In late January, while on a short trip to Washington, D.C., I had the opportunity to tour inside the Smithsonian Castle, now closed for a major renovation expected to last several years. Completed in 1855 in a combination of late Romanesque and early Gothic revival styles, it is the signature building of the institution, unique for being established by Congress but not an agency of the government.

Feb 4, 2025 | architecturalrecord.com | Josephine Minutillo

As we were preparing to ship this issue to the printer in early January, the city of Los Angeles erupted in flames. At press time, we could only be sure of the immense devastation, with new blazes igniting and no fully adequate infrastructure for containment.

Dec 2, 2024 | architecturalrecord.com | Josephine Minutillo

As treasure troves of human history, we often think of museums as having been around forever. But the museum—both as an institution and as a building type—with few exceptions, is a fairly new phenomenon in the millennia-long time line of cultural production. The most visited museum in the world, the Louvre, was a former royal residence that opened its collections to the public free of charge in a post-Revolution Paris at the end of the 18th century.