The Guggenheim celebrates 50 with a Frank Lloyd Wright show
It’s fitting that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is marking 50th anniversary of its flagship Frank Lloyd Wright building (and the 50th anniversary of Wright’s death) with an exhibition that privileges the architect’s public and commercial buildings. Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward shows Wright transforming places where people congregate—for work, for worship, for education, for fun.

Photo © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation/William Short

Wright Exhibition Opens at the Guggenheim
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the completion of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. It also marks the 50th anniversary of Wright’s death. To commemorate these events, the museum is presenting a comprehensive exhibition of the legendary architect’s work.

Image © The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

Earth Works by Andrew Rogers
An exhibition showing photographs of monumental earth works by Australian sculptor Andrew Rogers is on display at the White Box gallery in New York City. Rogers has just completed a 10-year project titled Rhythms of Life, consisting of 32 massive masonry sculptures scattered across 12 countries.

Photo courtesy Andrew Rogers

Merce Cunningham/Benedetta Tagliabue: 90th-Birthday Collaboration
Legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham has worked with many luminaries—from Robert Rauschenberg to Buckminster Fuller—throughout his decades-long career. His latest collaborator is Barcelona-based architect Benedetta Tagliabue, who doing the stage design for a new work that Cunningham has choreographed for his own 90th birthday celebration.

Photo © Lluc Pascual

Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective
RECORD editor Josephine Minutillo visits a new semipermanent exhibition at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Photo © Kevin Kennefick

11th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale
RECORD editor, Beth Broome, explores the intangible at the 2008 Venice Biennale.

Photo © Antje Quiram

RECORD Recommendations: Prominent exhibitors at the 2008 Venice Biennale and RECORD’s editors reveal their favorite Venice destinations. They direct readers in town for the exhibition to everything from restaurants and hotels to buildings and beaches.

Image courtesy Penezić & Rogina Architecture

WORK Architecture Company, a New York-based firm, recently completed its installation at P.S.1, transforming the contemporary art museum's two adjoining courtyards into a community agricultural project - and an imaginative architectural composition. On July 5, the installation will become one of New York City's hottest summer party venues.

Photo courtesy Elizabeth Felicella Photography

After the Flood on Display Through June
After the Flood: Building on Higher Ground, an exhibition RECORD conceived and organized for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2006 Venice Architectural Biennale, will be on display until June 27 at the Museum of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

Photo © Michael Goodman

Design and the Elastic Mind
The birth of Bakelite, the first synthetic plastic, revolutionized design in the 20th century. For the first time in human history, things could be created as if from nothing, rather than carved from wood or stone, or fashioned from metal.

Image courtesy MoMA

Two Cities, One Theme: Expiration and Regeneration
Can we envision a city with buildings that don’t last forever? Should buildings have expiration dates? Can we trust our judgment about the future? These are the issues being debated at the 2007 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.

Photo courtesy 2007 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

Marcel Breuer Celebrated in Retrospective
At a time when quite a few mid-century Modernist structures are threatened with demolition, a new retrospective exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., aims to remind people of the contribution that Modernist architects made through their bold experimentation with forms and materials.

Photo courtesy Constance L. Breuer

Five Variations on the Theme of Governors Island
Though barely 800 yards from Lower Manhattan, Governors Island, in New York harbor, suffers from obscurity and neglect.

Photo courtesy GIPEC