Henry Urbach
Henry Urbach, a one-time gallery owner who most recently was curator of architecture and design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, will be moving to New Canaan, Connecticut. He has just been named director of the Glass House, the Philip Johnson estate now owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. 

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Jacques Herzog on Mixing Tenses
The Swiss architect talks about his firm’s take on reworking the past.

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Michael Graves
The architect discusses winning this year’s Driehaus Prize, which honors classical architecture and traditional urbanism, and how he plans to spend the $200k award.

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Tina di Carlo, Founder of ASAP
Former MoMA curator Tina di Carlo sets out to change architecture's ugly-stepsister status in the art world.

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Edward Mazria
The Architecture 2030 founder and recent Purpose Prize winner speaks with Architectural Record about being a green building pioneer and how he’s faring in his mission to make all buildings carbon-neutral.

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Noa Santos
Determined to make interior design affordable for all, Noa Santos, a 23-year-old Stanford graduate, recently launched his own firm, 50 for Fifty.

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Jeanne Gang
The founder of Chicago-based Studio Gang Architects discusses being named a 2011 fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She is only the fourth architect to receive the distinction commonly known as a “genius” award.

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Libeskind Looks Back
Although his design for a "Freedom Tower" was replaced by SOM's One WTC, Daniel Libeskind helped shape the rebuilding at the World Trade Center through his master plan. RECORD recently spoke with him about the process.

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Robert Siegel knew he would need to evolve his firm after the death of his business partner, Charles Gwathmey, in 2009. He wasn’t interested in teaming up with another practice—until he got a call from the New York architect Gene Kaufman. Now, Kaufman and Siegel are heading up the rebranded firm Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman & Associates Architects.

During his many decades practicing architecture, Fumihiko Maki has accrued an impressive collection of awards, including the Pritzker Prize (1993) and Japan’s Praemium Imperiale (1999). Now, the American Institute of Architects has announced that this year’s Gold Medal will honor the esteemed architect.

Diébédo Francis Kéré’s story is remarkable: He grew up in poverty-stricken Burkina Faso, won a scholarship to study carpentry in Germany, and went on to earn an architecture degree from the Berlin Technical University. While still a student, he built his first project: a school in Gando, his native village, which received an Aga Khan Award and starred in the recent MoMA exhibition Small Scale, Big Change. We speak with Kéré about his background, his current projects, and his aspirations for the future.

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After 15 years at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, including eight years as a partner, Ole Scheeren has split from Rem Koolhaas and set up his own firm. The new practice, called Büro Ole Scheeren, is based in Beijing and Hong Kong. We recently spoke to Scheeren about leaving OMA and his plans for the future.

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