Architectural Record

Architectural Record
Editor in Chief Cathleen McGuigan
Categories Trade magazine
Frequency Monthly
First issue 1891 (1891)
Company BNP Media
Country United States
Based in New York City
Language English
Website architecturalrecord.com
ISSN 0003-858X

Architectural Record is an American monthly magazine that is dedicated to architecture and interior design. Published by BNP Media,[1] it is generally considered "The Record" of Architectural History.[2] Throughout its 125 years in print, Architectural Record has fostered readership among architecture, engineering, and design professionals by featuring articles that showcase noteworthy architectural works throughout the global landscape. News, commentary, criticism, and continuing-education sections outline the scope of content. Of note are the glossy, high-quality photos that accentuate the featured projects, an attribute which makes the magazine accessible to the general public as well.

Architectural Record holds a close relationship with the American Institute of Architects (AIA), particularly through the AIA Continuing Education sections offered both in the magazine and on the magazine's website. An underscore of this interrelationship, previous editor-in-chief Robert Ivy now acts as CEO of the AIA.[3]

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]

The editorial offices are located in Manhattan in the Empire State Building.[11]

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.[12][13]

References

  1. ↑ "BNP Media Acquires Architectural Record, Engineering News-Record, and SNAP". PR Newswire. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  2. ↑ McGuigan, Cathleen (October 2014). The Sea Ranch Architectural Forum (symposium). YouTube.
  3. ↑ "About the AIA, Organizational Structure". The American Institute of Architects. Retrieved October 2014.
  4. ↑ Elliott, Cecil D. (2003). The American Architect from the Colonial Era to the Present. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. pp. 60–61. ISBN 0-7864-1391-3.
  5. ↑ "F. W. Dodge to Merge Two Publications", The Pittsburg 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 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press) 21 (2): 28–47. 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
  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. ↑ http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/9139-architectural-record-moves-to-the-empire-state-building
  12. ↑ Burgess, Gelett (May 1910). "The Wild Men of Paris". Architectural Record.
  13. ↑ Sawicki, Nicholas. "Inheriting Cubism: The Impact of Cubism on American Art, 1909-1938". Retrieved 2007-02-27.

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