Architectural Record: The setting, an ornate auditorium in Manhattan’s Masonic Hall, was designed for semi-secret rituals, but the focus of Architectural Record’s latest Innovation Conference was the opposite: ways architecture can improve cities for everyone. Cathleen McGuigan, the editor-in-chief of Architectural Record, started the event, titled The Future of Architecture and the Public Realm, by noting that it was occurring on the 20th anniversary of the opening of Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao, which is proof—if anyone needed proof—that architecture can transform a city. Continue reading>>