September 2025: Dates & Events
RECORD’s monthly list of upcoming and ongoing exhibitions, events, and competitions.
INHABIT: Edith Farnsworth House and Environs in Four Seasons
Plano, Illinois
Through November 23, 2025
Staged on the grounds of the Mies van der Rohe–designed Edith Farnsworth House, owned and operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as a historic house museum, this multimedia exhibition features work by the institution’s 2025 artist-in-residence, the architect and photographer Tom Rossiter. INHABIT is the culmination of Rossiter’s year-long residency exploring the intersection of architecture, culture, and nature. Using time-lapse photography, he positioned cameras both inside the Farnsworth House and across the Fox River, capturing a frame every 20 seconds for 24 hours during each of the four seasons. The resulting film and image installation allows audiences to experience the house both as a frame for its surroundings and environment in relation to the house, creating a meditation on time, design, and place. The installation is accompanied by a soundscape of Native American music and ambient recordings collected during Rossiter’s work sessions at the site, deepening the viewer’s sense of presence and reflection. For more information, see edithfarnsworthhouse.org.
New Hudson Valley Houses
Rhinebeck, New York
Through December 2025
Now on view at ‘T’ Space’s Archive Gallery, New Hudson Valley Houses features 10 recently designed residences by five architects, within three hours of New York City. The works are presented solely through models and drawings, inviting viewers into the design process. The houses are at different stages of design, and each is unique to its situation, with four shared aspirations: maximum preservation of landscape, individuation of expression, experiments with material, detail, and scale, and ecological embedding in the landscape. The architects included are SAA/Stan Allen Architect, Garrick Ambrose, Steven Holl Architects, Toshiko Mori Architect, and MOS. See tspacerhinebeck.org.
The Reimagined City
San Francisco
Through January 19, 2026
Curated by record contributing editor John King and by Robin Abad, this exhibition at San Francisco’s Center for Architecture + Design invites visitors to explore the City by the Bay’s evolving urban landscape, celebrating the beauty of both the new and the historic. From revitalized streetscapes to hidden architectural gems, The Reimagined City encourages a fresh perspective on familiar surroundings. See centersf.org.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Eyes on the Future: Evolving Hotel Design at Populus
Chicago
September 19–February 28, 2026
Through architectural models, drawings, material samples, and more, discover the intention and process behind the design of Populus, Studio Gang’s recent hotel project in downtown Denver. The building’s signature “aspen eye” windows illustrate a way contemporary hotels can connect more closely with their local community and environment, simultaneously transforming the firm’s Chicago gallery into a glimpse of Colorado. See studiogang.com.
Four Five Six
New York
September 25–November 23, 2025
New York’s a83 gallery kicks off its 2025–26 exhibition programming with a show tracing the conceptual, academic, and professional practice of Brussels-based OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen over the past decade. Evolving from the forthcoming eponymous publication designed by Joris Kritis (Buchhandlung Walther König, 2025), Four Five Six features 96 new serigraph prints of photographs by Bas Princen, Stefano Graziani, and Giovanna Silva, produced in collaboration with a83, alongside OFFICE models and artworks by Rita McBride. Cocurated by the firm’s Jelena Pančevac with Clara Syme and Owen Nichols of a83, Four Five Six is the first exhibition in the United States for the practice, which was recognized as a 2009 Design Vanguard. See a83.site.
Frank Lloyd Wright, “Origami” Armchair for Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona, designed 1946,
plywood, copper, upholstered fabric, S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc., Racine, Wisconsin. Courtesy the
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Frank Lloyd Wright: Modern Chair Design
Milwaukee
October 4–January 25, 2006
Based on the original research of architectural historian Eric Voge, this pioneering exhibition at the Museum of Wisconsin Art reveals the designer’s innovative and groundbreaking approach to furniture design. Framing his furniture within a broader context of design history and American modernism, this exhibition highlights Wright’s visionary belief that chairs must be understood as living designs in addition to being extensions of the built environments for which they were created. Presenting over 40 of Wright’s most significant domestic furniture pieces—many on view for the first time—as well as working sketches, archival photographs, and animated renderings shed new light on his holistic approach to design. See wisconsinart.org.
Whose America?
New York
October 16–January 10, 2026
The National Academy of Design’s first bicentennial exhibition examines the United States’ relationship to the idea of America in all its pluralities, organized to unpack the myriad influences—regional, political, and cultural—that have figuratively shaped its contemporary landscape. In celebration of this diversity and the different experiences of Canada, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Puerto Rico will be included in the exhibition. Organized by the Academy’s associate curator, Natalia Viera Salgado, and guest curator Gee Wesley, Whose America? features work by National Academicians such as J. Yolande Daniels, Maya Lin, and Carmen Herrera. See nationalacademy.org
Upcoming Events
Innovation Conference
New York
October 30
RECORD’s Innovation Conference returns for its latest edition with featured speakers Craig Dykers, founding partner of Snøhetta; Jennifer Bonner, founder of MALL; Groupwork chairperson Amin Taha; and French 2D partners Anda and Jenny French. The day-long program will conclude with a presentation of the magazine’s inaugural Architect of Record Award, followed by a reception honoring the first cohort of Architectural Record Awards recipients. See architecturalrecord
.com/innovation-conference.
imm Cologne
Cologne, Germany
January 20–23, 2026
After taking a time-out in 2025, the imm Cologne contemporary-furniture fair returns for its 2026 edition. Under the central theme of “World of Interiors,” imm marks the start of the new interior-design season and is set
to attract exhibitors from over 26 countries. Segments shown are tailored for low to
medium-range price points, with an emphasis on functionality and sustainability. See imm-cologne.com.
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