对于那些认识克里斯汀理查兹的人来说，她在建筑行业的存在是一个拥护建筑的个人的主要例子。作为著名的作家、编辑、摄影师和建筑倡导者，她负责创建ArchNewsNow (ANN)作为其联合创始人和主编。虽然她将 ANN 的成功部分归功于她丈夫、软件工程师 George Yates 的合作努力，但 ANN 一直作为一个网站致力于提供“最全面的国际新闻、项目和建筑和设计领域的事件报道。 ” 今天早上理查兹的丈夫与建筑记录的弗雷德 A.伯恩斯坦分享了她去世的原因是癌症。

从 2002 年 2 月该平台首次推出时起，Richards 将她的时间用于阅读和收集来自各种 AEC 平台的建筑新闻、项目和资源，以策划 Bernstein 所描述的“每日快讯”。在得知她去世后，建筑界对理查兹和她的遗产表示悲伤和感激。 

Archinect 的创始人和出版商 Paul Petrunia 记得她是“一名建筑记者的记者。她每天致力于阅读和审查大量文章的辛勤工作，与渴望但谦虚的建筑师和粉丝观众分享她的选择和其他记者。在我于 1997 年推出 Archinect 几年后，她于 2002 年创立了 ANN。当时我们是唯一的在线架构资源，我非常重视她对分离小麦和谷壳的持续追求。她对建筑话语的贡献比大多数人意识到的要大。” 

今天早些时候，Architectural Record 分享了著名建筑评论家 Blair Kaim 的一段令人难忘的引述，这让我们想起了理查兹对建筑媒体的影响和承诺。“说克里斯汀·理查兹改变了建筑世界的交流方式可能有点夸张，但影响不大。” 

她致力于让所有人都可以访问建筑媒体的无数时间出现在数字领域内外。朋友和同事在社交媒体上分享了他们对理查兹的回忆。她触动了许多人的生活，尤其是那些从事设计写作和批评的人。芝加哥作家兼编辑Anjulie Rao、记者兼作家Amanda Kolson Hurley和Paul Goldberger今天早些时候在 Twitter 上分享了他们的衷心想法。

理查兹工作的核心是向公众分享和交流建筑。ANN 旨在成为一项免费服务，允许订阅者通过理查兹策划的时事通讯了解最新情况并获得启发。在《建筑记录》向理查兹致敬时，他们将她的作品描述为“几乎完全是无偿的工作 [...] 爱的劳动”。作为作家和编辑，她在《室内设计》杂志和Oculus（AIA 纽约分会的季刊）等出版物中的贡献超出了 ANN 。她还担任过多个设计陪审团成员，并帮助编辑了几本书，如Abby Suckle 和 William Singer 的《鸡尾酒与对话：建筑设计对话》。

在她的一生中，理查兹获得了多项荣誉和赞誉。她于 2008 年成为美国景观设计师协会 (ASLA) 的名誉会员，并于 2011 年成为 AIA 的名誉会员。随着 AEC 社区继续悲痛和哀叹，她辉煌的职业生涯理查兹的影响将继续存在。 

英文版

For those who knew Kristen Richards, her presence within the architecture industry was a primary example of an individual who championed architecture. As a renowned writer, editor, photographer, and architecture advocate, she's responsible for creating ArchNewsNow (ANN) as its Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief. While she's attributed part of ANN's success to the collaborative efforts of her husband, software engineer George Yates, ANN has served as a website dedicated to delivering "the most comprehensive coverage of international news, projects, and events in the world of architecture and design." This morning Richards' husband shared with Fred A. Bernstein of the Architectural Record that the cause of her passing was due to cancer.

From February 2002, when the platform first launched, Richards dedicated her time reading and collecting architecture news, projects, and resources from various AEC platforms to curate a "daily dispatch" described by Bernstein. After learning of her passing, the architecture community expressed its sadness and gratitude towards Richards and her legacy. 

Paul Petrunia, founder and publisher of Archinect, remembered her as "an architecture journalist's journalist. She dedicated herself to the hard work of reading and vetting scores of articles each day, sharing her selections with an eager, yet modest, audience of architects, fans, and fellow journalists. She started ANN in 2002 just a few years after I launched Archinect in 1997. At that time we were the only online-only architecture resources, and I have tremendously valued her ongoing pursuit of separating the wheat from the chaff. Her contribution to architectural discourse was larger than most realize." 

A memorable quote from renowned architecture critic Blair Kaim shared by the Architectural Record earlier today reminds us of Richards' influence and commitment to architecture media. "It is perhaps an exaggeration to say that Kristen Richards has changed the way that the architectural world communicates, but not much of one." 

Image from ANN featuring Richards standing near column while on site. Image © Paul French/Diamond Schmitt Architects, 2017

The countless hours she dedicated to making architecture media accessible to all were present in and out of the digital realm. Friends and colleagues took to social media to share their memories of Richards. She's touched the lives of many, specifically those within design writing and criticism. Chicago-based writer and editor Anjulie Rao, journalist and author Amanda Kolson Hurley, and Paul Goldberger shared their heartfelt thoughts on Twitter earlier today.

At the heart of Richards' work was sharing and communicating architecture to the public. ANN was designed to be a free service that allowed subscribers to stay informed and inspired through Richards' curated newsletters. Within the Architectural Record's tribute to Richards, they described her work as "almost entirely pro bono work [...] a labor of love." Her contributions as a writer and editor extended beyond ANN in publications like Interiors magazine and Oculus, the AIA New York chapter's quarterly journal. She's also served on several design juries and helped edit several books like Cocktails and Conversations: Dialogues on Architectural Design by Abby Suckle and William Singer.

In her lifetime Richards has received several honors and accolades. She became an honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) in 2008 and an honorary member of the AIA in 2011. As the AEC community continues to grieve and lament her illustrious career Richards' impact will continue to live on.