“It’s like a gathering to decipher the Talmud,” architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen observed at a three-day symposium of scholars, architects, and students discussing Robert Venturi’s famous opus, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, published 50 years ago.
In the days since the AIA issued a short statement on the election of Donald Trump, AIA CEO Robert Ivy’s words have sparked a firestorm of responses from many members of the profession who found his statement—as described by architecture critic Michael Sorkin —“temperate, agreeable, indeed feckless.”
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) chief executive officer Robert Ivy has issued a statement on the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States. Ivy's statement is below.
Pierre Chareau made a lasting name for himself in the annals of architectural history with one seminal work, the Maison de Verre in Paris, completed in 1932.
For nine days in September, when the London Design Festival’s distinctive red signage appears at scores of event locations, the remarkable breadth of the U.K.’s design industry is made visible.
Architect and planner Vishaan Chakrabarti and his firm Practice for Architecture and Urbanism have unveiled a scheme addressing problems with New York City's Penn Station.