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Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future will air on PBS December 27. Watch the trailer and a sneak peek clip below.

Williams, the first African American to receive the prize, won over finalists Zaha Hadid and Richard Rogers. 

In a 53 to 32 vote on November 30, the Helsinki City Council rejected a proposal to build Paris-based Moreau Kusunoki Architectes’ design for a new Guggenheim satellite museum on the Finnish capital’s waterfront.

An AIA conference, held in the wake of the presidential election, argues for increased funding for public buildings.

Foster + Partners, together with the Spanish architect Carlos Rubio, have won a competition to rehabilitate a surviving fragment of the former royal palace of Buen Retiro in Madrid as an annex to the nearby Prado Museum.

In 1988, at the height of the AIDS crisis, activist Vito Russo compared the epidemic to trench warfare, a nightmarish battle in which “every time a shell explodes, you look around and you discover that you’ve lost more of your friends, but nobody else notices.”