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“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.”

Architectural Record hosted its third annual Women in Architecture Forum & Awards symposium November 2 at New York City’s CUNY Graduate Center.

The longtime home of the Swiss National Museum, or Landesmuseum, in Zurich, is a stolid 19th-century pile.

In De Matos Ryan’s renovation of York Theatre Royal, sensitive and ingenious lighting plays a vital role in lending coherence to the diverse parts of a building that has been much altered over its 272-year history.

One of the first completed projects from Zaha Hadid’s office since her untimely death, at 65 in March this year, the new Port House on the sprawling docks of Antwerp, Belgium, is a bravura, if distinctly eccentric work.