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“The power of the handmade shouldn’t be taken for granted,” said Michael Murphy, co-founder of MASS Design Group, a practice known for its humanitarian projects.

In October, the city council of Santa Monica, California, approved a sweeping ordinance requiring all newly built single-family homes, as well as duplexes and low-rise multifamily buildings, to have zero net energy (ZNE) consumption.

Anyone who attended the symposium for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture last month couldn’t miss the irony that it was held in Dubai.

Movies are a classic escape, which is why last week, in the aftermath of the contentious presidential election, it was no surprise that more than 350 people crowded into a darkened auditorium at Los Angeles’ Skirball Cultural Center for some respite, and perhaps a little inspiration.

“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.