By Robert A. Ivy, Special to CNN
Venturi and Scott Brown are the 2016 winners of the 72nd American Institute of Architects (AIA) Gold Medal. The Gold Medal is AIA's highest honor and it acknowledges a significant body of work that has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture. Past recipients include Frank Lloyd Wright (1949), Louis Sullivan (1944), Le Corbusier (1961), I.M. Pei (1979), and Moshe Safdie (2015).