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Moment of truth winner1/27/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() It is another very interesting moment to be an architect. Working closer to the subject as opposed to being dependent on global tendencies should play into our hands. And from an architectural point of view, that’s not a bad thing at all. Add to that the unreliability of global supply chains. Covid taught us the importance of our community, the place where we live, the street where our houses are, the shop on the corner. It gives us much more of a mandate to deal with things closer at hand. If we’re starting to understand that certain industrialised processes are environmentally bad and we’re going to have to compensate for them, then what does progress actually look like? And what does local look like and compared with global? We have learned from the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the environmental crisis that some assumptions we’ve all been operating under for the past 30 or 40 years – such as the inevitable benefit of progress and technical advancements and the importance of globalisation – are now up for question. How does that impact you as a practising architect? It is a time of global political upheaval and uncertainty. It is not just a matter of turning a tap on and off. When Boris Johnson announced that the government was going to build 40 hospitals, he forgot that there was a whole planning process that needed to be done. I mean, how can you have a circular economy without planning ? In the right hands planning shouldn’t be restrictive, it should enable and ensure the big decisions are well made and linked up. We’ve been marginalised because planning has been marginalised. I don’t know how we put the lid back on Pandora’s box. Has the profession managed to claw back any of its standing? You’ve talked before about the marginalisation of the profession. Competition-winning LSE proposal by David Chipperfield Architects with Feix and Merlin
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