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“Why would architects let themselves be so vitiated?”

September 18, 2023 Dana Cuff 0

A recent documentary about The Line mega-project in Saudi Arabia paints a bleak picture of the architecture profession, writes Dana Cuff. I’ve often been frustrated that architects are sidelined in the delivery of much-needed new housing. We are left to compete for commissions with design results bound by a priori constraints. Wouldn’t it open up

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“Are we ready to see public housing’s beauty and suburbia’s impoverishment?”

July 26, 2022 Dana Cuff 0
Brick social housing in Norfolk

Decades of harmful policymaking mean America exclusively associates public housing with squalor, but an influx of subsidized homes would make the suburbs infinitely better, writes Dana Cuff. At the June 2022 American Institute of Architects convention in Chicago, former president Barack Obama admonished architects to listen more carefully to the people around us. Listening closely

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