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"The best tool for empowering people is through affordable housing," says architect Victor Body-Lawson

Deezen

Architects should see themselves as the representatives of the community in the building process and not simply as an agent of developers, argues low-cost housing specialist Victor Body-Lawson in this interview. His methods for doing this focus on balancing the needs of communities with the prerogatives of developers.

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It Won't Be Over Soon: How Will COVID Change the World?

Community Architect

How long can we sustain this? In a second part I will try to outline scenarios for what developers, employers, urban planners, transit agencies and others could do to prepare. Already developers build less, even applications for new affordable housing are down. Now the head scratching has begun.

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Architecture Articles: Building Design

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Difference between carbon neutrality and net zero Mackintosh Building Glasgow School of Art RICS and YouGov survey 2022 Next generation of knowledge work: hybrid workplaces Data-Informed Design for the User Experience at Work The fluid, sustainable future of retail Designing for Extra Care: What Can Covid Teach Us? Do We Need Libraries?