"We need less Gehrys, less Hadids, less bloated egotecture. We need more shit, more beautiful shit for the rest of us."

2016-06-07T13:26:00-04:00

By and large, elite architects have disengaged from efforts to make the most fundamental unit of architecture available to all. [...] Contra Hadid and others, a truly revolutionary architecture would concern itself with how to provide permanent, quality housing for the nearly one billion people currently living in slums, how to create accessible housing for the millions more adversely affected by a global affordability crisis in urban areas.

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"We need less Gehrys, less Hadids, less bloated egotecture. We need more shit, more beautiful shit for the rest of us."