Charlie Hussey of Edinburgh-based firm Sutherland Hussey, which has 75 per cent of its work in China, believes that architects are often singled out. “Whenever ethics in China is brought up, architects are always picked on,” he says. “But we’re all trading with China. If Joe Bloggs buys a TV, he’s trading with China. Architects just deal with bigger pieces. There isn’t a single person in the UK who hasn’t traded with China”. — ft.com
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Sounds interesting, but requires paid registration?!
It seems to me it's one thing to buy a product made in China, and another thing to, say, design the government's propaganda headquarters (as pictured). There's a very different level of intent. Not that I'm so convinced it matters either way how architects act on this stuff. An institution like CCTV will do what it does pretty much regardless. Far more politically relevant and direct (in terms of the exertion of power over people) than the CCTV tower would be any prison design... and we do a lot of that in America. But I can't read the article without registering on FT, and don't have the time or money at the moment :(.
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