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Will a new Labour government let architects reshape housing?

24 February 2024

9:00 AM

24 February 2024

9:00 AM

‘We make our buildings, and afterwards they make us,’ Winston Churchill said in 1924 in a speech to the Architectural Association. This was flattery of the highest order, designed to butter up the audience of budding architects and inflate their sense of how much power they had to shape society.

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