My attention was caught recently by a post on LinkedIn from Alex Ely of Mae. In it he refers to one of the conclusions which Paul Crosby and I drew in our book on the history of architectural practice – that architects often struggle to define their role and value; along with pieces recently published in Time magazine, and by Martyn Evans in BD.

Ely observes the realisation coming from both inside and outside the profession of architecture that something is going wrong in the way we build buildings; suggesting that in the UK we have built a sophisticated system for delivering buildings but no longer consistently deliver places, or value those who shape them.

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