Brian Holland’s new book opens up an urgent debate. Through 15 captivating interviews, Architecture and Social Change: Shaping an Impactful Practice takes on a range of knotty issues, from our accountability to communities and the natural environment to issues of design authorship and spatial justice. Holding all these stories together is a commitment to a new way of doing architecture, a distinct departure from architecture with a capital A to a practice that is rooted, engaged and purposeful.

What does it mean to practise as an architect when increasing inequality makes the housing and cultural facilities that we build inaccessible to the majority? What is our response to communities affected by climate change when our activities contribute to its aggravation and consequently people’s suffering? And how do we unshackle architecture from an economic system that has seen our work used to consolidate power rather than distribute it?