Chris Williamson: ‘Architects are burying their heads in the sand on AI’

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RIBA’s president on the threat AI poses to the architecture profession, his plans for increasing architects’ pay and his award-winning stage play

“In my mind, Richard Rogers is more like Leonardo and Norman is more like Michelangelo,” says Chris Williamson. He is talking about his award-winning stage play, Legacy, which is about the rivalry between the two renaissance masters, but also, he says, about rivalry in general, particularly when it concerns great artists – including Rogers and Foster. 

Williamson started writing the two-hour historical drama during the covid lockdown, and last year sent it to the Script Awards in Los Angeles, where it won Best Stage Play. In February, it was also named Best Feature Script at the Cannes Arts Film Festival. 

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