Architects and academics have responded to proposed reforms to architectural education made by the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission.

They largely supported the commission’s call for education to have a greater focus on wellbeing, but questioned the extent to which it argued that architecture students should have to learn to be populist.

The commission’s final report, co-written by the late academic Roger Scruton and Nicholas Boys Smith, director of Create Streets, made more than 100 recommendations on ways to ensure better-quality design and long-term stewardship in the development of new homes.

…