Senior RIBA figures including president Simon Allford and president elect Muyiwa Oki have waded into a scrap on social media over an article in The Times which argued that a sustainable future could only be achieved if society “kills all the architects”.

The comment piece by columnist Giles Coren was a response to a news story published in the paper about claims that an architect had inflated the price of a refurbishment job in order to fund the construction of a granny flat in his own home.

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