Opinion

Bartlett report sheds much-needed light on our profession’s wider failings

By 2022-06-15T06:00:00

Ben Flatman

The Bartlett sought to break down its students in order to build them back up again in the school’s own mould, writes Ben Flatman

The recent report on a history of abuse at the Bartlett feels like it has exposed not only the underbelly of an architecture school but many of the problems that beset the profession as a whole.

It is in the schools of architecture that we learn how to think and behave as professionals and, if the Bartlett is in any way typical, then it is no wonder that so many architects struggle with work-life balance and dysfunctional workplace cultures.

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