Resistance movement

The hugely successful Make, here with its Cube development in Birmingham, embodies an empty inventiveness, Jacob argues.

All credit to the architectural lords… but what if James Stirling hadn’t died so early? Might he have saved us from the easy-fit, bloodless derivatives of funny shape-ism?

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