The Architect and the Housing Crisis

95 Peckham Road, London, Peter Barber Architects, 2019 This is the final post in my trilogy of blogs on social housing. Blog 1 explored a concentration of diverse social housing developments within a small part of London to see what lessons might help address today’s acute housing need. Blog 2 situated those initial observations within... Continue Reading →

Another Housing Crisis: forward to the past!

Page Street and Vincent Street Housing (1928-1930), by Edwin Lutyens. Image credits: Steve Cadman, Wikipedia Commons As England embarks yet again on a major housing building programme in the first quarter of the 21st century under the New Towns Task Force , it is worthwhile reflecting on earlier architectural attempts to address previous acute housing... Continue Reading →

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