David Chipperfield again explains his commitment to a different architecture, with the architecture social role. A few days ago he had published a letter about the silence of the RIBA face the drift of Brexit and the loss in his country of the social values that have characterized Europe. Now, he again express in this article in Financial Times, ideas on the commodification of architecture,
“I think architecture is in a sort of crisis,” says David Chipperfield. “We’ve lost our social purpose. What we are seeing now is construction as a product of investment. We are building a lot, but we are building big investment projects, as if we’re doing architecture without architecture. It’s more about investment than it is about urbanism. We used to be involved in planning and building cities, building societies. But now we are discussing housing as if it were a strange product like washing machines...
