From Sydney, Australia to Ontario, Canada: celebrating a new Ontario Association of Architects president with a Down Under query about the role of architects in public Housing. Are we looking at architects as handmaidens to builders on budget, with the art of building reduced to . . . paint on concrete?
Or can architects play a more dynamic role in creating dignified, cherishable homes for a nation’s most vulnerable?
The Sydney query is both a plaintive cry for public housing activism support from architects, as well as a history lesson on how, not all that long ago, architects successfully threw their weight behind activists protesting yet another government plan to demolish public housing.
In Ontario, there’s a public housing knowledgeable new association head. The CANADIAN ARCHITECT has the details: The OAA announces Susan Speigel as new President
From Australia, a moment of architect activism, as well as a plea for more, in THE FIFTH ESTATE: Public housing: where are the architects now?
