There is no Such Thing as a Free Market: Public Planning versus Private Opportunity in Housing

To deconstruct the still hegemonic narrative of free market ideologists in the realm of housing, this article looks at the provocative position of the German-British architect Patrik Schumacher, director of Zaha Hadid Architects. Schumacher’s 2016 lecture on housing at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin, in which he claims that only...

Architecture and Democracy 1965-1989: Urban Renewal, Populism and the Welfare State

Proceedings of the 6th annual conference organized by the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, Het Nieuwe Instituut and TU Delft.