November 2011
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tony fretton
HO: Do you think that architecture or the works of some practices are already adapting to the idea that we have to deliver faster very much because of how fast the world of politics is?
TF: My instincts tell me that this is just architects inflicting pain on themselves. We have to remember that politicians are short-termist and far more likely to make gross and destructive mistakes than architects. The professions have much subtler relations with politics. At the University of Delft when the government decides that it would be a good idea to make education cheaper or remodel it in the way that medicine is taught, my fellow teachers, like true professionals, patiently take the policy apart, cut out the bad parts and fix it back together again into a workable teaching program. Politicians, generally, know nothing about education, or about buildings or cities. The professions and working people actually make the world work.
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