Dreams and Nightmares in Architecture - by Richard Francis-Jones (Paperback)

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Book Synopsis Architecture has never been more challenged than it is today. Addressing the sheer scale of the triple challenges of environmental sustainability, in the form of climate change; the social, in the form of class, gender, and racial inequality; and the cultural, in terms of identity, exclusion, and prejudice, in particular against First Nations Peoples, is a seemingly overwhelming task for architecture. At the same time, these great challenges come at a moment when architecture has never been so marginalized and diminished. The practice of architecture has been progressively desiccated, undermined, and commodified through the instrumental processes of the contemporary developmen…