One year ago today, the World Health Organisation officially declared coronavirus a global pandemic. Twenty one of the world s leading designers, including Thomas Heatherwick, Kelly Hoppen and Sevil Peach, gave us their views on how it has changed the world.
The pandemic has been the most dramatic disruption to human activity in a generation. For many designers, it has been a time to refocus and rethink how we design products, buildings and cities. It has challenged us to reassess the old normals that we had based and organised our lives around, explained interior designer Peach. Coronavirus has sounded an alarm
A collective led by author and Living Architecture founder Alain de Botton has attacked the dispiriting, chaotic and distasteful architecture of urban environments in an essay titled Why is the Modern World So Ugly?
The article published on The School of Life organisation s website states that our ancestors would be shocked at the horrors of modern architecture. One of the great generalisations we can make about the modern world is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, an ugly world, said the essay, which was anonymously written by a member of De Botton s The School of Life collective. If we were to show an ancestor from 250 years ago around our cities and suburbs, they would be amazed at our technology, impressed by our wealth, stunned by our medical advances – and shocked and disbelieving at the horrors we had managed to build, continued the article.
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AJ 40 under 40: reflecting on the class of 2005
Rob Gregory, one of the previous 40 under 40
, recalls the experience and speaks to some of the others who featured in the 2005 list
I took a punt when I entered the AJ’s 40 under 40 in 2005 as my career had been relatively unremarkable. Having walked away from a potential route to partnership at Feilden Clegg Architects to do time on Hopkins’ Manchester Art Gallery and Allies and Morrison’s Royal Festival Hall, I was two years into a 15-year detour from conventional practice. Out of the loop, I had no idea if my contribution to the profession was noteworthy or, for that matter, what noteworthy actually meant.