Architecture NZ

Editorial

IN THIS TIME OF UNPRECEDENTED change amidst the Covid pandemic, not forgetting a transformational election result for Aotearoa, it’s not surprising that all manner of experts are making all manner of predictions about the future.

See, for example, London starchitect Norman Foster’s musings to the United Nations Forum of Mayors in Geneva in mid-October when he predicted that sustainable buildings could become mainstream.

Foster’s thesis is that architectural change moves in big arcs of history, where big events simply accelerate change that was always going to happen:

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