THE WORLD: WHAT A PLACE! The last column I wrote made a case that the isms of Eurocentric legacy architecture were a bit of a plague for the building practices of indigenous people. Further, that one of the losses accounts for the devaluing of ideas and approaches to collective being that may have resided in local knowledges. Since then, well, I have been thinking about… the architectural satire account: @dank.lloyd.wright.
As an intermittent social media user, I was reminded of it when reading Professor of Design Studio in the School of Architecture at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington’s Daniel Brown’s opinion I tend to agree with the views therein. Unpaid labour in any sector is at a disconnect with the cost of, well… everything but, especially, the most baseline of human needs such as housing: renting let alone home ownership. Free architectural labour in the name of work experience comes into contact with the cost of living and the cost of living wins. You do not need to track the official cash rate to know this; it is something we are living in.
