PRE-FABBED OBSOLESCENCE

With buildings becoming more and more pre-fabricated, who’s got need of an architect anymore? “And yet Britain has something like 30,000 architects. What do they do? Few seem to be involved at any great depth in the design of what really matters, such as new housing, even though Britain is being smothered in a feverish rash of the red-brick, three-bedroom stuff.” – The Guardian