Cambridge is trying to close its architecture program. It’s one of the top three in Britain, so the idea’s perverse. And yet, changing requirements for how university schools must behave puts it in danger. “Architects have spent the best part of a century trying to be taken seriously and now the subject is being pushed into the second- or even the third-tier universities, as if it was catering or windsurfing. That is bad for architecture, bad for education and terrible for the quality of Britain’s cities.”