Presenter of Grand Designs accused of "poverty porn", UK architects "mediocre" and Australia's suburb stifling sustainability.
"We thought it would be about the architecture of Mumbai but it was only about slums, nothing else. He [Kevin McCloud, above] was showing dirty sewage and dead rats, children playing amongst rubbish and people living in these small rooms. He never talked about architecture at all. This was poverty porn made to get ratings, and we are upset."
Telegraph
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"What I don't understand is not why there are so many mediocre architects, but why we have not evolved a planning process that weeds out mediocrity. If architects and their clients insist on making mediocre buildings then surely it falls to the planning process to raise the standard of what is acceptable."
Building
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"It is unlikely that suburban residents would see it that way, yet maintaining a compost heap down the end of the garden can hardly compensate for the massive environmental footprint that suburban living entails. Of course, residents have little choice because what passes for urban consolidation is really just suburban intensification, offering nothing in the way of a real urban experience and retaining all of the negative features of suburbia."
Sydney Morning Herald
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"Even a pedigreed piece of architecture by a famous designer is no longer simply an object that we confront directly or consider whole: It is often something either hidden behind digital walls or half-glimpsed in the background as we direct our main attention to the flickering object in our hands or laps."
Los Angeles Times
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"If the consultation process with residents in relation to the laying back of the creek had been transparent, how is it that the trees earmarked for removal had yellow crosses on them before any consultation actually happened?"
Eastern Courier
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