The Baffler | Pexels
The days when projects started from a tabula rasa are long gone. Few proposed building sites have no existing buildings, or existing structures of some sort. We could start by opposing their demolition and spending our creative energies inventing new ways in which existing environments could have a second (third, fourth or fifth) lease of life. Let’s not waste our time on new buildings until we run out of existing ones. The present wave of construction has nothing to do with housing the masses. Stop building, and the dirty secret will expose itself. Above: 432 Park Avenue: a home not for people but for money!