Alsop's fables

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Many ordinary people in the UK have achieved a high level of personal empowerment through new technology, 24-hour services and other trends. This development clashes with the risk- and imagination-averse attitude of middle managers in large companies. Ordinary people are seeking to question and challenge, while middle managers want certainty and control. In architecture, this situation has been reflected in buildings which are over-managed and over-didactic. Architecture must be regarded as a provocative agent to encourage individual expression, and an excessively programmatic approach to architecture must be avoided.

Architecture, Humanistic architecture

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Will Alsop: American schools lead the way in embracing diversity

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Varying architectural tastes are expressed by the architecure staff at Ivy League universities in the U.S. Such architectural choice is not noted among the staff of U.K. architecture schools. Architectural diversity of Yale University staff is given as an example.

United Kingdom, United States, Column, Education, Design and construction, Yale University, Schools of architecture, Architecture schools, Ivy League

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