Even if architecture cannot reform society, it can clarify our vision of the status quo.
That meant the physical infrastructure – the highways and the suburbs – and the financial architecture, including reform of the banks, the International Monetary Fund and the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system based on the dollar.
Indeed a lot more countries and institutions need to mobilise financial resources, and the international climate financing architecture needs reform and adaptation to enable a flow of a fairer slice of climate finance.
The disqualification of Rafsanjani by the Guardian Council was shocking, but his decision to not contest the decision and maintain influence within Iran's clerical and political establishment underscored the degree to which the moderates wish to rebuild an architecture of reform within state institutions and the disparate levers of policy-making.
As world leaders talk up the need for a new financial architecture, more reforms will be mooted.
Pugin's message was simple: if there is something wrong with our cities, then there is something wrong with ourselves, and society and architecture both need reform.
The commentaries illuminate the early and ongoing roles of the United Nations in responding to international crises, debates about the UN's architecture and its reform, and its role in global governance, climate change, peacekeeping, and development.
Long dismissed by most architectural historians as follies, this dissertation investigates antebellum octagon buildings as a cipher through which to unravel relationships between ideas about individual subjectivity, architecture, and radical reform at a critical period in U.S. history.
The Data Futures program of the UK Higher Education Statistics Agency is a major national infrastructure building project, an attempt to construct a material substrate for data collection, processing and sharing that might support a utopian vision of big data-driven, digitized and smarter universities while also building the architecture for market reform of the HE sector.
At the G-20 Hangzhou summit, the international financial architecture, particularly the reform and development of the international monetary system, will be important subjects to be reviewed by the leaders.
