Except, as the campaign group Architects for Social Housing argues, they are.
And on and on: the activist group Architects for Social Housing has identified 195 council estates in the 21 Labour-run London boroughs that have been through this process, are going through it, or are faced with it.
All the previous speakers had referred despairingly to the demolition of dozens of the city's housing estates – a process described by the group Architects for Social Housing (ASH) as "the London clearances".
In 1960 he became one of the cofounders of the Metabolist movement, a Japanese-based group of radical architects.
The gathering attracted over 180 people, including federal government officials, industrial leaders, representatives from nonprofit groups, architects, planners, insurance experts, and faculty, researchers and students from Princeton.
Within those groups, architects get an opportunity to handle a variety of jobs at the firm's headquarters in an office park on the edge of Princeton.
They have support from an array of civic groups, architects, historians, former landmarks commissioners and current elected officials who represent the Upper East Side in Congress, the State Legislature and the City Council.
While some have rallied for a 50-meter pool, the costs of which could be offset by charging rental fees to outside user groups, architects from Pasadena-based Gonzalez Goodale Architects recommended a 40-meter pool just south of the campus' South Gym, a space currently occupied by basketball courts.
Within the formal limits of the tunes, Mr. Watts became the group's architect.
I decided to put it to the test by inviting a group of architect friends over for a playday.
"There are no private gardens and that goes a huge way to maximising the use of space," says Ken Rorrison, a director of the group's architect, Henley Halebrown Rorrison.
