Good work is about process, he says, for example understanding the economics and politics of a given situation before proposing solutions, but most architects are over-obsessed with products, the magical, photogenic objects that symbolise help as much as providing it. He accuses them of a “saviour complex” whereby they want to descend on miserable lives and lift them up. The distinction between process and product sounds like Aravena’s between verb and noun, but it’s clear that Sanderson applies at least some of his doubts to the Chilean....Continue Reading

Top Image: Alejandro Aravena: ‘He has some of the trappings of a starchitect: a high media profile, a globetrotting, lecture-giving lifestyle, a carefully cultivated look…’ Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

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