Pritzker Prize-winning British architect Richard Rogers spoke to The Guardian newspaper, expressing his deep concerns on the impacts of Brexit for both architecture and housing market. Rogers said that the tax rates in housing will increase and people will see more prefabrication systems. Besides that, Rogers criticized the roles of architects on the buildings they designed too. 

According to Rogers, the biggest problem is that architects are disconnected from the results of their designs, never having to live or work in them. "I always think of Ernö Goldfinger, who spent two months living in Balfron Tower, the building he designed in Poplar, east London, in 1968, the better to evaluate the pros and cons of high-rise living – after which he scampered straight back to his lovely low-rise house in Hampstead," exemplified Rogers. 

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"It is ridiculous. We’re going to lose a very large part of the building workforce. Either houses are going to have to double in price, or we’re going to have to find new ways of building them. The modern builder is only in it for profit. He is perfectly happy to build only one house if that means demand is increased. You can’t ask him to change. So the government is going to have to do it".......Continue Reading

Top image: Richard Rogers photographed at home in west London for the Observer New Review by Phil Fisk. Image courtesy of Guardian

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