Can Architecture Fix: The Brittle City

Today we’re asking - ‘Can Architecture Fix the Brittle City?’.

We’ve invited William Mann, an architect and principal at Witherford Watson Mann architects in London, to share a story about working with urbanity in and around London.

Links:

http://www.wwmarchitects.co.uk/

A Latecomer Imagines the City

http://www.wwmarchitects.co.uk/site/assets/files/2370/alatecomerimaginesthecity.pdf

Richard Sennett ‘The Open City’

https://urbanage.lsecities.net/essays/the-open-city

Fordlandia, Brazil

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/19/lost-cities-10-fordlandia-failure-henry-ford-amazon

William Mann ‘Untimely Buildings’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcOdZKUu_I8

Charles and Ray Eames ‘Powers of Ten’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0