‘Architecture is now a tool of capital, complicit in a purpose antithetical to its social mission’
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As large housing estates are being demolished and the age of great social democracies recedes, taking with it any notion of an architecture for the public, OMA partner Reinier de Graaf asks if there is any alternative to building capital

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