Such is the effect of the news that the philosopher Roger Scruton is to chair the government’s new Building Better, Building Beautiful commission. Thirty and more years ago Prince Charles started lambasting modern architects for the actual and imagined disasters of recent city-building. People who like modern architecture have to appreciate that plenty of people like traditional styles, including in newly built houses, and vice versa. For all of these reasons a figure as doctrinaire and divisive as Roger Scruton is the last person you want as a chairman of the new commission. Ordinary people, in the Scruton view, all hate modern architecture.

Source: The Guardian November 25, 2018 06:56 UTC