Editor’s Letter – April 2022 | News | Architonic
Architects love themselves. And why shouldn’t they? Of course, I’m being somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but, certainly, if you’ve trained for all those years and are tasked with shaping in the most fundamental way possible our physical environment, our cities, our behaviours and our very daily experiences, you’ve got something to be proud of. So it’s not often you hear an architect talk about what they can’t – or rather, shouldn’t – do. In conversation with Franklin Azzi a few weeks ago, the French architect and Maison&Objet Designer of the Year 2022 spoke of the need for greater collaboration, particularly in the age of sustainability: ‘We are not God,’ he explained to me when we met up at his special installation at the Paris fair. ‘An archit…
