{"id":235503,"date":"2025-10-23T22:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/235503\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T22:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:54:07","slug":"diversity-in-architecture-has-taken-a-backwards-step-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/235503\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity in architecture has taken a backwards step | Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Up to the 1990s, local authorities and public sector design services provided positive opportunities for women and ethnic minorities to flourish in departments of architecture (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/oct\/20\/stark-displays-of-sexism-driving-women-out-of-architecture-report-finds\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Stark displays of sexism\u2019 driving women out of architecture, report finds, 20 October<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">For example, in Haringey\u2019s building design service, which developed ideas from the New <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/architecture\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Architecture<\/a> Movement that aimed to involve tenants and users in the design of their buildings and to democratise public architecture, 20% of the senior management team were women and 20% ethnic minorities \u2013 this was 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Privatisation of the public sector, which was supported by New <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/labour\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Labour<\/a>, saw the demise of all council public design services and, with it, the conditions of employment required to support social change. <br \/>John Murray<br \/>Former Haringey borough architect,\u00a0London<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"> Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/oct\/23\/mailto:guardian.letters@theguardian.com?body=Please%20include%20your%20name,%20full%20postal%20address%20and%20phone%20number%20with%20your%20letter%20below.%20Letters%20are%20usually%20published%20with%20the%20author%27s%20name%20and%20city\/town\/village.%20The%20rest%20of%20the%20information%20is%20for%20verification%20only%20and%20to%20contact%20you%20where%20necessary.\" data-link-name=\"in body link \" https:=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">email<\/a> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tone\/letters\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">letters<\/a> section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Up to the 1990s, local authorities and public sector design services provided positive opportunities for women and ethnic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-235503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}