No research, no development

by David Parkes

Each year the Housing Design Awards invites a respected housing practitioner to comment on the state of housing. Here, David Parkes, who worked in the Ministry of Housing in the early 1960s before going into private practice as a partner in Phippen Randall & Parkes Architects, compares procurement then with now.

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