{"id":30206,"date":"2025-10-24T04:12:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T04:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=30206"},"modified":"2025-10-24T04:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T04:12:34","slug":"diversity-in-architecture-has-taken-a-backwards-step-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=30206","title":{"rendered":"Diversity in architecture has taken a backwards step | Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<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 (\u2018Stark displays of sexism\u2019 driving women out of architecture, report finds, 20 October).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">For example, in Haringey\u2019s building design service, which developed ideas from the New Architecture 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 Labour, saw the demise of all council public design services and, with it, the conditions of employment required to support social change. <br \/><strong>John Murray<\/strong><br \/><em>Former Haringey borough architect,\u00a0London<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong><em><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/> Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>email<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>letters<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 (\u2018Stark displays of sexism\u2019 driving women out of architecture, report finds, 20 October). For example, in Haringey\u2019s building design service, which developed ideas from the New Architecture Movement that aimed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[10936,3772,1207],"class_list":{"0":"post-30206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-architecture","9":"tag-diversity","10":"tag-step"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}