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摘要

I voted remain in the 2016 referendum but now realise that the objective of Brexit is to renew democratic trust between citizens and state, which has frayed to breaking point in many parts of the UK. It is from political junctures like Brexit that architecture has historically generated Shockwaves of progress and innovation. The prime example is the post-war ascent of democracy. For architects this opened up much more than just a new language of modernist form. It gave rise to new programmes for architects to accelerate -housing, schools, hospitals, playgrounds, lidos - in a nationwide spirit of democracy.