Patrik Schumacher, principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, has claimed that architecture as a discipline has ceased to exist, blaming “woke virtue-signalling,” political distractions, and stagnation in architectural education for its supposed demise.

In a 13,000-word essay titled The End of Architecture, published in the Serbian architecture and philosophy journal, Khōrein, Schumacher argues that architecture “has self-dissolved, eroding its intellectual and professional autonomy under the pressures of anti-capitalist politicisation and woke virtue-signalling.”

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