“The Architect Needs to Expand His Role”: Urban Think-Tank’s Alfredo Brillembourg Discusses His Vision for Our Urban Future

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“The architect has to become more of a politician,” says Alfredo Brillembourg in an interview with urbanNext correspondent Areti Markopoulou. The architect and founder of design practice Urban-Think Tank is chiefly invested in integrating a deeper interdisciplinary approach to architectural design, a tactic he believes can empower architects to combat extreme social and economic inequality currently facing the world’s cities. (Read more via architizer.com)