Meet the commissioners: Neal Shasore

2023-02-21T06:00:00

Neal Shasore discusses the rise of diversity and social value networks, a lack of industry communication and the need for rapid change

Building magazine is 180 years old this year. What lessons about the built environment should we take from the past?

There are too many to count – there are so many radical ideas about pedagogy and the nature of professionalism that feel very timely. But the frenetic debates about reform of architectural education in the late nineteenth century – some of those Ruskinian lines of architectural thought elaborated by the likes of Lethaby – have real relevance for our current moment.

Who or what has had the most positive impact on construction in the past couple of decades?

The extraordinary variety of networks and social enterprises that have sprung up to support diversity and social value in the construction industry and built environment sector.

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