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Q1: While recently reading Simon Sadler's excellent "Archigram: Architecture Without Architecture" I came across the term "crush of architects" (p.23). Whether he meant it as a possible collective noun for architects is not clear, but it got me thinking what a suitable collective noun would be. A cult of architects perhaps?
Q2: Another long held question of mine is when did the term "built environment" become common terminology? It seems so commonplace and natural nowadays that it's hard to imagine a time before it was coined, but I'm fairly sure it wasn't common parlance when I did my degree in the early nineties. So when was it first used and by whom?
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Certainly was around in the early 1970s through the reasonably popular and widely read Journal 'Built Environment' which was a sort of planning magazine with an emphasis on physical spatial planning at different scales - from regional to local. I have some of these issues and it makes for weird reading today, representing as it did a pre-regeneration and pre-property development world of plans and plan making.
Thanks Willie.
I've just found a reference to it in August 1970's AD where David Greene says "I have a desire for the built environment to allow me to do my own thing" in introducing his LAWUN project number one.
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