Examining brief making, representation, spatial clarity, housing design, construction processes, cost and quality control, value measurement and city management, the notion of economy will be framed as a contextual, conceptual, operational and, ultimately, architectural quality. Taking the pervasive doctrine of ‘more, cheaper, faster’ as a cultural backdrop, we will consider the capacity for architecture to critically and responsibly translate constraints into pleasures.

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Image: View from the library of the ADGB School in Bernau by Hannes Meyer. Photo: Walter Peterhans, 1930, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.