I recently convened an urban studies summer school in a top university in Shanghai and asked the assembled class of architectural master’s students: ‘Who wants to be an architect?’ Not one hand was raised.
This was not the typical reticence of Chinese youngsters; this was a class of architectural students who have given up on architecture.
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