Don't worry, we millennials don't need living rooms anyway | Elle Hunt

A controversial architect says the answer to the housing crisis is tiny spaces for millennials. Thanks, but no thanksFirst we came for fabric softener (what does it do?). Then doorbells (we’ll just text when we’re outside). The list of things we “millennials are killing” keeps getting longer, and the latest casualty is the living room.We don’t need them, says Patrik Schumacher, one of those “controversial” architects, and not for his outlandish designs. In a paper published by the Adam Smith Institute last week he argues that housing for young people – if not now, in “the liberalised future” – should be centrally located but smaller, to make it more affordable. Plus he proposes a way to achieve it: more capitalism. Continue reading…
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