ABSTRACT
An architecture of care also operates within work called ‘housing projects’ – although it does so in a conflicted manner. Although participatory design reframes this problem and addresses some of the disconnect, the point remains that architects are peculiarly placed both as the handmaidens of clients' wishes and the warriors of wokeness intimately concerned about the ‘user’ of the building, desperate to provide an all-enveloping 'inglenook' of care. Architects have been building over the past 150 years, in word and deed, a house that they feel comfortable in, even if they are unaware that it is a house that is held together by the tropes and precepts of an architecture of care. Form and beauty were the glue that held the moral project of an architecture of care together.
