Accelerate Debates: Reload the Canon!

Everyone agrees the canon – the authoritative list of big-hitting designers of the past that every architect, planner or landscape professional should study – is due a refresh. But who should make the cut?

Calls to include a more diverse cohort of architects, urbanists and thinkers in the canon have gathered momentum across the world with many forward-thinking academic institutions now earnestly re-examining who their teaching centres and why. But while a consensus for canon rebooting has clearly emerged, the question of who to drop and who to keep is still hotly contested.

For this debate, Accelerate has invited a group of speakers to each outline one practitioner they believe is essential, brilliant and useful enough that every architect of tomorrow should know their name and work. No more hand-wringing over whether the canon needs a refresh, on 2 February 2022, we’ll decide once and for all who’s in and who’s out.

Join us to vote for your favourites and help Accelerate Reload the Canon.

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