Weathering the storm: how architects plan to survive the recession

By Tom Lowe2022-12-21T07:00:00

Designers are usually among the first built environment professionals to feel the impact of an economic downturn. With forecasts getting gloomier by the week, practice leaders are preparing for a rough ride, writes Tom Lowe

“The only time I’ve chaired one of our operations meetings and there have been no leads coming through at all was during Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s government,” says Ben Derbyshire, chair of housing architect HTA Design. “The uncertainty that those two managed to instantaneously create was remarkable.”

Derbyshire’s practice is far from alone in having been temporarily scorched by the economic firestorm which Truss and Kwarteng inadvertently whipped up during their brief time in Downing Street. It has, all told, been a rough few months for architects.

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