ONE OF THE PROBLEMS ABOUT attitudes to contemporary architecture, and particularly those of the current government, is its polarisation. On the one hand, you have think tanks, such as Create Streets, which peddle both policy papers and online comment, hostile to nearly all forms of contemporary architecture apart from the most reactionary.
These are the people, like Nicholas Boys Smith, who idolise the late Roger Scruton and are said to bend the ear of the current Secretary of State, Michael Gove.
On the other hand, whatever its official pronouncements, most new housing under
