An architect on how the pandemic could change our homes forever
With fewer people now commuting and more people working from home, where people choose to live and how they want their houses to function may change after this prolonged period of lockdown, writes Tara Hipwood...
Tara Hipwood is a Chartered Architect and a Lecturer in Architecture at Northumbria University. She currently teaches across both the Architecture and Interior Architecture undergraduate programmes as a Design Studio tutor as well as lecturer in Environmental and Sustainable Design.
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