Building regulations are stifling architects according to developer Roger Zogolovitch, who has declared support for ideas proposed by Patrik Schumacher in his controversial World Architecture Festival speech.
Zogolovitch ? who co-founded architecture firm CZWG, before setting up property business Solidspace ? agreed with Schumacher's statement that scrapping many regulations could solve the UK's housing crisis.
"He is promoting some very serious thoughts about the way in which we need to disrupt the system," Zogolovitch told Dezeen.
"We have got all these limitations that have been imposed on us, which are counter productive," he said. "They have created a perversity, and in that perversity you end up with an outcome that is not what the regulators intended." Regulations create dangerous compromises
The developer said that initiatives like BREEAM and the Code for Sustainable Homes, which regulate the sustainability of buildings, are "dangerous" and often result in poor-quality architecture.
He claimed the market can offer more efficient solutions ? citing green-energy company Ecotricity as an example.

Schumacher made the comments during a keynote speech at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin, which was live-streamed by Dezeen and can be watched here in full
"We have ended up creating the worst kind of compromise," he said. "If we are going to have regulations, then they should actually encourage b...