British architects and critics have ridiculed UK housing minister Esther McVey, who gave a speech announcing that architects are using computers as a "new way" to design buildings.
Speaking at the Conservative party conference in Manchester today, McVey seemed to suggest that architects are moving into a new age where they will be creating 3D buildings for the first time.
"Well, if we have this new way of doing it, 3D architects... 3D visionaries... doing it with it on a computer," the housing minister said during a panel discussion with business minister Nadhim Zahawi and northern powerhouse minister Jake Berry.
The broad and confusing statement about modern construction techniques was widely mocked on Twitter, with Financial Times architecture critic Edwin Heathcote asking how we had lived without 3D architecture for so long.
This is fucking brilliant. The Tories are going to introduce 3D architecture. How have we lived without it for so long" https://t.co/0BOTUtYYaP
? edwin heathcote (@edwinheathcote) September 30, 2019

"They have architecture on computers now"," asked former Its Nice That Editor Owen Pritchard.
Guardian critic Oliver Wainwright added: 'A thrilling day for @Conservatives >architecture policies ? not only ushering in a brave new dawn of '3D architects doing it on the computer', but also a new 'right to fight ugliness' that will clearly solve everything."
Numerous commenters also mocked the idea that Mc...