"""Building Places - In 1943, after the destruction of the Commons Chamber in London during the Blitz, Parliament debated rebuilding the chamber but could not at first decide on its shape - austere and rectangular or inviting and semi-round. The vote for austere and rectangular won and Winston Churchill is quoted as saying during the debate that """"we shape our buildings; and thereafter they shape us."""" In this context he was referring to the need to uphold and maintain the two party system within Parliament, but for architects it is a bold and clarifying reflection of the need to consider the effects of our architecture not just on a site, but on the larger context of society as a whole. Architects design buildings and those buildings in turn work to design society."""
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