Architect Patrik Schumacher: 'I've been depicted as a fascist'

He has proposed eliminating social housing and privatising streets – so is Zaha Hadid’s successor the most hated man in urbanism?When Patrik Schumacher, who took over as head of Zaha Hadid Architects after its legendary founder’s death in early 2016, gave a speech at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin later that year, he nearly caused a riot. In the speech, which was about how to reduce sky-high urban housing prices, he proposed eliminating social housing, privatising al