What Patrik Schumacher thinks about degrowth
German architect and theorist; principal of Zaha Hadid Architects since 2016, after joining the firm in 1988 and becoming a partner in 2002. Writes essays on parametricism, architectural theory and the case for deregulating urban development.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Patrik Schumacher has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingThe degrowth premise that natural limits have been breached contradicts the historical record.
Their wordsThe degrowth premise-that we have breached fixed natural limits-inverts the actual historical record. It is precisely growth that has, again and again, dissolved the limits that were confidently declared final: the Malthusian ceiling on food, the peak-resource panics, the recurring predictions of exhaustion, each overturned not by restraint but by the productivity and substitution that growth alone makes possible.