Brain Drain or Brain Gain? How Architecture Has Become a Tool for Migration


Google HQ- Mountain View, CA. Image © Google / BIG / Heatherwick

Google HQ- Mountain View, CA. Image © Google / BIG / Heatherwick

Migration across towns, cities, states, countries, and continents is part of everyday life. As we move to seek out new opportunities in our personal and professional lives, our individual choices actually have greater impacts on the large, highly-interconnected socio-economical systems around the globe. Moving from a small farm town into a major metropolis, or from one continent to another comes with more implications than you may think- and architecture, paired with the concept of “Brain Drain”, might be helping to pull the strings behind the scenes, influencing you to go from one place to the next.

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