Foreign exchange: In spite of a desire to appear to embrace foreigners and foreignness, history shows that the UK failed to realise the potential of many of its famed architect immigrants -- and little has changed, writes Edwin Heathcote.

Somehow the UK has never properly metabolised its foreign architects. In the UK, however, there have been remarkably few foreign-born architects achieving starchitect status, with the notable exception of Zaha Hadid. [Extracted from the article]