All Building Design articles in 20 March 2009 – Page 4
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OpinionTime to rethink the year out
With work placements, architecture schools should be more flexible in how students occupy the year between parts I and II
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Opinion
Mellow on Marsh
My lecture at the RA on Richard Seifert (Culture March 13) was limited by the format to half-an-hour, so I only discussed influences specifically acknowledged by George Marsh, Seifert’s principal designer in the 1960s and early 1970s, although this was not mentioned by your reviewer.
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Opinion
Use it or lose it
That the majority of the Arb Reform Group was successfully elected is welcome, but the 15.3% ballot return figure is disgraceful (News March 13).
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Opinion
The sins of Pecha Kucha at Mipim
Plus Boris’s frail grasp of London 2012 timing, and much more...
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Opinion
RIBA is having its own seizure
I didn’t spend six years at university and a further four in practice to call myself an architect, also undertaking CPD and paying out hundreds of pounds each year for PII, to find myself competing against unqualified designers and consultants (Letters March 13 and March 6).
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FeaturesWhere do we go from here?
Help! I've been made redundant but I still want to practise architecture
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OpinionPitching for rational exuberance
As the boom turns to bust, what lessons can we learn from the past about blending radical architecture with civic-mindedness?
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OpinionIn a recession, is it fair to expect planning gain?
Yes, says Alastair Moss, chairman of planning and city development at Westminster City Council. No, says Jo Valentine, chief executive of lobby group London First
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OpinionSearching for some soul on the dole
Architects visiting a jobcentre for the first time might hanker for Gropius’s attempt to make signing on elegant
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Opinion
Despoiled toil
So Rafael Waksberg (Letters March 6) thinks architects’ work is barely better than of the unqualified. What is the point of all that training, then? He is probably right.
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NewsDavid Lunts: housing’s Renaissance man
David Lunts, London director for the Home & Communities Agency, talks about why he sees the Medicis as role models, and the mayor’s plans for the capital
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FeaturesAre EU procurement rules crowding out small firms?
I created a social housing project working with a local community. I subsequently introduced the scheme to a local housing association. Having applied for planning permission, I have now been informed that if fees break a certain limit, the housing association is obliged under EU legislation to tender architectural services. ...
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Opinion
Reality cheque
I read Jonathan Glancey’s plea (March 13) for the universal application of good design and manners, rather than the corralling of such principles in conservation areas, with absolute agreement.
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News
Call for schools to relax work experience rules
The Association of Consultant Architects has called on schools of architecture to urgently drop work experience as a part II entry requirement, as recession-hit students struggle to find placements.
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FeaturesHow to budget IT as recession bytes
With budgets under consideration as April approaches, good IT planning can help maximise your use of human capital
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Opinion
Plunder blunder
Pamela Buxton’s assertion that Corb “worked with Eileen Gray” on the design of E1027 at Roquebrune-Cap Martin (Culture March 13) is a commonly held fallacy.
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ReviewWhen new towns go bad
Indie maestro Darren Hayman has produced a folk opera based on Frederick Gibberd’s 1947 vision for Harlow
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FeaturesBaby, you can drive my car
In the pre-Clarkson era of 1987, BD explored the relation between architects and their cars, including Eva Jiricna (pictured), Hugh Casson and others
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ReviewAsta Gröting’s human formations
This retrospective of sculpture by Asta Gröting at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds traces her influences and antecedents
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NewsMcChesney’s black gloss house has conservation area go-ahead
McChesney Architects has won permission for a controversial modular black house in the heart of a south-east London conservation area.