Keep up the ribbing, RIBA

It is totally in line with the Charter commitment for “the general advancement of civil architecture, and for promoting and facilitating the acquirement of the knowledge of the various arts and sciences connected therewith”.

The RIBA exists to do for the profession as a whole what the separate practices cannot do for themselves — and one of those operations is to advise and pressurize governments, an activity in which the Prince’s Foundation is very active.

That our volume house-builders provide a product of 11% less floor area than their European counterparts is a disgrace which was facilitated by Thatcher’s abolition of the Parker Morris minimum standard. That this was a false economy has been recognised by Boris Johnson. But what about the rest of the country?

If those who have market choice prefer to live in older properties it is in part because the space standards are better. It may also be because such properties are more centrally located, close to facilities and transport, not isolated in low-density, sprawling, car-dependent, residential mono-cultures.

Kate Macintosh
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