All Letters to the editor articles – Page 58
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OpinionConservation competence
I think you have identified the nub of the problem with the building conservation register (Leader April 9). Two skills are involved — the technical (vocational/craft) and the strategic (academic/ professional), and these run on different tracks
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Function defence
Work to gas fittings requires protection of function to prevent people blowing themselves and their possessions to kingdom come
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Equality first
The RIBA president is being both politically correct and defeatist to suggest that any move to acquire protection of function for the profession would be going against the tide
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Turning nasty
I am indebted to Robert Menzies (Letters April 17) for bringing it to my attention that in the 25 years or so that I have been visiting and writing about buildings, it has never before occurred to me to predicate a review on the turning circle within a project’s disabled ...
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OpinionStill out of touch
In 1989, RIBA president Maxwell Hutchinson wanted to get rid of the Arcuk
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Prince of peeves
Whatever the rather hysterical Charles Thompson (Letters April 17) may think of the Prince of Wales, the fact is that he speaks out for many people who are less than enchanted by so much of the output of some — not all — British architects in recent years
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No platform for Prince Charles
Why has the RIBA decided to invite the Prince of Wales back to deliver the RIBA Trust lecture (Debate April 9), trailed as though this is some major RIBA coup?
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Conserving skills
As every architect who has some experience of practice will acknowledge, RIBA membership, Arb registration, and the membership of any professional institute by no means guarantees design ability. Neither of course does AABC membership ensure that an accredited conservation architect has design ability
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No need to delist
The delisting of Colin St John Wilson’s Hereford house (Letters 27 March) leads me to the conclusion that in any future listed building legislation, delisting should cease or be much more restricted
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Hardest route
Regarding the debate on professional status, registration, title etc, whatever one’s view, it seems particularly unfair on those architects who qualified the “hard” way
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Internal logic
I read Peter Wilson’s description of Malcolm Fraser’s work in Berwick-upon-Tweed (Works April 9) and noted his assertion that “Clearly a great deal of thought has gone into the internal planning”
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Selective views
Your correspondent has misquoted me in his article about Southwark towers (News April 9)
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OpinionSurface tension
Your recent article on Nottingham (Urban Trawl April 3) seeks to judge the city in terms of design. As usual, the emphasis is solely on visual quality and interest
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Brought to book
Clive Dutton (News April 3) is clearly delighted that the councillors who employ him have “given” him £200 million to gamble on his pet property-led regeneration scheme.
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OpinionChanging gear
How busted am I? I knew that photograph (Archive April 3) would come back to haunt me.
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A new start for conservation
Your invited columnists debating a new conservation register (Debate April 3) should have delved a little deeper, on two grounds.
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OpinionMetal gurus
Mecanoo claims on its website that the facade of the proposed Birmingham Library (News April 3) is a “delicate metal filigree, inspired by the rich and proud history of this former industrial city with a tradition of craftsmanship”.
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Into the light
Maybe Bill Mitchell (Opinion April 3) needs to get his compact fluorescent lightbulbs from somewhere other than his local supermarket?
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Computer craft
Like it or not, computers are here to stay (Whatever happened to craft? March 27), so the issue is how computing-based design can achieve a more sensual quality rather than a default abandonment of how architecture has been practiced for the past two decades or so.