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Form-making can transform society
It was a great honour to receive the Lubetkin Prize at the RIBA Awards on June 23. The award means a lot to me - particularly because Berthold Lubetkin has always been an architect whom I hold in the greatest regard.
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Being odious is not against the law
Amanda Baillieu's June 23 editorial delivered a welcome and succinct rebuttal to those RIBA members demanding that Peter Phillips should be barred from standing for president and from the RIBA, simply on the grounds of his membership of BNP.
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Political animals
Architecture is political: as architects we have the power to influence other people's decisions; we have the power to transform our environment for better or for worse; we are able to accept or decline commissions; and we have supposedly been trained to use our brains to create a humane environment ...
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One rule for all?
If we agreed with Peter Carolin's strategy to support the Commonwealth Institute's demolition (Opinion June 16) - it's leaky, cheaply built and redundant - presumably this would mean the Roundhouse should have been demolished many years ago.
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Trust the trustees
Richard Coleman (Letters June 16) implies that "learned professionals, though not heritage experts" failed to advise the Commonwealth Institute on planning law in relation to demolition of a listed building. This is not so.
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OpinionUnfit for purpose
In the debate over the merits of demolishing or restoring the Commonwealth Institute some have overlooked the fact that buildings exist to serve clients in particular and society in general, not a narrow aesthetic agenda.
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Woolly liberals
That the sheep on the Biennale drive were "clearly suffering" is utter nonsense (Letters June 23).
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Cast in stone
I note with interest that Terry Pawson's latest project (Works June 23) has external walls made of "cast stone".
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OpinionNorman Conquest
I expect every stout-hearted architectural yeoman now flying the flag of St George to vote for me
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Phillips' BNP links are toxic, but no bar
Should political affiliation be a bar to becoming president of the RIBA? This is the only question that is worth asking a week after it emerged that Peter Phillips, one of three candidates for the presidency, is a member of the British National Party.
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Music expresses the soul of Sheffield
So BD and Architecture Foundation's Architecture Rocks competition approaches its climax. It is an event in the long tradition of relating architecture to music. From Wittkower's treatise on Renaissance architecture, harmony and proportion, to Libeskind's use of Schoenberg to inform the Jewish Museum, people have tried to forge links between ...
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Commonwealth: a duty to demolish
There is no viable future for the Commonwealth Institute. It should be demolished. Armchair aesthetes seem unaware of the raison-d'etre of the Commonwealth.
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Best is yet to come
Peter Carolin's arguments in favour of the demolition of the Commonwealth Institute (Opinion June 16) evade the issue which is upsetting conservationists and ought to alarm even those neutral about the building.
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OpinionBaah-baric stunt
Judging by my excitement and others' at the Rogers/Piano spectacle of herding sheep across the "wobbly" bridge, it was clear that we were "townies" and hadn't seen sheep alive at close quarters before. However, when I noticed the protestors, I started to think about the whole concept.
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Generation game
I have just visited Poundbury for the first time and let me assure Bryan Perry (Letters June 9) that I tried to look at it with an unprejudiced eye.
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Business as usual
You report (News June 9) that an unnamed DoH source and the man who is actually no longer responsible for the schools programme have "rejected" the RIBA's Smart PFI initiative. Small earthquake, not many dead, then.
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Living in the past
In Soapbox, June 16, Nick Johnson nearly makes a valid point, but he obviously has not been in this business long enough!