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Missing role model
Your article featuring 12 of the best women architects (Role models February 11) was a good idea, and having worked with Lynne Sullivan at ECD, I agree with her inclusion.However, any such list should include Diana Jowsey at YRM: I doubt whether there are many who know more about healthcare ...
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Politicking won’t get Bath Spa built
When it comes to the world’s worst adverts, the Bath Spa project must rank pretty high for the damage it continues to do to the construction industry’s image and two of its bigger players — the architect Grimshaw and the contractor Mowlem.
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Massaging egos
I refer to Patrick Lynch’s Soapbox article. He is right that narcissistic egoism drives much contemporary practice.
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Straight talking
Patrick Lynch seems to be happier stringing together fancy-sounding, but meaningless sentences than in developing a coherent argument.
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Not so sustainable
The designs shown for PRP’s affordable house (News Analysis January 28) seem strangely to miss the point.
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Collapse hysteria
I would be the last person to deny Sam Webb a re-run of his 15 minutes of fame at the Ronan Point inquiry.
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Arbs blinkers
Deon du Plessis’s fury cannot be uncommon for foreign architecture students seeking qualification in the UK (News February 4).
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The dark side
Both Robert Booth’s conversation with Charles Jencks about Philip Johnson (News Analysis February 4) and Andrew Saint’s obituary piece in the Guardian show that many in the architectural world, dazzled by the glamour of the “famous”, might not have been aware of their “other side”. They both suggest that beneath ...
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No more architects
Never mind the campaign for more women in architecture, I’m right behind the campaign for fewer architects in architecture.
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A dogs life
The “bow wow” factor (Concrete Boots February 4)? What about Lubetkin’s startling originality of roaring, snarling, shrieking architecture? Or Stewart Brand’s “months of glory, years of shame”?There seem to be some who can’t resist the urge to “cock their leg” up against the urban fabric.Martin Valatin, Wiltshire
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Totally absorbing
Long & Kentish is a partnership with one male and one female partner. At times, the female partner has been the only female architect in the office. During other (and, as it happens, longer) periods, the male partner was the only man.
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Good example
We read with interest the news of your 50/50 campaign to recruit and retain greater numbers of female architects.
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The young hold key to community vision
In these days of high-speed urban renaissance, with its emphasis on social inclusion and desire for high-quality architecture, how do we successfully address the gap between vision and delivery?
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Neighbourly artThere are many ways to get to know your neighbours but, in the 21st century, it would seem that the traditional act of popping round to borrow a cup of sugar no longer measures up. At a residential block in Glasgow designed by CZWG, local artist Daphne Wright has ...
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Ian Martin
Naturally, there will be the usual moaning from small practices, shuffling around irritably in their dressing gowns
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Planners could yet be the solution
Here’s a test for the planners. The new national planning policy, unveiled on Tuesday, demands right at the beginning that “design which fails to take the opportunities available for improving the character and quality of an area should not be accepted”.
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Commercial story gets in the way
The Houston in Euston piece (Works January 28) contained an entirely predictable comment by your reviewer. He was clearly rather troubled by the Wellcome Trust building as it has a very straightforward, client-friendly, rectangular plan-form clothed in a relentlessly logical elegant exterior — in short an immensely satisfying piece ...
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Live by the code
I understand there is scepticism about the need for design codes (News January 28). We hear that they “stifle” creativity, but this argument originates from two camps — those architects whose work far exceeds any design code aspiration, and those who think only in terms of objects and not of ...