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In perspective
I get nervous when “gender equality” is equated with making accommodations for women’s supposed desire for a life/work balance.
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We need women
In response to BD’s “Who’s in our sights” listing (News January 7), Stephen George & Partners would like to employ more female architects, but the 50/50 campaign seems somewhat flawed, simply because only 14.6% of architects are female.
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We can all benefit
A feminist campaign to promote the interests of women? There is nothing in the 50/50 Charter that would not benefit men as well as women.
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Flash alternative
Has it not occurred to have-it-all architect fathers who love long hours that it’s perfectly possible to have a “blinding flash of inspiration” on the bus to the nursery?Catherine Brownell, London
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Is high-rise really such a tall order?
At the Sustainable Communities Summit next week, John Prescott will push his vision for high-density, low-rise solutions to the housing crisis. But this single-minded, traditional approach has limitations.
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Cabe to the rescueCabe left no stone unturned when writing its report on design codes. The commission held a series of “code-busting workshops” with planning officers, designers and developers to put its findings to the test. All together now — who you gonna call? Code-busters.Risky jumpersThere may be many strange ...
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Ian Martin
This year all the big clients are more interested in getting into the Guinness Book of Records than winning the Stirling
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Succumbing to the hard sell
We have finally succumbed to the death of any sort of utopian goals in architecture by simply allowing products to be presented as cultural icons without attempting to attach a level of critical reflection.
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With regret
I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the Architecture Foundation on the result of its competition.Sam Jacob, London
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All that glitters
Does it come as a surprise to anybody, apart from a gullible jury, that Alsop’s surrealistic, flashy and seductive collages that made up his competition entry for Goldsmiths College are manifested as a dull box with a bow… a box with decoration signifying nothing. A lesson, hopefully, to ...
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Wasted chances
How extremely refreshing to read Robert Booth’s editorial (January 14) — a rare critical initiative challenging some of our big names.
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Putting the boot in
To suggest buildings by Foster’s office at Gateshead and Alsop’s at Goldsmiths are “not architecture” simply because one BD critic has, as you put it, “stuck the boot in” is patently absurd. To leap from criticism to dismissal seems aggressively extreme.
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We must do more
As one of the architects featured on your cover (News January 7), I would like to congratulate you on your campaign.
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Stone-age man
Whatever else your admirable 50/50 campaign achieves, it has exposed some chauvinistic attitudes among your male readers.
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Just too dull
Your 50/50 campaign is idealistic and stupid — you cannot simply impose a gender quota — and it doesn’t examine sufficiently the reasons why there are so few women in architecture. Maybe much of architectural practice is just dull, and of no interest to women, who are often more creative ...
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Selling out to the star gazers
Is an architect’s star status the result of their unmatched ability as a designer, or is it developed and maintained as a marketing tool? There is a growing feeling in the profession that it is becoming too much the latter.
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Sweet and sour for Cambridge school
The recent campaign in support of Cambridge University’s department of architecture was brilliantly successful in achieving its aim, to prevent closure.