More Comment – Page 351
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Research is vital
Zoë Blacker’s assertion that the “true purpose” of any university is to teach conveniently wipes out centuries of history.
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Time not money
I find it interesting that Richard Saxon sees women architects as giving up the profession “as their pay cannot cover childcare costs” (Soapbox November 26).
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Design hot-bed
In his coherent and rather self-critical thesis (Soapbox November 26), Richard Saxon made a slightly irritating gaffe: “architects… usually in large local authority offices during the sixties doing socially responsible work (but let’s not look at what they produced)”.
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Solid foundation
Disillusioned Young Architect (Letters November 26) writes that the shortlist for the Architecture Foundation’s new HQ consists of “has-beens and fashionable hacks”. What we actually have is a balanced list that includes both recent graduates and a Pritzker Prize winner, with the majority in their twenties, thirties or early ...
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Prince ill informed
Prince Charles is quoted saying “the concept [of modern methods] has more to do with ideology than practicality as it would cost twice as much to build components in factories and transport them to site” (News November 26).
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Lost temple
Thirty-five years ago, my children gathered conkers along a forgotten section of the Roman Ermine Street in Hertfordshire.
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A bumpy ride to the promised land
It felt like the start of something. The Docklands Light Railway was festooned in “Back the Bid: London 2012” graphics and left the City of London destined for Custom House — the aptly named station where Docklands really becomes the Thames Gateway.
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Research: Holy Grail or Achill
Why all the hand-wringing about the poor research performance of UK architecture schools?
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Concrete Boots
Gender defenderBD’s glittering Architect of the Year Awards at the London Hilton on Tuesday took a satisfyingly political turn. De Rijke Marsh Morgan’s Sadie Morgan told the assembled masses that her award for best new practice was one in the eye for the male majority, which was well said given ...
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Dwayne Hemmingham
Why can’t modern housing be more like those containers you get Chinese takeaway in?
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Yearning for the old school days
Zoë Blackler’s editorial (November 19) misses the point, which is that architectural education, as we have known it since the 1958 Oxford Conference, and the universities’ research assessment exercise are incompatible.
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Bravo Cabe
Croydon councillor Adrian Dennis (Letters November 12) calls for a “root-and-branch shake-up” of Cabe and criticises it for being “cliquey” and a “gentleman’s club”.
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Inspired teaching
I was interested to see your piece on art teacher Robin Noscoe’s design for a cricket pavilion/ open-air theatre being listed (Concrete Boots November 12). I was one of the “band of merry pupils” who assisted in its construction, at Canford School in Dorset, in the mid-sixties.
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Held to ransom
Re “Crackdown on Foreign architects” (News November 5), I would not have expected this from a branch of the UK government that effectively has monopoly control over the profession.
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Raising the bar
There have been continuing controversial issues relating to the Temple Bar, one of which is whether or not it is Wren’s work (News Analysis November 19).
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Lie detector
In your article (News November 19) concerning Arb’s accusation that BT is wrongly listing individuals as architects, you quote a BT spokesman as saying that “it is up to the architects not to lie to us”. He is describing the people concerned as architects, which if they are lying they ...
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Crate waste
I was discouraged to find another potential worry for those who care about timber.
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Freedom suit split
Concerning the lawsuit filed by a Yale architecture student (News November 12), who claims his design was used as the basis for the design of the Freedom Towers, it separates Daniel Libeskind’s contributions (the height, the shape of the spire to echo the the Statue of Liberty’s torch) from David ...