More Opinion – Page 205
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Survey the scene
The recent healthy debate about the regulation of the profession (Letters passim) poses difficulties in moving forward where none need exist
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OpinionDon’t just wait for good times to return
It will be the final misery of these times if all we emerge with is downsized businesses and nastier buildings
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Drain the swamp
I agree with Susan Ballinger (Letters March 20). All planning and building regulations applications should be made by an architect as this would solve a lot of the problems — RIBA and Arb, take note!
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Content majority
I am bemused by Gordon Kidd (Letters March 20) suggesting the answer to the poor turnout in the Arb elections is to “return Arb to its registration-only function”
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OpinionThe third way
It has occurred to me that architects visiting London might be mildly surprised to see Palladio and Le Corbusier’s names writ large on the side of buses and in the passages of the Underground
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It’s not unusual
Regarding your article on job opportunities in Kazakhstan and elsewhere (News March 20), it would appear that the writer has never been outside the western hemisphere
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OpinionDoes London need a new vernacular for housing?
Yes, it would offer coherence to our developing neighbourhoods, says Alex Ely; while Joe Morris argues that it means an indigenous but anonymous architecture
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OpinionOff limits at the RIBA
Secret agendasBD would like to tell readers a little about RIBA Council meetings but is struggling against an institute that seems to be getting more secretive by the day. Following a meeting late last year, at which all but one item was off-limits to the press, BD was informed this ...
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OpinionWhatever happened to craft?
Architects should put away the computer and dig into the toolbox for an appreciation of materials and how buildings actually work
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OpinionTime to rethink the year out
With work placements, architecture schools should be more flexible in how students occupy the year between parts I and II
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OpinionSearching for some soul on the dole
Architects visiting a jobcentre for the first time might hanker for Gropius’s attempt to make signing on elegant
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RIBA is having its own seizure
I didn’t spend six years at university and a further four in practice to call myself an architect, also undertaking CPD and paying out hundreds of pounds each year for PII, to find myself competing against unqualified designers and consultants (Letters March 13 and March 6).
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Despoiled toil
So Rafael Waksberg (Letters March 6) thinks architects’ work is barely better than of the unqualified. What is the point of all that training, then? He is probably right.
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Use it or lose it
That the majority of the Arb Reform Group was successfully elected is welcome, but the 15.3% ballot return figure is disgraceful (News March 13).
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Reality cheque
I read Jonathan Glancey’s plea (March 13) for the universal application of good design and manners, rather than the corralling of such principles in conservation areas, with absolute agreement.
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Mellow on Marsh
My lecture at the RA on Richard Seifert (Culture March 13) was limited by the format to half-an-hour, so I only discussed influences specifically acknowledged by George Marsh, Seifert’s principal designer in the 1960s and early 1970s, although this was not mentioned by your reviewer.
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Plunder blunder
Pamela Buxton’s assertion that Corb “worked with Eileen Gray” on the design of E1027 at Roquebrune-Cap Martin (Culture March 13) is a commonly held fallacy.
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Tense sense
I wonder whether you could exert some grammatical influence over your columnist Owen Hatherley? His otherwise thoughtful article on Milton Keynes (Urban trawl March 6) uses that creeping colloquialism: “we find two men and a dog sat outside”.
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OpinionPitching for rational exuberance
As the boom turns to bust, what lessons can we learn from the past about blending radical architecture with civic-mindedness?