More Opinion – Page 340
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Battle strategy
I welcome the broad support for the RIBA’s Manifesto for Architecture in the pages of BD.
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Useless students
While John Assael correctly draws an analogy between medicine and architecture by highlighting the dire nature of architectural education (Soapbox March 24), he conveniently overlooks one of the most important aspects of the partnership between architecture schools and practices.
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OpinionForget the dreams, deal with reality
I think your article “Architects out of step with the public” (News March 18) relating to housing misses a key point.
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Cutting-edge error
It’s poignant that within the covers of BD was a news story “Architects out of step with public” and a much larger one, possibly by way of explanation, showing the “cutting edge” exploits of the AA’s Emergence & Design Group. Its work cheered me up by reminding me of EO ...
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Ethics rake it in
RIBA president George Ferguson rightly reflected (Letters March 18) that the “ethics of practice should be taken extremely seriously”.
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Chamber musings
A lot of empty blustering from George Ferguson regarding ethics, but he does not say what the RIBA would do if one of its members designed a concentration camp or torture chamber. I suspect that, as when it has happened in the past, nothing. Never mind, George, have another Mipim ...
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Picking up the tab
How fortunate that the government, if not two of your contributors (“Is it ethically OK…” March 4), recognises the dangers of secondary or passive smoking.
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OpinionSheer arrogance
For too long now, I have read the pages of the architectural press and smiled at the arrogance of the so-called “trophy architects” who fill the pages. While the architecture varies from average to brilliant, the sheer arrogance rankles, to say the least.
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Soapbox: Nurture students, not drive them away
I am on my soapbox to have a go at those unscrupulous, lazy practices that fail to respect the needs of their student staff.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
The GodfatherIs Graham Morrison turning into the Godfather of architecture? The signs are there: the soft but persuasive voice and the vice-like grip on the biggest and best jobs. So it should have been no surprise to see one half of the stratospherically successful Allies & Morrison thanked by Ed ...
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Ian Martin
The cladding is derived from a custard apple. The stuff inside is not important so is mostly rhubarb
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Audit office finds a use for design
How would you feel if your client sliced £2.6 million off the budget of your £33.5 million job after you had already saved £800,000? Apart from a feeling of deja vu, you are likely to fret about the impact on design quality.
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OpinionVisionaries or mad scientists?
These men believe they have the formula to save the planet — a brave new architecture where science takes the lead. Zoë Blackler investigates
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Ethics is a matter for all consciences
Sheila Mullon (Letters March 11) makes the ridiculous assumption that ethics are of no concern to the RIBA, based on my reluctance to be drawn on some unspecific examples. The ethics of practice should be taken extremely seriously. We have our own long-established code of conduct and have contributed to ...
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Roll over Rousseau
Hanna Arhendt’s perceptive “banality of evil” is worth reflecting on in all spheres of life. We may be architects, but we are human, well most of us, and therefore not infallible. However, the concept of some form of moral consensus seems to have been left behind in the 20th century.After ...
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OpinionJust for the rich?
Linking the live-work building type, with the Sustainable Communities Plan, one could have been forgiven for thinking that the two schemes presented by Ellis Woodman (Works March 4 & 11) might have contained elements that would find wider application, but instead we were shown two architectural examples of the most ...
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Seeking substance
Matthew Barac’s Soapbox column (March 11) echoes comments made by Laura Illoniemi the week before. Both are, in essence, lamenting contemporary architecture’s obsession with image and iconography, at the expense of substance and ideology. I find it a pity that the recent Design Indaba held in Cape Town was found ...