All Opinion articles – Page 224
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OpinionBook misquoted?
In his review of Styliane Philippou’s Oscar Niemeyer: Curves of Irreverence (Culture September 12), Richard Weston apparently follows Philippou’s lead in lumping me together with “detractors” of the Brasilian architect.
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Does architecture operate like an old boys’ club?
Of course — look at the figures, says Dennis Sharp partner Yasmin Shariff, but Marks Barfield director Frank Anatole believes things are changing
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OpinionArb digs itself a deeper hole
Arb’s financial indulgence and bid to dump elections to its board only give more credence to its detractors
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OpinionSaarinen style
I feel I should correct Dennis Sharp’s piece on the American Embassy (Debate August 29) when he calls Eero Saarinen a “Finnish” architect. His father may have been, but Eero was an American when he competed for the embassy project.
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The public’s plan
Saul Metzstein in his comments on Kevin McCloud & The Big Town Plan TV programme (Culture September 12) did not mention the role of the public in finding solutions to Castleford’s regeneration.
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Hairy Pollocks
John Callcutt is a man who likes to know what things are really worth, so walking around the Jackson Pollock exhibition in New York recently he set himself a task he told architects in Venice.
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OpinionHigh standards despite ratios
Architecture degrees leap in popularity (News September 5) revealed that the annual number of students studying architecture has jumped by 10,000 in four years.
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OpinionPrepare to fight your corner
As recession looms, it is up to architects to ensure that planning consultants don’t take away more of their work
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Not consulted
In response to ACA’s publication of its own appointment document (News September 5), Richard Brindley is quoted as being “disappointed” because “the ACA was extensively consulted in the initial development of the RIBA contracts”.
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Free range choice
Boundaries can either confine ideas and produce pedestrian work or can provide the impetus for tangential solutions and creative ideas. This is true both in schools and in the workplace.
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OpinionOh Callcutt!
John Calcutt’s view of architects is not flattering, as the architects who heard him speak in the British Pavilion on Saturday discovered.
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Brief exposure
More frayed tempers at Peter Murray’s dinner at Harry’s Dolce after a brave George Ferguson jumped to his feet and attempted to defend the British Pavilion as a “good exhibition if a little earnest”.
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OpinionWe need a starting point to get better
Cabe sets a standard for good school design, and one response from the architectural community — there is no such thing, of course, but it will do as a shorthand — is that the procurement process has to be sorted out before a quality standard can be adopted.
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OpinionGood and bad
Wasn’t Barking town centre one of the examples Margaret Hodge chose (News Analysis March 20) to illustrate what she believes is good modern architecture as opposed to bad Robin Hood Gardens?
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OpinionShould architects be proud of the British Pavilion?
Yes, says John Tuomey, it is a serious show that considers the architect’s place in society; while Nigel Coates argues that by ignoring the brief, it is a missed opportunity
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Power surge
Heathrow is indeed too bossy by half (Jonathan Glancey, September 5). Apart from anything else, a flight path over Greater London has always been close to madness on safety grounds.