All Opinion articles – Page 347
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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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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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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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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.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Will’s worldWill Alsop this week revealed what he does all day. In a short diary of his working week, featured in the Daily Telegraph, that eerily echoed the diary of BD’s own Ian Martin, Alsop revealed that his hectic day begins with a swim followed by a trip to his ...
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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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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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Numbers up
BD got the numbers wrong in its report. Oxford Architects has two women out of a total of 24 fully qualified, not 57 as stated.
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Vive la revolution
Go it BD. Recruit a few hedonistic binge-drinking ladettes; we could do with them to gee up some of our slower subbies.
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Maybe its nothing
The real issue is not gender-based discrimination, but a professional culture dominated by an idiotic “something for nothing” mentality wedded to a competitive ethos that may be more male than female, but is basically capitalist.
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Ian Martin
Even if my quality of life doesn’t improve, at the very least I’ll have moved up a bra size by summer
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We love long hours
Although you were so right to call attention to the shortage of women in architecture, some of the comments are unlikely to contribute much to an improvement in this dire situation.
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Full support
As an experienced job-running architect and mother of two, your article made uncomfortable reading for me in more ways than one.
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Feeling wanted
The problems that women face aren’t only experienced by women, but we, as a profession, have a bad habit of not wanting to make a fuss and stand out from the overworked crowd.
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A small part to play in tsunami effort
Nothing is more frustrating than being a small organisation trying to offer help in the midst of a world crisis.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Off with a bangThe Architectural Foundation’s design for its new building got off to a glitzy start with its opening bash on Wednesday night, but things had become a little hairy earlier in the week. Guests to the AF’s headquarters were asked to use a side entrance because the building ...
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Bleating feminists
I do regret that your magazine has seen fit to promote a feminist and political campaign to promote the interests of women and attack our profession.
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Are we losing sight of architecture?
Put the kettle on, crack open the digestives and sit down, because this week we've got a big question for you. What is architecture?
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A 50/50 letters special
Congratulations on your 50/50 Campaign: you have my full support. Pringle Brandon has always been an equal-opportunity employer, and 36% of our architects, 40% of our technical staff and 43% of total staff are female.