All Opinion articles – Page 72
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Replication is never the right thing to do
As experts gather in Glasgow to discuss the future of the Mac, Alan Dunlop takes issue with Hank Dittmar’s case for restoration
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Architect-free architecture? I can see a few problems
Open source architecture has to be about more than giving away blueprints, says Amanda Baillieu
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TfL needs to make this junction safer
BD’s Elizabeth Hopkirk offers a cyclist’s perspective on the stretch of road where Moira Gemmill was killed last week
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How to tackle the housing crisis - four architects' visions
Against the backdrop of the UK’s ever tightening housing crisis – a key issue in the general election campaign – the Royal Academy has been running a season of debates, talks and an exhibition examining housing’s future. Owen Hopkins, the season’s curator, explains
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Sometimes rebuilding is the right thing to do
Hank Dittmar hails the appointment of Page\Park by Glasgow School of Art and makes the case for reconstruction
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Just what was the government thinking?
Hari Phillips minces no words in his assessment of the new architecture minister’s first housing design guide
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What are you laughing at?
Gillian Darley doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry this April Fool’s Day
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Practices must play their part – or education reform will fail
Offering student placements will be a professional duty in the RIBA’s brave new world, argues Eleanor Jolliffe
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What the RIBA's changes on education mean for students
RIBA’s director of eduation David Gloster hails the decision to rip up the three-part system
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Sexism is not the issue for Generation Y
The real inequalities in architecture are race and class, which is where the RIBA’s #SeeMeJoinMe campaign should focus
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London should look to Paris for inspiration
Mipim showed our booming capital still has much to learn, says Amanda Baillieu
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Ethical architecture is no simple matter
The right course of action is a matter for the individual, says Paul McGrath
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When it comes to housing, small is beautiful
Small plots, small builders and small architects. The next government must open the market if it wants to solve the housing crisis, argues Hank Dittmar
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Harnessing the other 50%
Three leading architects discuss the way women are shaping our cities
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The inestimable value of a good client
Gillian Darley mourns the widening chasm between architect and client and charts the history of a critical relationship
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How can architects make contractors deliver their vision?
Now at Wates, Andrew Barraclough spent 19 years at HOK. Here, he advises on how the two disciplines can work together on BIM
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Is selling the industry to the public a good idea?
Amanda Baillieu says a new advertising campaign by the AIA might not be the right thing
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My education has been pretty useful, actually
Our student columnist Eleanor Jolliffe takes issue with some of the RIBA’s recent findings
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Can architecture reclaim the lost territory of the good ordinary?
Hank Dittmar says the profession needs to get better at the mundane
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Setting up an office in Mongolia
In her final dispatch from Ulan Bator, Tanja Smith is ready for her next challenge – heading up Gradon Architecture’s new Mongolian office