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After decades of inertia, the regulator is forcing long-overdue reform. But, Ben Flatman argues, without clearer leadership from within the profession, the bigger questions remain unanswered
What stood out most in my recent interview with Architects Registration Board (ARB) chief executive Hugh Simpson was how clearly it exposed the lack of strategic vision and high-level debate within the profession itself about the major challenges facing architects. For decades, architecture in the UK has muddled along with outdated structures and little shared direction.
Hugh Simpson is not an architect, nor does he come from a built environment background. Yet, perhaps because of this outsider status, he seems more attuned to some of the profession’s long-term strategic failures than many within it. In our conversation, what became clear was his view that where the profession has failed to reform itself, and where that failure risks undermining public confidence, the regulator has a duty to step in.
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