Opinion

Put self-interest aside and focus on the future of the profession

By

Eleanor Jolliffe

The response in some quarters to the Future Architects Front’s concerns reflects a profession with work to do to improve its practices and image, writes Eleanor Jolliffe

A couple of weeks ago, a grassroots campaign among architectural students, the Future Architects Front, sent an open letter to the RIBA highlighting and protesting at exploitative employment practices and disjointed educational policy in UK architectural practice. It was based on a survey of over 150 architectural students in December last year and was signed by more than 1,800 people. Their demands of the RIBA were that it:

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