Opinion

Reforming the RIBA is like trying to change the course of a supertanker … but we did it

By 2023-08-30T00:01:00

Simon Allford Portrait

Source: RIBA

Looking back over his two-year term, departing RIBA president Simon Allford argues that substantial change has been delivered and that the profession’s future is bright

Three years ago, I declared that “we should storm the building and take it back for architects and architecture”. And, when I arrived at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), architecture had indeed all but disappeared: council was consumed, the board blocked, and staff morale was understandably on the floor. Locked in a battle with intransigent forces within, it was failing.

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