The Bartlett open letter was an irresponsible use of institutional power

By Charlie Edmonds 2022-07-08T06:00:00

The Bartlett by Hawkins Brown

Source: Jack Hobhouse

Social media accounts accused by a group of architects and academics of leading a “witch hunt” against Bartlett staff following last month’s bombshell report into alleged abuses at the school are the inevitable response to decades of inaction from UCL, writes Future Architects Front co-founder Charlie Edmonds

The Bartlett open letter is a masterclass in punching down. On June 30th, an open letter was published from a cohort of well-established architectural bosses, curators, and academics.

The open letter decried the “blacklisting” of staff in response to the Howlett Brown report, a document that meticulously recorded numerous accounts of abuse and exploitation from within the Bartlett School of Architecture over the span of decades.

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