7 10 110 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/60ec73b367e25055618f477fc1cd5696.pdf 74f8762803fcfc3cf097bfc8339d2962 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. Hitherto entirely dominated by the RIBA bloc, the Council began to yield to a new dynamic through NAM's involvement, enabling fresh perspectives on such issues as mandatory fee scales, greater lay representation on the body, ethically-based standards of professional conduct, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter to J Allan Subject The topic of the resource Letter to J Allan re Constitution of Board & Committees of Council + Gentlemens' Agreement 4pp Description An account of the resource Dear Sir Constitution o? the Board a At, its knee ting held on 12 December 1 984 my Council approved the terms of the Gentlemen T s Agreement, as set out in the attached copy, in respect of the representation (which is not regulated by the principal Act) of the architectural constituent bodies on the Board of Architectural Education and on the various Committees for the year 1 985/86 . You will note that under the Agreement, the representatives of the "unattached" have the right to fill the following vacancies with their nominees: — Board of Architectural Education 2 representatives Admission Committee 2 Finance & General Purposes Committee 2 Professional Purposes Committee 2 (B) After the nominations under the Gentlemen's Agreement have been made, there will remain the following vacancies which must be filled by election (by ballot if necessary) at the meeting of the Council on 20 March 1 985 : — Board 16 registered persons Admission Committee 3 registered persons Finance & General 6 members of Council for Purposes Committee 1 985/86 Professional Purposes 6 members of Council for Committee 1 985/86 Discipline Committee 14 registered persons, one of whom must be practising as an architect in Scotland Nominations for these vacancies, together with the required particulars in respect of heading (B) , should be in my hands not later than 27 February next. A list of the persons nominated by the several constituent bodies will then be circulated to ali members of the Council. A form is attached which may be used for this purpose. The Council has ruled that no nominations either for the constituent body appointment or for free election will be put before the Annual Meeting unless delivered to ARCUK offices by 5 pm on Wednesday, 27 February 1985. �Architects Registration Council of the United Kingdom GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT 1. As at pregent constituted, the Genclanen t s Agreement provides ag fo lovs : Board of Architectural Education Of the 24 regi8terea persons Co be appointed by the Council:— 2 •shall be nominated by the Royal Ingtitute of Briti8h Architects 2 Incorporated Aggociacion of Architects and Surveyor 8 2 Faculty of Architects aqd . Surveyors • 2 Representatives on the Comcil of the 'Unattached c Architectß leaving 16 to be freely chosen by the Council. Admission Coanictee 3. 8 registered persons shall be appointed by the Council of whom: — 2 shall be nominated by the Architectural Association 1 STAMP section of UCATT 2 Repregentativeg on the Comcil of the t Unattached' Architects leaving 3 to be freely chosen by the Council. Finance and General Purposes Coamitcee Profesgxonal Purposes CanmiCCee 4. Each of the above Couznictees 8ha11 consist of 13 members , exclugive of the ex officio member 8, appointed as follows : — 1 by the Royal Ing tituce of Brici8h Architects 1 . Incorporated Association of Architect g and Surveyor 8 1 P acuity of Architects and Surveyor 8 1 Architectural Association STAMP sect ion of UCATT Representat ive 8 on c he Counc i I t he Unattached Archi cectS 6 to be freely chosen by the Counci I Candidates for frec election . Thac vich regard to the candidates for free election by the Counci l , che following infomacion shall be provided, by those nominating, in not more than, say, 25 vords age, naue of archi— tectural constituenc bodies of which candidate is a member (if any) , present post and type of practice, and reason for nomination; and chac che nanes shall be submitted to the Council in alphabetical order. Dates for nominations . That nominations for vacancies to be filled by free election together with the required information about the candidates, must be sent to the' Registrar, 21 days before the Annual Meeting of the Council, in order that the lists may be circulated to Council members prior to the meeting. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Registrar Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 14.2.85 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/9102b012e200eb390cd81d516a38499c.pdf ef674cc507329ee600970636cfdec8e7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. Hitherto entirely dominated by the RIBA bloc, the Council began to yield to a new dynamic through NAM's involvement, enabling fresh perspectives on such issues as mandatory fee scales, greater lay representation on the body, ethically-based standards of professional conduct, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Particulars about candidates for the 1985 election Subject The topic of the resource Particulars about candidates for the 1985 election (4 pp leaflet) Description An account of the resource Architects Registration Council of the United Kingdom Brief particulars about candidates (i) Age Date of Admission to the Register of Architects. Name of Archtecturai Constituent Bodies of which candidate is a member (if any). Present professional post (including the name of the firm or employer) and previous professional experience. Committee experience (architectural and otherwise). Personal statement (if any). Tho views expressed in the candidates' statements below are personal to tho writers and do not repræent the views of the Council of ARCUK JOHN STEWART ALLAN 39 years 1976 (iii ) Unattached Director member of Avanti Architects Ltd., (Cooperative Practice). Previously salaried architect in private practice, and with the Greater London Council. ARCUK: Member of Council 1979-85, also Professional Purposes Committee, Conduct Monitoring Group and Admissions Committee. Design & Industries Association 1967•69; Junior Liaison Organisation 1975-78; Chairman of Highbury Plan Group 1975; Steering Committee of Blackstock Road Advice Centre 1978•79; TASS Building Design Staff National Advisory Committee 1977 ; Founder Member, The New Architecture Movement. In 1984 ARCIJK realised it was bigger than its big brother, the RIBA. and used its statutory authority to speak directly to the Government on education. This sort of independent stance must be strengthened and developed if ARCUK is to fulfil the •public interest' role it always claims. If elected I shall continue to press Council to take the wider view of its responsibilities under the Act that this process entails. NORMAN FRANK ARNOLD 38 years 1979 Unattached Self employed in Leeds ARCUK Council. Finance and General Purposes Committee or Professional Purposes Committee, 198085. New Archi• tecture Movement. There is now concern over the use of the titles "Architectural" and "Architecture", sometimes associated with (surprisesurprise) "British Institute of", "Technology" or "Kitchen". Rather than have ARCUK bicker (B.I.K.A.?) over titles questionably not even covered by the Architects Registration Acts. perhaps the issue should first be left for the RIBA to resolve via the Trade Descriptions Act before they attempt to exploit ARCIJK's statutory powers for protection of their own interests. A more important issue is the RIBA's support for education cuts in order to reduce the number of ne•vA' architects. Whilst it may be prudent to review the numbers of inappropriately educated architects already in circulation. as well as those likely in the future. surely the last thing anyone needs is less environmental education. ARCUK is in fact empowered by statute to increase the Retention Fee ". . . . to improve the general practice of architecture and . all subjects related to architecture . Were it not for RIBA restraint, ARCUK could be making more positive efforts towards the provision of a technically and aesthetically improved archtecture. JAMES ROBERT ALISTAIR BLAMIRE 38 years 1975 Unattached Self employed architect with the firm of ARCADE Community-based Architects. Edinburgh. working mainly on inner city housing. Previous professional experience as a salaried architect in central and local government and private practice both in Britain and the United States. ARCUK Council 1982-85; Admiss ins Committee 198183; Finance and General Purposes Committee 1983-85; New Architecture Movement 1981-82; previously involved in various student, union and education committees. This year the proportion of 'unattached' architects on the Register has increased yet again and ever greater interest in and support for the 'unattached' lobby is being expressed. Much valuable ground work has been done over the past eight years by the founding activists in the present group of •unattached' councillors and. along with this expertise. the continuing trend in numbers is essential if ARCUK is ever to fulfil what I believe to be its statutory role as a publicly accountable body under the terms of the Architects (Registration) Acts. Only in this wav will architectural education be allowed to develop and widen its social objectives and, by extension, the practice of architecture become the democratised service to the community which ARCUK should be seeking to represent. �MICHAEL DAVID BROAD 34 years 1977 (iii) Unattached Self-employed in Edinburgh. Previously employed as Senior Area Development Officer, City of Edinburgh District Council working on inner city Housing ection areas and with Sir Basil Spence, Glover, Ferguson and Partners. (v) ARCUK: Member of Council 1981-85, Professional Purposes Committee. Finance & General Purposes Committee and Admissions Committee. New Architecture Movement 1975•82. This year the number of unattached architects has continued to grow and along with my fellow elected councillors, we continue to seek your views sent c/0 73 Hallam St., to enable those elected to represent you with greater authority. Kno•aing that both the government and the RIBA had expressed a wish to restrict numbers within the profession, the outcome of this years education debate will have surprised few. It is only by increasing the democracy and restoring the voice Of ARCUK that we can give any real hope to our inner cities. There may be a shortne of rich clients but there is an urgent need for architecture. Support democrecy. use your vote to elect Unattached Councillors and send us your views. NICHOLAS DOMMINNEY 27 years 1984 (iii) None Salaried metnber of the Architects & Builders Co-operative (Hull) Ltd. Previous experience: Architectural Assistant for Central Govan Housing Association, Team Architect, STO, PSA. (v) Reporting: CGHA Development Sub-committee. Chairperson: Peel & Hutt Street Residents Association. Local representative: Hull City Council Residents Liaison Committee Association representative: Hull City Council Participation Committee. Chairperson: Hull Innovation Centre Growth Association. ABC Delegate: Hull Co-operative Development Agency Steering Committee. ABC Delegate: Hull Independent Housing Aid Centre Committee. Socialist Workers Party Delegate: Hull Miners Support Committee. ANDREW JAMES EARL 27 years 1984 None Present professional post: Salaried member of The Architects & Builders Co-operative (Hull) Limited. Previous experience: Architectural Assistant, City of Durham Architects Department. Ex-member of management committee Of Hull Architecture workshop. ALAN R. EDWARDS 32 years 1980 Unattached Salaried Architect with Falkirk District Council. Previous employers, Thomas Smith Gibb and Pate (Edinburgh) and Thomas Munro and Co. Of ARCUK Admission Committee 1983-84-85. Member Of the Executive Committee of Falkirk District Council Branch of NALGO. I believe that ARCUK's role is to see that the profession is publically accountable and that all sections of the community, users as well as paying clients, get an adequate service from their Architects. I have put myself forward as a candidate because I feel that the membership of ARCUK Council, to achieve the above, should reflect a cross-section of the profession. both in professional position and place of origin. All too often the process Of government is left to the partners of firms in the South East of England. WILLIAM LESLIE FORSYTH 35 years 1974 Unattached Project leader COMTECHSA Ltd. Liverpool. Previously employed in public and private practice. ARCUK of council (1984-85). Professional Purposes Committee (198485); COMTECHSA Ltd, Secretary (1979. 84); Asociation of Community Technical Aid Centres. Secretary (1982-84): Merseyside Youth Business Initiative Committee (1981-82); Liverpool Inner City Partnership Programme Joint Panel (1982, 83). Community Accountancy Project. Liverpool (1984). Under the terms of the Architects (Registration) Acts ARCUK should be a public interest body and, as such. it should develop that role to include as wide a range of interests as possible. Registration with ARCUK is mandatory for any individual who wishes to use the title Of architect, therefore ARCUK must assume and develop the powers conferred under the ArchitEts (Registration) Acts. ALLEN BERNARD EDWARD GEAL 38 years 1973 (iii) None Present professional post: Salaried Architect. Urban Design Section. City of Bristol. Previous professional experience: Architect in private practice with; Power Clark Hiscocks Partnership. Futcher & Futcher, Architects. Student representative. School Academic Committee, University of Bath. (vi) The decline of public regard for our profession and the erosion of our traditional responsibilities by the encroachment of allied professions is. in part, a result of a flight from responsibility. I believe that we should strive to overcome deficiencies rather than donv them. Much of the current RIBA debate on Professional Liability is concerned with reducing still further our responsibility and duty — and thus our influence. Little of this debate is directed at the service we owe to clients and building users. This trend must be reversed if our opportunities are to expand and our status restored as a profession. I will advocate the increased use of architectural competitions as a means of achieving a more equitable distribution of opportunity. I will support the efforts to *cure lay representation on ARCUK. RICHARD JOHN GRAHAM (i) 39 years 1977 (iii) Unattached At present I practise as an architect on my own account. and teach in the School Of Architecture. Humberside College of Higher Education, •in the capacity of Senior Lecturer in Design. construction and humanities. My previous experience has been, since 1966, in various architectural practices (some famous, some otherwise) in Newcastle and in Hull. (v) My Committee experience is limited to Humberside College's internal committees, including Faculty Board. various course committees. and currently Academic Board. Being in practise in a small way and in teaching in a rather bigger one. I am forced to experience from the painful end these two sides of our profession being systematically dismantled by the government and the Institute. Many dreadful and obvious blunders are to be perpetrated, which make our futures look bleak. The overbearing influence of RIBA members on the presently constituted ARCUK Council is creating an unbalanced impression to the public Of 'official' attitudes to architecture and education. I feel that a stronger unattached contingent (in voice now. and numbers later) is vital. MICHAEL JENKS 39 years 1975 (iii) Unattached Senior Lecturer and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Co-ordinator, Department of Architecture, Oxford Polytechnic. and Research Fellow. Buildings Research Team, Oxford Polytechnic. (v) ARCUK Council 1984. Steering Committee of Faculty Short Course unit, Research and Advanced Study Committee, and Postgraduate Course RWiew Committee, Department of Architecture. Oxford Polytechnic; involvement with advisory groups in BRE. DOE and Housing Research Foundation projects; member of local amenities committee. The future of the architectural profession is being decided by unrepresentative committees outside ARCIJK's control. Instead of seeking to explore and widen the architect's role and employment possibilities and to strengthen education. retrenchment has been advocated. Such a narrow view cannot be healthy for the profession's development. The unattached have been active in ARCUK to try to widen the debate. If elected, I will seek to promote a wider perception of architectural practice by supporting the varied needs of salaried architects and encouraging more socially responsive practices, and by supporting CPD initiatives and an education in the Schools of Architecture that reflects this diversity. ARCUK has devolved too many of its responsibilities which, with other unattached representatives, I will press ARCUK to restore. The future of the profession is too important to be left to unrepresentative factional interests. CHRISTOPHER GEORGE JONES 36 years 1973 Unattached Member of Architects and Builders Co-operative (Hull) Limited. Senior Lecturer at Hull School of Architecture. Previous experience mainly Local Authority and Housing Association new build at Phippen/RandalI and Parkes. London. Hull Independant Housing Aid Centre. ARCUK Council, 1983-1984. Member of the Association of Community Technical Aid Centres. My two main concerns, Education and Community Architecture again face butchering by the RIBA block vote on ARCIJK. The current NAB proposals on Education go against the ARCUK wbmission. that cuts must be on the basis of quality and notquantity. The gradually returning confidence in Architects through genuine community involvement is being eroded by the RIBA's •jobs for the boys' attitude. ARCUK must rescind its devolved powers to make architecture and education relevant, to the community STUART LINSLEY 25 years 1984 (iii) Unattached (i) James Parr and Partners (architects) Edinburgh as architectural assistant. to become architect upon registration. (ii) Wester Hailes Representative Council Community Design unit. Edinburgh as architectural assistant. (iii) Stephen Easten (building contractors) Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne as architectural trainee. Represented WHRC Community Design unit at ACTAC Meetings; served on WHRC building sub-committee as architectural While considering a professional institute or association to be a useful entity in which such as architects can participate. I feel the RIBA to be a less than adequate body in terms of its representation of architecture, with particular reference to the promotion of the art, or professionalism. of its members. I feel also that its response to the recent Esher report to be a very poor stance to take towards education. I prefer to support 'ground swell' rather than 'established' organisations in all matters involving the public at large. I feel ARCUK should regain control of its devolved powers. I support the Architects for Peace movement. ALAN ROBERT LIPMAN 59 years 1963 (iii) Unattached Academic (Professor); The Welsh School of Architecture. UWIST, Cardiff; practitioner in southern Africa and in the UK — various practices, public and private. I have served on academic. professional, public and political committees — including ARCUK. the Board of Architectural Education and the Visiting Board Panel of the RIBA (ARCUK representative). until recently. I was Chairperson of CND Cymru (Wales) and a member of the New Architecture Movement. 1975-1982. We architects must, I believe. help to establish ways of making the profession responsible as well as responsive to its social clients. to building users. In arguing for this essential public account±ility — for this idea of service to public interests — I urge that ARCUK and its Board of Architectural Education exercise their proper rights and obligations. I urge that the responsibilities vested in these bodies when Parliament the Architects (Registration) Acts be wrested from others (mainly the RIBA) and duly reinstated with the Council and with the Board. (Duo to severe illness. during the past year I have not been able to fulfil my obligations as a Councillor. I do not anticipate that this will recur.) �THOMAS ANDREW MARKUS 56 years 1950 (iii) Unattached Professor of Building Science. University of Strathclyde since 1966. Previously Reader in Architecutre. Welsh School of Architecture; Manager of Products Applications Department, Pilkington Brothers, Architect, I.C.I. London; Assistant Lecturer in Architecture. University of Manchester; Assistant Architect. Manchester City Council; Studio Assistant. universitv of Manchester School of Architecture. Experience in practice. research, teaching and consultancy. chief involvement in architectural history and theory; buildings, climate and energy. Involved in teaching and assessment at Schools in USA, Canada, Malaysia, Nigeria, Turkey, and a number of European countries. (v) Severat three year spells, including till May 1985, as Strathclyde representative on ARCIJK Board of Architectural Edu• cation and its committees; from 1956 onwards at various times member of several RIBA Committees and Vice•Chairman of Board of Education 1977-78. Chairman of Schools of Architecture Council 1977-79. Intermittently member of the RIBA Visiting Board 1969-77, Member of CAA and ARCUK Visiting Boards. Member of CNAA Architecture Board 1979 present. (vil I believe that Parliament's intentions in the formation of ARCIJK included bringing in influences from the building production and the building user. I believe ARCIJK can once again broaden the intentions behind architectural production so as to make it a fully benevolent social process. ARCIJK must now prevent further restrictive educational practices. PETER GEORGE RANSON 27 years 1983 Unattached Architect with co-operatively run ASSIST Architects Ltd., Glasgow. Previously employed in private practices. Co-tutor at student organised Winter Schools 1982-1984. Member of Visiting Board Panel (student representative) 1980-1982. Co-representative for ASSIST Architects Ltd., as Associate Member of Community Technical Aid Centres. Particularly concerned to oppose cuts in education and encourage ARCUK to rescind its devolved powers to the RIBA. Committed to encouraging work with local communities on minimal funding and more public accountability of architects. CHRISTOPHER RAWSON SHAW (i) 28 years 1984 Unattached Partner in John Planet, a small architect's practice based in Hull. Recently completed my architectural training. During "years out", I worked in a Local Authority architects department in Cumbria, and spent several months working freelance b3sed in London. Nothing wonderful. but I've done my time on various "staff/student" and "course survival" committees. Small is quite nice . . . realistic anyway. THOMAS ADRIAN WOOLLEY 38 years 1971 Unattached Director of the Housing and Rehabilitation Research Unit, Strathclyde University. Previously Practising Architect with "Support' and tutor at the AA. ARCUK Council and Board of Education for several years. New Architecture Movement 1976•80. Associate Member of Association of Community Technical Aid Centres. This year the number of unattached have grown even more, this increases the potential for us to influence the direction taken by ARCUK. As a result the falling RIBA majority on ARCIJK is less and less able to get its policies passed 'on the nod'. For instance we have been able to ensure that ARCUK does not toe the RIBA line on the NAB/UGC plans to cut the number of students studying Architecture. However many other controversial issues are quietly referred on from one meeting to another in the hope that we will overlook them. Thus continuity among unattached representatives is crucial as well as introducing new people to our growing lobby. Vote "Unattached" and encourage your friends to become 'Unattached'. PHILIP ANTHONY WREN 27 years 1984 None Salaried member of The Architects and Builders Co-operative (Hull) Limited. Previously Architectural Assistant, Philip Mercer ARIBA. 197880. None current, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource ARCUK Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1985 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/f080d7c434e551a89ef904eb1dd3d645.pdf b84ea992bc1f8c197820730863a1288a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Gentlemens' Agreement details and voting paper Subject The topic of the resource Gentlemens' Agreement details and voting paper Description An account of the resource Architects Registration Council of the United Kingdom GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT 1. As at pregent constituted, the Gentlanen's Agreement provideg as fol lovs : Board of Architectural Education Of the 24 regi8terea persons to be appointed by the Council: — 2 '8h811 be nominated by the Royal Ingtitute of Briti8h Architects 2 Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyorg 2 Faculty of ArchitecC8 aqd Surveyors • 2 Representatives on the Council of the Unattached' Architects . leaving 16 to be freely chosen by the Council. Admission 3. 8 registered persons shall be appointed by the Cotmcil of vhcxn:— 2 shall be nominated by the Architectural Association STAMP gection of UCATT 2 Repregencatives on che Council of the C Unactached f Architects leaving 3 to be freely chosen by the Council. Finance and General Purposes Committee Profe88Lona1 Purpoges Each of the above Coamittees shall consist of 13 members , exclusive of the ex officio member 8, appointed ag follows : -- 1 by the Royal Ing tituce of Briti8h Architects 1 Incorporated Association of Architect 8 and Surveyor 8 1 . Paculty of Architects and Surveyor 8 1 Architectural Association STAMP sect ion of UCATT Representatrvea on the Counc i I o t the Una cc ached Archi cect6 \ eaving 6 Co be free ly chosen by the Co uncu I Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource ARCUK Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Undated https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/0bd64dcc345570289de9d271872c9aec.pdf 223b00fc37cf0f7b4f7b8761b6b413b0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. Hitherto entirely dominated by the RIBA bloc, the Council began to yield to a new dynamic through NAM's involvement, enabling fresh perspectives on such issues as mandatory fee scales, greater lay representation on the body, ethically-based standards of professional conduct, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Registered Status Subject The topic of the resource Letter from J Weller Description An account of the resource BUILDING DESIGN. March 27.1987 13 Letters Sacrificing the environment THE BUILDING REFERENCE BOOK FOR BUILDING DESIGNERS BY HENRY HAVERSTOCK 'The Easibrief" is d compendium of the technical pages published under that name in Building Design between 1983 and 1985, covenng a wide range of design methods, techniques and materials. Prepared by architects Haverstock Associates, the book vhll be an invaluable aid to anyone whose business is designing buildings, providing fullyindexed technical advice, plus references on where to obtain more detailed information. Plus Plus u The Easiregs" Our guide to the rewritten Building Regulations, which appeared in weekly instalments from autumn 1985 until July 1986, is incorporated in 'The Easibnef', giving the most up-to-date all-in-one publication of its type now on the market. Order your copy now, price €15 plus €2 p&p. 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Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. Hitherto entirely dominated by the RIBA bloc, the Council began to yield to a new dynamic through NAM's involvement, enabling fresh perspectives on such issues as mandatory fee scales, greater lay representation on the body, ethically-based standards of professional conduct, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource When ARCUK finally flies its own flag Subject The topic of the resource Letter from J Allan Description An account of the resource Letters A building team Is a market not a with much to offer community BUILDING DESIGN, November 13, 1981 15 When ARCUK finally flies its own flag... From S S Stevenson WE are writing to you as underrecognised members of the 'Building Team' to which your paper is directed. We are consultants specialising in building maintenance management. In the past our methods have proven most beneficial to building owners and we can illustrate this by means of a number of building contracts we have been responsible for both in the the U.K. and abroad. Safe and economical upkeep of the building concerned, are accompamed by the obvious visual and environmental benefits. Our concern is for the life of the building after the owner takes possession. It is in this area, we feel, that the 'building team' requires more emphasis, ifthe buildin owneristohavea reliable pac age for the total care of the finished building. Building Design recently published a diagram, produced by the Economic Development Council (Building) depicting the 'Client' ship approaching the 'total building life cycle' ice berg. It is the hidden cost tactors shown in this diagram such as Cyclical Renewal, Operations and Maintenance, and Energy which are taken into account by our management services and techniques. We feel that this service to the client requires specialist attention, and that the public respect will be incrased for the Architect who ensures this service for his client. We would like to extend an invitation for you to come to our Haslemere presentation centre in order that you may appreciate our services more fully, we feel we have a lot to offer the Building Team. M T Stevenson Haslemere, Surrey facility? From L A Roche SWISS COTTAGEfreemarket — I hope that Philippa Jacobs and I are on the same side in this issue. She says there is no reason why a weekend market should not be accommodated in the public section... ' Agreed— if the necessary vehicle access for unloading is obtainable. The Council s intentions regarding the use of the public space are not clear to me; if the market is deemed acceptable why all the fuss? However, in her next paragraph Philippa Jacobs says the choice was never between an office building and a market but between the office building and a variety of community facilities...' Is this market not a community facility? The point I wished to bring out in my letter was that a spontaneouscommunityenterprise, developed over several years, was beink displaced and that, for thesa eofthe vitality of the area as a whole, it ought to be possible to bring it back (if the Council could be persuaded to alter its Brief to the Architects). Perhaps the Jacobs solution is the right one. Incidentially, I did not advocate and would not envisage an underground car park — merely under buildings. L A Roche London N 1 From John S Allan YOUR irrepressible compulsion to turn news into melodrama was more evident than usualin ourrecentcovera eof ARCUk Council, BD October 10). The Unattached Councillors neither tried nor failed to "increase the power of ARCUK", and I certainly did not make the fatuous "plea" that "all architects are equal". What I did say was the ARCUK's correct response to the DOE consultative paper on the Future of Building Control should have been to ensure the De artment was aware that all arc itects enjoy equal status under the Act, (ie that membership of a professional association confers no higher qualification), and that any criteria for the selection of certifiers should respect this fact. This, plus the suggestion that ARCUK should monitor developments, was the substance of the Unattached motion — the effect of which, if passed, would have been to safeguard the position of all registered persons in this uncertain matter — not simply the Unattached. It isjust vulgar to cast this asa bid to increase ARCUK's power. In rejecting the motion the Council simply and rather short-sightedly denied itself the right to participate in what is still a young discussion. After its dismal performance in the monopolies issue, ARCUK's reluctance to deal with government departments is probably understandable. Nevertheless, as the whole episode of the code changes shows, ARCUK is gradually learning to distinguish its identitv and role from that of the RIBA— a painful process after fifty years of subjugation. Naturally, we should like to think that this reorientation is due in some measure to the efforts of the Unattached in recent years. We have long argued tor a greater lay representation and direct professional elections to Council, but even without a reformed constitution, ARCUK, when it flies its own flag, may have a valuable role — and in such issues as eduction, perhaps even a critical one. To represent this evolution merely as a shrill partisan squabble both misinforms your readers and ignores undramatic but important changes. John S Allan London, W 1 Letters to the editor should be sent to Building Design, 30 Calderwood Street, London SE18. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Building Design Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 13.11.81 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/fe3afcfe631438c77af18b3bda64f475.pdf a0ce95b3ab6a28369800f61467d6280a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. Hitherto entirely dominated by the RIBA bloc, the Council began to yield to a new dynamic through NAM's involvement, enabling fresh perspectives on such issues as mandatory fee scales, greater lay representation on the body, ethically-based standards of professional conduct, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource ARCUK scraps Code Subject The topic of the resource Article "ARCUK scraps Code" Description An account of the resource The weekly newspaper for the building team FRIDAY JANUARY 23 1981 No 529 Building Design's code campaign triumph ARCHITECTS were granted new freedoms this week when the Architects Registration Council voted to scrap its code of professional conduct. ARCUK Council agreed to abandon its existing principles and rules in favour ofa ARCUK new soft-line approach of discretionary guidelines out- lined at a special council meeting this week. The new principles leave architects free to choose their own standards of behaviour with no permanent form of guidance from ARCUK. A RCUK 's powers will be restricted to advice. S CChanges are particularly although there were some relevant to the 5000 reservations, particularly about simultaneous attached architects. They bility practice.and limited lianow have a set of far less But there a general restrictive ethics than RIBA acceptance of the new pnnciplcs members. for the maintenance of an The old code will be kept architect's integrity in the RAPS until June this year but ARCUKun-to following areas:was tntent to is suspending clauses relating of information on directorships and limited lia- availability The giving in a proper manner, bility companies and touting and without oust for work — falling in line With another architect from an recent RIBA code architect changes.will appointment A registcrcd not be struck off for carrying The definition of the terms out any of these prohibited of service, duties and responactivities between now and sibilities and their legal basis, June. scope and remuneration, and ARCUK's "new approach" the prior declaration of other means that no occupation or interests relevant to an engageaction is prohibited or is in ment. itself disgraceful. There will be The concientious perforno compulsory conditions or mance of duties undertaken, restrict ions On means with proper regard for the practice. such as limited o' an by or simultaneous practice. and the product, With fairness in the mation means or the of giv•ng amount out of fees.infor- adrmnisterin tract and witkout a buildvng inducementscon• On the whole the proposals to show favour. were welcomed by council, The architects are requested Inside aboard ! page 13 THAT MAN AGAIN pages 16-17 Index ROSTRUM 2, News 3-6 and 28, Infill 7, Comment 7, PersJ.ective 8. Scorpio 9, US cavity foam storm — 'Britain is quite safe' For Precincts, Pavements and Paths. ina wide rangeofcolours and textu 3 forcolcodata spec et to... Clive Green. Concrete Services Ltd. Ouse Acres, Boroughbridge Road.York Y02 5SR. Telephone 0904 794151 Concrete Services reader inquiry number 1 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Building Design Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 23.1.81 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/aca4bb15f585fdf14fcf24d09049bc0d.pdf a1d74cb0c78f6b4bd64d1d62b313a929 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. Hitherto entirely dominated by the RIBA bloc, the Council began to yield to a new dynamic through NAM's involvement, enabling fresh perspectives on such issues as mandatory fee scales, greater lay representation on the body, ethically-based standards of professional conduct, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Those shillings and pounds Subject The topic of the resource Article " Those shillings and pounds" Description An account of the resource 14 BUILDING DESIGN, February 6, 1981 THOSE SHILLINGS AND POUNDS It is high time the mandatory fee scaie was replaced with something more flexible and of more benefit income is the level of principals' hourly rates for time charge work. In 1962 it was two guineas per hour. by three-and-a-half uineas. In 1971 it was raise to LS per hour. where it stuck until 19". Two guineas to five pounds from 1962 to 1977 tells its own story. 'Ibe argument that mandatory fee scales would save the profession from a fate worse than death has not helped, The inflexibility of the scale prevents The introduction to the present scale is a good point to start. The scale is for the mutual benefit of clients and architects — so it is said. Because that contention is likely to be more closely scrutimscd in the future, we had better make sure more notice is taken of clients' interest and requirements, These clients. almost without exception, supported the general concept of percenta e scales in their evidence to t e Monopolies Commission but salanes not compare creative design and the need well with the equivalent earn- indemnity insurance in 1965. forced to use all labour saving to provide buildings which ings of other professions. And and this is now three percent — methods available to reduce keep out wind and rain, while the RIBA over recent where has the extra two per overheads. architects have tomaketheir years has been preoccupied cent come from? It is unlikely The RIBA in 1970 to living from their art. with other issues, Architecturalthe situation salaries that overheads have decreasedor techmcal introduce above tapering 000. Now. fees for in jobsreal The days of the dilettante has worsened. indeed most offices have strug- terms. allowing for inflation, the man of private means using ractice in less than a decade hard to keep those under equivalent size contract suffer. architecture to fill his idle hours as changed from a relatively gled have gone. While the practice low risk. reasonable risk. returnlow control. profit. Profits It hascome have gone outofgrossdown, reduction ing that quarter is little per more cent thanfee of architecture must always be occupation to a high far more than merely a way of return one. risks up. 1200 largcon today's making a living. few architects A number of factors have costs. tion of A the cons'derable profession's •aork propor-has can ignore the need for adquatc contributed to this- The Taxes suffered an automatic financial return for their abili• enormous extension of profesty, time and effort. sional liability since law started the firstto the Similarly. total fee allocated the proportion to techni•of reduction RIBA argued in fees about while retainingthe Government and the public changes in case fees. at healtky lat e should wish to ensure a appearin 1963. leading toa rap- cal sa laries has increased as suc- mandatory where lack of financial climate for idly increasing exposure to cessive governments have pilcdthe effective Another official area action has lost architects. "If you pay peanuts, clatrns. has resulted in vastly in- charges and taxes on required far greater flexibility in application. A new scalc needs to be flexible. with the various alternative methods of charging clearly set out so that the most appropnate and suitable for architect and client can be selected and applied, The suggestion that the scale is in any way a minimum charge should be dropped. It should bc used as a basts to be negotiated upwards as well as downwards. Some parts of a contract may warrant a higher fee —a situation that already applies to the supervision element. Here. architects are poorly compensated for the work. responstbi. lity and open-ended nature of the commitment. The difficulty for all but the most experienced clients will be to establish with any prectsion what they will get in return for to be use the and dis- and in go or be a a in reader inquiry number 13 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Building Design Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6.2.1981 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/e38c60b7e9f664b72c5e71c55a9cc2e6.pdf 41be7b4ebe1ad98d11166172b5369c38 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. Hitherto entirely dominated by the RIBA bloc, the Council began to yield to a new dynamic through NAM's involvement, enabling fresh perspectives on such issues as mandatory fee scales, greater lay representation on the body, ethically-based standards of professional conduct, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letters from Anne Delaney et.al. "ARCUK is star chamber", and from D Robson "More on NAM politics" Subject The topic of the resource Letters from Anne Delaney et.al. "ARCUK is star chamber", and from D Robson "More on NAM politics" Description An account of the resource general elections of 1974, it was laid down that local authorities seeking consent to demolish unlisted buildings in conservation areas should apply to the DOE. It was felt, quite rightly, that councils should not be able to give themselves permission to knock down such buildings. Leicester Hotelfor demolition in Hull. Some attractive buildings in the outstanding conservation area of Hull old town are about to go because the city council has given demolition consent to Barratts (who are to redevelop for housing). Even though the council owns the buildings, it did not need DOE approval because Barratts, not the council, made the application. Among the condemned buildings is the Leicester Hotel of 1793—a landmark in the battered townscape of the old town retaining a good Georgian staircase and a Victorian pub front and furnishings. Conservationists are still hoping that the DOE will list some buildings. The DOE should require local authorities to send in all demolition cases in conservation areas in which they are involved, whether they are applicants or owners. Post-festal problems Gloomily surveying the remains of a young nephew's Christmas presents, I was struck by a common factor: they all came from one country. Britain? Hong Kong? Japan? No, they all originated in West Germany, the proverbial home of quality in production. The sign of a trend or just a fluke? Astragal 112 ARCUK is star chamber From Anne Delaney RIBA, Iain Campbell and Iain Cooper, Cardiff NAM group Sir: Those of you who were readers of The Sunday Times prior to its temporary demise will know something of the controversy surrounding the recent ARCUK Discipline Committee verdict on Summerland architect James Lomas. The purpose of this letter is not to discuss whether justice was done in this particular case, but to question a procedure where it is impossible to see whether justice has been done or not. As things currently stand, journalists are allowed to attend meetings of the Discipline Committee but must undertake to report nothing until the end of the hearing, and NOTHING AT ALL if the respondent is found not guilty. This is not the first time that confidentiality of disciplinary hearings has been called into question. On a previous occasion when this issue surfaced at ARCUK, the editors of the AJ added their exhortations to attempts to get ARCUK to act openly. The AJ (2.12.70 PI 295) said: 'Nothing would concentrate architects' minds more effectively than enforcing the codes openly. 'No one can defend secret justice as a principle; in democracies every citizen has the right to have his case heard in public. . Yet when architects sit in judgment on their fellows . the public is excluded. 'Would the profession be harmed if disciplinary proceedings were reported?. . strong and self-confident profession has more to gain if it is openly seen to cut out its diseased wood than it loses through exposing the disgraceful conduct of a few of its members. 'Would architects accused of misconduct be harmed if their cases were heard in public? It is arguable that those ultimately found not guilty might suffer. . .. The decision here must be not whether to report the case but whether to allow names to be mentioned.' When ARCUK refused to act in accordance with such exhortations, the editors replied, under the heading 'Star chamber not abolished' (AJ 23 & 30.12.70 pi1469); '[ARCUK] Council, by a large majority, has decided not to allow disciplinary proceedings to be held in public. We believe the interests of profession and public would be better served if justice were seen to be done. Members of council were muddled: many seemed as concerned to shield ARCUK proceedings from possible ridicule as to protect from injustice individuals accused of misconduct. . . . It is difficult not to accuse ARCUK of smugness when it accepted George Grieves' motion not to allow publicity because he was "perfectly satisfied as a member of that committee (the discipline committee) that our behaviour is just and proper". And it is difficult not to accuse ARCUK of being more concerned with covering up for itself and errant architects than with being an effective watchdog for the public good. The council should think again.' Eight years later ARCUK still has not seen fit to think again. Yet in its 1976 Annual Report ARCUK proclaimed itself 'one of the first consumer protection organisations' and a reading of the Acts alone might seem to offer some substantiation of this claim. But the real test has to be sought in the way the Acts are operated. If the claim is merely pious sentiment, then ARCUK may continue to operate behind closed doors, since it may then protect the self interest of its own members while pretending to do the opposite. However, as William Shepherd has pointed out (The Sunday Times 19.11.78), the whole concept of professional selfgovernment is open to question. Why should the public believe that its interests are best protected by allowing doctor to discipline doctor, architect to discipline architect, in the latter case, behind closed doors. But while a profession CLAIMS to operate effectively in the public interest, then it must either be SEEN to do so, or face the charge of hypocrisy. Its proceedings must be made accountable to the public by being made visible to them. It seems unlikely, however, that ARCUK as presently constituted will take this step. Indeed, the recent recommendations of its officers would appear to indicate an opposite tendency. As the AJ (3.1.79 p6) has revealed, 'ARCUK committee members may be asked to sign a document guaranteeing that matters discussed in committee will not be disclosed to outside parties. . . . Any member unwilling to sign such a document "should be advised that he cannot take up the appointment".' ARCUK council must affirm that as 'one of the first consumer protection organisations' it has nothing to hide, and must admit unrestricted press reporting of all Council and its committees' deliberations. If ARCUK is not prepared to do this, then its actions can only strengthen NAM's argument that amendments to the constitution of the council are urgently necessary. A. DELANEY, 1. CAMPBELL AND 1. COOPER Cardiff More on NAM politics From David G. Robson Sir: May I reply briefly to the long smokescreen letter which you published from John Allan and other NAM members (AJ 3.1.79 p5). My own letter (AJ 20 & 27.12.78 pl 180) was not, as they wrongly assumed, a statement of my candidacy, but was intended simply to draw attention to the unfortunate fact that a narrow-based, well organised and doubtless well-intentioned group has now secured a virtual monopoly of the 'unattached' representation on ARCUK. Mr Allan attributes NAM successes to a 'broad degree of support among unattached architects' while carefully ignoring the fact that at the last election six out of every seven unattached architects failed to register a vote. The present spectrum of the unattached caucus could be more accurately attributed to electoral apathy perhaps! Mr Allan kindly advertises my own lack of success in the last election, but fails to record the interesting AJ 17 January 1979 minibus service to carry car-besotted tourists through the village. This is surely a sad travesty of what Clough wanted for Portmeirion. He envisaged it as a private demesne to keep crass commercial exploitation at bay. He even restricted the number of visitors by applying a classical supply-and-demand price mechanism at the entrance points—as the number of people entering the village rose during the day, so did the price! Farewell to Holford The appeal for funds for a memorial to Lord Holford—perhaps the best-known British architect planner of 1940-70— raised rather more than {20 000. This is a respectable sum but not one to yield any sizable investment income in days of inflation. The Trust Committee has therefore decided to spend the whole sum within five or seven years. Their major decision is to offer a 11000 travel award for five years to graduates of each of the three university departments where Holford was teacher or professor: Civic Design and Architecture at Liverpool, and the Bartlett School in London. It was regretted that all the planning and architectural students in Britain could not be made eligible to apply for one of the awards; but the difficulty and cost of assessing applications was beyond the trust's resources. Surveying sucæss There are well-founded rumours that the RIBA is looking around among publishers for assistance in publishing the RIBA Journal. There seem to be no such problem in the world of surveying. Last week the RICS launched the first issue of a new journal, and an interesting one at that: Chartered Quantity Surveyor. The RICS now has three magazines, the other two being Chartered Surveyor and Chartered Land and Minerals Surveyor. While the RIBA and ARCUK and other minor architectural groups wrangle and fight, the world of surveying seems to be growing steadily stronger and wealthier. As a hint ofwhere the quantity surveyor's attention is turning, the first issue of CQS has an article on the quantity surveyor's role in a relatively new field, that of civil engineering. Watch it boys. Home sweet (sic) home How one thinks of the '20s and '30s presumably depends very much on ones age group and degree of sophistication. AJ 17 January i 979 The Chermayeff house, the living room as it was in 1939. Chermayeff's house at Halland (see 'Home sweet (sic) home'). 111 fact that the results were so tightly bunched as to suggest a totally random voting pattern. Mr Allan expresses the hope that this election will be the occasion for broad and open discussion while knowing full well that, under the present rules, such discussion is unlikely to take place. He denies that the open letter to 'unattached' architects from the sitting NAM candidates which the ARCUK Registrar distributed with the election papers was an 'election address' . . . a rose by any other name! Surely he must admit that the NAM candidates availed themselves of an opportunity which is not prescribed in paragraph 45 of the Registration Act and which has certainly been denied to all other candidates. Doubtless my own performance in the present election will match that of last year, and I look forward to the opportunity to fight an open election under the new regulations in 1980! DAVID G. ROBSON Newcastle upon Tyne The Cresset From Francis Duffy ARIBA, PhD, AADip1 John Worthington MArch, AADipl Sir: The comment by the Chief Architect of Peterborough Development Corporation on our recent criticism of the Cresset shows a misunderstanding of our argument. While it is worth repeating that the Cresset as an organisation is a brilliant achievement, we still think the Cresset as a building fails to express how short-term, infinitely changeable and diverse uses can co-exist within a long-term building shell. How to achieve a balance between long-term and short-term design is a fundamental problem which is better understood in the commercial field of retailing than in buildings designed for public use. The Cresset's architecture is certainly not weak. In our opinion its strength, unlike that of Centraal Beheer (AJ 29.10.75 p893), is not Cresset: What do you do here? the kind which stimulates imaginative use. Nor is it a Miesian universal space—the Cresset's plan and fabric are far too specific for that. v The shops adjacent to the Cresset with their lively lighting and temporary displays are more Miesian than the Cresset. AJ 17 January 1979 No, the Cresset is somewhere in between—brash when it should be unassertive, bland when it could be bold. The problem goes back to the brief. All 14 users had specific demands which were extremely difficult to reconcile. Next year there will be 15 or 16 users; in 1984 there may be 10. Briefing in such a situation makes it imperative to separate short-term from long-term requirements. The solution may be either to create a universal Miesian shed or a highly articulated space-making structure like Centraal Beheer. Either type of solution could, in theory, recognise the strength, the ingenuity, the sheer visual impact of short term users. But the Cresset, in our opinion, is a half-way house—too respectful to short-term users in its plan and not sensitive enough to them in elevation and detailing. Where short- and long-term design meet is a fascinating boundary, perhaps the most important in complex buildings. To say that the Cresset got it wrong is not to attack the intentions behind the project, nor to denigrate the skill and enthusiasm of the design team, but an attempt to illuminate a fundamental architectural problem of our time. FRANCIS DUFFY, JOHN WORTHINGTON London WI Hot line to Zeus? From Tristan York RIBA, Dip Arch Sir: I feel sure that one of your readers will be able to solve a quandary that has lately pressed upon me with an increasing urgency: to whit, the whereabouts of the well of artistic wisdom from which the development control officer draws his acute critical awareness on matters architectural; this fount of aesthetic knowledge which so incontestably places him on a plane of aesthetic sensibility to which the humble practitioner can only aspire. Obviously mere love of architecture, study, training, experience of the discipline and skill in its undertaking provide inadequate qualifications to this 'higher sight'. This willing pilgrim for one would be extremely grateful for directions to the temple of the development control officer's architectural lodestone. TRISTAN YORK London W13 London—more funds and coordinated planning needed From Peter F. Phillips BA, BArch Sir: Astragal's caustic comments on the proposal to revive London's west cross road (AJ 22.11.78 p969) demonstrates that the days of simplistic and fashionable approaches to planning problems are not yet over. So too the Lea Valley motorway scheme (AJ 13.12.78 pl 131), sadly given credence by the AJ with an emotive picture and misleading diagrams. Certainly, Hackney and East London badly need roads to relieve congestion and provide good access for industry, but so does the rest of London. The diagrams give the misleading impression that most of London's traffic problems result from movement between the MI/AI and M2/M20 via Hackney, which is not so, as is evident from the overwhelming congestion on every major road in the metropolis. The M25 is itself a hybrid result of past disjointed planning schemes, and would admittedly have been of greater economic and environmental value skirting and threading the outer suburbs five or six miles closer in, but to simply axe sections of it now as is proposed does not make sense. Traffic from the north-eastern radial routes, including those from Felixstowe and Tilbury, two vitally important docks, would still have poor access to the majority of London. Another of the scheme's claimed virtues is its benefit to docklands, yet surely limited funds should first go to improving the infrastructure of existing declining inner city areas before embarking on expensive dockland pastures new? Piecemeal easy solutions like the Lea Valley scheme, the type that politicians unfortunately tend to latch onto so easily, will achieve little in isolation. Regardless of the possible influence of the M25, industry and commerce will continue to leave London at an accelerating rate—with disastrous consequences—unless a comprehensive primary road network within the whole of Greater London is built; and built soon. This does not, however, negate the importance of maintaining parking restrictions and improving the presently inadequate public transport network—all form important parts of an essential transport system. With the responsibility for trunk roads transferred to the GLC Planning Department a fresh co-ordinated start could indeed be made. For once, new primary roads could be considered in conjunction with adjoining redevelopment and other transport services, enabling them to be better integrated into their surroundings and be of more economic and social value. Perhaps also if much more care was taken over their design and landscaping than is evident at present, and compensation rules were extended to cover all people adversely affected by schemes, opposition might not be so vehement and hysterical. As other regions of Britain with much smaller populations than London have benefited from considerable Government infrastructure funds in recent years, Government should now undertake a lion's share of the expenditure needed in the capital. The costs will doubtless be considerable, but in common with the history of British industry, without such investment London will sadly continue to decline. PETER F. PHILLIPS Qatar, Arabian Gulf The editor reserves the right to shorten letters. Short letters can be dictated to Lynette York over the telephone on Thursdays, for possible inclusion in the following issue of the A}. -113 REPORT Pooley rethinks GLC restructure Fred Pooley's controversial proposals for restructuring the GLC Architect's Department have been modified in a report which goes before the Professional and General Services Committee on 8 February. In the modified report, which is attached to a report from the Director General and the Controller of Manpower, certain suggestions in the first of Pooley's reports (AJ 1.11.71 p824) are dropped including his suggestions for the creation of multi-disciplinary practice groups. Recommendations in the new report include: a change of committee structure so that all the Architect's Department, instead of working for specific committees (Housing Department working for Housing Committee), will work for one committee—the Professional and General Services Committee. the whole department reorganised into practice groups; the wording of the report suggests that, eventually, these groups may become multifunctional. The report also seeks approval for voluntary redeployment of staff. This was one of the most hotly contested points of the original report. Many of the staff feel that, in reality, such a provision would mean that staff might find themselves faced with having to take uncongenial work or quit. Another of the controversial points raised by the original report was the future of Access, the architects' information service. Now Pooley, instead of asking for its closure as originally, is suggesting that it be combined with Technical Services and the staff be reduced. The staff committee meet on 23 January to discuss their response to this new round of proposals. DOE policies may undermine new listing initiative The difficulties that the GLC has been experiencing in getting the DOE to list buildings suggest that the Joint Committee of the Amenity Society's worthy attempt to speed up the resurvey of the country by recruiting and training volunteer listers is doomed. Even if lists are compiled quickly by the volunteers, there is no evidence that the DOE would accept them or process them speedily. In the past, the DOE has sat for many months on lists compiled by its own investigators. The Joint Committee (consisting of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, the Ancient Monuments Society, the Georgian Group and the Victorian Society) has organised a seminar to be held at Avoncroft College, Worcestershire, on 18-20 May at which about 30 volunteers will be 114 Foster's latest for IBM at Greenford AJ 17 January 1979 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Architect's Journal Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Undated https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/ed67a37ca4639ea16ab45ce7ebeeb88a.pdf 7f63f148b8b1dcc6c874f5dcae51092a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. Hitherto entirely dominated by the RIBA bloc, the Council began to yield to a new dynamic through NAM's involvement, enabling fresh perspectives on such issues as mandatory fee scales, greater lay representation on the body, ethically-based standards of professional conduct, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Who's getting a free ride Subject The topic of the resource Letter from R Maltz Description An account of the resource The Architects' Journal 13 December 1978 1123 Letter The editor reserves the right to shorten letters. Short letters can be dictated to Lynette York over the telephone on Thursdays, for possible inclusion in the following issue of the A}. Who's getting a free ride? From R. Maltz, architect Sir: You recently reported that the RIBA treasurer complained that 'unattached' architects are 'enjoying a free ride' (AJ 29.11.78 p1028). This raises some interesting questions. Why does he pick on the so-called 'unattached' : are they the only architects who do not pay RIBA subscriptions? And who, in fact, is really getting a 'free ride'? According to the latest ARCUK figures, as of 31 October 1978, less than 78 per cent of UK architects were RIBA members, down from 85 per cent three years ago. Of the rest, while over 17 per cent are considered 'unattached' another 5 per cent, who also do not pay RIBA subs, are members of other organisations enshrined in Schedule 1 of the Architects' Registration Act 1931. Did the RIBA treasurer also attack the 6000 or so corporate members of the RIBA (more than all non-RIBA UK architects) who appear, from press reports of the RIBA's expected subscription income, no longer to be paying their RIBA subs? Perhaps before attacking other architects the RIBA treasurer could explain why the RIBA continued to carry these 'free riders' on its membership rolls. I think the RIBA treasurer ought also to provide a credible explanation of why he considers that the growing number of UK architects who eschew RIBA membership are 'enjoying a free ride'. (Many of those RIBA members who pay their E50 subs apparently think that the RIBA is getting a free ride from them ! ) Surely the RIBA treasurer isn't forgetting those mysterious benefits reserved to RIBA members only, which one of the RIBA's 'Gang of Forty' on ARCUK recently used to justify Safdie Lanski: producing an Israeli Disneyland? See Waksberg's letter, the amenity societies do all the fighting. All architects should : 1 Join their local amenity society, Civic Society or Conservation Area Advisory Committee (I guess only 1 per cent do at present). 2 Think not twice, but 100 times before being party to the destruction of a listed building. 3 Encourage the RIBA to be more active in conservation. 4 Press for SAVE's 14 recommendations. 5 Urge planning authorities to be much more flexible in granting permission for new uses for listed and ancient buildings. Does anyone know what happened to Grenville Powney's idea, launched in 1970, for a sort of Society of Owners of Listed Buildings? Such a group (300 000 strong) could collectively defend threatened buildings. H. Reginald Hyne Windsor Left to rot From Desmond Hodges RIBA, director of Edinburgh New Town Conservation Committee Sir : Here is a recommendation to add to the stirring list which concludes the 'Special save report' (AJ 22.11.78 p1002) : 'To establish a fund to which owners of listed buildings could contribute regularly, and from which they could borrow to pay for repairs. 'Tax-free interest on such savings to pay for systematic inspection, organised by the fund. 'Savings to be transferred at face value to new owners, but to be spent only on eligible repairs.' Such ready cash might reduce procrastination and the consequent appeals for HBC funds to avert the ultimate catastrophe. In fact the HBC might save money in the long run by making incentive payments to savers (no pun intended ! ). Anyone interested in these ideas is invited to contact me. Desmond Hodges 13a Dundas Street, Edinburgh National Heritage Buildings Agency From R. W. y. Chitham RIBA Sir: It is very heartening to see that one of the conclusions reached in the SAVE report on the dereliction of historic buildings Agency should be set up. You very kindly gave the opportunity to float this idea in your columns some 18 months ago (AJ 30.3.77 p588) on which occasion I made the point that once you embrace the concept of an agency of this kind, you discover a broad range of functions which it would be Not only could it take on powers of intervention to save 1124 The Architects' Journal 13 December 1978 The Cresset: the pursuit of anonymous space? See Maplestone's letter. w eke Belfast support for Hackney Belfast councillors were urged not to demolish large areas of Belfast for redevelopment last week by architect Rod Hackney. Instead he recommended them to initiate self-help rehab schemes based at street and neighbourhood level. Speaking at a special meeting in the Lord Mayor's parlour in Belfast's town hall, Hackney suggested that, ironically, Belfast could be a decade ahead of some English cities. 'You haven't fallen into the abyss of thinking that everything over 60 years old has got to come down', he said. Hackney's man in Belfast, Dave Gregory, with local resident (left) outside the shop where he lives (right). 'You have tighter communities here with already established leaders', he went on. Following a presentation of his Macclesfield scheme, one councillor declared it was the 'most fantastically stimulating thing I've heard for a long time'. While another councillor appeared to be concerned that 'we haven't got the right people here', the Lord Mayor pledged his support for the idea. 'What better way of community development than people doing up their own houses?' he said. But he added, 'we've now got to get it over to the [Government] Housing Executive'. Hackney's intervention in Belfast's housing problems is no accident. He was approached by the Woodvale Shankhill housing association last year and, after persuading the Housing Executive to declare a Housing Action Area, was appointed to rehabilitate 114 houses. Community designer Dave Gregory has been appointed to live above the housing association office in a corner shop within a stone's thrown of the barbed wire defences of the Crumlin Road 'peace line' and run the scheme. Executive's demolition plan revealed The action area is, however, only a small part of the Protestant working-class Shankhill district. An internal document of the Housing Executive, leaked recently to the Save the Shankhill Campaign, reveals that the executive would like to demolish Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Architect's Journal Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/de39df1bdbea6501dd932b60f8680f26.pdf d314aa25837d1fdd71b290caea9e2dc3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. 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The French legislation comes at a time when a large number of the architectural profession in France is unemployed and Platform when the proportion of build• in which architects is to be maintained at a decent ncommunity. The time has come level. architects must be used at Vto implement their theories in Barbour Index Plan Storage Please tell me more about Barbour Index Plan Storage Name Organisation Address Tel. No. BARBOUR Barbour Index Limited New Lodge, Drift Road, Windsor, Berkshire SL4 4RQ Telephone:Winkfield Row 4121 (STD 03447) every opportunity. Their initi• ative should bc followed. W lgglovorlh. If architects are to demand a greater say in using their professional skills for the bene• fit of society. the question of competence must be squarely faced. It would be wrong for the architectural profession. in view of the interference of central and local government in professional matters. to accept responsibility for all defects arising in their buildings. Nonetheless, those who de• mand rights must accept responsibilities and it could be argued that the Registration Council. by relying on the RIBA to scrutinise exami• nations in universities and poly• technies. d<RS not ensure sufficiently high standards from graduates. or adequately protect the public against poor professional work. The situation could be improved if ARCUK were to free the RIBA from its surrogate examining role by examining students themsebes on completion of a full•time or part-time course. Registration would then depend entirely on a successful examination result. and the link between regis• tration and competence would be strengthened. this country. The problem of increasing the profession •s workload could be further eased by direct G€nrrnment intenention. If the present reduction in the activities of the construction industry is to continue. surely the Government should take presentativc measures? If the Government is willing to make preferential arrangements for the construction industry to export, rather than to gear its production solely to the home market. there is every reason to provide similar encouragemcnt to the consultant professions. Central Govern• ment should improve its co. ordinating and advisory role and should provide guidance and financial assistance to enable firms without large capital resources to export Brittsh expertise. •ntis might take the form of low interest loans and fee guarantee on the lines of Export Credit Guarantee. 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