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Title A name given to the resource From Radical to Revolutionary Subject The topic of the resource 6 page essay (2 copies) Description An account of the resource FROM RADICAL TO REVOLUTION,,aY Brian Anson The new breed of'Conceptualist'architects seem blind to the fact that in Britain thousands are still forced to live in ugly and poverty stricken environments. The architects of the authoritarian Left frequently act as though such people'live by bread alone'and have no capacity for dreaming of beautiful things outside the sphere of their existence, The radical architect who is searching for a new vision is labelled ultra political by the Conceptualists because he ignores ‘art for art's sake',Because he has the courage to'dream from -the earth up! ,the doctrinaire Left wieuere “"bourgeoise’ behind his bask. Well to hell with both factions, For me he.is the truly revolutionery architect and it is the purpose of this short essay to describe him and how he came about. Until recently we had to go back toMorris to hear an architect speak of his work in sovial terms:'...what architecture unless all can share it.We must not preduce it only for the swinish luxury of the rich.'This great gap of a hundred years;it is this lack of concern for the social side of architecture that is so largely responsible for the dilemma in which we as architects find ourselvesswhy is this so?Pevsner gives us a clue: "Ingland's activity in the preparation of the Modern Movement came to an end immediately after Morris'death,...English writers have not failed to acknowledge this,but hardly anyone has tried to explain it.One reason may be this:so been a matter which in practice concerned class England could foot the bill.As soon as the problem began to embrace the people as a whole other nations that cid not accept or did not know Ingland's EDUCATION AND SOCIAL CONTRASTS BETWSEN THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES AND THOSE IN THE SUBURBS ANS THE SLUMS. ‘(my emphasis). So the Beveridge Report of 1919 to combat the five evils of ‘Want,Disease,IgnoraSQnUAcLOeR,,andIDLENESS'(myemphasis) was acted upon.Slum clearance got under way;British Town Planning busimess have we with: long as the new style had only the wealthier nations took the lead, British architecture, for all its apologists and theorists has always been Secenmia ie, in the control of the privileged and powerful,and has had no relationship with the mass of common people except as an oppressive force to crush them in the path of grandiose civic projects.The recent property toom with its resulting physical destruction and rape of poor communities, proves that nothing has really changed since Morris's death, While the Modern Movement was blossoming on the Continent the UK had nothing to compare with the pamphlet‘ Arbeitsrat flr Kunst' of 1919:'...architecture shall no longer be the luxury ofthefew...'ThesignatBrounro’iTaeut,sA,dolfBehre,andothers, all of them in the spitbit of the age,declaring that architecture must spring from the people and be of them.But not Britain- past master at containing revobutionary ideals and expert at chanelling them into innocuous reforms,she could afford to look smugly upon such wild calls for architectural revolution.The myth of British Supremacy was not yet to-be dislodged,Britain's attempts to ° democratise the environmental process were well timed,subtle,| and above all paternalistiacs befitted an imperial power, ean tin Hogg summed it up when he told Parliament in 1918: '..eif you don't give the people social reform they are going to give you social revolution,..' 2. became'the bast in the world'.But behind all the social activity was the age old imperialistic ideaskeep the workers healthy and occupied and they will have no wish to rock the boat and alter the power structure.British architecture torfowed the forms of the Modern Movement; but ignored the'communistic'ideals of the modernists.It was cleverly worked out and beautifully simple, so much so that,as late as 1961,Kidder Smith,in his'The New Architecture of Europe',while admitting that'...for almost half a century Great Britain saw little of architectural significance ee+'could also declare that'...now intellectually the contemporary architectural situation in Britain is on one of the highest planes in Europe...'and go on to eulogise about the high rise housing and slum clearance projects which were so much a feature of architectural journals in the early 60's.The incestuous back slapping amongst architects and politicians over the'successes? of post war British architecture (the work of the LCC, the schools programmet,he new towms) may well have led Kidder Smith to proclaim of Britain Modern architecture has arrived, True to form the architectural profession was blind to what was happening around it,yet during the 50's warnings had been coming through from other sectors of society. Just as the artists and poets cleared the way for Morris and the. first modern movement,so the novelists, playwrights and thinkers of the'Angry Decade'punctured the upper class,paternalistic membrane engulfing cosy Britain and,in my view,paved the way for the post- modern movement in architecture;a movement with which we are still trying to come to grips. Yet it was to be a mere handful of years later that the British public especially those poorer communities forced to inhabit the new'visions'were to proclaim with great ferocity 'We don't like it and what's more you never asked our opinion. '! Osborne, Sillitoe,Wesker, Barstow, Shelagh Delaney, Alan Owen; the ‘Angry Young Men'(and women) of the 50's,who through their novels and plays,showed that Britain, beneath its paternalistic welfare statism and slum clearance philosophy,was still riddled by class consciousness and ruled by privilege. Parallel with the'kitchen sink'dramatists,a number of important Sociological studies emergRe“cdha.rd Hogarth's massive study of the northern working class in'Uses of Literacy'; Townsend's ‘Family Life of Old People';and Wilmott and Young's classic study of the disastrous effects of urban renewal on East End communities.All these works spelt out clearly the immense danger of architects and planners ignoring the age old community linkages, now so fragile after the destruction of war and the pulverising effects of a consumer growth economy.Yet architecture was deaf to the warnings and the hizh rise housing went up in Bethnal Green, Golden Lane,Pimlico,Park Hill,and throughout alll the local authority areas in the Britisn Isles,And the philistine architects had a field day;the Shell empire began to sprawl like a cancer over London's South Bank;the Pivadilly Circus farce began, and city centres throughout the country were being restructured in all their awful sameness. The severe problems we now face in architecture,of people's elementary right to participate in environmental decisions, were all vividly outlined by the writers of the 50's and ARCHITECTURE IGNORED THEM, 36 * In the few short years of the mad 60's British architecture laid the foundations of the hate which is now directed at it by the public and it is diffi-«lt to summ - up sympathy for the profession, Then in 1968 Community Action arrived on the scene and for the next few years appearce to offer a way forward to the radical architect, The movement was just one element in a mac larger process for change which suddenly erusted in the western world, Empires’were <: . suddenly seen to be fragmenting: students in America, France, Germany and eventually Britain,were rioting over civil liberties and the protests were put dom with police brutality (with the significant exception of Britain where the establishment was far too clever to do that}.Workers in Prance joined the popular struggle for human rights.Tho foundations for a new'Gestalt! were laid.0n the environmental front the commimities of North Kensington blocked Westway and their banners read 'Get us out of this hell'ssquatters in iclington barricaded a street and proclaimed it a ‘NO Go Area',echoing the struggle building up in Ireland.The people in Covent Garden rose up against a multi million pound plan being forced on them by the unholy alliance of an-impersonal GLC and the tycoons of the property world (with their erchitects in tow.) By 1972 the community movement had spread throughout the country 3Glasgow, Leeds, Sunderland, Liverpool, Cardiff, until virtually every hamlet in Britain had its protest group. The term'the unacceptable face of capitalism'was coined, and speculators, bureaucrats,and planners became the villains of society.Finally,as evidence of wholesale corruption was exposed in the architectural field,architecture was seen as just another link in the chain of power which viewed the environment as merely a commercial commodity to he exploited at will. The'Angry Young Men'were burnt out cases by the early 60's, Macmillan told us'we had never had it so good'; the'war Babies! had grown up with money in their pockets.A cultural vacuum was created.To those sensitive enough to discern it we were at the 'wake'of the British Empire,and like all’ good wakes it was a feast,The Pop revolution was upon us and,as one commentator put it:!...suddenly the North moved South grinning broadly~~ and cocking a snoop at every form of discrimination it Saweee! Had it been ten years earlier it could have been dramatiz, but society had had enouch of social realism for a while, In architecture the more! imaginative! (or opportunist)went into fantasy (plug-in walk-in cities) consumer graphics and the King's Road, Carnaby Street culture,while perhaps the more astute one climbed aboard the proper<y world bandwaggon which was just getting wreder way.Almost alone in the 60's Cedric Price stood out in trying to link his imagination to the realities in provincial social life (Potteries Thinkbelt). Small groups of disaffected professional archatects and students joined the movement “n preparing alternative schemes and setting up workshoptso educate the communities in the power of architecture and planning.The concept of!guerilla'architects was born and those worked within the system (until discovered and sacked ) filching confidential documents and plans to be used as weapons by the communities in their struggle against the system.Perhaps most important of all, the community profassionals came to reject their own institutions (RIBA) as not only had it rerused to come out 4e publicly on the side of the communities but on the contrary had aidcdand abetted the developers by doing their design work, During these years three times as much investment went into property development as into British industry,and the architectural profession made a bonanza,proving where its allegiance lay. Yet as a revolutionary force the community movement fizzled out’ by 1973.True most of the large destructive plans had been defeated, but this was due as much to gathering inflation and the excessive greed of the speculators (killing the goose that lays the o golden egz) as to the'power to the people , In any case,in time honoured fashion, the establishment had - effectively defused an explosive situation by establishing complicated frameworks for nominal participatiotnh,us disarming the communiti¢s which could never hope to compete with it in terms of time,money,and expertise, But the real problem,and the most radical of the community architects realised it socn after the’ movement began,was spelled out by an American advocacy architect,Robert Goodman:'...You cannot graft pluralist mechanisms, such as advocacy planning, onto existing relationships to colve problems of democratic control if the existing re. vionships are so unbalanced as to discount the. effects of the proposed reform.In order to gain acceptan”.e any reform is made to fit the status quo. and’ as a- result is disarmed as an effective mechanism for chenge...! The projects and plans against which the radical architect had fought alongcide the communities were only a manifestation of a far deeper malaise;the political and’ economc system which had spammed tne project in’the first place,It was the system which needed changing (Land, Money, Privilege) and ironically while working within the powerless’ communities might prove rewarding for the radical professional,it effectively mimimised the nesessi*y for the rules of the game to be changed to include the communities themselves, Perhaps Beatle John Lennon. summed up the tragedy when hn said in ; 1972:'.,.we all dressed up and went’ onto the streets shouting "Power to the People!.We had a ball,;but nothing changed, the same bastards are still in control.,.! So having,at least temporarily,abandoned community action,where dor does the radical architect go? Back into the system? Would it have him. back? : Into the fantasy world of the unreadable Conceptualists (Venturi, Kisenmann and latter day Cook)? Fantasy soon degenerates into total boredom, Reject architecture sltogether?Put Why should he? There is another way- Through the work which he knows best,he can join the struggle to ouild a decent architecture committed to neither Corporate Statism nor State Socialismb,ut which is part of the decentralised, community based society that many are straggling to bring about.A society in which architecture will no longer be controlled by the rith and powerful,nor out of the economic reach of most people,but which is gehorally carried out on a small scale local basis with lay people cooperating fully with the architect.Such a Society could have a locally controlled National Design Service on the lines of the NHS, oy learning from its successes and failures,Ways would need to be found to prevent the growth of architectural monopolies, but: there is no reason why this could not’ be controlledby law, as it is ih Yugoslavia where private officed cannot employ more’ than five people.Larger schemes could be handled by the amalgamation of small enterprises. solely for the duration of the project. (Evidence shows that, under our present system,as practices become more successfuli,n monetary terms,and therefore larger, the standard of design-drops as management techniques override sensitivity).In such a society all practices would be on a self-managemént basis with:all members of the firm sharing both in responsibility and decision making.Most important the - schools of architecture would become major resource centres for the local communitiesi’n which they are situated.The present system,where students work to hypothetical and increasingly «°° esoteric briefs and merely provide'fodder'for the status quo, is ‘ludicroaunsd very wasteful of resources.There are problems enough on the very doorstep of the schools to tax both the knowledge and creativity of the studonts.If the local people were éncouraged to become part of the school;and even in some cases, take. up teaching posts, then eventually, the entire architectural training system could become the major link between society and the profession, oO og : a pat How that job is to be done is outside the scope of this essay, but in the process the radical architect becomes the REVOLUTIONARY architect. Apart from the National Design Service,none of the ideas mentioned are new;they have all happened in one form or another during the past twenty years.But they are the exception not the rule.Our first job as radical architects,is to get our own’ profession to pledge itself to this new society.If,as I believe, the RIBA has too much a vested interest in th status quo to make any such pledg. chen our task is to overthrow the Institute and build a new profession dedicated to a socially responsible architecture, Some will. :rgue that before such a community architecture can be establishedth,e necessary fundamental changes will need to occur in our political system,.Taken to its logical conclusion this arguhent says that nothing can ever be done;by workers, by nurses,by miners.We might ask,how did the'revolution'in medicine ever occur if a small group of idealistic doctors didn't agitate for it first?The revolutionary architect will acknowledge that fundamental changes will be necessary to make community architecture the norm in our society,but we can at least work to START the process. There is ample evidence that the general public and many polit? ans would support such an ain. And finally,we can all work as individuals3;as teachers we can make sure we instruct our students in the social responsibility of architecturesas assistants in offices we can condem projects which are socially harmful and refuse to work on themsand in local authority offices we can tell our bureaucratic masters that we are paid as'Public Servants',and not merely there to do their bidding and that of monopoly capital, And the end result of all this could well be unemployment and a great sense of tragedy.But the struggle to build a decent architecture hav always been a tragic one.As Stephen Kurtz says ie in his beautifully poetic'WastelandTh.e Buildinogf the American Dream':'Ontlhye revolutionary transcends and escapes the tragic dilemma. In a’ terrifying even to himself and ultimate defiance of authority,he gives up hope of someday recieving what he has always been denied: and decides, cither alone or with others, to provide for himself.In this way then, revolutionaries are thé world's only adults.As Long as the primary form’ of getting what one needs is begging, cajoling, or persuadingf,or so long is the childish status preserved.Against this final impoverishment a battle is being waged, spearheaded by those who are tired of being denied and joined by those who are tired of being given. It is a’battle in which the members of the race will perhaps forever,decide whether or not they shall be called men, Can it be then, that the greatest architects of’ our age are hot those selebrated in the histories - Le Corbusier, Mies, Gropius, those oftheBauhthaeuCIAsM,theengineersandtheformgivers-but rather the architects of Algiers,who created holes where buildings had been and terror in the heart of complacency?! ns In the same spirit I draw my conclusions.I don't do so with an sense of frivolity.There jusy seems no other way. _ In my search for @ community architecture I stood one day in 1972 in the middle of free Derry.The streets all around were barricaded,some with great sophistication and ingenuity.Down the road was a machine gun post guarded with sandbags stolen from the British Army.Qutside the post stood a placard saying "You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill the revolution'. Into this area came no specul tors,no bureaucrats;no silver tongued professionals ,nor forked tongued community activists.One of the people from the area showed me a dirty scrap of paper on which a local woman had drawn a crude plan for a community centre and some houses with gardens.'How do we build this! he said in desparation.'We've taken the land but we've no money nor materials',I couldn't answer him,but I knew my vision of the new architesture began there, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Brian Anson Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Allan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Undated https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/10d703df977f4e4dd4188c5e994dfd49.pdf 3bb7be10c541c4ae9d59bea87848e2ce 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 Introduction and Origins 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 From Your Local ARC Unit Now Subject The topic of the resource Promotional booklet. Includes 'The Draft Manifesto' and test making the case for revolutionary change. 8 x A4 pages Description An account of the resource In thi“s period the price :of buildin, g and of land,rocketed;the term &the unacceptable face of capitalism' was coined; the speculator and the developer became the villains in our society and corruption in the Seinely, architectural profession began to break through the thin veneer of ‘creative professionalism' that the RIBA had fostered for so long.In the words of many commentators,it was only the tip of the iceberg". Yet during that time leading members of the profession (some now on the eee Council) were saying such things as; ft 1 is rcidiculousas nonot to developr thene s3ite to its fulle st poteenti eUlevonens there is no point in underdeveloping on valuable enay, oe at es "ThemostsuccessfiEularchIitectsiarethosewh ststearekeOEE5 S and the mechanics of property development". OyRioc Tides daHee acne d : Owen Luder Yes w"ie did wyoork for the spivss(develsolopers) anid when we did weé f terrible hypocites,.... but what could we do". ti HUE BOGE aro architect it hy aE ates ape ® al uilding Design . staoe eae ee oa not officially endorse such views, Bib See 1 rin, ese year hysica 3 7 ee gtheyearsofphysicalandsocialrape,oncecryoutin HFcor thpeoese in thehe movemeenntt,, theesse past years have been the final stra EeayCeneihavewaitedtoseetheputteuaiaiteastinegekeenaen aeweee ayandwewerewillingtoacceptevengradualreform ae 20,08 CORN Geuieiarer of i Sea spirit. We now see that we eet 4f ° regreatest caume in t‘he prrorpertyyboomme. ThTihsis isiswwhe:n th fessiion cou‘ld hain 3 anc last chance for the RIBA thevanguardinenvironmentalethicsandofa? eae sShowed:itstrxzuecharacterandsisdiedWie Tene meae8ee wis i inflation in land and conaenicriGee: ceae aes CEATEIGGE Jin°fat! sae aanin cSoepatbhine omBAensis noe i fy to govern the world of architecture, nor is it aeuaacareMevGyan.he,Caosvaluetosociety.'Theinaeteanene :an, he goesontosay'Theins other hand is alive and well', THE INSTITUE TS NO? DELDMGHe: beets itects belong to i it is ; society. & it and it is the mouthpiecs of architecture in our | Se Aalm ee cs20Ee ESS sae The people living ig these communities are particularly incensed because the profession passed itself off as being socially conscioys. But the tables are turning because of the massive number of redund- ant architects who will soon condemn the RI8A for not building o firm social working base for architecture. Over a thousand architects will be out of work by Christmas and more than 60% of graduates will not. find employment this sumer. These unenployed architects can blame, with some justification, world inflation and recession for their plight, put the main problem is the greedy inflexible character of the profession. And as the redundancies occur who will be hit first? Not the powerful principles who run the big practices and back up the elitism of the RIBA. Tt will be the salaried architects and technicians, the people who do the real work in architects offices. All those soon to be redundant should know that there has never been 2 lack of work. A large pert of our environment is a slum and getting worse. But the RIBA has never taken the trouble to-ferge the professin into.an organiser capable of tackling these problems. The first prerequisite of such capability is thw desire to do something about it; this presupposes a social conscience,. something the RIBA has never hed. For reasons such as greed and aloof- ness the RIBA is incapable of dirtying itself at the level of the problen- The RIBA has no meaning fbr our siciety; 2 society that requires commit— ment to a cause. It has no meaning for architecture students yet it continues to control their destiny. It has meaning to many purely as an enticement to letters after ones name, as a path to commissions or jobs. Soon there will be no jobs left. But useless as it is the RIBA will not relinquish. power voluntarily. The status quo will not easily abdicate in the face of reason said Harold Laski. He was right. A strong architectural revolutionary movement must keep attacking the RIBA, until the power is rested from them ang a new order established. Prior to this,hope only iay with the few. architects and students deeply commited to an architecture for all people Now many more will commit thenselves, because they sre left with no other option. : The new system of architecture will need to be based on 2 mass moyement just as the RIBA is, otherwise there can be no progressive and creat— ive attack on the environmental problems of our society. That is why the ARCHITECTS REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL does not pretend to’ be the new moverient, nor indeed its embryo. ARG has constantly seen itself as a guall commited tovement totally opposed to the present setZup. It wpuld also oppose the new movenent should it show tendencies to becoming 2 pureaucracy intent-oh precerving itself ’to the deteriment of society. ARG sees itself as helping to bring the new movermnt abou and if nessessary acting as its vanguard. To this end it is organising 2 national convention in the Autumn,of all erchitects, technicians, students and others who wish to see revolutionary changes within the profession. Seperate literature will be published shortly concerning this convent-— ion. e As regards ARC itself there is still much to be done to build the group into an effective architectural guerilla force, What follows is a brief history of the movement so far and ways in which you maybe able to help if you feel yourself committed. For as Malcolm X once said "...if you're not part of the solution your part of the problen". THE PRESENT SITUATION IN ARC. 5: The movement began some eighteen months ago, when two architects, one English and one Jugoslavian, decided that an international novenent was needed to take the profession out of its elitast and capitalistic franewrk and make it responsible to society. There was particular need to deliberately align the profession with the poorer areas of our environment were connection with architecture is non-existant. AIRE 0.07 ee ees ee certainly right when he said of the xeepAiNn.g.. tiiintghé t2eoepleMECaMCnCee batoar hi plaacce have a veesstedd interest in architectuere, said Hanss Meyer /in th é€ 1930'tsg'ais a weapon that h &ep geeseepedPUR ihe classofhumansoottakSree o:fthoseawmhoebaathersoneereaetoetba..neRembrcanadat'isgiergereuataesetcokrawac pee aeey andrejection.Butianoaekings,nowlencnand Se eaeeeeemerchantsandspeculativebuildersarchitecture ReeshanesReeceaonwouldnototherwisehavefunctioned yeaaaeneueeee themselveswiththerichandpowerful! aweapnonusthatcanbeuseseda fencGanoeeof seoceiety and oie yeaeee ae cause of those who live in degrading earivecnedes Dre he neta TqThehaeaeerRIBaA is Bipaartioct of£ thte freee mIaMzarket system and thaat is: wh: aeWhatGedRoe thatsystemisundersuchan aa cee aar vec a as done to our physical and social environment aoeoe eee asmuchcapitalhasgoneintopropertydevelos SicuuaanseeeieaoePreeeneThseRIBAcanotimaginegs nt 's lat"UtelvaSten)seotsaeh SO at This e itself Cae = eevee uCn yan or has i he traditions to d r s a oe ee erchitecture ' . ca n on i t e e PConOoD vee EereeaEae which it has never done Tuer eee eee Saeed ne ae the taxpayer in tax and rate reliefs for thi he ae eaeprofessionshavemademovesforwardintera" Seecaeyacle.gonieee@abtemeeieeeLidCentres:someeaaicec ¢ whole s like VHS ils 1 more associated with the rich and eee aeeeeS ee ova apelta i i 3 ee nt me of the primary i i existedmany ECCI ices oe erag- inaphnieeee:Sada :iToesrohatectawhoaeather&t.eFoaa 5 ive and formidable oD rek rfieevvoalta :Tens emegs thgen int eB|en tiete|aCo9memoznosnencBbt raesefaseaorshle SafoarecieoRafolr ssion. se denanded that nati onaorlaecmoSvedeantentssabboee conasatsrhuected fi a : enbegonie cells BoeFe eid Serguei er it is known Argentina, Ital yonic cells in eigh Saeunte sen oan a own Sebicee wshtonithy onoethedraftmaheBe ee excht eee c us eae us in contact and lefte aaa ane etteuntane ng, loose unit ‘ate atten e:aoe Leet unityis Beye one conan tinesaeRememnobverment to let aussout anda years, Nthoerwafyi,rstTeoAiRlCeniLeNaeTERNATIONAL will occur urse, perhaps within two Trance; ee Orcs YOUDO siwithin ian your practii ya ee would strive Doe tnee whoGatrusteeae ieeeSenItisbeteorfatneawesyiseteneofa dictator of the lives of the poor and ynderprivileged. it has abused the trust of society WHY THE TIME IS RIGHT. + on the home front. It has never developed even such esoteric concepts &S the competntion system, A000 miles how can we expe pecause the ruling elite wish to keep the rewards for themselves. than to the goeiety that ib Ls ondemn aparthied and therefore ave such principles fron nas worked itself into 2 especially over the last of progress and must be swept away, and must now go, to allow a humane and just design profession to flourish. The ARCHITECTS REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL sees itself in the +radition of past revolutionary movenents in architectures the Constructivists, ARSE, Atelier Populaire. These movements did not succeed because the tine was not right, put they planted fertile seeds. WE BELIEVE THAT THE PIMs 1S RIGHT and we in ARC want to play our full part in the ereation of the new mass movement in architecture. But this can only come about with your aid. There are over tw ed architects in this country - Per head of population this is more than any country in Burope. Over apers of the RIBA. 80% of aual vik for other architects. This alone ays for their +raining- ides the grants 4o train arc i tal pepblems of society. Architects do not repey any way at present, they are unaccountable and irresponsible +o thet society. Trained people are forced to work in and are exploited py a bosses organisation; *? e RIBA. A large proportion of the archit- ectural work is handled by & small proportion of the membership who have built up large practices. The RIBA has always been run by suc a thus the status quo is maintained. Phe tendency has been to pecome big and powerful with the emphasis on streamlining and management sechniques. The RIBA'S ethic, if it can be said to have one, is that of narrow professionalisns a service to the client. These days the client cannot be qaentified with the society and frequently not even with the user. All this is in direct contrast to the moves going on in our society; the themes of local autonomy and preservation, the revival of craftsmanship and @ more human approac environment. over half our urban environment is economice environmentally deprived. The communities within th through +axation, to train the profession. a where it does not ignore these areas (commissions do The RIBA has 2 code that seeks to cushion its members from adverse critisism;it is i the RIBA that members should be loyal and communities, the sub The movement i pest eyelet is drafting id A ad structure deas for a new iallyorientatedos,(nom,resieeeaDEeeeofeducation;fo m) and for the other Petes under the’ fet the wey as. These will soc— be put to The many eritics of the RIBA call for reform,. 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This is particularly true as regards the yawning gulf petween the profession and the working elasses. movenent h ‘ i Hiapucm arte @ movement i ass bebeen two peonie seaman ee born and we arene ones: This is wha » because th € ‘oa my ne= status quo o But the RIBA and its ruling establishment, trap from which it cannot esc2pe- tls greed, decade, and its narrow objectives have put 4% in such pad repute, that i ios fighting 2 last ditch pattle to try to build an acceptable image. Tt will not succeed. The 3000 unattached architects have already C= clained in 4 recent survey that the RIBA has done nothing for architec— ture. Membe ttack it for its social sins. The public i s. now see along with the local pureaucrats and speculators who have ruined their lives, environments ¢le villian of the piece is the RIBA. Architects uniite for rev : VICTORY TO THE ARC. evolution Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource ARC Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Andrew Brown Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1974 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/fba19fa85d319dc1a0311176227874d9.pdf e294b5522e1bc2916e83d95982bafe97 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 Public Design Group Description An account of the resource <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Argued that it was only through the public sector that the majority of people could have access to the land and resources needed for housing, education and other essential services. The task was therefore to reform the practice of architecture in local councils to provide an accessible and accountable design service. The Public Design Group proposed reforms to the practice of architecture in local councils to provide a design service accessible and accountable to local people and service users. The following 6 Interim Proposals were developed which were later initiated and implemented in Haringey Council 1979-1985 by NAM members. </span></p> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Local area control over resources </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Design teams to be area based </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Area design teams to be multi-disciplinary </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Project architects to report directly to committee</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Abolish posts between Team Leader and Chief Architect </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Joint working groups with Direct Labour Organisations</span></li> </ul> 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 Future Programme Subject The topic of the resource Syllabus of future work (1 page) Description An account of the resource Future Programme RESEARCH: al x al * sk x 3. QUALITY ate nx 5. A THEORY OF PUBLIC DESIGN PDS Group May 1978 % Our future programme has four parts which consist of, work at a local level, work at a policy and educational level with relevant bodies, work at a comparative level with similar groups to N.A.M. - P.D.S., and a research component which will feed into the other three. After launching the N.A.M. --P.D.S. Group, it was soon apparent that there has been little discussion about local authority architects or their role in the economies of local areas. While the Interim Proposals and collective analysis developed in these papers provide the basis for new initiatives, further studies will be key to their development. The specific possibilities listed below will form the basis of an immediate work programme. It is proposed that an extended P.D.S. Group composed of a number of smaller teams will undertake individual parts of the work. Sources and methods will emphasise collecting and contributing case studies linked by a developed theoretical framework. Publicity, including talks; e.g. to schools of architecture, will be a growing feature. 1. DESIGN TEAMS AND DEMOCRATIC STRUCTURES Test Interim Proposal for area-based teams against capital programme and wards in a number of local authorities. Case studies of office hierarchies and office democracy. Examples from other countries e.g. Bologna. Relationship of job architects to committee structures and departmental structure of council as a whole. Case studies of job architects working directly to users. 2. THE FINANCIAL BASIS OF PUBLIC DESIGN Control of resources by central government - finance, standards, etc. Control of local councils; case studies from overseas. * Examples of how L.A. architects mediate/oppose financial constraints which lower standards. Effective tactics for raising quality - by individual ,unions,departments. 4, HISTORICAL ROOTS - AND POLITICAL STRUCTURES History of selected departments; their formation and growth. Impetus behind the radical movement in the 1930's, ABT/Unions. Links with local political structures. Potential of the lowest tier of local government for greater accountability. Elaboration of a theoretical framework in which the relationship of public and private practice and of the profession, can be located. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource PDS Group Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Allan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 1978 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/119c49a317f18538fe1c416a92f9f9e3.pdf 5c59c2f66b730ff540fccb3526d38140 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 General enquiry from DoE seeking responses from industry re PI and indemnity insurance Subject The topic of the resource General enquiry from DoE seeking responses from industry re PI and indemnity insurance (3pp) Description An account of the resource PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY REVIEW Mr Maude's statement of October 28 (copy attached for ease of -reference ) , announced the Government' s intention to set up three independent study teams to examine current problems with professional liability and indemnity insurance. Two of the study teams are concerned with professions sponsored by this Depart— ment , ie those concerned with the construction industry professions and with the evaluation surveyors . The names of the study team's chairman and members should be announced soon and it is hoped that the teams will be able to start work immediately after Christmas. Obviously decisions as to what information and representations the teams will wish to commission and in what form can only be taken by the study teams once they have met and discussed the issues . The teams are however working to a very tight time— table. Ministers have asked for their reports within 6 months. I am writing therefore to suggest that your organisations might like to give some preparatory thoughts to what sort of material your organisation would wish to put to the teams . It may be for example that you will need to convene ad hoc meetings to agree papers or to commission extra material . If so dates could perhaps be set for these in anticipation of an invitation from the study teams to submit evidence early in the New Year. c secretariat It will help can the brief study the teams teams make as rapid fully progress as possible if the at teams the' outset. It would therefore be extremely . helpful if your organisation could provide the secretariat wikb as much of the information listed in the attached annex by the' of the first week in January, especially sections 2 and 3. We understand this gives very little time but would appreciate an initial response even if this is amended subsequently. Material should be sent to Ms G Marshall, Joint Secretary, Professional Liability Study Team, Room Al 07, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street. Jenny Williams 3 December 1987 ANNEX 1. Membership Please indicate range of expertise covered Are firms/partnerships eligible for membership as distinct from individuals? Estimated membership ( ) Total number of practices and/or of individual members ( specify which) % of those actively practising ( i i) of which No. in private practise No. in public sector No. in other occupations No. retired For practices in membership Fee income by size diaggregated, if possible to — advisory services — surveys : structural and others — design — Management and supervision of construction — expert witnesses and arbitrators — others Functions of Organisation Does your organisation have the following functions ( ) registration ( if so, for what ) ( i i) practice advice ( i i i) discipline ( iv) provision of insurance scheme ( if so, please provide details ) List the activities undertaken by your members and the principal liabilities incurred, for example, (please indicate whether, very common, common, unusual, ) — provision of advisory services — surveys — design — management and supervising of construction — services as expert witness and arbitration Do you have figures of the PI premiums of members if possible by year, giving the range and the percentages of fee income. Do you have figures on the claims experience of members? If so, can it be broken down by year into— —nature of claim(eg negligent advice/design error) —length of time taken to settle rettlertüt :-c. —amount claimed —amount of settlement —impact of Civil Contributions Act —amount paid by insurer and by individual Are certain types of members (eg small practices) or types of insurance more risky. Are there past papers or representation s from your organisation on the subject of professional liability and insurance that the study team should see if so ) please list and, if possible, provide copies. Please name a contact for the team with your organisation . Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jenny Williams 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 3.12.87 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/. 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 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/5d0860c12f184a48215ca43bc7eebb37.pdf d40d3d3f88de3ab9f8b5923eb24cb52c 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 Trade Unions and Architecture Description An account of the resource Themes included action on asbestos and Health &amp; Safety, and involvement with Direct Labour Organisations and Building Unions. Following comparative research of possible options, NAM encouraged unionisation of building design staffs within the private sector, negotiating the establishment of a dedicated section within TASS. Though recruitment was modest the campaign identified many of the issues around terms of employment and industrial relations that underpin the processes of architectural production. 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 GMWU Letter Subject The topic of the resource Letter from GMWU to NAM re architects' relationship to users + cutting Description An account of the resource General and Municipal Workers’ Uimon Incorporating MATSA Your Res New Architecture Movement, 9 Poland Street, London W1V 3DG Dear Sirs, Our Ret RES /DG/SML Yours faithfully, f\ ' /gs | OC2 |LVSa if i’ DAVID BASNETT / | General Secretary F.A Baker CBE WJ.C.Biggin F.Cooper F.W Cottam C.Donnet F.Ear! J.Edmonds E.P Newall MW Reed JP R.Smith Patricia Turner D Wart irton National Industria! Officers. 8th November, 1978 I am writing to enquire whether you give any support to the idea that the people who consume the products of your profession should be involved in their specification and planning. We have had a great deal of evidence from our members in the past to show that health, safety and welfare have not been effectively included ‘in the design specifications for new buildings, and that the views of eventual users are frequently excluded from the consultative stages. As part of our effort to eliminate hazards at source we are ivising our members that they should be involved at the earlies ot of planning alterations to existing premises or of construct- .ew ones, You may know that the new Safety Representative and .ety Committee Regulations 1978 oblige employers to provide safety presentatives with information about "the plans" and their proposed changes" insofar as they affect health and safety. I am sure that many architects would welcome closer liaison between themselves and users of their designs, and the article regarding an order office at BOC Crawley in yesterdays Guardian (7th November - Women's Page, Peter Gorb) illustrates the general point we are making, We would like your comments on this, and in particular any support that you can give to the practice of closer liaison between user and: architect. We realise that the extent and nature of liaison will have to be agreed between the architect's client and eventual users, but if we knew that architects would welcome this idea it would assist in its general adoption. I enclose a copy of the Guardian article for your information. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource D Basnett Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Allan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8.11.78 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/f3c7e17769cddc51a2892fde3d51971a.pdf 3f464ef71c5c9e97f33387f73fd6854e 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 Public Design Group Description An account of the resource <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Argued that it was only through the public sector that the majority of people could have access to the land and resources needed for housing, education and other essential services. The task was therefore to reform the practice of architecture in local councils to provide an accessible and accountable design service. The Public Design Group proposed reforms to the practice of architecture in local councils to provide a design service accessible and accountable to local people and service users. The following 6 Interim Proposals were developed which were later initiated and implemented in Haringey Council 1979-1985 by NAM members. </span></p> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Local area control over resources </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Design teams to be area based </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Area design teams to be multi-disciplinary </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Project architects to report directly to committee</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Abolish posts between Team Leader and Chief Architect </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Joint working groups with Direct Labour Organisations</span></li> </ul> 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 Going Local Subject The topic of the resource See 'Haringey Builds for the Future' John Murray article about Haringey Building Design Service, based on NAM PDS Group Proposals Description An account of the resource Going Local PCL School of Planning No.8 July 1987 NEWSLETTER OFTHE DECENTRALISATION RESEARCH AND INFORMATION CENTRE — Haringey builds for the future JOHN MURRAY outlines the unique structure of Haringey's innovative Building Design Service, which is seen as an essential part of improving the Council's public design service through community architecture Although the term 'community architec- ture' has become common currency, fifteen years ago it scarcely existed. During that period it has changed from referring to a part-time, unpaid, temporary and largely political assignment as part of the wider community action against private developers and sometimes local authorities in the 1960s and 70s, to achieving respectability and the Royal seal of approval in the 1980s. The ideas underpinning the objectives and structure of Haringey Council's Building Design Service also can be traced to com- munity action and the discussions which took place in alternative architectural circles in the 1970s. Organisations such as the New Architecture Movement studied the part played by the architectural profession in the creation of unacceptable environmental and social conditions following slum clearance and large-scale redevelopment. They proposed that if architects were to avoid these mistakes in future two main conditions should be met. The first of these is the need for control over resources and their allocation at local level by representatives of the people who will use the build- ings, and for architects to work directly with and be accountable to the building users. For this to work effectively there was a second and corresponding requirement for the architects themselves to work in a democra- tic and non-hierarchical way. This was partly to ensure that the people who actually designed the buildings related directly to the people who would use the buildings, and partly to avoid the frustration and lack of responsibility encountered by the 80 per cent of architectural workers who were employees in authoritarian and hierarchical private practice or local government offices. To achieve the change within the profession three main avenues were proposed: the unionisation of private offices; the establishing of design co-operatives to work with tenants and other groups; and the democratisation of the public design service in local authorities. The last of these led to changes being proposed in some local authority architect's departments, one of which was Haringey. At the same time similar ideas on democracy and accountability were gaining ground in local government and in the Labour Party as described in previous issues of Going Local and other publications. The Second Stage In 1985 a further reorganisation of the Architects' Department took place resulting in the new Building Design Service of about 220 people. The new service was structured around eight multi-disciplinary area design teams of 20-25 staff (ten architects, four quantity surveyors, three engineers, three clerk of works and three administrators) and one central support team providing central facilities such as programming, staffing, administration, library and contracts compliance. The teams are responsible for all the design work occurring in their area. The arrangement represents a major departure from the traditional structures in that the people required to provide a complete service work together in one team. The central management or chief-officer function is carried out by a Management Board made up of the team leaders. The coordinator of the Managerpent Board is elected annually from the team leaders. A further aim of the reorganisation is to move towards self-management in due course, with elected team leaders. A key feature of the organisation is that individual workers are responsible to their teams, and teams are collectively responsi- ble to the Management Board. The team leader's job is to make sure that the team fulfils its constitutional duties, and like all team members, he/she is accountable to the team. Similarly, the Management Board is collectively responsible to the Planning Committee of the Council for the work of the Service, the co-ordinator's role being to ensure that the Board carries out its functions. Area Links Teams, which are paired to facilitate sharing of resources, relate to the areas covered by the housing area sub-committees. The reorganisation report states: 'By operating the Teams on an Area basis it is intended to strengthen the awareness of staff to the particular problems and needs of the area and increase accountability to local groups and organisations including area based subcommittees . . . The chief officer function and cross- team co-ordination Chief-officer functions are allocated annu- ally amongst individual Management Board members (and to a lesser extent other senior staff). Decisions at the Board are generally by consensus with occasional votes. Standing panels of the Management Board are delegated responsibility for issues such as staffing and recruitment, capital programme monitoring, etc. Within the Service co-ordination of different disciplines (e.g. quantity surveying, design) in terms of quality, standards and procedures takes place through co-ordination groups of representatives of each team. Teams operate a common agenda and cycle of meetings so that programme information and monitoring is available at the same time. Team leaders formally report back to their teams at regular intervals, and feedback from teams is reported to the Management Board every four weeks. Thus in addition to trade union consultation, all major issues affecting the Service are discussed in the teams before a final decision is taken by the Management Board. A structure consistent with a decentralisa- tion strategy is in place. Systems are being developed to allow teams to operate semi- autonomously at local level while being able to influence the central management and direction of the Service. Six teams are already located in, or adjacent to their areas and the long-term goal is to decentralise in paired teams. This is obviously dependent on the Council's overall decentralisation policy. Employment issues and equal opportunities Clearly the changes outlined above had a significant effect on people in the service. Individual chief-officer and section-head posts were abolished and replaced by collective structures. This affected both existing groupings and the power of individuals throughout the organisation. Recently a substantial increase in the Capi- tal Programme due to deferred purchase arrangements has resulted in an increase in the establishment of BDS to around 300. This expansion created the opportunity to recruit more women and black and ethnic minority staff into the service and thus more closely reflect the make-up of the local community where around 40 per cent are black or ethnic minority. Over the last two years around 130 staff have been appointed. Half have been black or ethnic minority and just over one-third were women. The proportion of black and ethnic minority staff in the service has now risen to 34 per cent, while the proportion of women is around 25 per cent. The changes have taken place at all levels. Of the twelve people now on the Management Board (expanded dup to increasing establishment), three are women and half are black or ethnic minority. 8 Sixteen trainee posts have been established covering all professions. The emphasis in recruitment is to secure employment for local school leavers — again, particularly women and black and ethnic minority young people. There are also three multidisciplinary trainee posts to enable young people to sample the different disciplines for six months each before deciding on their -careers.' Clearly these changes in the composition of the Service are not only of importance in employment terms but also for the quality and sensitivity of the work produced. This point has been stressed by Councillor Peter Doble, Chair of E*nu Haringey's Planning Committee: 'A growing percentage of women and black and ethnic minority people work within the Building Design Service. The views and concerns of these groups have been underrepresented in traditional hierarchical offices. A collective structure with the emphasis on equality of participation should begin to ensure that •a diversity of views are given voice. At the same time, we are intending to achieve much greater accountability to the people who use our buildings.' Quality and user control The belief that the quality of architectural design is dependent on the involvement of the building user is a theme which runs throughout the systems being developed in the Service. Three extra technical posts have. been agreed to advance work on methods and systems for user consultation; to co-ordinate the formulation and development of design briefs for buildings', and to establish and monitor responsive design standards and practices in relation to the needs of black and ethnic minority people, women, and the elderly and people with disabilities. Accountability to representatives of building users as well as to Council members takes place at area sub-committees at a formal level and with tenants' associations before and during the rehabilitation of existing buildings. Design work is also carried out for community centres 'and voluntary groups where the architect works closely with building Users, Recently completed examples include a Women and Children's Centre in Tottenham and nursery for West Indian Under Fives. Currently designs are under way for 'the refurbishment, tof Haringey's Women's , Centre, where the design and construction will be carried out by women. At Broadwater Farm an on-site design group has been established which will eventually have around 25 staff. Representatives of the Youth Association and Residents' Association took part in the recruitment of the team, and regular meetings take•place with community representatives, council, Iors and client officers to agree day-to-day issues, and monitor progress on schemes which include workshops and a community centre. -It is hoped that this close involvement of the community in the selection of the people who will design their buildings will become general policy in due course. Contracts compliance The Building Contracts Compliance Unit has already been referred to as a means Of ensuring fair competition between private contractors and the DLO. As part of this process contractors are required to comply with technical and employment criteria including equal opportunities. All contracts let at Broadwater Farm for example specify the employment and training of local unemployed labour as a condition, and this is being extended to cover all contracts. A new approved list is currently being compiled to ensure that small local firms, particularly of women and black and ethnic minority workers, are able to tender for council work in the future. Summary The Building Design Service over the past two years has been developing systems of internal accountability to positively encourage co-operative and collective working within the Service. Building on the practical experience of staff at Broadwater Farm and other schemes where tenants are involved in briefing designers, methods are being established to allow regular consultation and feedback from building users on the quality, performance and appearance of all buildings designed by the Service. When the enterprise of transforming Haringey Design Service was begun there was a clear understanding that only by making public services more accessible and more democratic could they hope to or indeed deserve to survive. Employers in the private sector of architecture represented by the RIBA, recognised nearly 10 years ago that changes were required to meet the rapid decline in traditional workload and general changes in the building industry. . . . community architecture is not a passing trend. Economic and Social pressures will ensure that for many architects, the nature of the job will change . . . (from RIBA Report — cited in Architect's Journal 19.4.78) The RIBA were naturally anxious to find areas in which private practice could con- tinue to function profitably, to help ride out the then crisis in the industry, but also adapt to longer-term structural changes. The fact that the 1985 Conference on community architecture was not only addressed by the Prince ofWales but partly financed by Regalian Properties, Bovis and the Wates Foundation demonstrates the growing importance attached to this sector of the economy by big business as well as by the private architectural profession. The private sector is therefore moving into areas of work which ought to be met by the public design services. The potential of being something more than an echo of private architectural practice has always been a challenge. It can be grasped as described in this article. The necessary changes are dependent for their success on the skill and commitment of the staff and the continuing support of the union, Council members and building users. JOHN MURRAY John Murray is a team leader in Haringey's Building Design Service, and has been Coordinator of the Management Board for the last two years 9 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource PCL (Paul Hoggett) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Murray Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 1987 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/891b18c59342473a2dcbd04431910aad.pdf 84992e22ad46e3462389e103469792d5 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/. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Public Design Group Description An account of the resource <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Argued that it was only through the public sector that the majority of people could have access to the land and resources needed for housing, education and other essential services. The task was therefore to reform the practice of architecture in local councils to provide an accessible and accountable design service. The Public Design Group proposed reforms to the practice of architecture in local councils to provide a design service accessible and accountable to local people and service users. The following 6 Interim Proposals were developed which were later initiated and implemented in Haringey Council 1979-1985 by NAM members. </span></p> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Local area control over resources </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Design teams to be area based </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Area design teams to be multi-disciplinary </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Project architects to report directly to committee</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Abolish posts between Team Leader and Chief Architect </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Joint working groups with Direct Labour Organisations</span></li> </ul> 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 Haringey Experiment in Public Design Subject The topic of the resource Development of NAM PDS Group proposals Description An account of the resource HARINGEY EXPERIMENT IN PUBLIC DESIGN NAM PUBLIC DESIGN SERVICE Between 1979–1985, Haringey Council Architects Department implemented a number of pioneering features from the New Architecture Movement (NAM) proposals for a Public Design Service, many of which went on to become adopted more widely. See NAM Report ‘Community Architecture – A Public Design Service?’1 to the Minister of Housing. Summary in 1978 Building 2 Design article . A key feature was accountability to users based on the idea that the excesses of slum clearance and high-rise housing promoted by Conservative central government but implemented by local government architects would not have been so readily achieved if tenants and building users had had a say in what was being produced for them. (eg, the Broadwater Farm Estate where a planning brief based on the seemingly spurious argument about high water table resulted in the prohibition of dwellings at ground level and access by walkways at first floor level). The main NAM PDS proposals adopted by Haringey are summarised below: 1. Area based teams rather than function based teams to ensure accountability to users. 2. Multi disciplinary teams to ensure accountability to projects rather than to professions. (Pioneered by Building Design Partnership and Arup Associates in the private sector but unknown in the public sector at this time). 3. Project Architects to be responsible to Committee for their projects. 4. Team Leaders to be responsible to their teams. 5. Service Head to be elected from team leaders. Election to be ratified by Council. The purpose of these proposals was to ensure that architects were properly identifiable and accountable to both tenants and users as well as to committees. This system worked well. Subsequently, accountability to users was incorporated as a standard procedure by Central Government. (eg DOE Estate Action bids). It was also adopted by the RIBA’s Community Architecture group, which eventually spawned firms such as Hunt Thompson. Area based teams and multi disciplinary working also became the norm for other London LA architects departments such as Camden, Islington and Southwark. WHY HARINGEY? These proposals for a public design service accountable to tenants and users, coincided with a number of other factors which lead to the ideas being developed in Haringey: 1. Under the then Housing Chair, George Meehan, Haringey Council had pioneered the involvement of tenants in the design of a new housing cooperative at Pelham Court in Tottenham. Bert Dinnage of the Borough Architects Service designed the scheme. The first phase was completed in 1980. 2. John Murray, one of the founders of the New Architecture Movement and a Haringey resident, approached Bert Dinnage to discuss how a new form of public design service could develop incorporating his experience at Pelham Court and the ideas of NAM. 1 “Community Architecture – A Public Design Service?” Report to Minister of Housing, author John Murray, NAM Public Design Group, written in response to an RIBA proposal that community architecture should be provided by private architects 2 Building Design Magazine 13 October 1978 1 HARINGEY EXPERIMENT IN PUBLIC DESIGN 3. The NAM proposals were debated and agreed by staff at meetings of their NALGO trade union. 4. The then Borough Architect Alan Weitzel was sympathetic to the new ideas. 5. New radical Labour councillors such as Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Grant supported the proposals. They themselves had campaigned for neighbourhood committees which included tenants’ representatives as well as councillors. 6. In 1979 the first restructuring took place with the creation of Area Design Teams carrying out all the work in their area. They superseded specialist design teams such as Education or Housing. John Murray was appointed as one of the eight new Team Leaders. (The councillors appointment panel was chaired by Jeremy Corbyn, chair of the Planning Committee). John Murray lead the Wood Green Team whose main work was the rehabilitation of the historic Noel Park Estate. He continued to work with colleagues and to develop the proposals. 7. John Murray was then asked by the Chief Executive Roy Limb to act as the liaison officer between the Borough Architects Service and the trade unions and officers of the Direct Labour Organisation (DLO) to prepare for the Conservative Government’s Planning and Land Act which was the forerunner of compulsory tendering for local government services in the 1980s. This lead to constructive discussions with the DLO Trade Unions convenor Dennis McCracken and the UCATT convener Hughie Dagens and also with Bernie Grant, the Chair of the Public Works Committee responsible for the DLO. To achieve fair tendering, a system was developed by the Contracts Compliance Working Party, an interdepartmental team chaired by John Murray, which measured the performance of firms against key performance indicators, so that only high scoring contractors were invited to tender through the approved list. In 1982 John Murray was seconded by the Chief Executive on the recommendation of UCATT shop stewards to manage PELAW (Partnership Experiment in Local Authority Works), a pioneering workers cooperative Direct Labour Design and Build organisation which required support in meeting its programme and financial targets. By 1985, the Borough Architects Service had developed into the new Haringey Building Design Service (BDS) comprised of eight multi-disciplinary, area-based design teams accountable to area committees. The Management Board of Team Leaders became the head of service. The Coordinator of the Management Board was to be elected, the decision to be ratified by a Council Committee. John Murray became the elected head of the new service in 1985. This system worked successfully with the support of Councillors and Committee Chairs. People were attracted to work in such an innovative organisation and in a Council which encouraged equal opportunities, so the service never had trouble getting good staff; more women and people from ethnic minority communities were appointed (a considerable number of whom were in senior positions), so that the service composition became one of the first to be more reflective of the community it served. By 1990, over 60% of the staff were black and ethnic minority and 30% were women. This compares to 22% and 14% respectively in 1985. As an example of community involvement, local people were involved in the selection of the Broadwater Farm BDS Team established after the riots in 1985. The team implemented a 10-year £80m estate action programme, ensuring the use of local labour and encouraging BWF Youth Association Coop to carry out work on the estate. The award–winning Broadwater Farm workshops were designed by the Broadwater Farm Team and built by the BWF Coop. 2 HARINGEY EXPERIMENT IN PUBLIC DESIGN Architectural Trainees As part of a policy to encourage local young people to become involved in architecture, each of the eight teams appointed two local young people as trainee architects. The majority were young black and ethnic minority men and women who were sponsored through college. Wider Impact In terms of the wider impact of these changes, Graham Towers in his book Building Democracy: Community Architecture in the Inner Cities, records that, “The events in Haringey sent ripples through technical departments in neighbouring Boroughs. Many staff disillusioned by being typecast into specialist roles, were attracted to the new way of working...In Camden, an alliance of staff and councillors succeeded in introducing area working. A similar alliance developed in Islington Architects Department and ...eventually bore fruit. Subsequently, the new approach was adopted in some other authorities. Area team working brought a new structure to public service, giving a more accessible and accountable approach to public capital projects”. (Building Democracy: Community Architecture in the Inner Cities, pp 142,143, Graham Towers). Award-winning Designs Quality of work was recognised in Dept of Environment and Civic Trust design awards plus awards for energy conservation work. The Wood Green Team carried out the rehabilitation of the historic 19th century Noel Park housing estate, built by the Artisans and Labourers Dwelling Co, including phasing of design and construction work to ensure annual delivery of 100 completed renovations. Tenants were involved in developing the design and there was a show house for each Phase. Tenants’ satisfaction surveys were carried out at the end of each phase by architectural students. Palace Gates Sheltered Housing Scheme, designed in the Wood Green Team following briefing by future tenants and built by the Council’s Direct Labour Organisation, won a Civic Trust award. Public Sector Consultancy To supplement the service income in the light of a declining capital programme, in 1988, the Council approved the proposal from Haringey Building Design Service to establish a public sector consultancy to obtain work from other councils and from housing associations. Eventually by 1994, the consultancy provided 15% of service income. Based on work with Broadwater Farm community, BDS collaborated with the University of Cambridge to provide advice to Bratislava City Council in Slovakia on the renovation of a large concrete panel estate. UK Govt. ‘Know How Fund’ funded this project. In 1991, as part of a consortium, Haringey’s design service won in competition a project in Moscow to create a small business support agency. This project, supported by both the UK and Russian governments, was funded by the UK Govt. ‘Know How Fund’. This project proved very successful and the consortium and their Russian colleagues sought to have a similar project in 23 other Russian cities. John Murray was invited to join the new project funded by the EU, and decided he should leave Haringey to do so. As team leader of a subsequent DFID funded social housing renovation project in Yekaterinburg in the Russian Ural region, John Murray developed low cost, tenant-driven renovation model for the 5 storey “Khrushchev flats” which house some 40m Russians. A key feature of the project was to encourage residents to become involved in the proposals for their flats and to encourage the city administration to ensure that residents were able to participate in decisions affecting their homes. So NAM ideas spread to Russia as well. JM/26/03/14 3 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John Murray Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Murray Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1979-1991 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/8e60c031439748d15514c052aa41a0f6.pdf c8f8efae586dc075b8eaf08a03d40dde 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 Harrogate Founding Congress Subject The topic of the resource The Harrogate Congress was the founding of NAM. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 21-23 November 1975 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 Harrogate Subject The topic of the resource Tourist visitor leaflet for Harrogate - from 1st NAM Congress, 1975 Description An account of the resource CONISTONE &KILNSEY CRAG Holiday Centre for the Yorkshire Moors & Dales Harogate, one of the most beautiful towns in Europe, builttoatractvisitors,liesinthe centreofBritain.Itis easily reached by road, rail or air YORK we —. iv Mi oea eed CS enreas es a beautiful countryside, the town combines a sense lined avenues and of being an urban centre with its elegant tee ers ura Ee aee Feeen rn SR aLe ae Sa ee eeeeeee jelight and car parking isplentiful prising that, with these amenities, Harrogate Barncat) Barn Fel) an ens ores Doo eeaeeeen ee aea teeming with history, and in close proximity to the National Parks oftheYorkshire DalesandtheNorthYorkMoors. eet leastoftheseoneofthewonders uc ta) Ree et oftheworld,Fountains and the most picturesque of country towns and UU Licemetne Uns aL ts eeeora Plentiful and coach excursions are regularly provided MOORS Vir PARK ASO Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Harrogate Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Allan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1975