14 10 310 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/b8c38f1588ff20ff43d5dc9a68cbdaee.pdf d8c2b750b11d70a9c5c1227dd3ee6c49 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 Miscellaneous Subject The topic of the resource Miscellaneous issues 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 1976-1980 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 NAM Subject The topic of the resource 4 page historical intro to NAM Description An account of the resource INL99dSH3d “TWOIYOLSIH < a HISTORICAL PERSPEC?IVE Hawser Trunnion the selected history of modern architecture from which NAN draws its conclusions for action can be told as a ghost story. That is to say, it is the tale of how a once lively modernism lost its social radicalism, became comfortable then senile, and finally died — but only to transform itself into a ghost which continues to haunt us the more effectively for this deceptive transformation. Like most good stories, there are several versions with significant differences that shed more light on the narrators than on the story itself. The most recent official version was told by ‘he Architectural Review, that ageing glossy now totally debauched by its own rhetoric, in its Preview Issue of January 1976. The punch-line came first : "that Modern Architecture as one has been experiencing it has gone into hiding. Gone (well, nearly gone) are those massive rectilinear packages; the towers, the slabs and (since Burolandschaft) the too big urban footstools. Gone (or nearly gone) are those self-assertive, diagramatic buildings which made a point of having nothing to do with the neighbours. Gone is the Will to assert, the will to shock." That the wills to assert or shock have gone is debatable. That the buildings referred to have "gone" should presumably be taken to mean the new commissions for such buildings, not the buildings themselves. But the most disagreeable aspect of the article is the mixture of wise complac— ency and indulgent penitence. Unfortunately we find our version of the story rather more worrying. It has indeed taken almost exactly twenty-five years for the impetus behind the first Modern Movement in this country to be exhausted. The Festival of Britain and European Architectural Heritage Year, 1951 to 1975, might be taken as the official milestones at the inauguration and closure of the period respectively. We appear to stand now at the beginning of a new phase in which the criteria of 'relevant' action will be determined as much by the understanding of this legacy as by our particular political standpoint. he effects of the process of radicalization induced by war could be seen in "The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act. " (John Berger) ae 1945 in the arrival of the first modern Socialist Government, with its far-reaching social reforms on the domestic scale, and in our modified nation status in INAVO and the realization that we were no longer an imperial power. In matters of environment the New Towns Movement, the Town & Country Planning Act 1947 etc were the first expression of a new vision and confidence that had already permeated other sectors of society, including for example the health services. One recalls the bright-eyed article by the Smithsons in which they referred to themselves as "The 1947 Generation" denouncing the bygone equipment of the pre-modern architect, the screw pen, the classical grammar, in favour of their own new weapons, the development plan and the C.P.0. The South Bank Exhibition and the associated housing schemes for Lansbury, East London epitomised the mixture of exhuberance and ‘committed concern' while showing that modern architecture was not simply a flat roof or a commer window but a comprehensive urban language. The underlaying ideas, had of course been worked out long before, in Germany, France, Holland, Sweden and most completely in Russia. In this country, typically slow on the uptake,it was codified visually in the 1938 Exhibition of MARS group, which itself derived its premises from the parent CIAM movement in Europe. The spirit in which modem architecture was first embraced by a radical few in this country is best captured by Max Fry's own description of himself, as a young man of 30. architecture decisively. Then the second thing was added to me when I fell in love with a house by Miss van der Rohe, his Turgendhat Haus, in the Taunus Mountains. I fell in love with this building, which is to say that I gave my heart to it and it entered into my emotional recesses and filled them to overflowing. "When I first came in contact with new architecture in Germany I was struck by two things; the first, this version of a grandly proportioned urbanism taking in everything: dwellings, roads, factories, markets, down to the small paraphernalia at the closest personal context. Here is an architecture, I said to myself, capable of everything. Here is a true resolution, the end of discord. This is it, I wasayept with a fervour that was the reflection of a release of creative energy which was to spread from Europe to every part of the world and change the character of For me at that time it was as though, my mind cleared, rinsed and invigorated by the noble rationality of the Bauhaus, the breadth and grandeur of the proposition that it and the Modem Movement represented to me, suddenly my heart was taken, by one work, not essentially different, but of a quality of which I had not imagined the movement as yet capable.” traveller put the vision more bluntly. The sincerity is exemplary; the combination of rationality and passion the best modern architecture can offer but it now seems incomplete. Wells Coates, Fry's contemporary and fellow "As creative architects, we are concerned with a future which must be planned, rather than a past which mst be patched up". from the thirties But the climate of 1945 was different{both in degree and in kind. The post-war era for the first time saw the alliance of the ‘new wisdom' hitherto the preoccupation of dissaffected intellectuals and enlightened bourgeous patrons, with all the executive force of government and the major institutions. At the very moment that the pioneers' thesis appeared to be vindicated, so the process of institu%tionalizing its assumptions began in its adoption by a new establishment due to become infinitely more sophisticated and bureaucratic than any hitherto. Naturally it was intelligent enough to absorb the precepts and personalities that would otherwise have been dynamite, and throughout the 50's the professions of architecture and planning were happy to be included in the monolithic drive for reconstruction. (For 20 years it has been considered an unjustified luxury to conceive of L.A. housing as anything but a numbers problen.) The antithesis,which was bound to arise in conflict with this centralist orthodoxy, appeared early in the 1960's in phenomena ranging from the satire movement, to student protest; that is at about the time when on the threefold premise of cheap energy, expansionist economics and enlightened paternalism, "progressive! architects and planners (now comfortably established in government institutions and well-connected practices) were ready for the big boom. The extent of development, publicly or privately sponsored during the 1960's is unlikely to be equalled during the lifetime of any reader over 20,and the housing, new towns, universities, transport infrastructure etc. -- —6f this period will somehow or other have to do for the majority of us and our children till the latter are middle-aged. The future which Wells Coates generally wanted to plan is now the past that we will have to patch up. But for the architectural profession, the boundaries of their sphere of action were still essentially the same. Even Leslie Martin, one of the most advanced thinkers of the movement, took stock of the situation in the mid 60's like this:- Referring to the 20's, 30's he wrote in 1966 "However complicated the historical situation may have been, three powerful lines of thought appeared. The first came from the passionately held belief that there had to be some complete and systematic re-examination of human needs and that as a result of this, not only the form of buildings, but the total environment would be changed. The second line of thought interlocking with this was simply that change in the form of buildings or environment would only be achieved completely through the full use of modern technology. These 2 ideas produced a third, which wasthat each architectural problem should be constantly re-assessed and thought out afresh". Martin went on to diagnose the failure of modern architecture in the neglect by architects to attend to the 3rd item. But he himself was neglecting another factor infinitely more important, because while concentrating on changes in form and technique he quite ignored the question of changes in patronage - the underlaying governing function which determines the very boundaries of change of the other two. It's the same blind spot as Fry and Coates, but after 30 years of social change - how much less forgiveable! Max Beerbohm had called the 20th Century the "century of the common man", but in architecture and planning, after now more than 50years of modernism, he is still assumed to be less qualified than remote architects and planners to know whats best for hin. Meanwhile arteries were hardening. In 1970 the D.O.E. -a concept that would have seemed revolutionary 25 years earlier - established itself in the now familiar faulty towers, sited tastefully separate from Whitehall, and expressing so precisely its bland combination of technocracy and officialdom, to preside over a process that was already in decline. What could follow now? Obvious with hindsight: a simple coronary case with complications. We ran out of fuel —- petro-chemical, financial and most important social. For by now the assumed popular consent on which all this development had been based was solidly organised into community groups, environmentarists, conservation lobbies, spaceship earth economists,etc of increasing expertise. It began to seem once more that the people with the power were less intelligent than the people without it. The complications? Almost as fast as the development boom fever was dying in the establishment the antibodies were being absorbed. Participation, piecemeal planning, rehab and recyling have been hastily substituted in the official policies of national and local authorities and the professional institutions such that the concepts of 'Commmity Architecture’ and ‘Neighbourhood Participation’ are already barnacled with bogus concern and trendy humbug, without mich noticeable advantage to the intended beneficiaries. The courtesy with which Nicholas Harbraken was received at a County Hall lecture, when his whole theme was disposing of the very basis on which the Department operated, was quite astonishing. Thus the wise Authority rejects not with brick wall but with cotton wool. Sociologists call it "Rejection by partial incorporation", and the British Establishment is uniquely gifted at it. Not only is there nothing you can complain about - there's plenty you must be grateful for. Yhus the ;host was born The current climate is pluralistic and diverse to the extent that, given the right form of words, everyone can apparently claim to be progressive - the D.0.E, R.I.B.A, most L.A.'s, the R.T.P.I. etc etc - concealing the fact that major ideological change is occurring with little or no commensurate redistribution of power. Environmental matters continue to be determined on the basis of power, not of need, and the status quo is effectively maintained. It is this situation that N.A.M. was formed to study and to penetrate. So much for what amounts to our context in the outside world. Meanwhile, what of our context in the profession? In the same period under review the profession has transformed itself from a craft-orientated elite of aesthetic gourmets supported by forelock -— tugging draughtsmen, predomminatly private, into an amy of professionals dependent on a very different calibre of recruit - a university educated, mainly middle-class mass of aspiring principals whose habit of identifying with employers has blurred their vision of the political reality both within their offices and within the RIBA as a whole. Salaried architects -— the vast majority of the profession - who may be hopeful of more direct and satisfying relatiaships with the users of their products, in view of the changing climate, have little to be optimistic about. Their governing body, the R.I.B.A. in no way representative of their concerns, continues to be dominated by the assumptions of private principals and no other organisation save ARC and ourselves shows any sign of challenging it. Such a state of affairs, when 80% of a profession is misrepresentated by default (or not at all) would be at best unsatisfactory, except that the current economic depression has begun to show that more immediate aspects of employment may be none too cosy either. Government cuts and the Middle East Klondike can only temporarily disguise the fact that large sections of society who can avail themselves easily of the services of doctors and lawyers have no access to architects except through surrogate clients whose patronage they can in no way initiate. It is out of this ghostly atmosphere of reality and appearances, wisdom and duplicity that N.A.M. developed and it is mainly from this section of the profession that its current membership is drawn. At the deliberately unlikely venue of Harrogate, rather less than a hundred people met for a weekend in November 1975 at the invitation of the small group named ARC (Architect's Revolutionary Council) which had already for a couple of years been preoccupied with such questions. The outcome was the nucleus of a New Architecture Movement which has since distinguished its own identity from that of ARC and at the same time consolidated its membership and its aims. Of the latter more will be said later, but beforehand the two essential characteristics of the movement that Harrogate established require explanation. First its attitude: it was felt that this mst be positive and constructive, no matter whether this involved more work. Nevertheless we must beware of getting bogged down in research. We would guess that it's all on the shelves of College libraries already. What we need are the people who wrote it. The second feature is our structure. If there is a single obvious lesson in the past period it is that the more general the precept the more diverse mist be its application. The structure is therefore federal, national. Our object is to seek strength in numbers such that any individuals or groupings that share the basic aims contribute to the consensus for action. Apart from rudimentary liason processes, therefore the resulting character of the movement is its diversity and its localised basis. A centralised power elite dictating policy seemed both alien and unworkable. The N.A.M. is a microcosm of the social structure it foresees revolutionizing architectural patronage. establish a group of your own. lies in the actions of many. and are putting a more sociable face on them". ie Individuals and local groups spread throughout the country make up the Movement —- all of equal status in so far as they can develop their own programmes in support of the generally agreed aims - any material produced therefore is signed for example "N.A.M., Edinburgh Group", or "N.A.M. North London Group". The essential function of making a sustaining contacts, together with arranging national congresses is carried out by a small Liason Group - which at present happens to be situated in London. This function could of course be transferred to any group who wished to take over it. If you wish to join, the contact list will probably already contain the names of individuals or groups in the area and you can join their meetings or alternatively Ideally a network of groups will develop, covering the entire country, with overseas contacts also, each one working on @ number of topics, local campaigns etc which it would present at national congress for review. The Congress would also of course be the place for overall aims and strategy to be reviewed. The key to this decentralised structure is that of local antonomy. If a particular topic or local issue is your interest then you pursue it. We are not a movement with presidents or celebrities and its strength lies not in the words of a few. Its strength and tweedledee of form and technique - competence and the Anyway we started telling a ghost story, and want now to tell how it ends. Well,for the A.R. it ends about here, because Modern Architecture they tell us has gone into hiding. Actually they were more honest than they intended when they added: "This disappearance is not caused by any great change in the accommodation asked for: clients are still calling for immodest cubes of space and be given this city bursting character. But, by and large architects are displaying them differently Well what a surprise. Plus ca change. Still the old tweedledum lies in the actions of many. and are putting a more sociable face on them". fs Individuals and local groups spread throughout the country make up the Movement - all of equal status in so far as they. can develop their own programmes in support of the generally agreed aims - any material produced therefore is signed for example "N.A.M., Edinburgh Group", or "N.A.M. North London Group". The essential function of making 2 sustaining contacts, together with arranging national congresses is carried out by a small Liason Group - which at present happens to be situated in London. This function could of course be transferred to any group who wished to take over it. If you wish to join, the contact list will probably already contain the names of individuals or groups in the area and you can join their meetings or alternatively establish a group of your own. Ideally a network of groups will develop, covering the entire country, with overseas contacts also, each one working on a number of topics, local campaigns etc which it would present at national congress for review. The Congress would also of course be the place for overall aims and strategy to be reviewed. and tweedledee of form and technique - competence and the The key to this decentralised structure is that of local antonomy. If a particular topic or local issue is your interest then you pursue it. We are not a movement with presidents or celebrities and its strength lies not in the words of a few. Its strength Anyway we started telling a ghost story, and want now to tell how it ends. Well, for the A.R. it ends about here, because Modern Architecture they tell us has gone into hiding. Actually they were more honest than they intended when they added: "This disappearance is not caused by any great change in the accommodation asked for: clients are still calling for immodest cubes of space and be given this city bursting character. But, by and large architects are displaying them differently Well what a surprise. Plus ca change. Still the old tweedledum the whole chain. in the course of our work. design guide. We leave you to guess whether this preservation of the status quo is because the RIBA is too preoccupied with bread and butter issues, or because it knows all too well which The - questionis now not whether the politics of the profession matters or not, but whether anything else does. A profession which once came near the brink of radical change - donned a mask instead and now its face has grown to fit it. side its bread is buttered on. But behind the new sociable face practising its "social art" the architect with integrity (a word mach in the news on which we had something to say to Monopolies Commission) knows quite well that his formal windmill-tilting and technical guesswork hardly touch the real forces and desires of the people or groups that literally form the life blood of the environment. The radical question is not "what forms? or "which techniques" but "who are my patrons? for it is this link which draws up Without seeking to answer it, modern architecture can well stay in hiding, while its ghost roams far and wide; all the more sinister for its new disguise. It visits most of us daily Now NAM must measure its strength; dispose of this ghost of modern architecture, and build a social reality in its place. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John Allan 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/5caab382b259a1afa4fe21c011a4bc66.pdf 09a67cd46bdcb33e24575122970661d7 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 Seminar preparatory notes (5 pp) Subject The topic of the resource Seminar preparatory notes (5 pp) Description An account of the resource N eae omez: 2 1. Preamble Purpose Mood The character of the movement is participatory. Thus the seminar should semi-exploratory, Generally it-has been anticipated that the morning session will be very be welcoming, intimate, conversational, structured using well prepared material presented in such a way that it will stimulate debate, The afternoon is lightly structured so that the seminar may find its om form, It is important that anyone sympathetic What the Seminar must Achieve Clarify demands and strategies and present them in a coherent manner, Identify through participation further demands and strategies. Publicise the movement by showing that it has serious content and intent. and un-rhetorical. Tekin ape’ es, New Architecture Movement, London Seminar The seminar is to enable NAM to demonstrate to its membership and to its peers that it is a constructive movement and that it has covered ground since its birth at the Harrogate Congress. To be held at the Covent Garden Community Centre on Saturday, May 22, 1976. The NAM London Seminar has been called by the Central London Group. It does not have the status of a national congress. No changes are anticipated at this stage in the structure of the movement. The seminar is seen as a preparatory meeting for the Second Congress of N.A.M to be held in November, to the basic premises should feel that they can impress their view point upon the movement.— Provide greater contact among the membership, especially those outside the groups. Provide a spring board for the existing groups Form new groups. Attract more people. Resolve the inherent paradox within the movement that although it has a “grass roots" structure it needs to present a coherent face to the outside world in order to be claerly identified. |* |-2 .| os . é- 3=oe -:a |- *.eo | =se z-:= : +.3x - - a ¥ 2. Venue ~central London , ease of transport, - Covent Gdn community centre or Conway hall large room for say 60 people small rooms for workshop, probably 4 Or 4 groups catering required or near suitable pub, lunch must be organised, dispersal of delegates could prove disastrous need to provide coffee morning, tea afternoon, . provision of phone link late comers, delegates who are lost queries apologies secretarial facilities rush out papers draft on the spot statements summaries attendance list cash tiil space for office/reception euipment- roneo, typewriter, NAM files must be constantly manned 3,0rganisation prepare brief resume of NAM spec. invite to ARC any other groups? should there be any other observers, e.g NALGO or UCATT , Edinburgh, Oxford Canterbury . Leeds possibly Birmingham invites to journalists BD.,AD, AJ, Gaurdian,Star, New Society any others? delegate invites pressure all those on contact list who live in London/SE Covent Gdn was booked at end of March. invites to chairpersons important to get rep from regions- Cardiff RELI, personal invite to all at Harrogate selected others, send suggestions should we avoid 'heroes‘ Prepare logistics required at the venue (refer venue) One contact centre, all material related to seminar must be in one central file. Ne grt * 4. Finance Open bank account, 2 signatures/ five signees estimat conference costs, cost of hall catering, make generous so that we can have a good spread statioary postage, likely to be large duplicating andprinting all those involved in the organisation of the seminar must estimate their costs quickly and tell treasurer On going costs- seminar should aim to make a profit to finance NAM until November clude admin postage etc. antic costs likely to be incurred by Whitfield st. try and get money with reply to invéte, then people likely to turn up and not get cold feet. consider large levy from CLG members, refundable to gaurantee costs all-expenditure in connection with seminar to be accurately annotated and sent to treasurer include brochure costs prepare financial statement during proceedings so that at termination it may be presented to delegates. 52 Publicity organise poster design possibly Diz Dymott design conferenc logo, maybe use for NAM in future send to all schools of architecture send to radical/alternative bookshops (see list in Undercurrents 11 or 12) send info /notice to AD , Undercurrents nearer the day to AJ, BD,Time Out 6.Material prepare broadsheet based on edited version of brochure possible forn- written/ slides and drawings Papers- researched in depth , annotated with referrence material, subject to discussion, possibly critiques, source- within NAM only published in advance Projects - help relieve tedium of verbage, could be ARC Motions- preferably from within NAM, perhaps to be avoided Tera tite =et sd agtred ees } } i| =| ‘ Ju tSi tC t & :i= +f Rs t. i *. { \ ; -ay -. ¢ $ :i{ i i i ; J ; ms Pe ./ : i“ : s be Ant. 7 © : - By ;Z* :{ ¥ -- a7 * + t- : / “4 : iy7 . : ov i i ft 4 Topics Projects- Ealiing ) Colne Valley yARC Historical perspective - John Allan othe r contributions could be an analysis of ARC/NAM relationship- that NAM has an individuality proposals for an alternative proposals for an NAM centre (Whitfield St) NAM relations with the building industry the structure of NAM Group statements Central London, North London, given by Giles Pebody and will include Cardiff Edinburgh Individual statements mainly about aims and tactics 7.General Points this could be important to show archt, magazine Accomodation - we should be able to provide Friday night acco. for those on the Harrogate list if possible ~ 7 the Office index Statements - groups and individuals, these are reports or facts not debatable, possibly opinions- should these be discussed, Unionisation for architects— Ian Tod Co-ops - John Allan Proposals for a National Design Service-— John Murray The profession- Adam Purser Local Authorities— Bill Mac. Philosophy—ARC? Edueation ? 5 ‘ Hach major paper should have a prepared five minute critique possible critiques Why architects should not be unionised a critique of Adaams paper a critique of. ARC the likely failings of an NDService a critical look at John Allans historical perspective On the day everything must run smoothly—- best to have a check list draw up. All communication should be through John Browning, Material for the agenda should go to David Roebuck but if in doubt send to John, There must be attention to detail Catering must be thought out, e.g not just sammys but fresh fruit, curds, small meetes etc. glasses should not be chipped nor plates cracked ! 8, Personnel Material and Agenda Publicity Logistics Organising Secretary and Treasurer David Roebuck, Flat 9, Glyn Mansions, Hammersmith Rd., London W114 tel, 01 602 3462 ‘ _John Browning, tel. 01 348 7669 '36, Elm Grove, London, N8 Giles Pebedy, 76B,Loveridge Rd. London NW6 tel. 01 624 0176 Anne Delaney, 28, Angus st. Roath, Cardiff tel. Cardiff 498374 Bill MacIntyre Him Cottage, Greaves Lane Threapwood, tel. Threapwood 626 Wrexham. and at the AA, 10 Percy St., London W1 a 2 = i 7; é ° ‘ *‘ 5a 10.00 Chairmans address. basically this would welcome people 0.05 10.35 * 11.45 Coffee Papers Unionism Critique The Arehitectural Critique Profession 12,00 Proposals Critique for a National Design Service give names..of visitors, e.g press re iterate preamble, i.e. why we are here etc. Group statements North London Group, Giles Pebody Central London Group, Cardiff Group Edinburgh Group ARC Group ( 12.30 ARC Project/presentation Critique 13,00 14,00 15430 16,00 16.30 17.00 17.30 18.00 Lunch individual statements to be presented to chairman and liason group close 9. The Agenda . Historical Perspective, John Allan (This is a draft for discussion and is open for comment and criticism) Prepare official conference report for publication. Could form follow up article to John Allan's A.D. submission. Seminar notes prepared by David Roebuck April, 1976. wed Workshops based on papers Individual statements Tea Open Topic Prepare seminar statement Aima of the movement Present list of membership grouped into geographical units for the formation of new groups Financial statement Present programme and times scale for the next six months SAamer ae aS Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource David Roebuck 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/ad91918965a00855974aeb5e63e759b6.pdf fcf3e98c4e49e59e4b73f06bb0932a7b https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/65e08e38745b8afaebfbdfdb9a80fc0c.pdf 611cb7b2cfce9dc2d969421b54257ba0 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 Brian Anson/ARC pre and post Harrogate Subject The topic of the resource Various documents describing ARC ideas and activities See below Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource ARC Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1975-1976 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 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/c330f007457c4f3b19dd75d70b4ee612.pdf 051d6557eccb7084072855ce73d99cf4 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 ARC/NAM Meeting Subject The topic of the resource Report of ARC/NAM meeting 29 July 1976 Description An account of the resource ARC/NAM meeting. Thursday 29th, July 1976. John Murray, John Allen and David Roebuck met with the full ARC sroup to discuss in a general way the present position of the two srouns and their plans for the future. ARC began by outlining a three point programme; The build-up of REDHOUSE as a propoganda weapon. Development of the large Colne Valley community vroject. A Summer School for 1977 probably preceded by a large congress early in the year. NAM is organising a November Congress and is awaiting the repercussions of it's submission to the Monopolies Commission; NAM's report had been well recieved. It is now clear that the strategic objectives of the two grouyxs are guite different; this also affects their style. ARC will logically continue it's ‘guerilla’ campaign and aim to be a continual thorn in the side of the establishment. Complimenting this it will develone it's community design work. NAN, on the other hand is in the 'numbers game', that is building a mass movement. Logically the organisational structure of the two groups is also totally different, ARC being tightly knit with it's members taking specific roles, eg. Director of Policy, Pronoganda, National Organisor etc. NAM is developing quickly as a decentralised organisation. Given these facts the conclusions drawn at the meeting were; Co-operation is possible providing each group recognises and respects the 'differing' role of the other in the common struggle. ie. A community architecture in our society. The groups should support at every opportunity the actions of each other. Using the media for such support. The grooups can aid each other in the organisation of their respective congresses. NAM can use REDHCUSE for it's own vropoganda purvoses and may consider a major spread. Both groups would keep very strong contact to develope other forms of co-operation. Brian Anson. Director of Policy for AR 30th. July 1976. NAM would logically play a major role in the ARC Summer School of 1977. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cardiff Seminar Subject The topic of the resource Notes for the seminar (3 pp total) Description An account of the resource ) NEWARCHI TEC TUREMOVEMENT NEWARCHITECTUREMOVEMENTNEWARCHLTECTUREMOVEMEN TVEWARCH |TECTUREMOVEMENTNEWA rotates annually. group members. In Cardiff the group is doing the following: / CHRDINESenn To #11 Those Conccernet To See A Democratic Environment - Have you heard of N.A.M.? 4 (1) Holding extensive discussions as to its purpose, the purpose of architecture, life etcecsccccce The New Architecture Movement exists to further the possibility for a genuinely democratic architecture, an architecture that will be from; for and by the people and is constituted to act both as a voice for change in the profession and as a platform for action in the fields of architecture, building and planning. It is a national body made up of federated groups in central and northern London, Birmingham and Cardiff. The current liasing group is in London but groups are autonomous and the task of liasing The Cardiff eroup meets fortnightly, if possible, and about half- a-dozen people usually attend with the the numbers increasing to over a dozen on specific projects. It is organised without heirarchy, with the responsibility of chairperson and convenor rotated amongst (2) Working with local pressure groups to oppose the Cardiff Central Area Redevelpoment - still a debacle after the collapse of Centreplan. (3) Sponsoring a proposal to the Manpower Services Commission under the Job Creation Programme to establish a project which would provide an environmental design service for community groups and an advice service toindividuals and ‘community groups. -It ie hoped that this pboject will commence in October or November of this year. (1) Providing delegates for a N.A.M. conference in November (26th. - 28th.) and producing papers on aesthetics and professionalism to be discussed at the conference and used with marerial from other N.A.M. groups on education, unionisation, private and local authority practises, as a basis for the production of a document to be published and publicised in succeeding weeks. (5) Participating in a 5th year students of architecture one- day symposium, "Architectural Education and Practise: Is There a Future?" this month.to be followed that same evening by a special N.A.M. Event intended to communicate the aims of N.A.M. to professionals and students in the environmental field. SEDSLENEANANPANE SRE REESE HE °ee REYRVR RRYY BR TIRES takes place at the Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Canton, Cardiff and begins at 7.30.pem.e on Friday ist. October. Those who come may expect to find the following: (1) Refreshments (Capter have a bar) (2) Repres entation by the N.A.M. Central London group who will describe their experience and views on such diverse topics as the Monopolies Commission Report on the R.I.B.A., their office survey, The National Design Service and Unionisation. (3) Peter Carter of the 'Green Ban' movement, who will discuss the 'Green Bans' and put forth his view of how hw sees the role of N.A.M. in such action, We hope there will be much informal discussion. You are invited to attend this Event. FRE RRREBRRR AE HEAR EAR ERO uaerarer ary TORIES HEEESUeKS (4) Anne Delaney from the Cardiff group who will elucidate upon the structure of the New Architecture Movement, NAM. Cardiff/SB, RAC, PFD/27.10.76 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource NAM Cardiff 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 27.10.76 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/421dd1fcd7236a3a0cbb02d7f821413d.pdf 7cc68d498abadfb12308c5fc25815437 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 Miscellaneous Subject The topic of the resource Miscellaneous issues 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 1976-1980 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 The Politics of Aesthetics Subject The topic of the resource Buildings and People essay updated for NAM Description An account of the resource bull A \) \ } pragrescne:architectareof ag asdyad byft cityauthoritiesin FOREWORD. This essay is incomplete in that it is not a finely polished final product but merely as much of a statement of my current thinking as I have bothered to set in print, Phe'Introduction' and ‘Where do we go from here', the final section,were written in November of 1976,95% of the rest was written in January 1975.The original title to this essay was ‘Buildings and People* and the thoughts were drawn by the question 'In what ways is the architec ture of a society related to its social structure?! It has long been my intention to use this material in a book tentatively entitled 'Buildings,Madness and Ecology' and it still is,but I got involved with the New Architec- ture Movement,somebody in the N.A.M. read the January 1975 essay and then I was sort of delegated (in a manner I don't clearly recal]) to produce a paper on aesthetics based on it.I supposed that the important thing is to have the material available for discussion so as a total rewrite of the original would have been too tedious all I have done is graft on new begining and end to make 'Buil- dings and People' into 'The politics of Aesthetics’. Paul F. Downtén,Cardiff,November 1976 Criticism and suggestions for additions to this essay would be appreciated,please address correspondance to: c/o I-o-8 Bookshop,lo8 Salisbury Rd.,Cathays,Cardiff. This material is subject to normal author's cOPy sieht except for non-profit reproduction, Printed by Gwasg Seren,Commercial and Community Printers, 141,Richmond kd. ,Roath,Cardiff. © ~SPOREWORD® CONTENTS sy 1 PEOPLE MAKE BUILDINGS...More Technology= Tool + Use of Cities and Doorknobs. 2 THE MIDDLE 'MAN',,,Semantics Vs Dialectics...Expertise “CONTENTS : : 4 FOR. EXAMPLE (A CIPHER FOR 414, SYA5ONS)...Pedestrian or or less Automatically... th=.Tcosl,..The Silent Witness... Consumer...On A Lighter Note...Screws...Let In,.»Without Question, ILLUS!\ATION...Mass 5 MASS HOUSING (THE BUILDINGS Nuts and Bolts...Sterility For And Evil...Demokeracy...Cracie2...Cranks COMMERCIAL BREAK THE MOBILE SOCIETY...The Gods of Progress...Valid Jams _and Defence 7 CAUGHT ON ENDLESS CARTWHEELS Sf INSANITY...War And Wealth And Weapons...Taking Stock...the Disease Takes Hold... Nightmares. ILLUSTRATION,,.Mobile Society And Hierarchitecture. 8 HIERARCHITECTURE...Poison Pcower...The Funeral Marches On., Laypeople Lose...sMaking Light It All. 9 THE ENEMY BUILDS WITHIN US...Myth Is Reality...Electric fortress...Circumscribed Souls. ILLUSTRATION,..Future And Electric Fortress. 10 WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?..,.Bankrupt...Corblimey!.. Connections...Lifestyle...The Urge To Create... ILLUSTRATION,..Libre APPENDIX KEFERENCES, 6 RISE AS THE PEOPLE FALL)... Everyone...Ugly Heads the Sunshine Housing. In The Meantime Vs Ability...Wasted lives,,.Data Retrieval...Megalomania Tocls Of Repression...5+inginy $4 All Back Home. 3°FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTIO,N)L!aw anv Order,..Myth and Purpose _“Mass?.Housing...Back on the GitCets Again...(Fxpletives - Deleted) ILLUSTRATION, 4.Everyingag's The’ Same. INTRODUCTION *'Long before the Jews were murdered it all had been expre- sed in my buildings't- Albert Speer. Aesthetics is the theory or philosophy of the perception of the beautiful.Well,that's what my dictionary says. In general use though it is a word which refers to how things look be it beautiful or bad. It is not, however, a word commonly used by the layperson. Only an elite use the word ‘aesthetics! and in fact the word conceals a political dimension, 'The Poli tics of Aesthetics' is an unfamiliar phrase because politics and aesthetics are not normally explicitly associated with one another, Historically,aesthetics is assiciated with the art of the elite of society, an art which would claim to be ‘above' politics though it manifested the privilege provided for the few by economic domination of the many. The cottager would not have thought to refer to the aesthetics of her cottage although she might well find it a beautiful place. The beauty of the cottage comes through the application of a craft by a person needing to apply that craft to achieve a practical end, not through self- conscious design, not through the application of aesthetic theory. The concept of aesthetics is elitist. In this essay the word aesthetics is used in a manner which I think may be generally understood by anyone trained or conditioned to use the word at all. By aesthetics I mean ‘how things look', this is about the Politics of How Things look} if you like. Words,Words,Words. ‘Design is the application of a language. Architectural design is a language that is expressed through the manipulation of building technologies. A language it can be used. A person needs be it verbal or non- verbal, before they can know what is being said and thus feel comfortable by being in communica tion with the people whose language it is. Surrounded by an alien language in one's own country one would feel ill at ease and if those aliens were felt to be invaders one would feel oppressed. In modern city centres the buildings which form virtually the entire environment use a design vocabu- lary foreign to the bulk of those buildings! users and they thus feel alienated and oppressed. The'concrete' jungle! has become a popular metaphor because it suggests an alien and agressive environment, a concrete forest does not sound half as terrible, Cultural Vision. If a person sees a thing as irrelevant to their needs they are unlikely to find it beautiful, The perception of need is itself a culturally induced concept, so that one person might find a brightly decorated, chromium- plated hot- rod fantastically beautiful and the ancient Egyptian carvings of a Pharao.4's undertakers dealthy ugly, whilst another person's view might be quite the opposite and both things might be said to have no practical use at all. The relation- ship a person has with an object defines their perception of that object, and the percption in turn defines the relationship. Thus if someone sees a thing as ugly and it is also undeniably necessary to them, they discover a con- wr 2g needs to be learnt before to understand a language, flict within their self irresolvable without suppression or change. Cultural form is created lution of such conflict, and destroyed in the reso- Splits. i It is said of people in Manhattan, New- York, that they enjoy the skyscraper cityscope, but people in London generally ; dislike even the ‘short! tall buildings that probe the sea of sulphurous pollution in their historic streets. Manhattan's skyward thrustings reflect the reach for the moon and money aspirations of their go-getting congregations. The Mammon in London has in the past been a tamer beast than its American counterpart, so its recent rampaging across the historic heart of industrial capitalism has offended the sensibilities even of those people whose path to riches is paved with prime-site precast concrete slabs of commerce. The concrete, steel and glass, blank- faced boring buildings which epitomise the common vision of our urban centres bear little or no relation to the ideas of ‘home! and 'town! which the layperson carries. They speak a different language even though the building society which builds Joan Smith's latest city centre horror might well be financing the pur. chase of her cosy new home. There is necessarily a direct relationship between the form of a human society and the form of the buildings that society produces, A particular way of organizing human activity requi- res particular artifacts pertinent to that activity. Bureau. crats need offices. The technology developed by a society has to be accepted as being needed by that society. Peace loving bureaucrats need atomic bombs. Such statements might appear to be mere truisms; but they only read as such once stated and normally they are not stated. For industrial society requires and cultivates a very compartmentalised mental atti tude, requires the perception of things always separate to other things, requires the bolt not to know the nut but only allow itself to be screwed. In the real world that approach is necessarily inadequate as a way of understandinp events because it provides no clear means of seing the connections between things, particularly if those connections are non- mechanical. Once scewed together the nut and bolt might un- derstand their function relative to one another, but kept apart in the meantime they know only grooves without reason, Thus in order to discuss aesthetics sensibly it is essential not to divorce it from a social and political context. It is not that aesthetics cannot be divorced from its political context, that is in fact the conventional way to view the subject, it is that it should not be so divorced. For view a culture in bits and pieces is to not view an homogenous cul- ture at all. Such a view is a partial view, a split, alienated view of a whole reality. In order to consider the role of aesthetics in architecture it is necessary to consider how and why architecture is made, in short, to look at the rela- tionship between architecture and society, between and people, buildings More or Less Autcmatically.... Technology = Tc !*Use Of The Tool It was the thesis espoused by Lewis Mumford in the 'Myth of the Machine! that human history is most importantly related to cultural attributes and social exgantsstion , rather than just the growth of use and invention of tools. first of people's minds. uildings are the products of tools, but - See He PEOPLE MAKE BUILDINGS The difficulty in deeling with the question of how architecture in a society is related to the society that produced it, is the breadth of the topic. 4llbuildings serve some purpose, and that purpose is tee defined by the requirements of the people who prodtice the buildings. Peopje make up society, the type of society is defined by its struct:ve and that structure contains the social paterns in wliich people live, which is then, mere or less automatically, made manifest in their building paterns. ; "Each landscape and townscape is an intri¢ately organised expressicn of causes and effects, of challenges and responses, of continuity and therefore, of coherance. It all hangs together, makes sense, fits one way or another - for good or bad, loosely or tightly. It has sequences, successions, climaxes. It reveals paterns and relationships forming and reforming." (1) The development of the social organisation ¢f humanity in its various forms has of neccessity come before any technological. development. People had to establish effective means of communicating ideas and information to their comrades before those ideas could be corporately Rut into operation. Thus language was the first great invention, a social tool which then enabled knowledge to be recorded, pooled snd transmitted to people in other places and other times once the ir:'s cultural attributes had been established, when the state of intellec:.:;:? development was sufficient to communicate complex and abstract ide ‘once conceptual tools' had been formed, then the development of material tools, of technology, could come about. Building is a technological development. The erection of a building requires the use of tcols and the co-ordinated deployment «7 human skills in useing these tools. The type of tools used and the =tructuring ef the co-ordinated deployment of human skills dépends upon the form, type and structuring of the society producing the building, The materials used in the making of the tools used both to produce the building and to co-ordinate the skills depends upon the history of development of the society and consequently of its technology, up to that time. Medieval masons did nct use electronic calculators, Centre Point would never have been carved from stone. Buildings are generated by a way of life and realised with its concomitant technology. Primarily buildings fulfill a social need. As we see, society must exist first, humanity being gregarious by nature and neccessity, and the need for communal shelter is then realised by communication between the members of that society. A roof needs to be thought of before it zan° 2 3. be built and named. The function of a structure is thus reoted in Symbolism and is culturally generated. Technology becomes then part of the cultural language in its broadest sense, its use communicates sentiment, emotion, ways of thinking and feeling. Buildings can move people to write poetry or break down and cry. The manipulation of technology for aesthetic effect is a very particular application of the language. It is the' art! of architecture. The Silent Witness Once architecture has been made, once building has taken place, it reinforces the prevailing social ethics and paterns of human inter- action because the physical environment is know in accord with the social environment, at least inasmuch as it is expressed by the’ holders - ee and perpetrators of the ruling ideology of a society. Hence the conceptual reality of an entrenched, institutionalised, bureaucratic regime is immortalised as a physical reality in its various offices and government buildings (see Hierarchitecture, and 'Making Light Of It All') into whose departments any number of anonymous persons prepared to accept a role in the now unquestionably eontrolling ideology. 'Lay: e>ple Loge! can be slotted Because the built environment in a so ciety is ultimately a product of the ruling ideology, after a few generations of generally uninterrupted consolidations that environm ent, with its attendant ideolugy, will be all pervasive, Political activity in demucracies, for instance, becomes rel- egated to the triviality of party games. No-one can stand up in the British Parliament, posit alternatives to the presently imposed status quo, and expect to be taken seriously (in fact such a Person would be The contention is that’ the general social structure ofa society shows in its building, so that the form and layout of individual buildings, villages, towns and cities are, in effect, diagrams of the social relationships in that society, and that the structures that make up Cities and Doorknobs society of which they are willing or unwilling members. There are big paterns and little paterns, cities and doorknobs, institutions and friends. Tne MIDDLE VANE The process of making architecture and its prerequcite, making architects, supposes an ahi ‘ity to compartmentalise the thinking process so that the designing of buildings and the manufacture of aesthetic styles and tastes are divorced from the reasons as to why the buildings exist in the first Place. Traditionally, architects do not question the brief they are given for a building design, but wholly concern themselves with making a design from the inform- ation, teols and money they have been entrusted to juggle, fitting their thoughts and actions the meanwhile, into a theoretical structure inherited from their education and divorced from any other reality, Architects' concerns are with the semantics of their design vocabulary not with the dialectical analysis of their role as designers, Expertise vs_ Ability. Architects are trained as intellectual 6lites, by intellectuati Elites, their role is increasingly specialized, ever-more rigidly defined, they are trained to devote their attentions exclusively to the part- icular. Successful architectural organisations (public and private) acquire and sustain their Success by specialising in certain - | . building types, As their expertise increases, their ability to tackle other design problems decreases, Architects design offices OR factories OR schools OR housing, a whole string of standard solutions result with the well-known resultant of the sterile, monotonous, predictable environment we increasingly inhabit. Wasted Lives, Over the years since the onset of the Industrial Revolution (when the forced flight to the city produced the first 'masses') and particularly within the last 50 years, these solutions have been expressed in architectural Philosophies which have in fact been no more than aesthetic dogmas for the consumption of intellectual élites. Unfortun- ately, these dogmas have been an important contributory factor to the creation of the urban wastelands against which backdrop so many miilions of lives are wasted. These dogmas are major cogs in the machinery of repression, milled on the mental lathes of indifferent intellectuals and turned by the ready hands of the alienated academics, The growth of technological indulgence and the human population in moder industrial societies has increased the size of tke self- Nata Retrieval People have been reduced to data in the operation of the architectural machinery of our mass society. All aspects of building performance and the potential "building users! requirements are subject io PSeudo-scientific testing and analysis by the omnipotent ‘experim- ental method! - laboratory models instead of the real thing. Architectural Scientists, Sociolegists, Behavioral Psychologists and specialists of every hue are busily going about splitting the Spectrum of human society in order to make manageable, so that architects can assimilate such information s ee can to produce yet another compromise solution to the Problems of a society already so much @ product of compromise the mass so- ioty nasotre ileoenomeaninigformanyofitsmembers.Architects Pecialize in Co-ordinating specialisms, Semantics vs Dialectics * *DIALECTIC - "testing truth by discussion, art of investigating thetruthofopinions", oF re - a Concise’ Oxtord Dictidriary Megalom ania The effects that modern architecture has had on people once the machinery of repression has been turned, have been more visibly dramaticinsomecasesthanothers.Aprimeexamineohees i ral form and ideology failing to serve peop e by i aNhe wae in Venezuela peereet 1954 and 1958 during the Pérez Jiménez dictatorship when ninety seven 15 storey 'superbloques were constructed to rehouse 180,000 slum dwellers in Caracas. Virtually complete social disorganisation and resultant rioting» proved the project a monstrous failure. The Pruitt Igoe high-rise housing project in St. Louis (cover), was sucha disaster that much of it was demolished as social breakdown and crime unnerved the citys' leaders. One of the architects on the project said at its inception:- ~ . ‘ "As an architect, if I had no economic'or social limitations, I'd solve all my problems with one storey buildings. Imagine how pleasant it would be to always work and plan in spaces overlooking lovely gardens filled with flowers. framework of our present cities this is impossible to achieve s Why? Because we must recognise social and economic limitations and requirements. A solution without such recognition would be meaningless. "(4) Yet we know that within the Architects submit to an ideology which ensures their active participation in the social mechanism of repression as responsive fully stimulated appetite for power by presuming to supply them with the ability to mould the world by ‘design'. Submission to this ideology has been as common in recent years as it ever was, perhaps more self-consciously now than previously. The belief that architects, and planners, can manipulate people via their environment is what has been called the ‘architectural belief system'Y'’Whilst it is quite untenable that people should be manipulated in this way or any — other, the existence of this 'belief system! is well recorded and is integral to the architectural dogmas discussed above. Buckminster Fuller, catalyst for such concepts as the 'World City! and doyen of the technocrats, holds this belief close to his heart and indeed it is basic to his philosophy - "don't try to reform man, reform the environment", Paulo Seleri is another present day architect with distinctly megalomaniacal tendencies; he has subordinated evolution, man, and cities to his personal vision and and proceeded to design accordingly. Soleri's case is an extreme One, but it is such men who set the scene for lesser mortals who may wish to act out similar roles. -Instilling a "holier than thou! attitude into the minds of young designers has been a major theme in the architectural schools of the western world, and despite recent shifts of emphasis, the theme remains and ig certainly Operative in the current practising of architecture. It is important to understand the workings of an architects mind and and the social context in which it works, because the architect is the'middle man'in the process whereby society expresses itself in building. 'pe Tools ofRepression A classic example of an architect attempting to. justify his two- faced position in a system where he is controlling and being cont- rolled, one face for authority one for public, acting as nothing more or less than a tool of repression by making literally concrete the insanities of the power élite that created his situation, (and supply his daily bread). Bringing it all back home Nearer hora the cronic failure of the System of myopic specialists and ego-centric demi-gods to deliver the goods, continues to produce completely avoidable human tragedies. In 1974 dozens of people died in the fire at the Isle of Man pleasure centre, unproven technology and irresponsible "responsible’ people were held to blame: the Flixborough nylon factory explosion, another technological 'mishap', raised the death total even higher; and an Old Peoples' Home (the idea of which is only possible in a com partmentalised, institutionalised culture) was swept by a fatal fire only months after its compietion. Meanwhile the legacy of the Ronan Point disaster has been changes in the rules of the game of people packing which will ensure that the clum sy meshing together of specialisms which produce future housing will at least produce gas-oven ex- Plosion proof housing. The whole point in having experts is, supposedly, to avoid mistakes which might harm people, but these examples, spectacular and horribly familiar, should they serve as salutory reminders of just how incompetent this society of experts really is, and how that incompetence can disastrously effect peoples lives. Law & Order Myth & Purpose FORM. FOLLOWS FUNCTION The relationship between the lives of people and the buildings they vse is conditioned by, and is a response tc, the social mechanisms that delineate the spheres of actuality of an individual in that,society and the degree of interaction available with other individuals within: that sohere of activity and in others. So criminals and police officers use court rooms more often than car workers or bakers and a better knowledge of the actual processes of law enforcement-exists with the users of the Court howse than with those who merely pass by it on their way to work. To the passers-by though, the Court house signifies many abstract qualities, justice, trith, the rule of law, order etc., the building fulfiils a highly significant purpose just by being there, just because of its invariably emotive arch- itecture, constructed as it is, as a conscious Symboiic embodi ment of some of societys' bulwarks of faith. The relationship between’ the users of the Court: house and the passers-by is thaS conditioned by the lack of contact between meanings that the building evokes for the disferent parties. the two and the subtely different The Court house operates on a functional and on a symbolic level. Functionally, in that it provides shelter for the activitiés that take place within it, symbolically, in that it is a monument to the central themes of a cultures! professed ideology. Not only So there are primarily two ways in which architecture reflects the social structure that produces it:- does it act as a token to that ideology, but the planning of the rooms and attendant artifacts of witness boxes and so forth, ultimately presents a physical model of the organisation of the various functions that the Court house contains. FUNCTIONALLY - a way of life requires certain mechanisms and shelters and a certain way of distributing those artifacts. SYMBOLICALLY - the forms of the mechanisms and shelters may transcend their purely functional requirements and become infused with, or even wholly gen- erated by, myths and symbols. The flat roof never appeared in temperate climates until the dual goals and aspirations of advanced technology and fashion (always slightly absurdly beyond the limits of its contemporary technology) produced a 'machine aesthetic’, derived from superficial, glib philosophising by myopic, élitist culture heroes like Le Corbusier, The technology then became competent enough to deny the common- sense idea of chucking water off a rock by using a pitch, so that flat roofs were used. Functionally nonsense, but definite symbolic totems of the newly-arisen machine culture. "ARIES - Why this flat roof... ? PISCES - The sacred cause of planning freedom, It also robbed the buildings of a visual 'lid' and conveyed the idea of extendability -'indeterminacy'. It cost more and let the water in more easily. I studied this as a student » and it was my first inkling that there was something twisted and disconnected about their ideas,'' (s} Back on the Streets again - So too: with domes, especially geodesic domes; in the mid-sixties they became totems of the counter- culture, psrticularly in the U.S.A.The domes are hard to waterproof and were conceived of by Buckminster Fuller for very high technological application and mass production, ‘but they were used because they were symbolic ofa breaking-away from conventional roles in social behaviour in that domes break away from the conventional notion of buildings as post and beam 'box' constructions. Domes possess a structural integrity, a ‘oneness’, there are no walls or ceilings, so domes were seen as symbols for a society with that same integrity, that same where there are no rigidly defined roles for the societies members much as a dome lacks 'walls' and ‘ceilings’, but still stands up. 'oneness' "',.The dome is expressive of our new approach to the universe... The dome seems in some way to be more conducive to the mental and spiritual harmony of the dome dweller, perhaps because its more natural shape helps to attune him with nature instead of alienating him from it. Boxed houses belonged to an age when men stood in opposition to the world around them, in corhpetition, as it were, with nature and the universe, ." (6 Mass ? Housing Solving 'mass housing! problems requires people to share a spurious objective assessment of the 'problem!' to be solved. In In fact every individuals' response to the need for housing is going to be unique to that individual, the objective reality of each persons response to any situation will be that persons subjective response to that situation. None can ever fully know what is in anothers’ mind, none can presume to fully understand the needs of another person, therefore, ultimately, each-individual must be free to shape their own destiny, no-one else can do it for them. To assume that there is a 'solution' to the housing 'problem!' is to assume that that'problem' is a thing with a reality outside of the consciousness of any person involved in it. A problem is defined by each individuals' view of a situation and just as no-one person can know anothers! real needs, then no-one can presume to tell another what to do. No-one can build my house for me, I cannot build a house for anyone else, together we may succeed, but to assume, say, that I can know the needs of a stranger from the statistics of an 'objective' assessment of that persons' needs without that stranger even meeting or speaking with me, is the most presumptuous and arrogant of ideas. Returning to the illustrations of how the ideology of a society is expressed in philosophical and physical form, one can consider the spiel by Daniel Burnham, architect charged with co-ordinating the the design of Chicagos' World Fair in 1893 and subsequent author of plans for entire major American cities, of one of his plans, for - Manila in 1905, he wrote:- "Among building groups thefirst in import- ance, the Government or National Group which would include Capital Building and Department Buildings, is located on the present © Camp Wallace... Grouping itself closely about the Capital Building at the centre it forms a hollow square opening out westward toward the sea. The gain in dignity by grouping these buildings in a single formal mass has dictated this arrangement, the beauty and con- venience of which has been put to the test in notable examples from the days of Old Rome to the Louvre and Versailles of modern times. (Expletives Deleted) The eastern front of the capital group faces a semi-circular plaza from whose centre radiates a street system communicating with all sections of the city - an arrangemen entirely fitting for both practical and sentimental reasons; pracical because the centre of r government activity should be readily ace2ssible from all sides; sentimental because every seciion of the Capital City should look with deference toward the symbol of the Nations'power.(¢} «(Robert Goodmans' emphasis). This dominant western authoritarian ideology has been well expressed by some of its ablest perpetrators. The link between society and its architecture is seen as resolutely forgec. the importance of the power of symbols and the symbolic arrangement of things, the power of the aesthetic language is further evidenced in these following examples:- . In 1969, Daniel P., Moynihan was President Nixons! chief planner in.residence, earlier, in 1962, he had been given the job of affecting the design of federal government buildings and drafted the 'Guiding Principles on Federal Architecture’ announced by Kennedy in 1962: The Court House or Hall of Justice is given a separate location south of the main group and heading the vista down the avenue which passes the east front of the Capital... The Mall of Justice... represents the sentimentally and practic= ily highest function of of civilised society. Upon the authority of lsw depends the lives and property of all citizens; and the buildings vhich constitute the visible expression of law, its symbol of dignity «nd power, should be given the utmost beauty in their location, arrencement, architectural treatment and approaches....,‘' (9) "The policy shall be to provide requisite and adequate facilities in an architectural design and form which is destinguished and which will reflect the dignity, enterprise, vigour, and stability of the American National Government. "(10) : --Anexcellentexampleofacriticalmois intheprocessof transferring the expression of a ruling-c:2ss ideology into the physical fabric of society. All architectural expression is dedicated to the ideals of the state, against which the individual is insignificant, so the individuals! dwelling is rendered of secondary importance to the edifices of the State. It is an ideology with a long history;Hitler, 1943, in 'Mein Kampf,! "For what the ancient had before his eyes was less the humble houses of private owners than the magnificent edifices of the whole community. Compared to them, the dwelling house really sank to an insignificant object of secondary importance, "(!) More current exam ples of this type of ideological expression are not hard to find; from'An introduction to Modern Architecture, !,by J.M. Richards: "A town hall is partly a ceremonial building and needs to have a dignity that will form a fitting background for ceremonial. It must also express in some way the dignity of the State... eThe extreme pomp of monumental buildings is not perhaps a character a democratic age demands, but we shall come to appreciate in time the special form of dignity produced by orderliness and spacious planning. a S_) O The great housin scheme boasting these qualities, and incorporating as it does its own schools and community centres, can claim to (authors emphasis). The theme continues. As the state and capitalism are mutually supportive in our society and for practical purposes may be regarded as one thing, so the expression of the ruling ideology is prominent in the edifices of capitalism as much as of government. Banks;offices; stores, and consumable culture buildings (bookshops, theatres, cinemas, nightclubs, etc.) constitute the basic coarse fabric of our urban centres, The Centreplan complex proposed for Cardiffs! city centre, in which Cardiff Corporation and the Ravenseft property developers exhibited the clear partnership of the state and capitalism, was to have sacri- ficed residential areas to its existence. The life blood of its being were to have been roads whose construction would have obliterated communities of streets. The obliteration has not been complete, but the blight remains and the course is subliminally set for the future, The cities fabric has been invested with many meanings, myths abound, the city is a battleground - people, council and vested interests all struggle for power ina game where the winner is always making the rules, There are no perceivably rational responses to anything, there are no functional neccessities apparent as building and shelter are easy enough to come by, but the games of power and possession take place within great constructions of myths about property and people that is our culture. And thousands of people remain homeless while buildings stand empty. 457-5 fees fodaty.... Budi dings are Vf! i SIP OLT: all the same, everyones4 i expected to he the same... f uy rs chinA Kenic 1¥ i) g £ y %a SS Seaoe «ee Ge Pedestrian Or Consumer. On A Lighter ‘Note. apply to any habitable room (ACIPHER FOR ALL SEASONS) Evidence for this vested interest and Oppression is literally all around us, (in as. much as noone's interest can be held above another's, so the furtherance of any interest vested solely in oneself cannot fail to require the exploitation of others,and exploitation is only possiblbey the repression, .either overtly or subliminally, of the exploited). The streets that we walk down, the houses we inhabit, the buildings in which we work, shop, relax, pray in or visit, all are concrete mirrors to the purposeless patterns of our daily lives, the purposeless lives of pedestrians, members of the 'eeneral public', producers, consumers, holidaymakers, churchgoers and tourists. The majority of people in our society live in urban constructions that are not natural expressions of the lives of its people, fully lived, but are expressions of a society of human components, a machine of human parts relega ted to less than humanity. Bureaucracy is an inextricable, primary mechanism in our so- cial machine and accordingly manifests itself everywhere, particularly as all buildings are subject to some form of bureaucratic control. The rule of this law can be seen in the tower blocks, which have grown .in height and numbers ra- pidly in recent years all over the world, largely for commer- Cial reasons. ifter the main vertical dimensions have been fixed by econo mies of cost (the minimum possible), the depth of a plan is resolved on section according to regulations on light angles and permissable daylight factors - Appendix aH: ‘this regulation (Open Space, Ventilation and 'Todaye..buildings are all the same, everyone's expected to be the same...'- John A, Friend- 28-12-74, eS fe f Hei1ght °ofRcoms))shsahall a SOE Zeal — (except a room used for the lawful detention of persons other than mentally disor- dered persons) which has (ae rs rm Maivan po a Possi#LE Tr HEIGHT. MAX POSSIBLE — py DEPT SIIIL one or more windows! Building Regs. 1965- Pri- BLY 7 - maimed sons ae ae Sone El presumably, constitute alongSee habitablebuildings fg § (author's emphasis) ~p.62 FOR EXAMPLE. The depth of the floor, plan is thus. fixed, the length of this plan is then only dependant oh the Shape of the building site ‘indeterminacy!?, standard plan to be chopped off by the yard or mile SS A> ROOM V LET This plan form is generally repeated on each side of the access corridors and 'service cores! (lifts..etc..) which are often incorporated into a central supporting structure- CORRIDOR, The structural requirements of the floor slabs and the need to incorporate the ‘service runs! (pipes, wiring, Ducting...) determine the dimension between the floor and ceiling of vertically adjacent units, this distance is as small as pos- sible in order to cram as Many units as is structurally feasible in the smallest overall height- ri] i” CoO a \ The height of the tower is then limited by further planning conetraints, which vary from place to place but are often established during some form of dialogue bteween the develo pers and the authorities (Rarenseft and Cardiff...). It is a not unknown phenomenon for developers to try and'work a fast one' on the authorities by illicitly adding a couple of stones to a tower's height (very valuable stuff, ‘indeterminacy'), after all, who notices wether a block is 30 or34 storeys tall? Clad your tower in mass-produced concrete panels,'express! the top of the lift shaft where the lifting machinery is housed (functionalism) and,do and behold- a build- it- anywhere, super- architectural, bog standard, highly profitable office block (A design award is assured if youcréateawind-swdearpk,tg;ro*und floor 'concourse! by raising the building on stills, Ka arr YY tS TELL PLZ. Tg PIT The distance between tower blocks is controlled by further bureaucratic constraints wherein the endlessly varied kalie- doscope of natural light is once more conveniently transposed into a Cipher for all reasons 4 fine example of these laws of the concrete jungle in action is provided by the bureaucrats themselves, with the Department of the Environment headquaters in London, a building which eae oye been designed to incorporate every cliche in the ook NEW YORK evennesseks Leas nesberweseesl aoe ering: -96F Baeon BPscerenn ed ae es s piers Pea ®7ese Sterility for Everyone Ugly Heads & Evil To a large extent, the sterile dreams of the middle men (chapter 4) are responsible; the high-rise blocks and endlessly repetitive filing cabinet architecture which epitomise mass housing, are directly the result of the obs essive intellects, slitted consciousness and puerile emotional mechanisms of such men as Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier (a self-affected nick- name). Their original vapid imaginings unfortunately gained credence amongst fellow intellectuals and architects during and since the early part of this century and subsequently the mechanisms of capitalist economics ensured that their dictrines, and similarly derived doctrines held sway, MASS HOUSING (THE BUILDINGS RISE AS THE PEOPLE FALL) Nuts and Bolts. rganisation of the mass-production process, as it has been "evolved', demands the subjugation of people to machi i are therefore i panels of Centre Point to the che Council flat, Mass society with its 'mass'-orientated mentality and its capacity for mass-production, not surprisingly best exhibits its cultural sterility in 'mass' housing. In this instance, pictures probably speak louder than words (illustration -'mass housing"), but one does well to consider how much such an im posed solution constricts social forms to 23 children families and hence helps mould the social structure. Now let us consider how such monstrosities came about and why they still raise their ugly heads. Early practitioners of the art of eople-packing were often professed radicals, Le Corbusier believed Him self to be a communist, and Gropius set up the 'Bauhaus', a school of industrial art and design, which was to become a target for fascist reaction when and as Hitler rose to prominence in inter-war Germany. Despite this, the newly evolved consciousness of a mass society and uncritical adulation of the machine ensured a dearth of concern for the indiv- idual human being, Industrial society, with its concurrent is bound to exhibit Instances in which thi by our society are far too numerous to mention, mass-produced nuts and bolts of our culture. It is this essen- ole of mass-production in our culture which is Gropius in 1924: "The majority of citizens of a specific country have similar dwellings and living requirements it is therefore difficult to understand why the dwellings we build should not show a similar unification as Say, our clothes, shoes or automobiles... ." in 1931; --..the one-family house will remain reserved for a higher stratum of the population... . because the.... rented dwelling in an apartment house is better adapted to the needs of the more mobile working class....who.... lack the time required to care for a house and garden if they are not to deteriorate, " (15) * EXPLOIT -utilize (person etc) for ones' own ends, esp. derog. of -ing colonial Possessions, the working class ets, =Concise Oxford Diahinnne Cracked government l upon ones! versal Demockeracy pte cantakeplace,soanin-crowdofexpertscangetthewhip- nd, one of the more famotisly evil events of our he way for much re-building, it provided Town movement. It also created a massive need for new housing and it provided an excuse for thousands of Suppressed megalomaniacs to impose their ideal of the ‘good life! on the weary and unsuspecting populations of war-torn Europe. Any substantial number of people contain individuals of so many different temperaments and attitudes that it is really quite hopeless to expect those people to wholly agree on anything 'en-masse!, However, small groups may be perfectly capable of achieving a co- hesion of purpose and direction whilst ensuring that the uniqueness of each individual within that group is respected, interaction between such self-regulating bodies of inner-directed individuals can be at least as successful to the mtitual benefit to all concerned, but never can one person or group of persons presume to tell others what to do without their active assent. This assent must be conscious, active, not a result of conditioning or cohersion, it must be an assent arising from the free agreement of equals , there must be no im posed authority. It is most certainly the most extreme form of arogance for a few people to presume to be able to successfully provide, for thousands of others, something as immensely important to them as the places in which they have to spend their entire lives. To force people to live in upgraded chicken coups, in those battery farms of the industrial work force, is an act of premiditated violence, a form of torture, it reaps its rewards even now as people become increasingly hostile towards such blatant acts of repressionTh.e awareness is dawning and cracks are appearing in the conditioning cells, ultimately the whole edifice must crumble, and A bugeoning population required expanded facilities and more homes. So the answer was to thump them all out on great production lines. The absurdity of forcing people to spend their lives doing repetitive, mindless, routine tasks in order to produce repetitive, characterless dwellings to which they go home to rest from producing those rep- etitive, souless artifacts never seemed to occur to sucha systems' theorists and propagandists. If it did, and they too believe that humanity is destined for greater and better things, can only be regarded as totally malicious, then their actions totally unpardonable evil, Cranks in the Meantime In the meantime the machine cranks heavily onwards, and most of its cogs seem to mesh well enough to ensure its continued function for the few more revolutions that the dwindling oil supply will fuel and lubricate. AL ‘) Ta Mik yor tenole we cars ~ bub cars Rul & moutim pestle. He Joa of oy Transient Suites ensures Kak much (moe POPE usere belle fey rote aecieds of. 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(Expenses . ~ Ie canashide, nest back efcayoy oC, Coste, & cansewrumnale aes a 5 jae BAe theSe) HE OFeerHME. (Gus, Meade hdr come LE ue tom PARA NovA ) The Gods Of Progress THE MOBILE SOCIETY Acceptance of the ability of imposed authority to shuffle around masses of people when it so chooses is another part of the ethic forced on a society whose people are only pawns ina game. The historical precedence for this are numerous, the mobilisation of entire pop- ulations in war time provide obvious exam ples, but there are others "The ambitious and proud country gentleman sets great store by his elegant house, his rolling parklands and the view from his windows. A squalid village spoiled the view, and the village fields interrupted the parkland; but when the landlord owned an entire village - as some landlords most certainly did - then the obstacles could be removed. Villages were depopulated so that parks could be made. "' (16) The man of wealth and pride Takes upa space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds. Oliver Goldsmith 1770 (17) So the lords of the marors used to mow down villages if they obstructed the view on their newly landscaped estates, the aesthetic predilection of the ruling class had thus obvious gécial consequences. Now however, the lords of the environment would mow down villages to build airports, those great manifestations of a society which moves its favoured few around the globe as fast as sound itself! The rest of us must be content to travel slightly slower, but travel we must, for our social system is dependant on physical mobility and people's homes and fertile food-producing farmlands are sacrificed to the god of progress that is the motor car. This need to continually transport people and goods all over the country has has produced a massive road network; 200, 000 acres of farmland disappeared between 1957 and 1972 to make room for roads - The Isle of Wight is only 94, 080 acres! Valid Jams and Defence There are more skills , energy and materials invested in a single car, designed to last about four years, than in the typical home, house or hut, that serves most of the worlds! peoples for a lifetime. Cars are invested with a similar emotional currency to that found in connecton with homes, and the highway system consumes land ona scale par with buildings whilst setting patterns on the landscape of at least as much force and importance as the buildings which they connect, generate and destroy. If the structures erected by a society respond to and reflect the structure of that society, then the structures of vehicles and the surfaces that carry them are equally as valid as manifestations of a society's ideology as are its buildings. The traffic jam is a built form. The infrastructure of a country provides physical and metaphysical maps of certain characteristic elements of that society. The dictionary definition of 'infrastructure' is "a system of airfields, telecommunications and public services forming a basis for defence, ' There is evidence (dark hints and rumours) that the motorway system has also been conceived as an integral part of the 'defence! transport networks. It is also an ins- tructive definition '"'for defence" in that it presupposes massive social and technological orientation to militaristic ends. in spneo useless IGM DE beenbuilt er compaparis develop intrinsically for tho seme aninunt of mons; Concorde, Gist: CAUGHT ON ENDLESS CARTWHEELS OF ANSANTTY «...then they bring them to the factory, machine is strapped across their sheviders and then the kerosene is brought down from the casiles by insurance men who go where the heart attack quality houses, or, in am sonic aircraft rather th: OTe Ws me banish poverty by effecting an exuitabl< @ Sure indicator as to the morality aud culture, Taking Stock A society with its entire structure founded on A capitalism is bound to produce toiems of its culi, Pi; 1s one purpose-built structure embodying very part cx Muchange peculiar to the economy which produced it, itis a eita; 1 of capit- alism, home of those forces which generate all social relationships > Functions in society. The Disease Takes Hold check to see that no-one is escaping to Desolution Row. - Bob Dylan - (18) War and Welath and Weapons The extent to which a society builds architecture rather than oh artifacts, or vice versa, can itself hecome a oui i and aspirations of that society. ‘Treo Crosby. the environment z2me," compares the coct of Vietnam or 6 hrs, j Pie ilesize of 4. Just as any individual is primarily limited by their economic means ( outside of any more sensible realities ), so ‘tthe. same proeccesses of the capitalist economy produce very strange social rala “Onships ( bourgeoisie, worker, capitalist etc). It is inevitable that the organ- isation of the productive forces in society, formed in response to capitalist ethic with its concomm itant machinery for the manufacture and exchange of goods and services, will embody these relationships. British capitalism enables individuals to hoard money, encourages the centralisation of resourse use and manpower, materiais and energy, ignores the social and environmental consequences of its activities requires massive systems of control to regulate the myriad activities of many people to the advantage of a few , falsely values all things and reduces all things to commodities, Hence a small area of land in Central Londen can be priced at £13 million because it is a prime site in the world's money capital, and a £5 million building can then be produced for that site with the employ of people who will never use or need that buiiding; the result being an lump of concrete which then proreeds, somehow » to gainin money value just by being there! Such buildings invariably faii to house people because that makes a building unprofitable... .and profit is the mainstay of the capitalist system. Nightmares Office blocks house some of the totally non-productive functions of the social machine, people are forced to do meaningless (as opposed to meaningful) tasks in order to control the flow of an imaginary commodity, money, in order to mainiain the existence of factories which then control the lives of people who actually produce something (though that 'something! may well be useless!). The factories may be producing pre-cast concrete panels, for instance. The ultimate, almost realized absurdity, would be for a company to construct an office block to house employees to administer factories which make panels to construct office blocks to house employees to administer money to finance companies which build office blocks....There are obviously innumerable ways in which human behaviour and inter-personal relationships will become distorted in such ‘endless cartwheels d insanity.' This social structure of ours contains a multitude of unnatural relation- ships between People, including those of consumer to producer, producer to controller (boss, executive), controller to financier, financier to government, government to consumer, it is no surprise that the cities of this society are such cancers on the land and its people. And the devaluation of the lives of these people to ciphers in the great consumer / consumed Spectacle is complete when their 'hames! roll off conveyor belts, tended by more beings regulated to lives where they are extensions of machines for half of their waking hours and dutiful consumers for the other half, with the sleeping hours f! ‘9d with dreams of possession and nightmares of work. To jibe about the quality of design of a machine, house or concrete panel in such circum stances, is to advertise one's candidancy for the post of chief ostrich and betrays sadly misplaced priorities, OTT —- Sa = eee (AEs|eelStehe zi ee ———} NENG “e -fTM \38acre ied junction- ee aoruar ay i)\= i| CODDD00000000000058 >“BOCSd6O) MIERARCH ITECTURE Ours! Short term gain at an incalculable long-term cost, where ‘someone else! will Pay ~ that is the ethic made concrete and cosmic In nuclear power stations, buildings essential to modern western industrial society in which the citadels of political power require citadels of energy. The Funeral Marches On Poison Power The central theme apparent in all analyses of social, and hence political, organisation is that of power, the power of pecple over - people. But thesocial structuring which centralizes its authority and political power is as requisite on power from energy as are all the other functions of a technologically advanced society. So huge i gies whose secrets can only be used by the few, and then only at the behest of the political power- wielders, come into being. These structures and their technologies P01son the ground for incon i some nuclear Laypeople Lose In an essay entitled "But', in May 1973, I used the pyramids of Egypt as examples of particularly strong expressions of a power structure of an unmistakeably authoritarian and hierarchical form. The structure of that society, with its Slaves, divine kings, and hierarchical distribution of power through priests and slave drivers, etc., — found its ultimate expression in the pyramid which was used, liter- ally, to entomb the values and aspirations of that society. The Pyramid is perhaps the most obvious expression of hierarchical form, with its implication for human society of an authoritarian System of distributing the control by 8 few of the many, and its validity asa symbol for such a power structure is as valid now as it ever was. Itis an excellent aesthetic expression of political purpose, In October 1973, the winning design for the proposed offices of the new Northampton County Council was a nine-storey, glass-sheathed Pyramid. The architects and councillors who comprised the bulk of the assessment panel thought the building was wonderful, their Support for the building was unconditional in that any criticism (Hee sthe planning of the two lower floor levels and entranes.... might be .... improved.... ") was virtually ignored in favour of the schemes "audacity, imagination, and.. +. comprehensive underlyin _logic!’ which they could not objectively fault.' Significantly, one nopes, this ‘lyrical structure' did not impress the only two lay &Ssessors on the panel who believed the design was "'an im posed solution" because, because, amongst other things, it was " an intellectual concept, ingeniously worked out and seductively presented;"inflexible; required unproven technologies; used too much energy; was ''reminiscent of a mausoleum and the dead pharoahs;" and was dominated by the council chamber in a manner foreign to the new conception (sic) of democracy and participation. is 'new concept? of democracy and participation had not either, reached the bunkers, for the building also had to include a 'Civil Defense Base- ment,' for which very few members of the public will have much use in any contingency, but then, the important people would survive. Making LightofitAll The Northampton pyramid succeeded in taking the ideal of an immortalized bureaucracy to a logical conclusion; at mid-day* on April 5th, at the start of the Financial Year, the sun's rays (assuming the sun shines!) were supposed to pur down ashaft in the structure so orientated that ihe beams would illumine the treasurer's desk? * assumed time. "WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY e IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH Myth is Reality (21) TRIE ENEMY BUILDS WITHIN US "The Ministry of Truth - was Startingly different from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 metres into the air....Scattered about London there were just three other buildings of similar appearance and size....They were the homes of the four Ministries between which the entire apparatus of government divided." (22) was Circumscribed Souls "The G.P.O's microwave system is a pretty paradign of the 20th. Century. Functional, sophisticated, technological, monumental, its towers stride across the land: publicly thay are described as the distributors of the garbage of television;in fact they link the instru- ments of sudden genocide, and implicit in their construction and siting is their use to repress revolt." (23) The woman or man on-top-of-the-street is not normally aware of the existence of the fortress because it is not visible outposts, but it circumscribes the entire existence of each and every soul on the globe. Internationally, it constitutes the rerve system of the biggest war-machine of all] time, in peace-time it also carries electronic opiate to the masses through the air waves, and internally in Britain it constitutes an immense net of power connecting key government hideouts so that order can be maintained in the event of social un- rest and civil-war, The enemy is within and it is the government, and as one wise woman has said, "It's hard to fight the enemy who has outposts in your head, " Electric Fortress (Cowardly OldWorld) Humanity's greatest constructions have always reached to the realm of the fantastic, the Pyramids maintain their marvel for us today, and the greatest cathedrals of the past extended humanity's capacities and technologies to produce a vehicle for reaching heaven. Currently, the most massive constructions of our culture are those built with the mighty resources of nations! defence budgets and those utilizing the most advanced of available technologies. When the two strands of achievement in mechanis «tion: of people, in the military machine, and of micro-technological electronic wizadry in the industrial machine, when those two strands inter weave in the military- industrial complex cloak of secrecy, the result is the most extreme manifestation of our society's insanity as is humanly practical. The result is the Electric Fortress. In such times as ours, to worry about the esthetics of architecture without setting it firmly in this social context is an insanity of the split consciousness which plays into the hands of those who want us to forget the ugly social realities which really give shape and substance to our daily lives. "I do not want art for e few any more than cducation for a fez,or freedom for a few. "Willian tiorris, 25 Those of us who are involved in the business of buildine, those of us who care about the enviromient because we care about people having to live in that environnent,those of us who enjoy designing,who despite the apparent ugliness of the world still wish to create better things and better places.How do we best use our energies and imaginations?Where do we go from here? Bankrupt The architects' role is so tightly defined by the imperatives of the economic system,that any pretensions to control over that system can only be pretensions.The architect can have no power without an econornic basc.At the same timc the arrogance of presuming to be able to design for clients who profess to express the "needs" of people they do not Imow is untenable and presumes a degree of control denied by the economic base.The architects! power base,such as it is,is given by control over a store of knowledge either actual or imaginary,that is providdd by the myths surrounding the architects! role.The architects! power is constructed on an ethical base,when in fact the architects! position is morally bankrupt. Corbliney! The power of an economic base and its concomitant form of social organisation precedes the power of an idcology.Idcas shape future material conditions only in so far as they are products of existing material conditions and only inso far as material possibilities actually exist which enable the rcalisation of those ideas, Le Corbusiers' visions cf a "new architecture"were based on his preference for a certain aesthctic derived from a fascination with the Machinc.He failed,however,to comprchend thc technologies the mechanisms and applications of machines,and designed buildings which looked like machine products but which did not have a technolegical integrity-stucco was rendered as smooth as streamlining only to suffer the weathcr and flake off,Corbusiers! visions did,however affect the future form of buildings,he held out for an ideological power,a pewer realised when the material conditions of capitalism enabled the application of high technologics in a manner of building which was consistent with a box-like machine aesthctic.The itself did not demand flat rocfs,for instance. Le Corbusier prefessed t be a socialist while at the same tine his"new architccture,his aesthetic visions were only realised with advanced capitalist technolcgy.He connections,to analyse the context o of his architectural werk anc he thus failed to ensure the compatability of his social ideas with his architectural ideas.Those of us who propose sccial change and "New Architectures"must cbvicusly thought must be, acutely aware of the comecticns between things. Connections Material conditions,the environient provides material for cerebration,imaginaticn.The imagination percieves possibilities . Those p_ssibilities are cnly realisable under certain material imperatives of technology failed te make essential avoid this fracture of Had Le Corbusier not writtcen"Towards a New Architccture"thc later architecture of the time when the technologies were extant to realise his visions would not hav e looked as it did.That is to say,his ideas shaped the application of the tools of future matcrial ccnditions,At the same time his visions cculd not have ecne abcut without the existence of certain material conditicns, WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE °? conditions,in a particular social and cconomic environment.The possibilities seen by the imagination arc limitless as imaginings but limited in the material environment by that cnvironment.In propesing possible visicns,ic.as for the futur. abcut building ond so forth,it is necessary fcr those visions to- be intinatcly, t tally, connceted with certain cconcimic and sceial conditicns ana those conditions must be rcalisable and decucible from existing trends in present conditions.e can dream the impossible, but cannot achicve the inpessible,'c can fly in cur heads, just as people were doing leng befcre the first air ballcon,but we cannot achieve flight without an air craft,without cccnoi.ic enc social crpanisation capable of ccnstructing an air craft. Icshoulebasevisionsonrcalityvandutiacnreascn,pessibiliti&cs n focts,the petcential cn the realisable.We should keep our fect cn the ground,our heads in the clouds,and be very aware of what connects then] Lifestyle There is really no point in being dogmatic about"styles"and so forth,There is no way of providing a style,a new architectural aesthetic for democratic architects to rally around because democratic architecture has no'style".As architecture realised by the will of the pecple,even if those people utilise the services of individuals specialising in biulding design,cannot be a provided "style"by definition.Those who are concerned about the sorry state cf building design these days will nct find a sclution with a new brand of style-mongering of the ilk of Le Ccrbusicrs'"new architectureio"r other apestles cf "Demccratic architecture"such as Frank Licyd Wright.A new style cannct be provided by sone aesthetic gurrwithout being undemocratic.The ve ting in,by popular support cf any new stylc,though,perhaps an improvement on present conditions,would not be a truly cemocratic way cf building, The Urge to Create "I finc I'm satisfied by just living.The greatest creative experience of my life was building this house." So the only tenable architecture}the cnly way .f building compatible with a truc,direct democracy,is builcing users,If architccture is to belong to the people there can be nc architects.Intthe meantime those who hold in truth the skills of designing and constructing buildings those skills more readily availahle fighting the forces of mystification which set out to cestryy the stewardship of those sjlls in order the better to hoard knowledge and thus maintain the precarious power. The architoots'pawer being based on & monopoly of knowledge buildin uncertaken by should be working to make to lay people.Thcy should thus be position of privelege,prestige anc It is only when pecple are directky involved in the processes of Cesigning and building that the architecture can truly be said to come from the pecple,and in such a situation cf direct Cemocracy the word"architecture" would lose currency just as the word "acsthcitics"had no currency for the cottager whose craft and art were part of her life.If people were ever truly free to realise their creative potential their buildings would be the most henestly and beautifully useful that this world has ever known, because no-one would be suffering economic deprivation in créer to construct those buildings.Repressive societies may have produced Art for the few sweated from the brow anddbled from the veins cf the struggling"értist,but the art of builcings most admired as places to live in rather than as mseun pieces were produced, are produced by pecple making for themselves a place to be using tobest advantage materials and skills immeadiately available, and expcrtise, rathcr than cc n‘mie necessity, then the mre that mm oly is unt rmincc, the mere thet ver can be or “cd. This much can be “cne in cxisting circumstances, but t+ merely er vc the p-wer of architects with ut at the same time c nscicusly anc actively w rking t. provice means of returning the knowlecge to the pe*ple is t>» act c unter t the interests f£ the people. That "the urge t cestrey is 2 creative urge" is only truc insofar as Cestructi n of repressive “instituticns unleashes the creative petential repressed by those institutions. For architects t sect up an alternative "R.I.B.i..", fer instance, is counter-rev luticn- ary.e To sct us "Community Architecture! practises which only ffer cheap expertise an? which fail te invelve anc educate people in the activity of cesigning buildings, is c:unter=rcvcluti nary. Only the approach to building which frees people tc be erdative, to builc for themselves from cx:ericnce of their own ncecs, only the approach to building which frees the creative urge is revol- utionoary.Such a way of beilding ipossibi<e onlywith ragically different social, political and eccnomie crganisaticns to thse previcec by capitalism. Such a way of builcing is net easily achievec, for obvious reascns. It requires social revoluticn. ‘ ; : ; +47 . ¢eo f nee «af pee 12° fi Een a a~~ ,ns ry Ra4es Si cil ial Cae ate Neyee Open ert Ase yee i: Eriea = s oo —— ieee: _e — aoe i Naty : =—~ a“iWAallerofHE H iy yNecA ya 4 PNtCCCceicy cle 'ive { BH fi Option i LW RaatTh 2 ae th fi) as i,ee §- ayy neB:/ gz ro ProetSetbyiae”Ki (tor) IEwas our hope tocombine the efficient and ecologically sound principles of Communism withtheexcitingandunpredictablefoorfcreatsive. anarchy... We wantedit ways... Fierce individality within 9tyht: communistic, tribal-framewore.. Our experience, so-far has proven that thetwoidkdlogies arenotneccessarily exclusive... wv? 4 unifs connecting tunnel-Jinked towers embracing compactly a quarter of a million people housed, fed, transported, working and entertained in a controlled environment. (Cars are significantly absent, conveyor-belt seats taking care of movement between units. This vision of what could be is a machine for living linked with a supply of energy from a network of nuclear reactor islands for which plaas have already been developed by concerned experts neem > ae t “ wy, Ss Vz \ / Thesurvivingcify(below)xsacomplexofmoving Ae 2 : nt Ye LDSwwrmes a MART RRE THESE ANSTHILL (DEAS OF THIS MAN FOBLERI? GNE MAN CANNOT DESIGN FOR THE MASSES. |WANT AHOME, NOTA HOLE s AZeis, ELECTRICFORTRESS | t} dis a ara {}i | < BITE EPe 1S4 F¥ing4 ‘ vu Wwe WHADOTYouMEAN7—n “YOU WAUNA GO OUTSIBE! ———— SS NOVANOAH1~FLOATINGCITYFae40,000péopus! ne SOLERIS HUMAN ANTHEADS INA CONCRETE MONSTER..... WE WANT DECEAT-HOUSING” —ONEOFTHE‘BaitetcoRARMGeSAT'AHeese CONFERENCE0KLOSPYGELES,SERT:97Z. PUTUUe _ Mein GPO microwave system. The chain of concerts touters | PES8sabotagc:-preotlinkbetweenthemeprcitanidiesevside,ntly 4hy| Lj MONUMENTAL MANIFESTATION OF AN IAAPOSED IDEOLOGY tntended‘to governmentcommanicationsdaring atimeof civildisturbance.Therest thesystenservespienedeNariel of othereeItiseenshoesseveralnewlybuiltBB2CTV sd transmn iteame intentedSerdve,£necnssasamircryou,sve Hy APPENDIX CHAPTER 7=FOR EXAMPLE a)Architects ac»pted the statutory schocls'requirement of a 2% ‘aylight factcr tc office block design where it attained an effectively statutory status-a"rule of thumb"grounced not in practical experience but in the arbitrary impositions of rule=- makerSe Hout Tar BeBe ' 1Py AAS b)The large size of windows that the enforcement of the 2% Caylight factor procuced,meant that kics sitting near the wincows sufferec unculy from the glare of the sun,to such an extent that it caused permanent damage to their cyesight.This was made worse by opticiens(cpcrating within their own myopic specialism)giving the kics glasses to counteract their cye= sight problem,without realising that it was artificially incuce’,se thoir cyes never recovered. | «€.amstake ~ is should have Toah acae ae°heeinFOREXAMPLE Screws Let The Sunshine In Without Question The overall size of such buildings is determined by plot ratios which define the amount of floor space that can be provided ona site of a given area, for instance, 'Development Permits! are required for offices over 10,000 square feet. Colonel R. Seiffort has been an architect much in demand for office block designing, not because his clients think hig buildings are master-pieces of sculptural expressionism, but because Sieffort is famed for his knowledge of the various regulations controlling office block development (particularly in Central London). Sieffort is thus able to help screw the maximum return (profit) from a building by getting more Square footage of floor space on a site than anyone else. He epitom - ises the role of 'architect' in one of the most blatantly exploitive areas of operation in our exploitive society. Indeed, the infamous Centre Point development in Central London , a Sieffort creation, has become a totem » 4 symbol for that exploitive process of ! devel- opment for profit!: "on Friday January 18th at 5, 30pm., Centre Point, the 34 storey office block in Central London which had been empty since it was built 10 years ago, was taken over by 100 demonstrators in a protest against the scandal of property speculation.... 'We have occupied Centre Point,' said the squatters press statement, ‘because it has become the concrete symbol of everything that is , rotten in our unequal society. It insults the humanity and dignity of the homeless. It exposes the hypocracy of politicians who profess to care, but refuse to act." (14) The general form of school buildings that has evolved over the past few decades in the U.K. has been partly the result of educational theory with its expression in the ‘Open-Plan vs. Class Room! debate, and not least because of the need to comply with equally theoretically derived arbitrary regu.ations governing 'daylight factors' and hence window size and room depth as per the above office block examples. The windows in these buildings (offices and schools), in order to produce the deepest possible plan forms, have been huge floor to ceiling walls of glass which have aggravated the problem of heating and cooling the buildings, due to the well documented '! green house effect.' When the sun shines hot its very hot, and when its cold, its freezing, (see appendix). Only a society which accepted, unequivocally, the application of standard solutions to dituations with a multitude of possible responses (the school) , only a society which placed its faith in anonymous bureau cratic panaceas (arbitrary minimum'daylight factors! )for all events when the reality is an ever-changing sky and people of intelligence and feeling ( neither of which can be considered the preserve of bureaucrats!) well able to deal with each situation as a unique and worthwhile case, only such a society could mass produce such inadequate and unimaginative buildings as we are now well used to. The teachers, parents and pupils will know far better what is required of a school building than all the bureaucrats in Whitehall, or in the various ‘councils! of the land. 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Title A name given to the resource Miscellaneous Subject The topic of the resource Miscellaneous issues 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 1976-1980 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 Buildings & People Subject The topic of the resource Essay Welsh School of Architecture Cardiff Description An account of the resource summa Sr [il](ATHEME)|)1!1) | ‘Ss A e “1,WhoMegseeArchdeshageOFASocietyPelle )| Hs Social Otucturs 7 | ‘.fi)| Al pete iWy fm SOCIAL STRUCTURE. OF MODERN BRITAIN ESSAY WELSH SCHOOL OF ARCH MTECTORE /UC. \ CARDIFE# UANURRY ISTS {Lerretree 1er rm| i ORE AIY} a YA si <LUY VNu Pe LA then tyGinulSAL ie ard, veerely dei Ds ALMA in the LA ALEK 46 dA jase ‘i g fu 9 DAG u eR rai Gras % New, "Wimborne (7-1-1 pif *Lae rf Hy INIAIe a 9 t > ras DUILDII UO & FLUMoles (oR WHY DONT We Brow 1-ALL up? ) | CONTENTS1 ONTENTS~ ART ONE CIDE SLES iTS o INITNEY PICTLAR RED ID & baVULA CHAPTER TITLE |PEOPLE MAKE SOCIETY *RAGS & RICHES *IMPOSITION, MANIFESTATION & TRANSCENDENCE ©ie OFGRIT ° LIBERATION VS. SUBJUGATION ea NING BRIEFLY DONE WHAT° FORWARD (?) PAGE NOS. 43RAAEGSDN ¢ SSEMANTICS VS. DIALEA S SoEKPERTISE VS, ABILITY ©WASTED LIVES *DATA RETRIEVAL & MEGALOMANIA °TOOLS OF REPRESSION © BRINGING ITALL BACK HOM= SIT BA CK &ENJOY Tua COMMERCIAL © CONSUMPTION KILLS 6RED FERRINGS & BLIND ALLEYS "lTAW & CRDER. © MYTH & PURPOSE © SCHIZOPHRENIA ©COMMUNICATION BREAKDAKIN °CATCH ME LE YOU CAN I TH W MID E L DLE LE ¥ MA 2PEOPLE MAKE BUILDING ®MORE OR LESS AUTOMATICALL4Y4. °THE SILENT UWt{NESS °CITIES & DOORKNOBS = SPLiTS ® BACK ON THE STREETS AGAIN ©(ExpLEWES DELETED) © RATS! ee ~MASS HOUSING 8 MASS HfiOUSINGY (THE BUILDINGS RISG AS THE PEOPLE Fat) °NUTS &at OLS eStefSi Bs2BIERYONS ®UGIY AEADS & Bic °ee © CRACKED ® CRANKS IN THE MEANTIAG © PO(SON POWER eTHE FUNERAL M ARCHES ON ©LAYMEN LOSE ; © MAKING LiGHT OF ITALL ILLUSTRATION ~eveevmesTesane 7FOR EXAMPLE Agee FoRALL= ®PEDESTRIAN GRCONSUMER PON A LIGHTER ©SCREWS © LET THE SUNSHING © WITHOUT QUESTION °WRR& WAT ©TREING STOCK ® THE DISEASE © NIGHTMARES & WERPONS TAKES HOLD NOTE... IN \OCAUGHT ON ENDLESS CARTWHEELS OF INSANITY s ILLUSTRATI OM ~ MOBILE SOCIETY & HIERARCHITECIURE 37 IHIERARCH NECTURE 3 THE MOBILE SOCIETY a THE GODS OF PROGRESS @ VAL AD JAM LS GOD EFENCE ILLUSISUQB ON “~CARTOON &PYRAMID e bhas \ f% (LLUSTRS ATION ~ LIBRA, Vp) p Fp LrS 1% & AS ES, LA LS lfN 2.32 3 LF oe BIBL [? r=)fee=fepA®, »¢: Ghcame ¢ PAGENOS. éyf f “ph \ f4UPbeiPENF,i é UlLE USTRIS ATION ~ FUTURES & ELECTRIC FORTRESS CIRCUMSCRIBED SOULS A\WIHEDE TNO We GO EN AA |EDE S J VWIiILKEL DU V he Lit AVA TiLK 6 2WHILE THERE >(SDEATH... © ANARCHISM IS THE ONLY POSS(BLE RESPONSES =iqtiheAVvi~—UNe usdde, 1JtpuUbaS}Vis +1 LMYTH AS| iLi © ELECTRIC FORTRESS YEFFDENICE RE RxLEUINCIG 023 a hieds Underunets ada. » (les Li bly GRPceA buikders Chics, Ss )s Buckenunat Lek prepes aly fer Lardemn, fWY, t = ae 4 DAC Viiagteties by Le (Crburiel Ail mw yor yey { zee Qrblat from ERE oe Mh} ProvLeague Uiddmenws dters Buminghaen aJ i 4 ‘ , Pood . (} 4 a >, A. UWE AINE —F ins WLGtivecak Us! hed Doves .0. 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Fre SO THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTHALL. COMPETITION WAS WON BY A PYRAMIL.../ WONDER WHAT OTHER ANCig Tp ARCHITECTURAL FORMS Couch GE AMP TES To MODERA USASE ? STONEHENGE ESter¢ 1Grinding Local Council This ancient form was Used to Symbelise how one } Sectioonfthe Commumity isSacrificed for the rest, i 7 fncies dail one STATESEMBASSY,Santiago. Despite its rotting foundations this edifice yis skill Standing —thon leaning badly. OLIVOILL] BUILDING, Evroville One of the many triumphant monumeats erecked by this {International Foodstults Expire inevery Buroptan city. T DEDDENBURY County HALL. ThE inspiration for this building came fom a Pedieval CASH =coping weil witl Khe new problems oF Steurity and Particinrtion threats. FOOTBALL ASSocIATION HEARKQUARTERS . THIS design takes its fonn Appropriately i Enowah from an ancieutr MaysSoléum. The blact- i and white plastic dome was OF HiNdI4 Mast to light up.! ote eele \ 4 “wg of rl Ges | T 7 maf) PROPOSED NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNTY HALL Sa THE ENEMY BUILDS WITHIN US im "WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM (SSLAVERY IGNORPNICE ts STRENGTH" 7 ATH ISREALITY beSheMail ofTrut—uhresvertgly ifercat-fromay otherctyéctn. 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Wher fe Tes Mteindo & dhuevemenks UN. mechanrsalcen es & pap /un the puldan, machiré,, ond of mens: lEdactog'cal electronic uswardey un Ie vdustral machine, (Neehereseesiatelieleceenaenutdrey—ndurtrcah2 conpler. cloak secrecy ,the resultis the masedieme mantestalien of car AGUNG uasariti ds huneagley praciteal i SheresutkisMieCeti Sate. ats CIR GUNISCRIBEDESOUIS MWe (LAN 6T UsoMAN. OY- Gp-of- che -street us fut nomally aurue of tke awwATedscaineeAeeeresetahonuencruy physical HMriere, athe Nan coca wudble oulpas, b — Cucumsertbes He enti exifence & each and even soul onthe lebe, Ee drbematcanalley jie censidates he nerve ayer of the Jrgges® Ura 1: Ss : ea oe : ah)oe septs Macdue ofaltone, inpeceGne babe camtes eledowe z AeHe masses through Ui costtales an immense nekof power connecting Rey qovernmes— atures ,dnd wlémaslly in Griturn, U udeowtlSrsthat‘order’canbe“nauttinedtsTheLekofAoudk, unec& and cuuren he enen & urthins and dc is the qovernmes Cy and os one usihe woman hay Ada. , ‘Sb hard ke fight aA nen whe Ads oulpcste 7 gor Nead. ns :,aa SOLERI'S HUMAN —V} CITY CENTRE PUBLIC a =] ~~ - Con- \* a3 ¢—_ ONS 6tA Um QOro TAY > £ CA |hh sO inita : ao>i —~ y* Nes LN A\ €aeeimoe ed ANTHEAPS vo VERT CAL TAKE-OFF AUR ever” Ti a WHAT RRE THESE AN HIL (DEASOFTHIS MAN) POBLERI? ONE MAN CANNOT DESIGN For THE MASSES. |WANT AHOME, NOTA HOLE of WORLD ClT Vater Dexésals, baren) The surviving cify (below) as a complex of moying units connecting tunnel-linked towers embracing compactly a “.arter of a million people housed, fed, transported, working and entertained in a controlled environment. Cars are significantly absent, conveyor-belt seats taking care of movement between units. This vision of what could be is a machine for living linked with a supply of energy from a network of nuclear reactor islands for which plans have already been developed by concerned experts -NOVANOAH 1~FL0AmINGCITYFor40,000peorte! — MONUMENTA! MANIFESTATION OFAN IMPOSED IDEOLOGY IN A CONCRETE MONSTER... WE WANT DECENT HOUSING " — OMe oF THE ‘BARRORANNERS’ ATA HOUSING CONFEREKE (N 125 ANGELC ,SEPT: 1972. /IMHATDOYouMEAN2— 3 "YOU WANNA Go outside! _ Main GPO microwave system. The chain of concrete touxss| GIVES asabotase- proof link between the mapr cities, and isevidently intended -to safeguard government communicaticns during 6time civil disturbance. The rest Fite system serves radar anda Varjegy of other sites, [t is interesting how several newly built BBC A2TY transmitters seem to bei 4 Serve, (E neccesarf, as microwave | relay stafions. 2 ae : ; Lite byAlteMhe-AdworkolldieotsNeossariakformsnewmodes3 WHILE (HERE (S DEATH.... ANARCHISM LS THE ONC POSSIBLE IPGSPONSE, The movement is trily decatolit, the altemalire soridy has as balances, onsrules,26 huildsanyrhceandevenyuthereia mynad-fomyand chaguines;eefenetmanyAuchcomununtiedbukherwegourond Lite.(fiadaGtfifh,dups_redrug)is-fectirgsublleardpervarice untlucrce on Lhe petential mytics ,dredmes, romantics, hecctics, Arep-ould, revelutionanes and confured Aculy eralleusing in Hie que ound freces te the dincsaut nods. When these ana, Gru oltemplh aka neo uml marifes® theirs’ in urlding They abusasys produce asiltoy )SUrpasnd tmag nahi and. duynan gedled (esponsecd de putting roots cverthedds iene Clie te he wort orlecof weucty we cre fous surbrugele te —~ hameuters, hoot clowning vindictive, dull )Kepetlaie and utter, inwman,. She members of sdccesfuk communkies core ; nie nd wredhases, A and ambdlign care rangers tA iia Min ges dand ~ Spud as TheJNhascelsséemMEculeoutdestinyArtutileMeisedeath LtéeUshope.Lhedecaytssleadyende,r tedlay)aticaethedoum qruseyael ,al Le Uscks ard monotiis ure de tembetmes. dhe.megavrtes CannceAwe,LSbel;isnewsusaslingua}LiensJaofcrnukliet~ Lheohtsrancing ,adthemoileNexrd Nees withhe unberrable usegikcf 4 -Compressed dig ~te dinesautsae onTheataces.hontea ere ee a6Bah eclilin may tun Adtealifier couse, or will thresh and {ack ia pan olestisying exer lland) areuad Then as they fall te ther dedtK and led heaianhetla ofdernalrygor=ort WHERE DO WE GO FROMHERE ? I3 ff<adlance ell tthe Ux pace: Far Mhah, use muse Prepac cutelues Lastly. wfG: Comet —, oe Slarratien and nusen) dor She monster means life ard pleat forthe uorths peoples, gure eta Ake slarralicn and muser of mas& of the ustds peoplesnoward a.the pas has<rsutedThe dade drdhconter of;Li-morbel Vhsupland,Hidrevstilien,hottequaandts Conusd Aetherand meving Aaszns Gots obfutire uttere— Aumanty is returning tis ze.and Te etcthK isbend healed, hey The unpessble uwperscble w 5 as uk and dis UK. fc Ses “i <r of) L subsite : oe Adil,fiedAy f4 aAWG .e/,=arealeA CELL KPT ENE- of“nef 2 ‘yii.fa./ Q LifewanbuldirgWDAlOLrE, deShepresenshitMieMeseedsofthehutare,(herthe Ca Hanes EN nel the temps ond 4 kes we woven, thee+ ae A i), ‘ “AA ee a dine uhenr Me lapesy of Ae ib 4brond ond. peat ,when Hhe— :i intheusbaroundyonuntanytingLeis!OEhanteceheicebok mareofourlfe efereuaandBee saLeefettheperedsLebeam as ucll ad a greak-deal They hase ¢te ansuet fof- (ask Goodman ts ameng® mare ust Aauseartiulated apith & cur time: Menspifolrpatriadg.oalsLzy canelbelieix,liyourd we oheenaléd. Cneer cnliaerk Lhee cscess Urbanitasten Conditonh, APE reel auliorly,forilcsneCanly irmareh LoK. Alaaseon ile : Aelia a he onlyfowble esponoe— 927 ~ Le only poss ble Espotre ~ reper ,vuinay speculslecn “on,crackRea declelxentes ,arA ignoruvce— vodiHfatesalofTrileoplimatce.,taybalancedees. and Ke wold & headed Muar <ciytick disaslel, Under Le ye 4. TES aliTA *%'iy IE was ourhope to combine the efficient andEcologically sound principles of Communism withthe«citingandunpredictableforcesofcreative,anarchy. re We wanted itbath ways . fierce individuality within atight communistic, tribsl-frameuoce. Que experience £0-£3r has proven that the tuo ideclogies are notneccessarily exclusive-... ee * aHii Haan AAAhe oNa & r - cs Me cellent (Ml Vheltibyx” LaelKbp (Et) frome 4c . 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Title A name given to the resource Miscellaneous Subject The topic of the resource Miscellaneous issues 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 1976-1980 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 Highbury Hopes Subject The topic of the resource A contribution to Islington Borough Plan by Highbury Plan Group (chair John Allan) Description An account of the resource A CONTRIBUTION TO ISLINGTON BOROUGH PLAN BY THE HIGHBURY PLAN GROUP cAcleek! ns ee aoe AacQlk Ss, cee :=a SS Orca OV oeQ ¢ Miele ai uw Vousi: Carer’ “ TeaeLsore aptGoesPlQ,.Ce Geecats Orr Hw thresh Ce Wentay Veen On a Cac PolipOeOSG SenteWOON|Ofte A Ang & 4G ups Ole ae Ree Pre a frertink & & Abbr. CREANlotrel ts.foun BEN Bell; / L200 ,a& CAO Br 9 AAG, ikAe — ThyOven. EO DA uk&yeuneAO 7 AOGnolaefeNSUCWOOe W&Sh.& Connsctni, fate. A hor” el a ADP, Crore, Le ch7le BO5Q,, Are ROKR AcarlOte Ur Andantino Nau a4 7 Prsfemsrok 4 PoxRepoOE)OEBececeAee Ochs, a @ (drfrraun.al Cerarearea.(7!)Qe Flog A, oe GO C@@Aava Prynin HAg ek Crk, plesGsCESnDPsenagers Pua hint. =Ca a ANR f Wo AL Oo uw & LONG A)ph& Ru A020 OCR ACD, EUROS(QUE ES ep. ; : Pi Cxas 3 Chew Bak oe Ai J COLL b y Can AQ Goul@ vy Zassyal NDI RO Ley) 718 Ay 2 \Pxs S Qe HR ARE BD overt ee i ay wy) Ose hing, Xo Occ G R064,aoGN sQaAxpLa5 —————EE HIGHBURY HOPES Proposals For Progress A contribution to the Islington Borough Plan by the Highbury Plan Group. June 1977 SEER HIGHBURY HOPES : PROPOSALS FOR PROGRESS A contribution to the Islington Plan by The Highbury Plan Group. ONE: TWO: 2.1 2. THREE: Sind 3.2 FOUR: 4.1 -2 PART FIVE: Letter of Submission to The Borough Planning Officer. Introduction How this Report came to be written; and why. A pennyworth of participation; Highbury's first impressions. Summary of Aims and Means Aims: Main Conclusion and Proposals. Means: Journey to the Unknown. Main Report What is Highbury like now? Housing in Highbury. The Disadvantaged. Transportation in Highbury. Shopping in Highbury. Schools in Highbury. The Environment in Highbury. Appendix I : List of groups and numbers who participated in Highbury District Meetings. Appendix II: Map of the Highbury Plan Area. K.G. Blythe, Esq., The Borough Planning Officer, London Borough of Islington, Plan Department, 227 - 229 Essex Road, London N1 3PW Dear Sir, Islington Plan, Highbury District Meetings As Chairman of the~Highbury Plan Group I have pleasure in enclosing a copy of our report: "Highbury Hopes ....proposals for progress." In so doing we trust we have brought the initial discussion Stage of the participation exercise to a fair conclusion, and hope that the report may contribute usefully to the Borough Plan as a whole. I should like to emphasise that the work of preparing "Highbury Hopes" has been undertaken by numerous individuals and sub- groups, and so, within the limits indicated in Appendix I, can claim to be at least reasonably representative of the area. You should also note that although this formal submission is to the Borough Planning Officer, the Report will be circulated widely among Councillors, the local press and other interested parties. We regard this submission as only a beginning, and renew our challenge to the Council as a whole to trust its nerve and proceed from these hesitant first steps towards a state of real popular participation. Yours faithfully, \ASARS John S. Allan Chairman, Highbury Plan G: Pp The Highbury Plan Group, 220 Blackstock Road, Islington, London N4. 29th June 1977 Te . ere ‘ | ee HIGHBURY HOP! INTRODUCTIO! How Report came to be written, and why The effect on our Group, when early in 1976 the Chairman of Planning Committee announced the need for our extinction, was to continue our task, and attempt, so far as possible, to bring the business of the first phase to some honourable conclusion. We have more to say later on sharing information, but one of the factors contributing Significantly to our understanding of Highbury was the Highbury District Study - a long report prepared by the Planning Department in the early 1970's but shelved before any action was taken. |E In setting about this task the Council decided the only valid method was to proceed in close conjunction with the people of Islington. The Highbury Plan Group (H.P.G.) is one of the groups that came into being inthis way. With the exception of the H.P.G. all the Area Meetings folded up after the second or third occasion. Some only lasted one meeting. In mid 1975 Islington Council embarked on the ambitious Scheme of formulating the Borough Plan. This was to be a coherent strategy for development over the next ten years. The Highbury Plan Group elected its own Chairman and Secretary at the second meeting and carried on for over a year. We had a dozen or so full meetings, with further smaller discussions continuing thereafter between those involved in finalising this Report. Participation with the public was to take several forms: the production of Fact Packs to raise the level of knowledge; Survey Questionnaires to canvassviews in selected areas; the use of "Focus", the Council newspaper, as a questionnaire; and the arrangement of District Meetings to d uss the issues at greater length with groups in the Community. The Borough was divided for this purpose into seven areas. Despite our earnest belief to the contrary, it presently became clear that the Council had already decided how much participation would take place and how long it would last. = The data in this document, which was kindly made available for our studies, has enabled this Report to be geared more specifically to Highbury than would have been possible by Simply referring to the Fact Packs. Statistics, unless otherwise Stated, have generally been taken from this study. This Departmental study, plus the results of the group's discussions over its period of meeting, plus various other data emerging from the Plan exercise generally, make up the background of this present Report It is again emphasised that the work — particularly that of analysing the Highbury District Study - was shared by many people. Lastly, this Report does not represent the only fruits of the Highbury Plan Group. (The real benefit, probably unquantifiable, is the raised consciousness and increased contact of those taking part.) However, when the Council announced its withdrawal of Officers from our discussions and also of help in arranging our meeting places - it became clear that we were ourselves ‘homeless’ and had better find our own place. This partly accounts for the uneven coverage of different topics, and the fact that some issues, which are given 'ChoicesPapers' in the Council's second stage are not given separate sections here. Thus, while “Highbury Hopes" will supplement the Choices Papers Response, we trust it will also make a contribution of a different order. Membe: of the Highbury Plan Group along with people from various other local associations became involved in the struggle to retain the modest but pleasing terrace of Georgian houses in Blackstock Road threatened with C.P.O. and demolition. One of these, number 220, is now our base, and we have endeavoured to promote its use as an 'Environment Shop' such as we propose in Part 3.2.4, by mounting maps of the area and details of possible changes, etc. All are welcome to visit ttre 2 2.5 A Pennyworth of Participation: Highbury's first impressions. The question thus arises - if officer activity is inadequately monitored by those whose seats depend on it - who is to be held accountable? ; Participation about power. Sharing information is sharing pov - A council that embarks on such a programme unaware of its implications, does so at its peril. Put simply, the need for participation grows out of two main factors. Firstly the desire of Councils to procure a real mandate for their policies. With the increasing volume and complexity of particularly Metropolitan Councils' affairs it has become clear that a twice per decade crossed ballot paper is a quite inadequate level of involvement of people in their local government. The need for participation originates at the ‘front entrance’ of the Town Hall - from the desire, more or less mutual, of electors and elected to keep closer to each other. Despite all the flag-waving and breast-beating of the last 10 years,participation - that is real power sharing - in environmental politics has hardly begun. It seems that if real progress is not achieved soon the game will turn sour; Councils (like Islington) will wonder 'what else to do', and the people (the supposed beneficiaries of the whole exercise) will return to resentful acquiescence, their initial Scepticism confirmed. Secondly there is a growing awareness among people themselves that the Council - whether of their own party or not cannot reliably be left to get on with its 'own' business. Many have discovered this the hard way - by being displaced from their homes, or unable to find adequate schooling for their children, or if elderly, unable to meet others of their age for any social contact etc., etc. The majority of disaffected ratepayers simply read the papers and keep their eyes open — and witness all manner of financial blunders presided over by the Council, and paid for by themselves. The main business of participation however must take place through the 'rear entrance' of the Town Hall — where the officers come in. For it is precisely the size, the statutory powers and the technical sophistication of centralized planning departments which has created the sort of officer autonomy that so reduces the capacity for effective member scrutiny and control. The answer is that only by much closer liaison between local people and the Council's officers can the gap be bridged. It follows that for this process to actually cut ice - the results must be different from the outcome if no participation took place. Hence the danger of embarking frivolously on the participation bandwagon. Working people have learnt their history too well to lose their instinctive suspicion for the 'benign' council officer, and if, so soon after the "new beginning", groups of genuine if disorientated participants are informed that they are becoming over-diligent the old crust of cynical disinterest is quick to reset The residual question that the Council - members and officers - must ask itself is: Are the consequences of real participation - a journey to the unknown - more to be feared than the cumulative consequences of denying it? The question is now squarely on Islington's Agenda - and the time for answering it is running out. oe sea HIGHBURY HOPES PART THREE SUMMARY OF AIMS & MEANS 3.1 Aims: Main Conclusions and Propos In the H.P.G. Chairman's interim report to the Council of 7th January 1976 appeared the words - “in planning, more than in any other discipline, the goals one sets are in the event transformed or reinforced by the methods used to achieve them." To practise what we preached, this section is arranged in two parts: the first summarizes those opinions we have gathered which, in effect, form our current aims. The second part, recognizing the way in which these will change, either in outline or detail over a period of time, Suggests methods of continuing the participation process to monitor whether we are still on target - and enable us to change direction if necessary. Highbury is an established area which does not need large scale change. It consists of a number of geographical 'cells' or villages which have their own communities, and would lend themselves to individual tailor-made improvements. Theoretically there are more families than homes for them but in fact if all the empty houses were filled and the derelict land, especially railway land, exploited, the problem would almost vanish. Large scale redevelopment in Highbury is unnecessary and irrelevant. Forms of housing and types of tenure should be becoming more, not less, diverse. The more monolithic the housing stock the greater the problem of "exceptions' - and diversity is the essence of successful housing policy. The Council should not confuse their obligation to progress towards a well-housed population with the desire to supervise the whole operation. The most needed (and feasible) immediate action is on empty houses, most of which are publicly owned. There should be as much variety of control of this housing as possible, while council tenants, who wish to do so, should be encouraged to manage their own estates. A major drive to stimulate 'self-help' by private landlords is urgently needed to provide basic amenities in otherwise structurally sound properties. Two age groups, the under 5's and the elderly are getting a bad deal - both in overall terms and in comparison to the rest of the Borough. Highbury's claim for priority treatment is reinforced by the population structure. The right places for social services are centres in the local community which can involve both the Council and local organisations. There is no other effective way to find and help the people who really need help. Too many commuters pass through or park in residential streets. The answer is not to widen the main roads as car numberswill expand to fill the available space. Intelligent inh iting of private car movement must be coordinated with improved public transport services. The Blackstock Road accident blackspot could be eliminated cheaply within weeks by adopting our proposals. Since only one-third of Highbury residents aré car owners, greater emphas must be placed on pedestrian safety, a greater proportion of Highbury traffic comprising "strangers' to the district. The patronizing belief held by architects and planners, that other mortals only use their eyes for steering, must be debunked, and the Council meet its obligations to maintain the dignity and cleanliness of public areas. Outside the well publicized Conservation Areas the Council Should develop small derelict areas as gardens and sitting Out spaces. Highbury has a rich variety of small shops which planners must resist the temptation to "tidy away". With careful help and encouragement this shopping structure Suits very well the predominantly pedestrian and/or elderly shopper. Grandiose centres such as Wood Green would benefit only those who can use Wood Green already. Rather the 'High Street’ character of Blackstock Road and Highbury Barn should be reinforced by partial pedestrianization. There are plenty of schools in Highbury but they are inadequately used outside school hours. It would make more sense to bring this spare capacity into constructive use, than devote scarce resources to new building projects. The decline in overall pupil numbers should be used as an opportunity to reduce average class sizes and improve facilities. The immediate target should be maximum class size: 30 and two form entry. Even when this is achieved it will not necessarily be time to close down schools on the basis of dubious ILEA forecasts. More generally we need trees especially in North Highbury. Hundreds of 'em. Lastly, the Highbury Plan Group is disappointed with the recent designation of Housing Action Areas. Firstly the Group were denied any knowledge of the forthcoming prog- ramme - despite the obvious relevance this would have had to our discussions. Secondly the Finsbury Park Triangle HAA, one of the key areas in Highbury, was rightly desig- nated top priority but then demoted to last in the "adjusted" list apparently to avoid some official embarrassment. MEANS, JOURNEY TO THE UNKNOWN 3.2 It is not possible to know in detail either the future requirements of specific areas of the resources available to meet them. The most ambitious plans may look foolish at a stroke, if the Arab Emirates change the price of Galil, After deciding broadly what matters and what doesn't, we must set up procedures whereby specific policies can be formulated as part of an ongoing process. Planning departments should decant into local branch offices — ngt unlike Social Services Area Teams - where teams of about 5 officers can work directly with area groups. This would help to lessen the impenetrable ‘them'/'us' image foremost in people's mind when they think of planners. Planners and other servicing departments for their part would begin to work with people instead of data. If officers however fail to meet their direct obligations to communities, this decanting will simply be regarded as a more effective form of spying. Standing Advisory Committees of teachers and governers, parents and children, and ILEA officers should be encouraged to establish regular programmes of consultation to establish schooling priorities in detail Active encouragement must be given to form Committees of residents to liaise with the Council's area teams. Half- hearted attempts to do so have tended to make some existing community groups cynical and suspicious. Street Committees should be formed similar to HAA Joint Advisory Committees before any work is contemplated in a specific area. Raising people's expectations and planning knowledge could be assisted by setting up neighbourhood ‘Environment Shops' where local planning matters and proposals may be Studied and discussed. This might be combined with 3.2.1 so long as these centres did not just become branch offices of the Planning Department. 220 Blackstock Road, the rehabilitation of which has been undertaken by several groups and individuals (including members of the Highbury Plan Group) is a first step in this direction. Associations of shop owners and traders should be convened to formulate shopping street policies, and benefit from the effects of strength in numbers. Most of Highbury's shops are in distinct concentrations. We support the idea of an Industrial Aid Bureau to liaise between the Council and the local business community. To be successful however people must know of its existence and how it can help them. afey 5 a 5 % “ fet Ina continuing period of economic stringency, which allows politicians to defer their dreams and hence their bilities, short-term solutions have a vital role. wa Sure such as the Job Creation Programme , correctly used, can tackle several problems simultaneously. combats the type of unemp and also suits some of the immediate tasks we have proposed in connection with environmental improvements, etc. These proposals all aim to give identity and structure to groups of people that already exist but have no incentive to meet because the Council holds out little encouragement and its officers defend their own knowledge. If real participation ever develops the Council must bite the bullet and realise that they will be unable to completely control it. While parti ipation remains manageable by the Council it Can never become real ® HIGHBURY HOPES : PART FOUR MAIN REPORT What is Highbury like now? Highbury, like most of central London, has experienced a loss of population over the last decade, but at half the rate of Islington as a whole. There were 340 thousand living in Highbury in 1891, and by 1981 there are expected to be 32 thousand - roughly the same as in 1828. These astounding statistics have been a major influence on Highbury. The major features of Highbury are: a) Highbury Fields: a splendid urban park surrounded by fine terraces and providing much needed recreation facilities. Other green spaces include Highbury New Park and Newington Green, both of which are designated conservation areas. Finsbury Park Station: an important transport interchange with bus, rail and tube facilities used by a population much larger and more dispersed than Highbury's. Arsenal Football Stadium. A club of national importance, again attracting many thousands of "outsiders' and imposing occasional irritation to nearby residents, but benefittinglocal trade. Blackstock Road/Highbury Park: from Finsbury Park to the Barn is Highbury's local High Street offering an excellent range of shops - and, with its turns and gradients, having a definite character and identity. There is one principal zoned area of industry - namely Queensland Road and Ashburton Grove, which also includes the major Borough Cleansing Department establishment. This area merges with the vast acreage of railway land - a significant proportion of which is probably underexploited. |f | In this section we look at the ex sting tuation in Highbury in general terms, before studying particular topics in more depth. The Group accepted the Planning Department's boundaries of the area. These are, ofcourse, to an extent arbitrary but may be defined as the district enclosed by the Kings Cross and North London railway lines on the west and th, Holloway Road on the south west and the Hackney / Islington boundary on the north east; an area of approx— imately 300 acres. P ‘ a Structure and character : the area is a patchwork of smaller segments - distinct urban villages — some with outstanding architectural qualities, like the Fields, but otherwise mainly consistent and comfortable What a few years ago would have been viewed in disfavour — namely the absence of much comprehensive redevelopment - may now be counted as a blessing. The predominant land use is residential with minor industry well absorbed into the general grain. o we Physically the most obvious differentiation is between the southern sector with its mature trees and greenery and the "Finsbury Park triangle" area which could well have the lowest tree count of any area in Inner London. e Most of the housing stock is Structurally sound, or easily made so, but in many cases lacking in what are now classed as basic amenities. The rate of decline of Highbury's population being half that for Islington generally has resulted in our area having an increasing share of the Borough's population. This is distributed relatively more in the very young (under 5's) and 30 - 35 age group. One-fifth of Highbury's population are children of school or pre-school age. Two-thirds are of working age (of which four-fifths actually have a job) and less than a fifth are retired. The national trend towards more and smaller households is reflected in Highbury, but the presence here of more than the average number of children, young adults and large families means that provision for the young is particularly necessary. The socio-economic pattern shows a relative rise in more affluent (e.g. professional or employer) groups against a reduction in services and unskilled labour. These trends are more exaggerated in Highbury than the Borough as a whole, and are doubtless the result of inward migration rather than mass upward social mobility. Eighty per cent of Highbury residents (1971 figure) are British born. 13 per cent are of Commonwealth origin and 7 per cent from elsewhere. This mix is average for the Borough, which is generally becoming more cosmopolitan, but shows that many immigrants are second generation or older. In 1971 it was estimated that one-fifth of the total housing stock in Highbury was either derelict or vacant. If the Council truly wished to dent the housing problem in Highbury it need look no further than this. Of the other various options open to the Council (or the G.L.C.) to tackle Highbury's housing problems, redevelop- ment appears singularly inappropriate. It is too expensive, takes too long, adds to the wrong tenure section and would involve demolishing property not unsound enough to justify demolition. It is also unlikely to produce a net housing gain. Development of railway and other unexploited land may deserve serious study but the main impact, apart from restoring the empty houses to full use, must be made in improving or stimulating others to improve existing stock mainly in the private unfurnished sector. Short life use of existing unused property must be consid— ered a serious possibility if its owners - public or private continue to acquiesce in its dereliction. The Council should not feel inhibited about permitting genuine Squatters to occupy and improve unoccupied dwellings particularly if owners are persistently obstinate in improving them. Where the Council itself is the n HIGHBURY HOPES : PART FOUR _ sa The statistics quoted below from the Highbury District Study give as good an insight as any into the housing problems of Highbury. The area population (1971) was about 34,000 and the number of households just over 13,400. This gave an average household size of .2.3 persons - a Significant drop from 2.7 in 1961. The broad pattern, typical of London generally, has been for owner-occupation to remain about constant, council tenancy and furnished accommodation to increase, but private unfurnished lettings to fall markedly. There are almost 3,000 fewer dwellings than households, a deficiency which is made up for by sharing. In 1971 12% of households were living at more than 1.5 persons per room - or, in other words statutory overcrowding. S than a quarter of the housing stock needs major repairs to extend its life by 15 years. A third of the tock, the majority of which is pre-1916, needs some improvement - usually in the form of additional ameniti Only half the total number of households have exclusive use of basic amenities - the other half representing mainly the private unfurnished sector. 4.2 Housing in Highbury In 1971 it was estimated that one-fifth of the total housing stock in Highbury was either derelict or vacant If the Council truly wished to dent the housing problem in Highbury it need look no further than this. Of the other various options open to the Council (or the G.L.C.) to tackle Highbury's housing problems, redevelop- ment appears singularly inappropriate. It is too expensive, takes too long, adds to the wrong tenure section and would involve demolishing property not unsound enough to justify demolition. It is also unlikely to produce a net housing gain. Development of railway and other unexploited land may deserve serious study but the main impact, apart from restoring the empty houses to full use, must be made in improving or stimulating others to improve existing stock mainly in the private unfurnished sector. Short life use of existing unused property must be consid- ered a serious possibility if its owners - public or private continue to acquiesce in its dereliction. The Council should not feel inhibited about permitting genuine Squatters to occupy and improve unoccupied dwellings particularly if owners are persistently obstinate in improving them. Where the Council itself is the n HIGH 'Y HOPES : PART FOUR The statistics quoted below from the Highbury District Study give as good an insight as any into the housing problems of Highbury. >area population (1971) was about 34,000 and the number of households just over 13,400. This gave an average household size of .2.3 persons - a Significant drop from 27 Lneloole SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE The broad pattern, typical of London generally, has been for owner-occupation to remain about constant, council tenancy and furnished accommodation to increase, but private unfurnished lettings to fall markedly. There are almost 3,000 fewer dwellings than households, a deficiency which is made up for by sharing. In 1971 12% of households were living at more than 1.5 persons per room - or, in other words statutory overcrowding. Less than a quarter of the housing stock needs major airs to extend its life by 15 years. A third of the stock, the majority of which is pre-1916, needs some improvement - usually in the form of additional amenities. Only half the total number of households have <clusive use of basic amenities - the other half representing mainly the private unfurnished sector. Conclusion: If it was more widely known by electors that a major Slice of their rates was devoted to depriving them of their homes there could be public disorder. = SUSE 5- J The only appropriate response to the housing problem in Highbury is a pluralist programme. No one answer and no one agency is the right solution. a the obdurate owner such an option at least provides accommodation which is after all the primary objective. In the U.K. as a whole each year only 2% is added to the housing stock, and we must look to what already exists for the 'new' supply. In other words rehabilitation and conversion give best value for money. Derelict property if all restored to use would cut homelessnes by one-fifth. Meanwhile, nine per cent of L.B.I. land is vacant. Occupier satisfaction is a more useful criterion of acceptability than Statutory definitions in a crisis and Saves needless expenditure on second priorities. The Council's major role may well be an indirect one in persuading, and ipporting financially if possible, other agencies including private individuals involved in providing accommodation. Improvement Grants must be less restrictive if the benfits of full take-up are to be gained. Before extending its direct involvement the Council should face the unpleasant fact that it is the agent principally responsible for the housing shortage. (Housing Fact Pack p.14 states that nearly } of rehousing in 1974 arose from decanting from areas of Council activity.) HIGHBURY HOPES PART This abominable word describes a familiar enough phenomenon : the very young and the very old, in other words the dependent sections of any community. These are not necessarily at a disadvantage, of course, only more vulnerable to it. If the demand for general social services is probably inexhaustible - the resources to meet it are certainly not. The question therefore arises how to identify those in need and deploy resources to best effect. The first group clearly in need is the pre-school age under 5's, and the population figures quoted earlier indicate an above average proportion for Highbury. Provision of services for the under 5's may be made as follows a) Nursery Schools - full or part-time, provided by the Education Authority or privately. (3 - 4 year olds.) b) Nursery classes attached to primary schools. ce) Primary Schools : admitting under 5's or the so-called "rising 5's". d) Day Nurseries : full-time child minding for children any age under 5. e) Child minders : registered or otherwise. 3) Play Groups : Council sponsored or voluntary. Such services generally benefit not only the children, by promoting educational and social development at a critical age, and offering an alternative (and in cases better) environment - but also their parents by enabling the mothers to take part or full-time work, make more social contacts in the community or give better attention to younger babies. The Government, the ILEA and LBI are all apparently in ? favour of improved provision for the under fives, but the situation in Highbury is not encouraging. In 1972 less than 200 out of over 1200 3/4 year olds were in pre-school education and only about 300 out of over 24 thousand 0 - 4 year olds were benefitting from any other provision. In Islington as a whole only 26% of the 0 - 4 age group are catered for, but in Highbury this figure falls to 19%, 5 6 The Disadvantaged a We clearly need priority treatment in this area, particularly since precisely those households where conditions are poor are more numerous in the young families sector. The elderly of Highbury are also especially badly off. Whilst Council can do little to influence national pensions, there is a shortage of P. day facilities, to which resources could be directed. There are 52 luncheon clubs in Islington, but Council officials were (at the time of enquiry) unable to name one in Highbury. A third area of concern is the maladjusted child or young person. All must recognise that the responsibilities arising must be shared equally, but many people in Highbury feel they are already carrying their fair share. Conclusions A major objective should be to provide more nursery education in Highbury - preferably in the form of nursery classes in existing primary schools, as this is most economical, or creches or special nursery schools. Currently the trend looks to be heading the opposite direction, with Elizabeth House risking closure for lack of funds. Day facilities for the elderly must be improved, with consideration to adopting suitable existing premises as well as building new centres. Until at least some progress has been made on these items there should be no more adolescents' hostels etc. in Highbury. The difficulties of making and sustaining contact with those in the two groups in need could be eased if environ— ment shops or centres such as 220 Blackstock Road are encouraged and fostered in other parts of the district. The Social Services department must be closely involved, but the contribution of which voluntary agencies are capable must be given full support. Transportation in Highbury Car parking is not a major problem in Highbury so far as residents are concerned as ownership is only about 30%. Incoming parkers cause difficulties however, especially in connection with Arsenal. The Council should give special priority rights to residents in Arsenal's "parking shadow" who endure this invasion week after week during the ever-lengthening 'season'. Finsbury Park Station - the area's main interchange- is a squa disgrace of which the Council, the G.L.C. and British Rail should be utterly ashamed. Highbury faces two basic problems of movement, the rush hour (affecting all modes of transport) and the concentration of traffic on particular roads. 2a is surrounded by major roads - Holloway, Seven Green Lanes, St. Pauls Road — but traversed by s Several minor roads, Gillespie Road, for y_ far too much through traffic, which is not generated locally. Intermediate size roads, such as Blackstock Road in turn carries too great a volume for its pedestrian/shopping character. Figures indicate rates of eleven thousand vehicles per day for both Green Lanes and Blackstock Road = when the former is suitable for such a volume, and the latter manifestly not. Drayton Park/Gillespie Road likewise carry up to two- thirds the volume of Holloway Road during rush hours, the latter being in effect a national trunk road. Because of these and similar overloadings of inappropriate roads Highbury has more than its share of accidents. In particular nearly half of all the di tricts vehicle/ pedestrian accidents occur along Blackstock Road/Highbury Park - and one-third of all the accidents on the same stretch of road. This is quite Simply because the character and use patterns generated by this road are quite incompatible with any "through route" function. The western zone of the district is quite well served by Tube lines, but public transport elsewhere is hampered both by the congestion described above, and the singularly tupid operating habits of London Transport whereby buses are dispatched in groups of 3 with hour-long intervals between. The North London Line is generally reckoned to be under- used but the British Rail services at Finsbury Park provide important links with the city centre. Conclusion All the authorities involved should combine to give Finsbury Park Station the mother and father of a facelift. Successful traffic management consists of mastering the problems of scale A 14 wheel lorry at 40 mph may be acceptable on par of Holloway Road, but it is not so on Blackstock Road. A stream of private cars at 20 mph may be acceptable in Green Lanes, but only doubtfully so at Highbury Barn. Through traffic will revert to its proper channels if the disincentives to go elsewhere are made strong enough. These can consist of additional traffic lights, culs-de Sac, pedestrian crossings, and "broad hints" such as planting, seating, changes of texture, etc. etc. (Think of Oxford Street 5 years ago — and now. ) Accident figures show that Blackstock Road carries too much traffic for its alignment and character. Traffic lights should be installed now at the Gillespie Road/ Mountgrove Road and Monsell Road/Brownswood Road crossings. Consideration should be given to pedestrianizing the section from these junctions or even Seven Sisters Road to Highbury Barn - i.e. the main shopping portion. On-street parking is not so awful really, and looks 0.K. if shaded by trees. It is als cheapest and allows drivers to get as near as possible to their destination - a desire nobody will ever succeed in changing. So any money now ear-marked for the nonsenseof off-street parking should be spent on trees to distract the eye from on-street parking. HIGHBURY HOPES : PART FOUR eeOL 4.5 Shopping in Highbury d) Highbury Barn 5.7% T.F.S. e) Newington Green 13% T.F.S. f) Drayton Park 8.3% T.F.S. 8) Highbury Corner 13% T.F.S. The 'cellular' village character of Highbury which has already been described in detail also characterises the shopping patterns of the area. The distribution of shopping facilities in Highbury is roughly as follows: a) Finsbury Park 35% total floor space (P19 3,) b) Blackstock Road 15% T.F.S. ce) Highbury Park 8% T.F.S. Although there are also many smaller concentrations of shops it can be seen that Finsbury Park/Blackstock Road /Highbury Barn - carrying nearly two-thirds of total floor space - acts as the "high street' for the area as a whole. The above inference is also Supported by the fact that 75% T.F.S. is given to food sales. J MOA This distribution suits the district's notably low car ownership level - since most (70%) shoppers walk to their local shops - and must therefore be preserved. The problem with shopping in Highbury is not the shops, which are numerous, friendly and traditional and offering wide choices, but the hazards and discomfort involved in using them. This leads straight back to traffic as discussed earlier. Conclu: The G.L.C. proposal that resources should be concentrated on strategic centres such as Wood Green would benefit only those already able to take advantage of such facilities. Running down one centre simply results in more car traffic to the others. The Blackstock Road high street must receive the main encouragement and improvements, with idicious face-lifts and rapid re-letting of premises fal ig vacant. 4 Also ethnic food requirements - a significant factor in Highbury - are better Satisfied in a structure of The existing patterns suit residents generally and especially the elderly, who can walk to nearby shops, receive personal service and purchase small quantities. numerous small shops of wide diversity. ey ————--—— arr HIGHBURY HOPES :PART FOUR a FOUR 4. 6 Schools in Highbury Secondary Education. Nearly 2} thousand Highbury children are of statutory secondary school age. There are three schools for them to go to in Highbury : Highbury Hill (490 Girls Grammar — 3 form entry), Highbury Grove (1250 Boys Comprehensive -— 8 form entry) and Shelburne Upper School (680 Girls Unselective - 5 form entry)’. Many children travel to schools outside the area. Conclusions The school population in Highbury is apparently declining, a trend the I.L.E.A. predicts will continue. Proposals The decline in numbers vill have least effect in Mildmay and North Highbury. 75% of Highbury's schools are provided by the Public Authorities, 16% and 9% being Roman Catholic or Church of England respectively. Infant and Primary Schools. There are eight such schools in Highbury of which five are County,one R.C. and two of C. of E. I.L.E.A. have Suggested that the County provision must be reduced by nearly half by 1981! There are not enough R.C. places however, and generally the schools, although well located in relation to demand, are near major roads causing hazards to children. Once again the I.L.E.A. expects a decline in demand — such that Highbury Grove would reduce its intake and the two girls' schools amalgamate. -| ————————E School buildings are too important a resource to be used only for direct education. They can be open outside school hours for children, and a variety of uses by voluntary groups, adult education. Such activities promote better use of equipment and facilities, as well as closer liaison between parents and teachers, home and school With school buildings usually open only seven hours a day, two-thirds of the year, the latent potential is enormous — and this must be explored before resources are allocated to brand new facilities. The Council must strongly resist any school closures. must be retained, while class sizes reduce, with the “community centre" function expanded to the maximum. Affording a second caretaker's Salary is cheaper than funding a new building. HIGHBURY HOPES : PART FOUR ————eeOUR 4 iG The Environment in Highbury The majority of Highbury's residents do not live in conservation areas however. From Aubert Park and Kelross Road northwards the area contains no public open space whatsoever, and north of Gillespie Road there are barely mord than a dozen trees in public places. one of the most treeless in the whole of London. This area has to be The sort of place in which you find yourself when you walk out of your front door exerts a major influence on the morale of a community. How does Highbury rate on this basis? The quality of environment depends on numerous interlinked factors, many of which have been mentioned already under separate headings Clearly the condition of housing, the streets and shopping areas and the volume of traffic passing through them have a major effect. The adoption of our proposals on these issues would greatly benefit the environment in general But other measures must be considered in a direct effort to improve the environment in Highbury and the mundane aspects of these should not disguise their importance. Islington's free skip scheme is an almost revolutionary measure deserving recognition at national level. Unfortunately, however, other refuse collection measures are less consistent. Is it really necessary for dustmen to leave half the garbage on the street after their wild passage? If they cannot be tamed (they almost certainly deserve better pay) then the only solution is to programme the street sweepers to follow immediately behind. A major percentage of visible public ground is tarmac or paving slabs. The Council has responsibilities to ensure that these areas are not only just safe, but maintained in decent condition. Builders, etc. must not be permitted to mix up cement on the carriageway causing permanent staining. Areas of broken or disfigured paving must also be replaced. These details all add up to an impression. (Look at the pavements in Hampstead for comparison.) Of the sixteen conservation areas in Islington, only three are in Highbury. Of these Highbury Fields is the most important being Islington's principal green space. Conservation areas naturally,and to a point deservedly, receive priority attention in environmental matters - and it may be fair to say that the current level of protection, if maintained, is adequate. HIGHBURY HOPES : PART FOUR ee OE 4 4 The Environment in Highbury The majority of Highbury's residents do not live in conservation areas however. From Aubert Park and Kelross Road northwards the area contains no public open space whatsoever, and north of Gillespie Road there are barely mord than a dozen trees in public places. one of the most treeless in the whole of London. This area has to be The sort of place in which you find yourself when you walk out of your front door exerts a major influence on the morale of a community. How does Highbury rate on this basis? The quality of environment depends on numerous interlinked factors, many of which have been mentioned already under Separate headings Clearly the condition of housing, the streets and shopping areas and the volume of traffic Passing through them have a major effect. The adoption of our proposals on these issues would greatly benefit the environment in general But other measures must be considered in a direct effort to improve the environment in Highbury and the mundane aspects of these should not disguise their importance. Islington's free skip scheme is an almost revolutionary measure deserving recognition at national level Unfortunately, however, other refuse collection measures are less consistent. Is it really necessary for dustmen to leave half the garbage on the street after their wild passage? If they cannot be tamed (they almost certainly deserve better pay) then the only solution is to programme the street sweepers to follow immediately behind. A major percentage of visible public ground is tarmac or paving slabs. The Council has responsibilities to ensure that these areas are not only just safe, but maintained in decent condition. Builders, etc. must not be permitted to mix up cement on the carriageway causing permanent staining. Areas of broken or disfigured paving must also be replaced. These details all add up to an impression. (Look at the pavements in Hampstead for comparison.) Of the sixteen conservation areas in Islington, only three are in Highbury. Of these Highbury Fields is the most important being Islington's principal green space. Conservation areas naturally,and to a point deservedly, receive priority attention in environmental matters — and it may be fair to say that the current level of protection, if maintained, is adequate. Conclusion The Council's Refuse Department and Street Cleaning section must realise they provide one of the most anything, more manpower is needed. There are several areas of derelict or unexploited land in the northern half of the area which would lend themselves to redevelopment as 'vest-pocket' public gardens. These are cheap and easily applied solutions and have a disproportionate effect on environmental "morale'. Although there are 16,000 trees in Islington a major area - North Highbury - is without any. There must be a period of 'positive discrimination’ here both in Parks Department's own policy and in such measures as the Tree-for-Tree scheme. valuable of all services and be paid accordingly. If PART FIVE APPENDIXI Finsbury Park Community Group Central Islington Community Party Highbury Social Services Department Highbury Fields Association Central Islington Liberal A: ciation Christ Church, Highbury Highbury Park Residents and Traders Association Islington Community Housing Association South Highbury Residents Association Mildmay Community Association Round House and S. Highbury Residents Association Drayton Park Social Services Department North London Teaching Association North Highbury Tenants Association Pyrland Road and Area Residents Association Aberdeen Park Tenants Association Friends of St. John's Association Plus approximately 25 - 30 private individuals Officers from the Planning Department, Housing Department and Islington Council for Social Services also attended some meetings. 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ARCRITACTURS FOVaN a It has taken almost exactly twenty-five years for the impetus behind the first iodern jovement in this country to be exhausted. oe. festival of Britain 1951 and ia | taken as the official milestones at the inauguration and ‘closure ef the period respectively. | | ‘e seem to stand new at she beginning cf a new ‘phase in which ‘the criteria of 'relevant' action will be determined. asmuchbytheunderstandingofeurlegacyasourone political standpoint. The effects of the process xf radicalization induced by war cxuld be seen in the arrival of the first modern Socialist Gsvernment with bia: Gea nbagin ters social referms on the dnmestic scale, and in cur modified nation status in ‘ate and the realization that we were n> longer an imperial power. | | ke In matters oa envirennent the New Toms Hevenent, the Town & a Planning Act 1947 ete. were the first expression of a new vision and csenfidence that had already permeated other sectcrs of svciety, including for example the health services. The South Bank Uxhibitien and the Associated Housing schemes in Lansbury, Mast London epitomised the slicetae of exuberance and ‘committed concerm' while sheving het sigdee, atoll estan was ss x not simply a flat roof ora corner window, but a comprehensive urban language. The underlying ideas, had of course been werked out long befere : it was *cedified visually in the 1939 Exhibition %::2a of the Mars Group, which itself derived its premises ~ from the parent CIAM movement in Europe. But theclimate of 1945 was different both in.degree and in kind. .The post-war an... for the first time saw the alliance of the ‘new wisdom', hithertu preoccupatiun of dissatisfied intellectuals and enlightened bourgeois patrons, withall the executive farce. of government and the major ieeiatlehe At the very iahient that the pioneer's thesis appeartsedbe vindicated, a the process ef institutionalizirg its assumptions began in its adeptien by a new establishment due ta become infinitely more sophisticated and bureaucratic than any hitherte. Naturally it was intelligent enough to absorb | the prece is and, perssnalities that would otherwise have been dynamite, and throughout the '50's the professianosf architecture and planning were happy to be included in the monolithic drive for reconstruction. : he anti-thesis which was bound to crise in conflict with : this centralist orthodoxy sppeared early in the 1960's in phenomens, ranging -from the satire movenent, to student protest, ‘y that is at about the time when enthe threefold premise of cheap energy, expansionist ecenomics and enlightened paternalism, | "progressive"architects and planners (now comfortably established in government: institutioR® and well-connected practices) were ready for the big boom. The extent of development, publicly or privatelys sponsored during thel960's, is unlikely td we equalled during the lifetime ef anyone reaching this - and the nGgeibe: new towns, universities, tansport infrastructure dai, ot this period will somehow have to do for the majcrity of us and our children till the latter are middle-aged. e But atteries were hardening . In 1970 the DOE - a concept that would have seemed revolutionary 25 years earlier - established itself in the now familiar faulty towers, sited carefully separate from Wai tehall , and expressing so precisely its blant combination of - technogracyand officialdom, to provide over a process that was already _in decline. . . | ‘What would happen now? Obvious with hindsight : c simple coronary case with onmplications. We ran out of fuel - petro- chemical, financial, and most important social. For by new the assumed popular consent on which all. this developmentha.d been based was solidly organised into community groups, environmentalists, conservation lobbies, spaceship earth economists, tec of. increasing : expertise. It began to seem once more tat the people with the i power were less intelligent than the people without it. The complications? Almost as fast as the devel~pment boom fever was dying in-the establishment the antinodies were being absorbed. Particpation, piecemeal planning,rehab and recycling have been hastily substituted in the official policies of national and local authorities and the professional institutilns such that concepts of ‘community Architecture’ and Neighbourhood Participation! are already bandied with bogus concern and trendy ‘humbug, without much noticeabte advantage to the intended beneficiaries. The cur rent climate is pluralistic and diverse to the extent that, given the rifgt form of words, everyone can apparently | claim to be progressive - the 193, RIBA, most L.A.'s, the RTPIetc, etc - concealing the fact that major idealogical change is occurring with little or no commensurate redistribtuiion of power. Environmental matters continue to be detemminedon the basis >f power, not of need, and the status quo is effectieety maintained. It is this situation that NAM was formed to study and pehetrate. So much for what mounts to the context in the -utside world. Meanwhile, what eftia’ contest in the profession? In the same perind the profession has transformed iteself from a craft-orientated elite of aesthetic gastronomes supported by forelock tugging- draughtsmen, into and army of professionals dpeendant on a very. different calibre of re cruit, a university educated, m:inly middle class mass of aspiring principals whose habit of .identifying with employers has blurred their vision of the pelitical reality within their offices and throughout the RIBA., ~~ (Contecsseces Salafied architects, more direct and satisfying relationships with the users of their products, have little to be optimistic about because of the economic crisis, The professions governing body, RIBA, is dominated by the interests of private practice and salaried architects have to realise that the NAM is the only effective voice challenging the Private Practice Principal's Party, 66 Portland Place. Such a state of affairs, the majority of the profession, who may hope for profession is misrepresented by default (or not'at at the best of times, between principals use of architects only existed by surrogate clients and a remote. beaurocratic offices. , , now that the crisis and assitants, established and still at college The Middle Hast Klondike can only briefly disguise daily more apparent. the fact that wheras. the publiss access to lawyers and doctours was relatively easy, until the goverment cuts reduce this too,. the. publics when 80% of. a all) would be absurd bites. home the contrdictions Ae grow ‘It is out of this uneasy climate of reality and alussion, wisdom and displicity that N.A.M. developed. At the unlikely venue of Harrogate a gathering of under a hundred people meet for a weekend in November. 75, at the invitation of a small group called ARC.. ARC had been preoccupied with such questions for a couple of years, . The outcome was the nucleus of a New Architecture Movement which has since distinguished its own identity from that of. ARC and at the ‘same time consolidated its aims and membership. More on aims later.. The two essentail characteristics of the Movement that Harrogate established ares- a. It must have a constructive attitude founded on strong annalysis. Yet another vocal articulation scemed unnecessary and abortive. b. That its structure should be both federal and national, allowing the individual personal involvement and avenues of action. Apart from a rudimentary’ Liason process the character of the movement is its diversity and localised basis. A centralised. power elite was seen as alien and unconstructive. : Individuals and local groups spread’ throughout the country make up the movement, ‘all aré of an equal status and are free to develop their own programmeisn support of the generally agreed aims. Any material produced is signed, Bdinburgh NAM Group, or NAM Cardif Group. The purpose of the small, at present London based, Liason Group is to maintain and develop contacts and to set up the next National Congress. If you are thinking of joiningw.e hope that our contact list has a member close by you, if not then we would be delighted if you initiated your own NAM Group. Speakers and information can be sent to youe In time a network of groups should develop to cover the country, each one working out its own ideas wcther localised or more universal. The Congress will be one way of communicating between groups and for working out overall aims and strategies, The key to this decentralised structure is that of individual comnitmant and local autonomy. ‘We are not a movement with presidents or celebrities, its strength lies-in the involvement of you, and «the help we can all give ‘each other. , . NEW ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT 1. BACKGROUND 9 Ithastakenalmostexactlyined yearsforthe impetus behind the first iodern Fovenent in this country to be exhausted, The festival of Britain 1952 and HAHY 1975 might hhe_ taken as theofficial nilestones at “ee inaireeepbolm ana closure. ef the period respectively. Weseemfostandnewsithepees ofanewphase_ in which the criteria of ‘relevant' action will be determined as much by the. understanding of aim legacy as our-current political standpoint. | | The —— of the pesedas of radicalization induced by war could be seen in the arrival of the first modern Socialist ote tent ait its far-reaching social reforms on the dninestic: scale, and sn cur modified nation status in ate and the realization that we were n> longer an ‘imperial power. be InmatterscfaeecontheNewTownsMovement, the Town & Country Planning Act 1947 etc., were ‘the first expressioonf a new cision and esnfidence that had already permeated other sectcrs of i including for example the health services.. The South Bank fixchibition and the Associated Housing schemes in Langbury, ast London epitomised: the meine of exuberance and ‘committed concern! medie- Showin that modern architecture was notsimplyaflatroofaksewindow,butacomprehensive— urbanlanguage.The neideas,hadofcoursebeened out long befare : it was “cadified visually im the 1938 Exhibition of the Mars Group, which ‘itself derived its, premises ftom the osuede CIAM movement in Barope. was different both in degree and in kind. But theclimate of 1945 The post-war era. fdr the first time "new wisdom', hithertu preoccupation andenlightenedbourgeoispatrons,withallee of government and the major institutions. At the very msment that the pioneer's thesis appeared t» be vindicated, so the process ef institutionalizing its assumptions began in its adoptiobny a new establishment due-ta become iyPind pels more sophisticated and bUreaucratic than any hitherte. flaturally it was intelligent: enough to eavserb . the prece s and personalities that would otherwise have heen dynamite, and. tipoustont fai '50's the professions of architecture and Se aneae were happy to be included in the monolithic drive for reconstruction. The anti-thesis which was bound to crise in conflict with. this centralist orthodoxy appearcd eaxly in the 1960's; in phenomens, ranging from the satire movement, to student protest, that is at about the time when enthe threefold premise of cheap energy, expansionist economics and enlightened paternalisn, "progressive"architects and planners (now comfortably established in government institutioK§ and well-connected practices) were ready for the big boom. The extent of development, publicly or privatelys sponscred during thel960's, is unlikely tv be equalled during the lifetime of anyone reaching this - and the housing, new towns, universities, tansport infrastructure ete., of this period will somehow have to do for the majcrity of us and our children till the latter are middle-aged. saw the alliance of the of dissatisfied intellectuals Salatied architects; the majority of the professionw,ho may hope for more direct and satisfying relationships with the users of their products, have little to be optimistic about because of the economic crisis, The professions governing body, RIBA, is dominated by the interests of private practice-and salaried architects have to realise that the NAM is the only effective voice ’challenging the Private Practice Principal's Party, 66 Portland Place. Such a state of affairs, when.80% of a profession is misrepresented by default (or not at all)- would be absurd at the best of times, now that the crisis bites home the contrdictions- between principals and assitants, established and still at college grow daily more apparent.. The Middle Hast Klondike can only briefly disguise the fact that wheras the publies access to lawyers and doctours was relatively easy, until the goverment cuts reduce this too, the publics use of architects only existed by surrogate clients and a remote beaurocratic offices. , A It is out of this uneasy climate of reality and alussion, wisdom and displicity that N.A.M. developed. At the unlikely venue of Harrogate a gathering of under a hundred people meet for a weekend in November, 155 at the invitatioonf a small group called ARC. ARC had been preoccupied with such questions for a couple of years, The outcome was the nucleus of a New Architecture Movement which has Since distinguished its own identity from that of ARC and at the same time consolidated its aims and membership. More on aims later. ‘The two essentail characteristics of the Movement that Harrogate established are3- a. .It must have a constructive attitude founded on strong annelysis. Yet another vocal articulation scemed unnecessary and abortive, b, That its structure should be both federal and national, allowing the individual personal involvement and avenues of action, Apart from a rudimentary liason process the character of the movement is its diversity and localised’ basis,. A centralised power elite was seen as alien and unconstructive. se Individuals and local groups spread throughout the country make up the movement, all are of an equal status and are free +6 develop their own programmes’in support of the generally agreed aims. Any material produced is signed, Edinburgh NAM Group, or NAM Cardif Group. The purpose of the small,’ at present London based, Liason Group is to maintain and’ develop contacts and to set up the next National Congress, If you are thinking of joining we hope that our contact list hag a member close by you, “if not’ then we would be delighted if you initiated your ‘own: NAM Group. Speakers and informaticoann be sent to yous In time a network of groups should develop to cover the country, -each one working out its own ideas wether localised or more universal. The Congress will be one way of communicating between groups and for working out overall aims and strategies, The key to this decentralised structure igs that of individual commitmant and local autonomy. We are not a movement with presidents or celebrities, its strength lies in the involvement of you, and the help we can all five each other, But atteries were hardening . In 1970 the DOE - a concept that would have seemed revolutionary 25 years earlier - established itself in the now familiar faulty towers, sited carefully separate from Yaitehall , and expressing so precisely its blan® combination of techroeracyand officialdom, to provide over a process that was already in decline. What would happen now? Obvious with hindsight :-c simple. coronary case with complicationsW.e ran out of Padl-Spesies chemical, financial, and most important social, ‘For by new the assumed popular consent on which all this development had been based was solidly organised into community groups, environmentalists, conservation lobbies, spaceship earth economists , the of increasing expertise. It began to seem once more that the people with the power were ‘less intelligent than the people without it. ‘Tne complications? Almost as fast as the develapment boom fever was dying in the establishment the antihodies were being . absorbed, Particpation, piecemeal planning,rehab and recycling have been hastily substituted in the official policies of national and local authorities -and the professional institutilns such that concepts of 'odthimind ty Architecture! and Neighbourhood Participation! are almeaee bandied with bogus concern an? trendy humbug, without much noticeabje advantage to the intended beneficiaries. . The cur rent climate is pluralistic and diverse to the extent that, given the riGet form of words, everyone. can apparently claim to be progressive - the DOE, RIBA, most L.A.'s, the RTPlLetc, ete —- concealing the fact that major idealogical change is occurring with little or no commensurate redistribtuiion of power. ea matters ccntinue to be détexminedon the basis -f power, not. of need, and the status quo is effectieéLy maintained. It is this© situation that NAM was formed to study and pehetrate. So much for what amounts to the context in the ~utside world. Meanwhile, what ofour ccntext in the profession? In the same — | pericd the professicn has transformed iteself from a sine esomicatated elite of aesthetic gastronomes supported by forelock tugging draughtsmen, into. and a of professicnals dpeendant on a , different calibre of--re. cruit, a university educated, m: nly middle class mass of aspiring principals whose habit of identifying with employers hag blurred their vision of the pelitical reality within their offices and throughout the RIBA. Contessscces As a creative activity architecture, supposedly represents values that exist beyond mére building. -All creative activities experience, to some degree or another three converging forces, the force of the imagination, the power of technics and the exercise of patronage, All three interact through design and their resolution is the creation of forms. In the -sence of patronaze technics ind imagination have no context and thus no substance or meaning. For a Schubert or a Gaugin such constraints as imposed by patronage were minimal for they were in effect their own patrons dirécting their creative energies towards their own needs and conditions. But in architecture his is by no means so easy, for it is a rare occurrence for the architect to aCe asLene own patron, except say, when he builds his own house, = ran, | Ofallthe’arts,then,dirt teeis‘particularly:depengenton oehas patronage., for without patronage: theré is no building and without want For the alternative’ cectthologists thee is: bub one fate, the ‘eventual take over by the owners of production who will. appropriate. their creations to furt her ‘their ownends. Those inventions: ‘that, shave a potentialforgeneratingprofitandmaintainingtheiSiSquowill be exploited; thése that do not will be thrown away::.For<:the conceptualis ti there is only.the world of fantasy anddreams,. Like _ the 'trip' cone too many it will end in trauma and despair, their self inflated bubble will burst,for it has little content and no. Substance. The New Architecture Movement offers a third alternative to this impasse, It is devising a strategy that attacks the heart of the dilemna, the principles of patronage. The notion of patronage encompasses variety of associations but their common reference voint is to an unequal relaticnship between benefactor and benificecry. The ben&ficery of course is the architect. How do we define patronage in our context patronage is the means by which the building needs of individuals and their institutions are determindd. ‘ie realise thet under any social system there will alvays be more users than patrons but we do not see this process of assessing building needs as an independent variable to the design problem. It is intrinsic to the forms that we will create. This is a »rincivle of our movement. We cannot wait for the real patrons to stand up. “Ye must go to them, but this will only be achieved by removing the obstales in our own institutions, ‘irchitecture', it is suggested is the social art. buildingarchitectture:eetne:realmsofgraphicsand.-sculpture. For those whose art i8’less,dependent on external patronage for their ~ well being there has been the opportunity to Tiberate themselves from stereo-typed convention, but, in. architecture we'have.been trapped, "ach move into a mew mode of work is frustrated.‘ Those whohave . “© °+4 attempted to escape ‘by side stepping the issue altogether have fled ‘to the world of ‘alterna vtive technology! or to the ‘vorld of the: ‘conceptualists'. beunb bso Certainly the creation of saci itsolenee is a prerequisite for civilisation. Undeniably, it effects everyone's aspect of peoples lives. And yet we have situations where architecture, which is about living, is practised by a group of nveople, architects, who have erected barriers around themselves. Our conclusions can only be thatthe barriers have been erected because either the practitioners are incapableo’f practising architecture or unnecessary, or their masters, the patrons, misuse their practice. Thus it is our belief that the institutions of architecture operate not only to the detrimmt of the non patrons but to architects themselves. ae a i NAM identifies these institutions as the way architects are organised, their education and their methods of oractice. ach in turn reinforce and sustain the present system of patronage and moreover because the architect is the beneficery in an unequal relationship, they were intended to do so, If we accept that patronage is ultimately exercised for its own benevolence whether for prestige, profit or povrer and if it is the means of assessing the building needs of society than there is a prima facie case of ‘aiding and abetting'. NAM intends to ex2mine each institution in turn. NAM will demonstrate the vay in which thése institutions act-for patronage by isolatinz the practice of architecture from its context. The RIBA claims to speak. for architects as if they were one voice, Assension and arguement is confined to the closed doors of Portland Place. It thefefore snuffs out any attempt to undermine a system of patronave at which it is the beneficery. Through education it produces students who aquiesce to the status quo because the nature of their training has concealed from then the true nature of their work, The organisation of practice is so structured that oo is only able to: function in the context of the existing patrons S65! ‘ 2. ROCA.1 Similarly Housing associations, fousing netion Areas and (IAs are controlled by professionals at the expense purport to serve, In the long term, impotent, for it is through real participation where the bases for decisions are exposed to all, that the orofessional will foster his own development. of the residents whom they this can only render the professional , Private praapiece is accounta iis only. to the minority who weild power. ive. that small: group we have identifie@ as patcons. “here is no effective means of control by those who are affectedb’y the buildings thus produced and there is little public awareness of the profits yielded by ‘the fee scale. ithin offices, a minority of employer architects exercise hierar-— chical control, due as “much to their orn inclination as to their respon= Sibilities under Partnership Lars _ wheir employees, lured by the carrot of eventual advancement = if+they find favour ~ are suspicious compet i~ tive and divided. Such a system Will, in the long. term collapse for . Lt is not sufficiently flexible. to respond to the hang ing pattern of patronage the dominance of the public client and the incrreasing social economic and environmental ayureness expréssed by the public at large uhether in conservation issues or politicshl: stances. N.a.ti. therefore proposes a whole range of reforms vithin practice, from ensuring that.- private offices are subject to a form of local accountability, to office structures based on the principles of co-ownership. Salaried architects should be given a real opportunity to organise and join unions for without such strength thoy are at the mercy of the mar'cet. Mor the public sector architect there looms a different series of frustrations, Local Authority architects work in large centralised rigid organisations which, while professing to serve he public, in reality serve md are acountable only to co.mittee chairmen, Direct contact between users and architects is at least discouraged or forbidden, whe monolithic. internal. hicrachy fosters the promotion ethos. Success isto move out of ‘architecture into management, Rarely: does the Chief Architects’ heavy responsibility for huge expenditure to one client create an office spirit any more inspired thai ell- organised defensiveness. “hy: is this so? Host:public architects have arm bclief in the justice of their cause. any have gone to good nublic offices to escavethe ~ partner breathing down their nec. Might it be that the system has been so devised to tolerate the mediocre. or that it is so fail-safe that no practitioner is that importent? It is clear that as bureaucracies develop, the definition of roles becomes increasingly.restrictive. ‘ihe public architect is insulated from the very problems which a#e the substance of building needsj and the exercise of his imagination and still becomes irrelevant whe New architecture liovement believes that the tide which is continually eroding the basis ofthe architect's work can only be turned by surplanting the local authority service by a National Design Service based on de-- centralised local authority design teams and offering a freely availa>le service to groups and individuals in local -reas, Jhese teams would be organised in such a vay that not ohly would they to help articulate the needs of residents but -also implement them, such an intimate’ relationship vould automatically introduce a means of accountaability. Thisisnotavaguenotionofcontrolor ee butaparticipatory process by which the skills of archit cots do not hide behind a. bushel but are exposed to the commonsense of the layman. she setting up of small scale loc lly based projects should be seen in the context of a national o:xperiment. Architectural education is.dominated and controlled by the RIBA through the Board of Mducation, yet it is,society which foots the bill without any means of control, or rather it has vested its. control in the hands of architects. his has encourageda.n introverted mentality, “i,A.ti.- hasbeendisappointed,butinretrospectnotsurpris«ie:dthefailure of architectural students to respond to the -uestions that N.A.i. ete have posed. The fostering of architectural studies in .a world of unreality, whether in the worst oxcesses of archigoonism or technical‘+ fetishes, is producing a nei generation of draving-board fodder or drop OUTS. o ofpe: cy ho fe yD NAM. intends to set up astudy group to examine the .cuestion of education but itis clear that central to our attitude is to arrange a marriage between schools and their communities. .Schools considerable resources which. could be used community. In general, we should be aiming syllabus in order to enable each school to respond to varying local con- ditions and opportunitics. — *here can be few doubts as to our attitude to the way the. profession is at present organised and controlled.- Eighty per cent of architects wrote off the BIDA years ago. Yet, though it no longer has any moaning for: most architects, its pover is immense and. Council is controlled by the same faces year after year. NW.A.H. secks to establish principles of practice outside the RIBA in architects such a way that’ are not cosettcd in their own front room but are exposed to the street. whese new. principles of practice will range fron of Architecture have for the. benefit of the for more autonomy in ; asetofethics,perhapsin.theformofanoath,modelrulesonprocedur,eto the abolishinogf mandatory fee scale, so that.a range of architectural services is more widely available. :Control of -the activitics of the — profession should be returned .to.where, it was originally invested, namely- parliament. Asthey. stand, the Registration Acts arc. administered by ri ARCUK ‘wiich is mercly afront organisation of :the RISA. WAM. is not a debating society. Its present emphasis on analysis and theory is a prelude,to a programue of action... “hat action .is. aimed zat breaking down the barriers between society and architects, Links will be forged with the local communities where we live through trade unions, tenants associations, local amonity groups and local councillors. “ler: shall work to raise she expectations of the service provided by practices and public offices, On a broader scale, our intention is to co-operate with other progressive gsroups. by lobbying politicians wo-hope to achieve changes in the Registration Acts. ; Our programme is not reformist for all our actions are to be judged-in the light of our desire to seek fundamental changes in the exercise of patronage. In practising community architecture our philosophy is not to offer andy to innocent children hut to demonstrate the failure of established institutions to respond to the people’ needs. By this means people themselves will seck their own solutions; and for architects there is the reward of their oim fulfillment. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John Allan 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