19 10 310 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/c0386911257410f75c9be29f16531f5e.pdf 629dd3fa078833b501e4c021ad416ff1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Trade Unions and Architecture Description An account of the resource Themes included action on asbestos and Health &amp; Safety, and involvement with Direct Labour Organisations and Building Unions. Following comparative research of possible options, NAM encouraged unionisation of building design staffs within the private sector, negotiating the establishment of a dedicated section within TASS. Though recruitment was modest the campaign identified many of the issues around terms of employment and industrial relations that underpin the processes of architectural production. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource NAM & The Green Ban Subject The topic of the resource Green Ban Action Cttee Report "From Post Office to Leisure Centre" (4pp) Letter from Green Ban Action Cttee, NAM Notes, 5 AJ articles about indoor sports Description An account of the resource Birmingham's Victorian Post Office remains under the threat of demolition. This well- known building in Victoria Square, at the heart of the City, has been listed by the Department of the Environment as a building of architectural and historic merit. Yet a plan has been approved by the Council which would allow build a massive complex of high-rise office blocks. The consequences of such a plan serve present glut of uninspired and unused office space in Birmingham. The Post Office building should be cleaned up, renovated and used in a manner which is of | 2 T| \ y i 4\ Ljie} [ .(5E A Sad value to ordinary Birmir location and spaciousnes make this worthwhile. m people. Its e features that We are putting community. blueprint but are ideas that we hope will oper that the buildin ffWe developers to knock it down and in its place forward suggestions for the use of the building the interests of only a few and are counter to the wishes of many Birmingham people another interesting feature of the City's past Yet to serve the leisure needs of the local These are not intended to be a socially useful purpose up a discussion In Birmingham about the would be obliterated solely to add to the fulfil. IS THE BUILDING SOUND ? They point out that pluinbing and electrical installations would have to be renewed, and fireproofing carried out, but conclude, "In general the structure is sound...... There are several large spaces which can be used for a variety of purposes..... and many sports could be housed quite adequately.’ ITHAS BEEN DONE BEFORE Other large rooms would be right for boxing, judo, aihido, karate, weight-lifting and fencing. TOMORROW Sy| 1.Ne Basement areas are convertible to squash courts, sauna baths, and asolarium. Keep fit, yoga, and fitness-training could be found ideal space. In addition to such indoor sports facilities, the many good-sized rooms would be excellent for conferences, club meetings, rehearsals, small concerts, workshops and lobby rooms. Even some hostel accommodation could be considered on the lines of aY.M/W.C.A., along with bars, a café and daytime créche. Something for everyone in Brum, something filling a real need, something to help the City Centre come alive! POPULAR SPORTS HALL iu Humberside: Southampton: Railway station into sports hall. Army drill hall into sports centre. lam Tia Min aN LI|{iN On office space: 'Within the Central core the surplus could in theory ultimately be some 25%'.... ‘Within the rest of the Central Area the surplus will be 16.9% when construction is complete and would be 30.8% if planning consents are implemented.' They conclude: 'That a general improvement of the environment is required including extending pedestrianareas,cleaningupexistingbuildings, landscaping and, in particular, implementing Conservation Area policies.’ VICTORIASQUAREISACONSERVATIONAREA Yet MORE offices are planned! Berwick on Tweed: Corn exchange into swimming pool, Abingdon, Berks: Netherlands: Old Gaol into sports centre. Cattle market into Indoor SportsCefftreandswimming HE pool. al HHH Hi} HAL Mii RAILWAY STATION NEAR HULL am,. BIRMINGHAM NEEDS 20 LEISURE CENTRES AccordingtoSportsCouncilstandards,theCity sportslikefootball,cricket,cycling,golf, UH MeL i| | ‘ of Birmingham needs at least 20 multi-purpose Sports Centres. Instead, it has 4- one, (Wyndley) acquired by the Sutton Coldfield take- over, 2 University centres and one set up by private industry. Of course no urban area in the country comes up to Sports Council standards but most places are better off than Birmingham, For example, the combined population of Dudley, Wolverhampton, Walsall and Sandwell district councils - which is roughly equivalent to that of Birmingham - have access to 16 Sports Centres. The shortage in Birmingham means that there are inadequate indoor practice facilities for bowls, tennis, netball and archery; while the growth of sports like gymnastics, boxing, judo, fencing, wrestling, basketball, badminton and squash is severely retarded because there are not enough places to play. On top of that every social organisation knows that there are fewer and fewer city centre places either for their own group to meet, or toholdpublicmeetingsin. Thereishardly anywhere to practice music or to hold small concerts, film shows, or exhibitions. And what space there is for any of these activities is extremely expensive. Report from the New Architecture Movement THE PLANNERS’ VIEW HERE'S WHAT THEY SAY IN 'CITY CENTRE! a joint study team report issued in May 1976. 'The GPO is a typical late Victorian public building. It is an extremely well built, substant- ial structure and made from good quality materials. Until recently it has been well looked after. Any comments to the effect that it is unsafe are laughable.' 'The brickwork appeared to be in good condition and structurally sound with no visible signs of settlement cracking, bulging or out of plumb walls. «The timber windows were in good condition, but require redecoration...... codes Floor finishes were wood block of gocd quality except for an asphalted area on the ground floor cialcfeieteleInternal doors and other joinery appeared to be in reasonable condition although some The possibilities for re-use of the G.P.O, are almost endless. The two very long halls on the Hill Street side provide excellent conditions for bowling, cricket and indoor golf practice, and archery; alternatively these areas could accommodate two volley-ball courts, four badminton courts or ten table-tennis areas. replazing will be necessary.' (In accordance with Sports Council recommenda- tions.) ‘Outside of working and shopping hours .... an impression is gained of relative emptiness. This imbalance should be altered. The introduction of more housing into the centre as well as the Pansion of entertai and x ional facilities should certainly increase the vitality of the area outside the working day by keeping more people in the centre in the evening and at week-ends. ‘Tt isclear that leisure of all kinds is important in the City Centre not only as an ancillary to other activities but as a primary attraction. ....... * To save the Victoria Square G.P.O. * To prevent the building of more speculative office blocks. * To get the exterior of the G.P.O. cleaned. * To get the interior renovated to serve the leisure needs of the City WHAT WE'VE ACHIEVED Since the Green Ban Action Committee launched ‘ts campaign, we have seen the built environment taken more seriously in Birmingham, and planning permission turned down where the amenities or environment are threatened. In response to mounting pressure the City Council voted to investigate the cost of revoking the planning consent for the G.P.O. site. The resulting figure of £250,000 to £750,000 was pure guesswork. The idea is to compensate the developer for loss of value. We say that there is such a surplus of office space in Birmingham that it would have no value, therefore compensa- tion should be nil. We call in question a law which can channel such large sums of our money into the hands of the speculators - for doing nothing" A delegation from the W. Midlands T.U.C., to the City Council leader has resulted in a proposal to call a top-level conference, of all interested parties, including the Green Ban Action Committee. The aim is to seek a compromise. We cannot compromise if this still means building a £10 million office complex when there are so many real needs to be met. Green Ban Action Committee The Green Ban Action Committee is not simply another conservation group. A Green Ban is the action taken by groups of workers who refuse to work on socially and environmentally harmful projects. Our Committee believes that only by creating a broad alliance involving ordinary working people as well as dedicated conservation- ists, can effective action be taken to protect and improve our environment. The Green Ban Action Committee, therefore, is composed of members of trade unions, community organisations and environmental groups, and seeks to involve a very wide range of people in its campaigns. The collaboration among those who live in the local environment including those who create it by their labour, results in a very power- ful force. It raises the prospect of people working together to encourage projects of a socially useful and environmentally desirable nature, rather than leaving profit to determine the sort of environment that we live in, The approach taken by the Green Ban Action Committee is a new one in Britain and it is hoped that it will be taken up in other cities and localities throughout the country. THE PETITION To the Minister of the Environment - The Rt. Hon, Peter Shore: The undersigned call on the Minister to halt the demolition of Birmingham's Victozr.a Square Post Office, and prevent its replacement with unnecessary high-rise office blocks: 20,000 workers, citizens and visitors. Sir John Betjeman 42 County Councillors Eric Heffer, M.P. Millie Miller, M.P. Clive Jenkins (Gen. Sec. of A.S.T.M.S.) Charles Clarke (President, Nat. Union of Students) Joe Gormley (President, Nat. Union of Mine- workers) Glyn Lloyd (Executive member of U.C.A.T.T.) David Basnet (Gen. Sec. G.M.W.U.) Hugh Scanlon (President, A.U.E.W.) Bernard Dix (President, Nat. Union of Public Employees) Bill Ronxsley (President, A.S,L.E.F.) Ken Thomas (Gen.Sec. C.P.S.A.) Ben Rubner (Gen. Sec. Furniture, Timber, Allied Trades) Jack Jones (Gen. Sec. Transport and General) Ray Buckton (A.S.L.E.F.) Ken Gill (Gen. Sec. T.A.S.S.) In addition to signing the petition, these Trade Union leaders wish to be associated with the proposals to convert the G.P.O. to a CITY LEISURE CENTRE, (subject to feasibility); Chris Dark (Reg. Sec. T.A.S.S.) Gary Couch (President, B'ham Guild of Students) Phil Boothroyd (Reg. Sec. Musicians' Union) Jack Dunn (Nat. Union of Mineworkers, Kent) Alan Fisher (Gen. Sec. Nat. Union of Public Employees) Mick McGahey (President, Scottish Miners) Joe Whelan (Executive member, N.U.M.) Judith Hunt (Nat. Womens' Officer, T.A.S.S.) George Smith (Gen. Sec. U.C.A.T.T.) Stan Davison (Assistant Gen. Sec. T.A.S.S.) Ken Barlow, (Reg. Sec. U.C.A.T.T.) Roger Poole (Reg. Sec. N.U.P.E.) Brian Mathers (Reg. Sec. ‘I'ransport and General) What you can do — The aims of the campaign * Write to your M.P. » local councillor, and to the newspapers. i. Join us on Saturday mornings outside the G.P.O. with the petition. * Ask us for a speaker for your organiissaation or T.U. branch, . Published by the Green Ban Action Committee. * Write to the Post Office. * Send a donation to help the Campaign. 77 School Road, Hall Green, Birmi h PrintedattheArtsLab.,TowenistsSa ® and the W.Mids T.U.C., and annon-executive which makes it all a bit embarassing for him ) and I am advised that the proposed conference will take place at the end of September or beginning of October so we have e few weeks in hand. Although T have not had official confirmation yet, the likely date for seeing over the Post office is Sept. 16th at 2.0 p.m. (a Thursday) Most of the other people on the list can make it et that time, so I'm hoping very much that you can. Prior to this visit, some of us are going to see over the West Bromwich Leisure Centre — built by the Sandwell Corporation, and actually like ly to make a profit - some 10,000 people use it each week! Sutton Coldfield has smething similar. Birmingham has nothing of this kind of thing. Now, in arguing for retention of the P.0., we must have some ideas for alternative uses for this huge buiding (or. even if only the interesting front—piece vere retained, an alternative plan for the site that did not mean huge office blocks) If we suggest things like an exhibition spece, or art gallery, or museum, or information centre; or even creches, old people's centre etc., then we are lost because of the finencial situation — particularly with a Council (now Tory) who want to implement all the cuts in public expenditure. The thing about indoor sports and recreation fecilities is that they do seem to generate os fair amount of income. None of this might be possible of course in the present building end that is what we want your advice on — just what sort of alternative uses would be fessible. We must have something attractive to shout ebout otherwise we'll end up with a half victory with retention of the fecade,and the office blocks just the same. We have got to stop our supporters being won over by such a half measure. Car you ring me when you return from your holidry and read this and let me know if you can make it on the suggested date. I do hope you can. @ FAREEN BAN ACTION COMMITTEE 77, SCHOOL ROAD, HALL GREEN, TELEPHONE: 021-777-5726 BIRMINGHAM, B28 8JQ. 7-9-76 Dear John, Further to our telephone conversations of last week, I have talked with David Perris (Sec of both the Birmingham Trades Council, I look forwerd to hearing from you Best wishes, oe THIS IS 100% RE-CYCLED PAPER member of the Postal Board, bnitial nales folooeng ust bomnunghann fotofice on lo Sept 7e. resent. iA v2 = Af BiemngWa =fest FICE, DRAFT: > | ‘ lo Gpnsrad bachayeund ' i i the besten g urs At stywed by DW gear ? 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Preliminaries (a) consider purposes of survey, type of information required including type of drawings, reports, etc. and time allowed; (b) consider employment of qualified land surveyor, air surveyor, photographer, etc., if site is large, obtain client's approval and consider brief and programme; (c) consider requesting reports from local specialist sub-contractors or local supply companies on existing heating, hot water, electrical, gas or other services installation; obtain client's approval if necessary and consider brief and programme; (d) check what special fees, expenses, etc., have been agreed with the client; (e) check that client has right of access tosite; (f) check accuracy and availability of survey equip- ment, @.g.: compass level staff sighting rods and markers ladder chain manhole lifting irons tape 5’ 0" rod survey board scales camera Much of this equipment may be hired from surveying and drawing equipment suppliers. (g) consider appointments with local authority officers including Town Planning, Building Inspector, Public Health, Fire Brigade, etc.; (h) obtain Ordnance Survey sheet and/or Registered Land Plan and establish boundaries. General: Legal Obtain from the client or his agent: (a) names and addressos of solicitors/agonts; ({b) oxisting drawings; (c) property: leasehold, frechold, if ground rent, tithes or restrictives covenants as to usage, tenure or sale; (d) ownership of fences; (e) rateable values; (f) right of way; (g) insurances and insurance companies; (h) approvals already received; (i) highway rights. Building work: Legal Obtain from local or other statutory authority: (a) names and addresses of officials concerned; (b) town planning: requirements, restrictions and intentions; (c) future developments Including new roads and widening; (d) building surveyor: obtain copy of local special byelaws ifany; (e) copy of ordnance block plan; (f) submission requirements and forms and last date each month for submitting applications; (g) record plans for foundations, etc.; (h) building lines or restrictions; (i) possible road charges and liabilities; (j) Small Holdings Act, etc.; (k) restrictions under Clean Air Act; (I) ancient monuments or scheduled historic bulld- ings. . Services Obtain from local authority or public utilities: (a) names and addresses of officials concerned; (b) foul sewer: line and Invert levels; (c) surface water sewer: line and invert levels; (d) existing septic tanks and if emptied by the local authority; {e) future drainage schemes by the local authority: possible future connections and charges; (f) water supply; (g) electricity supply: voltage, capacity, AC or DC; (h) gas supply; (i) telephone service; (j) postal services. .Local enquiries 01 Part 3.523 Site and Building Surveys (a) mineral workings; (b) rallway or tubo tunnols; (c) springs; (d) level of water table; (e) ground movement or erosion. .Adjoining properties (a) general character, condition and usage; (b) rights of air and light; (c) conflicting interests; (d) subsidence evidence. Actual site (a) orientation; (b) prevailing wind; (c) local climatic or other hazards, e.g. sea alr, smoke, fumes; (il) views from anit on to site; (e) trees: species, height, girth and condition; (f) rock outcrops, gardens, ponds; c Site and Building Surveys Check List (a) present or future existence of undesirable features in proximity of site, e.g. sewage works, tanneries, aerodromes, dairies, railway sidings, rivers, ponds etc., liable to overflow or flooding on or near site; (b) age of property; (c)adequacyoflocalfacilei.g.ttiraensspo,rt,schools, shops, post; (d) names of reliable local bullders; (e) special materials available locally. .Underground hazards @ 2 =~ o a c~ EE 8. (g) soll, sub-soil, trial holes; (h) evidence of flooding or ground movement; (i) fences, gates, boundary/and retaining walls, ownership, condition; (\) Wuihting Wines; (k) paths, roads, pavings; (l) existing buildings: position and floor levels, obvious failures of materials or construction; (m) levels and sections reduced to ordnance datum by relation to bench mark; (n) position and description of bench marks or other datum points; (0) septic tanks; (p) manholes: invert and cover levels; (q) gullies; (rf) stopcocks; (s) hydrants; (t) overhead wires; (u) external lighting; (v) consecrated ground. 9. Buildings: Construction general (a) roof: construction, covering, pitch; roof lights, hatches; chimneys: flues, evidence of smoke or leaks In roof space, headroom; rainwater disposal, pipes, gutters, heads; flashings; aerials, wires; access on to roof and into roof space. (b) walls: construction: e.g. bond, gauge, type of brick; finishes, rendering, pointing; OPCs; flashings, copings; alrbricks; windows, sills, lintels; doors, sills, lintels. (c) basements: level of floor below ground; ventilation; damp proofing; drainage etc. (d) floors: construction: for timber floors; direction of joists, beams, trimmers; details of other types of floor construction; sleeper walls; OPCs; airbricks. (e) stairs: construction; floor to floor height; number of risers. 10. Bulldings: Room by room (a) floor including skirting; (b) walls including dado rail, cornice, airbricks; (c) ceiling; (d) doors including frame, architrave and iron- (e) electrical including fittings, sockets, switches; (f) heating and ventilation including radiators, valves, grilles, cookers, stoves, fireplaces; (g) sanitary fittings including baths, LBs, WCs, and cisterns, bidots, sinks, pipes, taps, Internal man- holes; (h) joinery fittings including cupboards, shelving, benches; (i) miscellaneous. 11. Buildings: Water supply (a) stopcocks, main supply and point of entry; (b) drain cocks; (c) piping; (d) circuits and external water points; (e) insulation; (f) cisterns, size supports, insulation access; (g) all sanitary fittings and services, including taps, traps, puff pipes, wastes; (h) adequacy and typo of supply, pressure hardnoss, neod for analysis, o.g. well water, lead pipes carrying soft water; wells, springs, underground or under-floor storage tanks, pumps or rams. 12. Buildings: Drainage (a) surface water: record plan, levels, disposal means; (b) sewage: record plan, levels, disposal means, If combined system or otherwise; (c) manholes: invert and cover levels; (d) gullies, vent pipes, fresh air inlets, interceptors, grease traps, pumps (test pipes and manholes by water test). 13. Buildings: Hot water (a) system; (b) piping; (c) circuit; (d) draincocks; (e) cylinder; (f) insulation; mongery; 14. Building: Heating and ventilation (a) system; (b) fittings: radiators, convectors, grilles, fans, filters, diffusers etc. (c) piping; (d) circuits; (e) draincocks; (f) expansion tank; (g) insulation; (h) boiler and flue; (i) safety valve, thermometer, thermostat, altitude gauges, fusible links, controls, pumps; (g) (h) (i) (j) (k) boiler and flue; safety valve, thermometer, thermostat; fuel and storage; efficiency test and/or report from local specialist if necessary; running costs. Part 3,523 Site and Building Surveys 02 Aeceavoreoaiemcme anna RR ec NERC verere @ © (j) fuel and storage; (k) efficiency test and/or report from local specialist if necessary; (I) running costs; (m) refrigeration. .Building: Electrical (b) engine pits, beds, ducts; (c) fire equipment: sprinklers, foam hydrants, etc., illuminated and other fire signs; (d) emergency lighting. .Buildings: Reports The architect or surveyor should carefully define in his report whether or not he was able to see Inside the structure of a building. If able to do so, describe ex- actly how much he was able to see and where. The state of the rest of the building should not be inferred from the sight of one piece of it. (a) (b) (c) overhead or underground; plot poles, wires or cables on survey; meters and main switchgear, phasing, voltage, amperage, AC or DC; wiring external and internal; @ (4) (e) system, conduits and earthing; (f) distribution boards; (g) light points and amperage including external 1 lighting; (h) special fittings: fans, cooker panels, low voltage transformers, bell system; (i) test and report by local supply company if neces- sary with advice on size and adequacy of main cable for future loading. Buildings: Gas (a) main size, depth and position; (b) meters: adequacy for future requirements; (c) points and fittings, flue, hoods, etc.; (d) test and report by local supply company if neces- sary with advice on size and adequacy of main supply for future loading. 1 .Building: Other services (a) telephone: overhead wires (plot poles on survey); (b) lightning precautions and conductors; (c) steam; (d) compressed air; (e) standby electricity engines or batteries; (f) public address systems; (g) lifts: hydraulic, electric or hand; (h) refrigeration; (i) escalators; (j) pneumatic tubes; (k) central vacuum; (Il) closed circuit television, etc. 18, Buildings: Structural defects Shute Te Golesi] {a) (b) (c) (d) @ (e) 6 (h) floors; @ (i) deflection on beams, lintels, etc.; o (i) cracks at beam bearings; (k) smells; (\) condition of basements. 19. Building: Specialist fittings (a) altars, vestment presses, tabernacles; 03 Part 3.523 Site and Building Surveys dry rot and causes; damp patches and causes; evidence of rodents, woodworm, beetle (death- watch, Lyctus, etc.), insects; recent repairs and decorations; settloment cracks or mis-shapen openings, skirting or window gaps; bulges in walls, walls out of plumb; @ (f) (g) sagging roofs; LPRAL A statement in terms stipulated in the indemnity in- surance policy, or similar to the following wording should be included at the end of the relevant section of the report: ‘It was not possible to make a detailed examination of either the floor or roof construction except at the positions described above, as to do so would have required material damage being done to obtain ac- cess. Itis, therefore, impossible to make any statement on the condition of the unexamined structure.’ Where applicable, the client should be advised to call in a specialist in rot, woodworm, etc., to make a more detailed examination. ~i =a Detailed Brief: Room by Room 3, (b) floor: (c) skirting: (d) ceiling: 4, Services (a) lighting (general): intensity typo (b) lighting (local): intensity type (c) heating: temperature limits (d) ventilation: (e) electric power: socket outlets __ equipment loads) Sys eae aexACISpn/DCEASoe Se 5soundinsulation aie__(f)gas: oes ee Date Job Job No. Floor Room No. | Room 1, Uso of room 2. Construction (a) walls: sound insulation thermal Insulation (b)floor: & a. oading iene eee a 3. Finishes characteristics _() walls: thermal insulation vibration (c)celling: sound insulation thermal Insulation isapesise stk: (g) phones: i exter al}, isiadasyed tvesinreesineaerioer tae ___Internal (h) washing facilities: sink washbasin (i) special services: compressed air +bene eotioae Lee Part 3.524 Detailed Brief (Room by Room) 01 @ © fire alarms etc. 5.Doors (a) solid: glazed clear: glazed obscure: vision panel only: (c) escape requirements: (d) others: 6.Windows (a) construction: type ventilation (b) glazing: clear obscuro double (d) tables: (e) others: 8. Loose furniture : 7. Fixed fittings (a) cupboards: type 02 Part 3.524 Detailed Brief (Room by Room) 9. Other requirements of —— @ 4, (i) fume cupboards 7. (b) benches: (e) others: of (b) given to public address speakers (c) window furnishings: (b) security: : aa (d) blinds or curtains: (a) obtained from (c) locking: 10. Information EONTY A] Information Library Appraisal David Crease* public inquiry were commodiously installed when it ’ removed, inspector, witnesses ies and all, 10 the new centre There v is no doubt, therefore, that the ratepayers’ moncy was well spent when itwas decided in 1972 to vy 4 ; otic $: He 2 S *David Crease runs York University Design Unit, the arch ectural practice which forms part of the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies D Ground floor plan. > <. vor XS Ss 4 . i "plecasas asa Lifeiscertainlybetterin ©Sean dd community centre isopen. The starsoftheoperaticsocictyno < longer have to dash in costume from temporary changing rooms through darkness and drizzle to the schoo! hall. Nor do club members at their annual dinner dance now have to brave the rigours of the hotel courtyard to get from the dining room to the small and awkwardly 45100 peMar ar shaped ballroom. Those A seventy people who crowded out the council offices at a recent Saeki mi awd | The Architects’ Journal 24 January 1976—C1/SfB 532 2 A strong incentrve to enter with a glimpse of an inviting interior. Northallerton now that the ae aioe go ahead with aschemesimilar to that of the competition winner. 7 | ask The setting Northallerton has one good, broad main street, but turning down the side roads the quality ebbs away, The new building is stranded in one such backwater, and being relatively small and at present partly hidden behind a school, it can neither establish a . dominance over the scene nor wholly redeem it.Nevertheless itis wholly trim, gay and positive, and stands outas@ welcome affirmation ofthe eloquence of good design amid the mumbled platitudes of its surroundings. First impressions are ofan assembly of brick forms, octagonal or nearly so, punctuated with squarewindows coloured sometimes with brilliant yellow blinds drawn down in the afternoon sun. The octagonal entrance ispowerfully attractive, 2. Iris all glass around a bright red metal structure. The setting will be improved ifand when, as the designers claim, the school is demolished. Itis a pity that when approached from the town centre the view of the building has been partly obscured by agrass mound. It would have been better to keep the site as flat as a tray. - ~ sd mts LE 49/m" qf tile liga, 1H nits (12 68/m'*. 10+ 23 mm tongued and grooved softwood lining, 22 m': £8 9m". Pelmnets, 12 mm ply lining on steel frarning end supports, 146 m": cistern 4-10 m bong for 8 no we pane Slab tinal 1-60 m Jong including divisions and ends Javatory basins Do 3-10 m long Double drainer sink top 1 steel «1s white vitreous china 19 do 1 do 1 stainless steel £9 92)m*. Preliminaries and insurance Contingencies Work below lowest floor finish Cost Per per cent m* of i total 12°75 9/56 2-78 «2-08 13-78 10-33 Structural elements @::: loper floors Roof Roofiights Staircases External walls Windows External doors Partitions Internal doors Ironmongery Total of structural elements 0-84 0-63 1-75 «13d 18:70 14°02 0-43 0-32 0-83 0-62 15°74 11°80 O45 OS 1:66 1°24 11°36 «8°52 1-96 «61°48 1:06 0-79 54-78 41-07 -3 Finishes and fittings Total of services Total All by Keith Gibson Shower hose complete and shower trays Low level we suites 13) do Galvanised flushing 2 do External works Paths pay nt ateps: brick paviors, road: tarmacadaim, car parks: bitumen macadam, Retaining walls: 338 mm brick walls,faced. Landscaping: remodelling, rotovauing, secding. Water, ga5, electrical and post office connections, Diversion of electrical, water mains, moving existing lamp standards. Total: £21 677 03. cy lighting. General lighting and stage Ughtng Breakdown of electrical serovees Meter and switchgear Lighting installation Power installation Light fittings Builders’ work ‘Total Stage lighting equipment ana fictings. cost perm" 0:56 5°25 1-48 4-40 ou 1180 Vitthogs 0 Metal grille to bin store Signs £ 120 Hat and coat rails and 50 office fitings Counters 00 Bar fittings Stackable seating and bar furniture Worktops in changing arcas oo Benching to changing rooms . Services Sanitary fittings Belfast sink 1-38 600 #00 500 500 no material 1 white vitreous Cost per m' of floor area £174 258 72 (net cost excluding external works) china 133-37 1307 m* (measured inside externalwalls) The Architects’ Journal 28 January 1976—Cl, SB 532 é AJ Information Library Deveretion se Three ost julsom punt on plastered walls. KPS two undercoats and one full gloss on woodwork, Two coats “Albi’ flame retardent paint on plywood linings. One coat primer, one oF two uiuleronats and one full gloss om ayesha Cold water services £161 Copper tube with Yorkshire fittings; Anaubation ty panes anal tank Storage capacity of tanker 910 litres, No of cold draw-olf points: 34. Builders’ work: £0: 03/m', Hot water services £186 Copper tube 19 mm diameter to 54 mm diameter with Yorkshire fittings. Pipe insulation. No of hot draw-off points: 24, Builders’ work: £004 im*. Heating services ae Gas boiler 320 litre tank and ball valve. & no mechanical convectors. 7 no radiators Mild steel tubing 12 mm-54 mm. diameter; insulation. Total heat oad: 300 kW. Builders’ work: £0: 08/m'. Ventilation services 4-63 Alr handling unit: mixing box, filters, heaters, batteries, fans. Supply, recirculation and fresh air ductwork, insulation, Including motors and controllers etc. Builders’ work: £0 09/m'". Electrical services Main switchboard and sub distribution. Lighting installation. 11-80 probable benefits to energy conservation, Flexibility is achieved by using adouble line Contractors of hardwood veneered sliding partitions for £59-40/m*, which are an expensive item but an essential partofthe design. The construction of the basement area is incorporated in the foundation cost, butstructural elements are proportionately somewhat more expensive than average. Finishings have beenselected to require little or no maintenance and sometimes, a5 in the use of faced brickwork instead of plaster finish, may produce cost advantages that can ease pressure elsewhere and permit brick paviors (£5-91/m*) and maple strip flooring (£7-97/m®) for the major floor areas. Note that ceilings include asignificant sum for pelmets. The fitting clement includes amajorsum for stackable seating, an item frequently providedoutside the building contract. Services are modest and have been contained within the boundsof the cost plan, ifone overlooks the unforeseen effects of inflation and later more stringent requirements of the fire officer. The major clement of electrical installation includes minimal stage lighting, and special services largely relate to kitchen equipment which provides 300 meals ona re-heat basis. The various requirements for external works increase the building cost by 12) percentand include diversion of existing mains services. Photographs ’ Finishes and “a5: fittings Wall finishes 2 Lightweight plaster on brick or block walls, 486 ms £2°74 im Wate wager wall les 4 BS §281, Ved wt ce abs 42 mm thick tongued and grooved and y jointed mepte lining on battens, 15 m': £26: 62/m". 4mm INT quality plywood panel lining, 40 m*; £2°15/m". Total no of lighting outlets; 255. Total no of power outlets 122. Total electrical load: 100 kW. 6 mm clear plate glass mirrors (17 no), 5m: £27-93/m'. Special services Kitchen equipment, fire fighting equipment and fire alarm systern, public address system. fA-02 Cost comment Drainage £303 Sepa system comprising: 102 mm diameter cast iron drain pipes internal, 102 mm stoneware flexible jointed drain pipes external, 13 no brick manholes. 75 mm diameter perforated clay land drains. Summary of element costs Main contractor: R. B A. Moody Brothers (Contractors) Ltd. Nominated subcontractors: Vestibule steel Archbell Greenwood Ltd. Kitchen equipment Benham & Son Ltd. Bar grill Bolton Gate Co Ltd. Hardwood flooringBuckley Flooring & Polish Co, Smoke vent Crittall Construction Ltd. Mechanical services Ellis Mechanical Services Ltd.Public address system Futurama. Aluminium doors and windows Hills Glass & Windows Led.Folding partitions Lenscrete Led Wall finishes Floor finishes Ceiling finis! 2-03 1-52 5:62 4:21 305 2°29 148 2 4:00 3:00 and mat wells Nuway Manufacturing Co Lid. Stacking chairs PEL Ltd. Re flooring Pierhead Lr. Ironmongery Rycrofts Ltd. Rooflights Transplastic Ltd.Signs Ward & Co (Letters) Ltd. Window blinds Westmorland Sunblind Co. Suppliers: Sanitaryware Armitage Shanks Led. Facing bricks, brick slips, brick paviors Gibbons Northern Brick Co. Purldeck roof decking ICI Purlboard Insulation Products. Roof beams Hope Decoration Fittings Total of finishes and fittings 16-18 12°13 . Services Anchor Beams Ltd. Febtect celling finish Feb (Great Britain) Ltd Curtaining Rank Strand Led. Landscaping EasingwoldLandscapes. Santiary appliances 1-38 «61-03 J soll and overflow pipes Cold water servi Hot water services Heating services Ventilation services Electrical services Special services Drainage O24 0-18 261 012d 186 «(1°39 463 347 453 3-40 11-80 «8-85 4:02 3:02 3-03 2-28 Wastesollandevertiowpipesom 19 mum copper overtlow pipesandl fircings. 32 men and 34 mm pve pipes, do. a mm and 75 men pve vert pipes, lo. Fire alarm. lighting ins Stage fittings Rank Strand Electric Sovercign Works. Civic hall roof structure Space Decks Ltd Asphalt tanking and roofing Tunstall Seyssel & Limmer Rock Asphalt Co Lid. Nominated suppliers: Tinted glass Thomas Bennett Ltd. Steel reinforcement BriushReinforced Concrete Engineering Co Ltd. Fire fighting equipment Dunford Fire Engineering Ltd Steel roof beams Dunlop & Ranken Led Extract fans Greenwood Airvac Ltd. Door mats Floor finishes (5°62 Vinyl tile paving; 100 mm skirting, 90 m*: £3 31/m'*. Brick paviors on 25 mm bed, 399 m*: £5: 91/m". Quarry tiles on 35 mmm bed, 150 mm skirting, 125 m': £6 96/m", 2mm sheetvinyl;100mmsoftwood skirting, 107 m*: £4°74 mt. 47 mm cement and sand bed; 100 mm softwood skirting, 166 m*: Li 82/m" 25 mm thick maple strip flooring, 375 m': £797) mm". Celling finishes 3-05 12-7 mm plasterboard and skim, $01 mt: £3 tim". 12 7mm plasterboard and textured The tender for Northallerton Community Centre, obtained in mid 1973, incorporated the dying mandatory government requirement for afixed price where the period of contract was to run for two ycars. Subsequently with theeffects of three day weeks, oil crises, and other major economic ills, it became impossible toobtain fixed price offers equivalent to the main conditions for major work covered by pc sums. It may therefore broadly be assumed that these were subject to cost increase. Difficulties were encountered in adhering to the original concept of the window wall design despite thespecialist advice incorporated in the cost plan, The analysis has been based on the original tenderand therefore neither incorporates these increases, nor the later enhanced requirements of the fire prevention officer. The building isone of interconnected blocksofsingle storey structure witha semi-basement area for the chair store, and isgenerally composed of load bearing brick walls with a flat timber roof structure over the smaller areas, and aspace deck over the main halls. The latter at an inclusive cost of £31°87/m* formed a substantial part of thestructural cost. Included in external walls, with a wall/fioor ratio around 1:1, one may observe that thecurtain walling averaged £41- 29/m*, although glazed walls are restrained to about 20 per cent © of the vertical envelope with ; AJ Trtvomerion Tabrary yw asubsrantial housing development. The general soil condition is a thin layer of top soil with very high pH values overlying pure chalk. Thearchitectsfeltthatthecentre stwould be sited along the top of the bank overlooking exisung playing ficlds, using the magnificent mature trees of the wooded area as a backcloth for the sports centre. Tree surgery where necessary ensured continued health. Beech dominates and the delicate tracery of upper branches can be seen from inside the building through high level perimeter glazing. D First floor plan latter entirely contained by topographical features—grass banks to south and west, retaining wall to the cast and the old rifle butt wall to the north. Good mature trees (horsechestnut, lime andwalnut) on the grass bank to the west emphasise the sense of enclosure. Beech will be planted on the southern bank and additional earth moulding will strengthen it.A Breedon gravel footpath takes pedestrians to the sports centre and connections to this path from the car park ensure maximum separation of pedestrians from cars. bakery 200 practee hot ican Tear [ete}nore com tal The path benefits from an existing planting of berry bearing trees which become quite dramatic in autumn. The steep bank on which the sports centre stands will be planted exclusively with aprostrate evergreen cotoneaster; this will forma dark green bank for most of the year but become a blaze of bright red in autumn as the tquanh coms yectoron gery Ve d weasan qaiey OFF Area 1, with which this study is = eel the building and the car park, the concerned, accommodates berries ripen. Surrounding areas will be landscaped and various pitches laid. Design Asa result of site requirements the building was designed asa simple rectangular box, sited on top of the bank and in front of the wooded area. The structural stcel frame supporting the roof isexposed to give a feeling of rhythm and scale to the building. Brick was used inside and out up to a height of 2-1 m (door height) and above this the secondary steel frame is clad externally with horizontal metal boarding and internally with timber boarding. Above the cladding, perimeter glazing at about 45° connects to a deep fascia which accommodates a roof void used as a crawl space to service lighting and heating equipment. As there are no low level window openings itwas felt that the high level perimeter glazing, giving glimpses of sky and trees, would adda feeling of spaciousness to many areas. Extensive use is made of ce— xz2®: "The Architects’ Journal 22 October 1975—ClI/SfB 561 2 Main north elevation from beyond sports field. Long low profile kept below tree line lessens impact, anchors building fo ground. mere n 2L | io] osce hal ee ed ext owe mon pot yon hot :*"; og s= Fis Hot water services 1-18 The hot water installation comprises a high output module calorifier thermostatically controlled at the boiler primary side to maintain « stored blended water temperature of 43°.Wateratthistemperatureis Lightningconductor oo circulated to all draw-off fittings, including changing room showers, dispensing cold water supplics and local mixing valves. Foot operated valves control all taps (excluding cleaning sinks and refreshment kitchen); therefore, with recessed pipework and shower discharges, problems of vandalism have been reduced to a minimum, All points requiring hotter water have a local electric water heater. Heating services £14-08 Automatic firing by two fuel burners incorporating 35 sec Redwood No 1 gas oil and natural gas. Public address (pool alarm system and radio microphone) 0°69 Secondary lighting installation 0:98 Fire alarm installation 0-20 Swim time installation 1:12 11-38 Drainage Pye system, brick manholes, soil drains to sewer. Surface water drains to sonkaways. Total per m'of floor area £144-64 £597 397 (net cost excluding external works) Two high efficiency steel boilers power pool water heating, air handling equipment, underfloor heating, conventionalradiator/fanconvector ee works circuits and hot water service. All major areas such as pools, halls, changing rooms, rifle range, suana suite are served by ceiling void dair handling units d. ibuti through ductwork thermostatically controlled, filtered and heated fresh air which, incorporated with the extract system, maintains the air change rate applicable in any given area. Supply and extract to pool areas arc based on a 10 per cent negative pressure to discourage spread of chlorinated fumes throughout the building. The services ceiling void, although fully lined against vapour penetration, also incorporates filtered warmed fresh airfrom two Pressurisation units, again to discourage spread of chlorine vapour. Main pool and learner pool surrounds,men'sandwomen’swet insurances changing rooms, locker arca and entrance foyer have an in-floor piped heating systern capable of maintaining floor surface temperatures of 27°8°C, In addition to the vertical wall face, mainandlearnerpoolsideofthe raised viewing platform are heated to a temperature of 27-8°C. All other areas, ie administration, corridors,entrances, areheatedby conventional radiators/fan convectors, except squash courts which have cold supply and extract ventilation only. From the pump header mains are taken to non-storage beat exchangers for rapid heating of pool water. Temperatures of 27°C main pool and 28°C learner pool are maintained, Ventilation services £727 Incorporated with the running of the supply air handling units the extract systern maintains a controlled air change rate, Extraction is generally by means of individual roof mounted extract fans with connecting ductwork to grille positions at appropriate ceiling levels. All grilles and ductwork internal and external, are treated to resist corrosion, Supply air grilles incorporate opposed blade dampers to achieve a degree of air volume regulation. 291 2-01 667 4-61 3:41 2-36 Ltd, Metal cladding and roof decking H. H. Robertson (UK) Lid (supplier). Suspended cellings Thermal and Acoustic Installations Ltd. Aluminium doors and screens Individual fan units ventilate working rooms of main plant room; continuous Decoration floorlevelextractioninchlorinegas Fittings and part toughened glass were bottle store. Builders’ work: £0°35/m". Electrical services os Lighting in main sports areas generally recessed high pressure mercury dischargelampstoalevelofabout Waste,soiland 28:55 19-73 O81 0-56 0-56 0-39 1-02 O-71 1:18 0-82 14-98 10-35 727) «5-02 5-33 3-68 41-38 (7-88 2:00 1-44 350 tux. Accent lighting with tungsten spots and floods in display areas. Pye conduit and trunking throughout to combat corrosive chlorine fumes. Breakdown ef electrical services Meter and switchgear Lighting installation Power installation Lighting Gittings Builders’ work Total Total no of lighting outlets: 544. Total no of power outlets: 111. overflow pipes Cold water services Hot water services Heating services Ventilation services Electrical services Special services Drainage of services Total External works £27 096 * Three filter shells provide 2/3 stand-by cover for learner and main pool filtration system. plaster cost £10+23/m?*. Ceiling finish to the pool arcas isperforated aluminium boarding at £9-01/m* which docs much to enhance the building's acoustics, Services account for over 30 per eentottotalaosteaideach section is carefully detailed in the analysis. Among the more unusual items are the pool filtration and plant wiring at Lid. Gep cold water storage tanks BLT.R. Plastics Ltd, Kitchen equipment G. F. B. Bartlett & Son Le. Design for climbing wall: Peter Knight. Sculpture: Geoffrey Clarke (commissioned 1964, gift from Mrs Woodhall), Opening plaque: ‘Hill’ Clarke. Photographs Henry Law Cost per m* ip O-o1 o.os 0:06 251 0-30 5:33 _144.68100-00 hig eyaghemaathehiaITSaa Special services f11-38 Com per m* 157 5-70 1-03 Cost comment That the tender was obtained for less than £600 000 must have delighted the clients and this may have been in no small way due to the close co-operation of al concerned prior to tendering. A selected list of four contractors, representing national, regional and local building firms was drawn up. Each organisation was then invited separately to discuss the scheme with the design team before the tender period began. All aspects, ranging from method of construction and materials specified to which details were approximately £28 000 anda “swim-time’ installation for £4700. Because the decision to use both oil and gas to fire the boilers was made midway through the contract the cost of the change to dual-fuel burners is excluded from the analysis. External works at £27 096 account for less than 5 per cent of the net cost but the access road and car parking were completed in advance of this contract. Some site clearance items, landscaping and overspill parking costs are also not included in the analysis. Lift installation (3 floors) Pool filtration installation® Filtration plant wiring 4129 m* (measured inside external walls) firm and which had yet to be finalised, were open to examinationandsuggestion.A Maincontractor:Hayrmills and site cl pe (asphalt) and paths (brushed (c +) Lt Subcontractors: Mechanical services Culver Heating Co Lid. Filtration system Biwater seaiment Co Ltd. Gas chlorination s: Wallace& Tiernan Co Ltd. lafloor heating Thorn Benham Ltd. Ductwork Colchester Light Engineering Co Ltd. Submersible pumps Flyght Purnps Lid. Freestanding chimney stack Beaumont Ltd. Thermal Insulation to pipes Ipswich Insulation Led. Electrical installation M.G. Installations Ltd. Public address systern Intercom Lid. Lift installation Becker Equipment & Lifts Ltd. Lightning protection Gray Ltd. Structural steelwork Robert Stevenson (Structural) Lid. concrete, brick paviors), dwarf walls (brick), steps (brick paviors), ing (soiling, seeding, planting), fencing (chain link), service connections. Total; £27 096, Summary of element costs — a ee Preliminaries and Cost per m' £ Per cent of total Contingencies Work below lowest floor finish Ditto forming main pool Structural elements Frame Upper floors Suspended learner pool and surround Roof Staircases External walls Windows External doors quantities. 5-67 3-92 Tris,perhaps,areflectionofthe PatentglazingPillarPatentGlazing Partitions 733) 5:07 Internal doors Ironmongery if4 1 o-71 O 52-85 36-52 Total of elements ctural Finishes and fittings Wall finishes Floor finishes Lining to main pool Lining to learner pool Ceiling finishes 2:85 1-97 7-74 «46-03 264 1°82 1:14 0-79 7-05 «4:87 0-70 0°48 6-69 4°76 only ginallymore expensive Total of finishes and fittings at {19: 31/m*, The wall; floor ratio is calculated at 0°69:1. Internally most brick and block walls are mainly fairfaced with . Services little plaster visible except to the Squashcourtswherespecial IronmongeryA,C.Leigh(Suffolk) Sanitary appliances service fi id ’ B Site agent of cach firm were asked to attend so that by the time atender was required the contractors were as familiar and aware of the project as possible. Work began on site in March 1973; completion was 27 months later, progress having been delayed by the three-day week. Tenders were invited cither on a fixed price or fiuctuating basis, the fixed price offer was accepted on a provisional bill of contractor’s awareness of the project that the preliminarics section of the bill accounted for lessthan4percentofcostsata TomexProductsLtd.Granwood time when the building industry was buoyant. Noteworthy among the flooring Granwood Lid. Durabella flooring Phoenix Floors Ltd. Solar protection Berkeley Ltd. Roofing Belmont Building Supplies Ltd. Suppliers: Boilers pumps Hoval (UK) Ltd. Dual burners Weishaupt (UK) Ltd. Air handling equipment Myson Brooks Led. Protective paints Berger Chemicals. Acoustic ceilings Dampa (UK) Ltd. Tiles In pool and pool hall Langley London Ltd. Carpet tiles Heuga UK Ltd, Wood decoration/ preservation Sadolins (UK) Lid. Wood spread of flame treatment Oxylene treatment by Gliksten Lid. Wall Insulation L.C.1. Ltd. Roof insulation (Roofmate) Dow Chemical Co Lid. Fire protection to steel Cementatiog Lid Cavity Alling (ley snaltied) Hentokil Lud, We and . ative L 1d. Louvred metal doors Greenwood Airvac Ventilation Lid. Sauna and solarium equipment Hantalsami Saunas Ltd, External and internal facing Ibstock Building Products Led. Lockers and seating W. 5B. Bawn & Co Ltd. Sports equipment Nisson Lid. Swim Contemporary Engineering Co Ltd. Internal signs Aquarius Graphic. External signs Pitt Signs Lad. Drainage and plumbing pipework Marley Extrusions Lid. Roller shutters Syston Rolling Shutters Ltd. 15-70 10-85 structural elements isthe roof 4:35 3-01 190 #1931 647 4:47 1-55 «1-07 10:03 6-83 2:42 1°67 0-75 0-52 which contains an inverted roof membrane assembly with troughed metal decking at £12-98/m*. The main frame carrying the roof, with perimeter columns placed outside the external cladding and asecondary frame Supporting the upper floor, is priced at £15°70/m? overall. The three different external wall solutions are not dissimilar in cost, the metal cladding at £18-96/m* being only 15 per cent more expensive than the cheapest form (brick cavity walling). Even the patent glazed arcas consistingof part wired Contractors £ E =\- 5 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Green Ban Action Cttee NAM Notes, AJ articles Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Murray Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 1976 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/6b8c60e20e39ef8b9d5bf1318fb3ade1.pdf f2a3a445dbc6f43be1521bbf965a958d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. Hitherto entirely dominated by the RIBA bloc, the Council began to yield to a new dynamic through NAM's involvement, enabling fresh perspectives on such issues as mandatory fee scales, greater lay representation on the body, ethically-based standards of professional conduct, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource NAM 4th Congress Report AJ 14 November 1978 Description An account of the resource The fourth annual national Congress of the New Architecture Movement was held at the School of Architecture in Cheltenham last weekend. In between wholesome meals and a rejuvenating to a punk rock group, over 90 people thrashed out the neat year’s policy of a movement which in only four years has significantly altered the face of architectural politics in Britain. Tension over alternative practice After virtually the only contentious debates in the whole weekend, Congress agreed to set up an Alternative Practice issue group ‘to develop the theory and practice of NAM members involved in worker controlled private sector organisations with the aim of providing socially responsible alternatives’. Participants were shown work carried out by the ARCAID group in Leeds and Support in London, both of which operate in the private sector but work co-operatively for poor clients such as tenants and community groups. Members of these groups believe that in the short term this kind of work provides the best way of making architects’ skills available to working class users. But several people believed there was a danger of the group clashing with the already established Public Design Group which recently submitted its OWN report on community architecture to Minister of Housing Reg Freeson.* This report argues forcibly that a community architectural service ‘should be based on the public sector and not on the private sector’. Despite initial tension between these two Views, itwas generally accepted by both groups that they could work in parallel. It was likely to take years to achieve reforms in the public sector and until that time the private sector experiments could provide valuable experience, a vehicle for propaganda, and a means of providing working class people with services they would otherwise be denied. *Community Architecture: a public design service, available from NAM, 9 Poland Street, London W1. £1. the abolition of the mandatory fee scale and the introduction of a fee system ‘based on standardised elements of service and ranges of cost to safeguard the public against unreasonable price increases and check the profession from unhealthy price cutting’. An end to secrecy Symbolising an end to the cloak and dagger secrecy that has been a feature of the movement until now, it was agreed that telephone numbers of spokespersons for the different issue groups should be circulated to the press. Speakers however reiterated that the movement should avoid creating ‘leaders’, because issues and ideas then* easily became obscured by personalities. New constitution A constitution for the Movement was adopted which firmly establishes itasa federation of issue, local and working groups accountable to the annual Congress and working for the general aim of promoting ‘effective democratic control of al people over their environment and by design and construction workers over their working lives’, A Liaison Group iselected each year to conduct administrative and financial affairs and to ‘act for the Movement’ between Congresses. Membership of NAM has increased over the last year from 92 to 120. Monday and the millenium “The Movement isgrowing inmaturity as its critique of the profession grows more refined’, said John Allan, a founder member at the opening of Congress. A substantial body of literature has been developed and the Movement’s magazine Slate isimproving with each issue. What is now needed is to translate quality into quantity. The profession ison the defensive, he said. While the trades and ‘para professions’ are becoming more professional with the introduction of codes and guidelines, the traditional profession is being forced to become more secular. NAM could take advantage of the consequent instability. Referring to the inherent tension between long term aims and short term tactics, he said that while the former could not be achieved quickly, some of the obstacles barring the way could be removed immediately. ‘Our predicament is not a question of bop <x » “ PIG is born To back up the work of NAM members acting as unattached representatives on ARCUK council and those working on the mandatory fee scale issue, Congress sct up a Professional Issues Group (PIG). The councillors have their work cut out responding to day to day issues explained the proposers. PIG would be a kind of ‘mop up’ group enabling NAM councillors to play a more positive role by taking initiatives. Congress formally endorsed the work of the eight NAM councillors, and aslate of candidates has been drawn up to contend the forthcoming unattached elections as itis anticipated there will be a further increase in the number of unattached representatives. Students wanted Student NAM groups should be set up in schools of architecture, but they should be autonomous groups and not controlled by any central body or the already established Education Group. This was the outcome of a debate in which some speakers advocated a recruitment drive among students. Few studentsaremembersofNAMalthoughdissentersCongressendorsedtheworkofthemilleniumorMonday’,hesaid,‘but more attended the Congress than in the Monopolies Group which produced an affirmation of the millenium and Previous years. the report “Way ahead’ recommending Monday.” Fee scale abolition endorsed Although there was a handful of The Architects’ Journal 15 Novernber 1978 925 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Architects Journal Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Murray Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 15-Nov-78 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/f6a1dfc37651ce05b2aa8b00dc02a770.pdf 5684cfc91e1e83bb0b4a2fd2d1635d57 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 SLATE Description An account of the resource To help promote its work and reduce dependence on the established professional press, NAM created its own newspaper SLATE. The editorial group met bi-monthly to gather together latest events, activities and ideas emerging from radical critiques and challenges to the established order of architectural practice and education. The content of each edition was collated, and cut-and-pasted into layouts of the magazine which typically ran from 16 to 28 pages. Each edition included a brilliant cartoon by Andrew Brown who emerged as a clever graphic artist synthesising NAM's radical ethics. SLATE's production ran to 17 issues in total. The SLATE Group also produced occasional annual calendars, of which three survive Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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The editorial group met bi-monthly to gather together latest events, activities and ideas emerging from radical critiques and challenges to the established order of architectural practice and education. The content of each edition was collated, and cut-and-pasted into layouts of the magazine which typically ran from 16 to 28 pages. Each edition included a brilliant cartoon by Andrew Brown who emerged as a clever graphic artist synthesising NAM's radical ethics. SLATE's production ran to 17 issues in total. The SLATE Group also produced occasional annual calendars, of which three survive 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 Calendar 1978 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Louis Hellman Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Murray Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1978 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/67bf42b336728d76884def3b6009c8e3.pdf 18efd6224d1c11fd1feea0fd1e8b145b 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 SLATE Description An account of the resource To help promote its work and reduce dependence on the established professional press, NAM created its own newspaper SLATE. The editorial group met bi-monthly to gather together latest events, activities and ideas emerging from radical critiques and challenges to the established order of architectural practice and education. The content of each edition was collated, and cut-and-pasted into layouts of the magazine which typically ran from 16 to 28 pages. Each edition included a brilliant cartoon by Andrew Brown who emerged as a clever graphic artist synthesising NAM's radical ethics. SLATE's production ran to 17 issues in total. The SLATE Group also produced occasional annual calendars, of which three survive Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource NAM Handbook https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/1bb0ac4c3c87e4b27578ac9428ea56d5.pdf cce682154f3cec1cce97a5fe48b0bbaa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Harrogate Founding Congress Subject The topic of the resource The Harrogate Congress was the founding of NAM. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 21-23 November 1975 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource NAM Handbook 1978/1979 Subject The topic of the resource Description of NAM's background, activities and campaigns with photographs and cartoons (40pp) Description An account of the resource NAM HANDBOOK 1978/1979 ARCUK CARDIFF EDUCATION FEMINISM GREEN BAN ACTION MONOPOLIES PROFESSIONALISM PUBLIC DESIGN SERVICE SLATE UNIONISATION CONTACTS LIST BIBLIOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION — The intention behind this hand- book is to draw together in one publication the various strands of activity undertaken by the New Architecture Movement (NAM). In so doing it is envisaged that a gap in NAM’s presentation of itself and its ideas to a wider public will have been filled. The handbook also sets out to explain the structure and workings of NAM, to counteract any assumptions that NAM is in any way a closed circle. It seeks to attract to the movement further people who ‘ agree broadly with its aims, and to give pointers to the areas of work still to be undertaken. It is hoped a useful tool will.thus have been created for the present and potential future membership. and structure of the movement, much of which still holds true today. Sev- eral local groups were established, and a Liason Group delegated to maintain and extend contacts , and to organise the annual Congress. In the three years since Harrogate NAM has continued to grow in strength and , with well over a hundred members and a growing list of significant campaigns in the previously complacent world of prof- essional politics, is now preparing itself for its fourth annual Congress. NAM’s strength undoubtably derives from. this success in campaigning against the anti-social and undemocratic aspects of current practice, in giving voice and form to the criticisms of those who, like the majority of architectural workers , are frustrated, isolated and exploited, alienated from the products of their labour and powerless in the face of architectural employers who have for so long jealously guarded The loose-leaf format was adopted to allow future addition and amend- ment , thus enabling the handbook to be kept up to date. The handbook is subdivided issue by issue in accord- ance with NAM’s working arrangements Additional material will be distributed in future issues of Slate, the NAM news- ural and allied workers in order to letter, whenever groups feel.the need to restate their position or bring the account of their activities up to date. ORIGINS OF NAM The New Architecture Movement was founded in November 1975 at the Harrogate National Congress. The significance of this event lay in the formalisation of a growing body of people with the shared belief in the need to reform architectural practice, The Congress achieved a consensus on the essential direction bring about radical changes in the practice of architecture . NAM seeks to restore control over their environ- ment to ordinary people , and social responsibility and accountability to the work of architects. In particular it seeks to fundamentally change the existing system of patronage , the power structure in architecture domin- ated by architects who are principles, both in private and public practice, and powerful corporate or bureau- cratic clients. NAM seeks notonly to challenge the existing relationship of architect to client and user, but also the status-quo. NAM was formed to channel effect- ively the collective action of architect- IN’ TRODUCTI ON the existing industrial relations between employer and worker,to restore avoice both to those who provide the labour for architecture and to those who use its products. STRUCTURE Despite the changeover to paid membership in 1976 NAM’s struct- ure remains very much as established Programmes for action are formulated at Harrogate ~ that of a network. from detailed critiques of the current situation and its background and to this end NAM exists as a network of groups which have over the past three years campaigned on specific issues in pursuit of these agreed aims. If the advance is to be maintained then NAM must continue to develop its critique across the spectrum of architectural practice and thus through regular discussion new areas of work: are determined and new issue or working groups are formed in response. MEMBERSHIP The majority of NAM members are salaried architects in either private or public practice, although students and teachers also provide a substantial Work is undertaken by locally based or issue based groups in furtherance of the overall aims of the movement Policy is ratified at Congress, an annual national event, by the membership as a whole and not by a central steering committee. Central functions are undertaken by the Liason Group and are largely administrative. It is hoped that NAM has thus avoided the pitfalls of bureaucracy and celebrities and also a two-tier organisation of the leadership and the led. Any group or individual is free to present work or propose changes in policy and thus take part in the refinement of NAM’s aims. Much of the work of NAM, the det- ailed development and presentation of policy on specific issues, is undertaken by issue groups which are self formed and self-directed in furtherance of over- all NAM policy. The continuing work element. Initially membership of NAM of such groups is communicated to the was based solely on a agreement with and involvement in pursuing the Move- ment’s aims. As the scope of activities increased an independent source of finance became necessary and member- Congress. Local groups, which hold ship fees were instituted at the Second regular meetings in a number of National Congress at Blackpool in 1976. major cities provice both a forum Whilst voting rights at Congress are retained by fully paid up members only, NAM is nevertheless keen to mainain contact with all interested parties and to this end all NAM events are open to and publications available to the public at large. It is intended to involve as many people as possible in the development of its ideas and activities by the full participation of its members and supporters in either issue groups or discussion meetings. for discussion of general issues and a potential for organisation around local issues. movement as a whole through the newsletter ‘Slate’, is presented for dis- cussion at local meetings and forums, and is endorsed as NAM policy by CAMPAIGNS In terms of democratic control over architectural practice NAM seeks a lay controlled governing body. ARCUK, though established as a ‘public interest’ body, has for its entire existence been controlled by the RIBA thus effectively regulating practice in favour of the architectural establishment. While NAM’s elected presence on ARCUK Council is growing at the same time so is disenchantment with the RIBA amongst architectural workers, NAM’s proposals for a reform of ARCUK are a component of its submission to a government sponsored Monopolies Commission report into architectural practice which concluded in favour of the NAM case that existing practice constitutes a monopoly oper- ating to the prejudice of the public interest. NAM continues to campaign for the abolition of the RIBA instituted mandatory minimum fee scale which restrict the availability of architectural services to the wealthy, corporate or bureaucratic. In the belief that the State represents for many the only means of access to resources NAM proposes a Public Design Service ,a reform of public sector practice, deriving froma critixjue of existing Local Authority departments. It seeks to establish locally based design and build teams directly accountable to tenants and usets — the abolition of existing hierarchical arrangements in favour of participatory democracy at a decentralised local level. In May 1977 NAM’s work on the unionisation of architectural workers , an essential component of the demo- * cratisation of architectural practice, culmin ited in the setting up of the Buildiiig Design Staff branch within AUEW-TASS specifically for architect- ural workers. The responsiblity and initiative fo rthis work has now passed to the Union. NAM has therefore, in the three years since its inception, sought out specific issues around which to campaign in furtherance of its aims . The recent successful formation of a NAM Feminist Group is an additonal example of NAM’s ability to seek out real issues as a centrepoint for concerted action. REPRESENTATION The New Architecture Movement was established as a decentralised democratic organisation rather than one with a dominant centralist org- anisation. To this end the annual INTRODUCTION Congress, held each year throughout a weekend in November, is the all- important democratic event at awhich the work of issue groups is endorsed and the tasks for the coming year determined. In addition the Liason, Group undertakes to organise a number whilst fulfilling that function, has of forums in different parts of the country throughout the year in order to bring together as many people as possible in the discussion of current work by issue groups who themselves give further account in Slate . Whilst the open democratic nature of NAM is undoubtably advantageous in enabling and encouraging the full participation of all members , the year to year dependence on Congress a s the banner, and also to attract a wider sole mandating event may as NAM continues to grow present drawbacks in terms of speed of response to events and accountability and the whole uced in London-by.an independent matter of constitution as at present under consideration by a working group. LIASON GROUP The Liason Group exists to provide essential services to NAM as a whole, a servant rather than an executive body. It currently has nine members drawn from various local and issue groups who meet regularly to under- take the coordination necessary to link together the dispirate elemenis that make up NAM. The Group answers or forwards all corresspond- ence and enquiries, administers fin- ance, handles publications and org- anises the annual congress and cer- tain other NAM events throughout the year. It is NAM’s practice to redelegate the entire group at each congress, thus ensuring a flow of members who have made themselves familiar with the workings of the movement. NAM group who are, like all NAM groups, accountable to Congress. It is published bi-monthly and sent free to all members but may also be bought by subscription or from many bookshops. SLATE A Publications Group was first established at Blackpool in 1976 with the aim of producing a NAM newsletter. Slate, as it soon became, outgrown its original brief, in terms of size, circulation and also ambition. Whilst still serving the needs of the membership in providing up to date reporting of NAM’s activities, the Slate Group has set out to give coyer- age and generate discussion on a wider range of architectural and environmental issues than necess- arily fall under the current NAM audience to NAM’s aims. Articles are commissioned both from with- in and outside NAM. Slate is prod- FURTHER DETAILS Further details about the New Architecture Movement, forthcoming meetings and any of the issues cont- ained in this handbook may be ob- tained by writing to NAM, 9 Poland Street, London W1. NAM is independent of all other bodies and relies solely on its mem- bers subscriptions to finance its activities. Twelve months member- ship, which includes a free subscrip- tion to Slate is £5.00 for employed people and £2.50 for unemployed people, students and pensioners. A membership form is included at the back of this handbook. July 1978 -e*—~all ARCUK a Nam ISSUE GROUP ARCUK GROUP Our interest in the Architects’ Registration Council UK (ARCUK) originated in the early discussions of the North London Group, which was established at the Ist NAM Congress, Harogate, November 1975. The North London Group was primarily concerned with the prob- lems of private practice; the relation- ship of architects to clients and users, and the industrial relationship bet- ween principals and salaried staff. The first of these issues - as applied to the public sector led to the setting up of the National Design Service Group (now the Public Design Service, or PDS Group q.v.). The second led naturally to consideration of trades unionism culminating in the major step of setting up the Building Design Staff section within the AUEW-TASS in May 1977. (An aspect of NAM’s work that is well documented else- where. However this still left the old North London Group- or Private Practice Group as became known when the issues had been thus refined - with the questions of accountability and control within the profession and the general problems associated with the concept of “professionalism”. It became clear that the system of self- government that is operated through ARCUK is central to the processes of architectural education, admission to the register and the regulation of practice by Codes of Conduct and Conditions of Engagement. Moreover, historical research into the origins of ARCUK and study of its constitution began to show that the unbroken tradition of RIBA domination severely limits ARCUK’s intended role as a “‘public interest” body. The initial conclusions of our study together with draft prop- osals for anew ARCUK Council were presented in the “Private Pract- ice Report”, to the 2nd NAM Cong- ress, Blackpool, November 1976. ARCUK Councillors represent- ing the professional associations are invariably appointed by the Councils of those Associations, but the Annual election of councillors to represent “Unattached Architects”- i.e. those simply registered with ARCUK who choose not to become members of any of the professional associations listed in Schedule I of the 1931 Architects Registration Act - offered an opportunity to gain access to the Council and raise some of the above questions directly in the context of ARCUK’s activities. The 1931 Act prescribes that the number of councillors representing the varipus “constituencies” shall be reckoned at one per 500 members or part thereof. Thus the “‘unattach- ed” elections of 1977 seven seats were available, six of which were sucessfully taken by NAM candidates. In 1978 owing to the increased number of unattached architects the number of possible seats rose to nine, and eight NAM candidates were returned. In addition, by virtue of a so-called. “gentleman’s agreement” councillors from each constituency are entitled to nominate further representatives to sit on certain ARCUK committees adding a turther two to the NAM contingent. The early work of the North London Group has thus produced a new NAM/ARCUK. issue group consisting of the elected councillors and any other interested in the field. tising - ensuring equal-rights for un- attached architects, South African investments - urging ARCUK to dis- pose of anti-social holdings and re- view its investment policy, ammend- ments to the Code of Conduct - esp- cially in relation to the monopolies issue (q.v. Monopolies Group), arch- itectural appointments - endevouring to prevent discrimination against the unattached in job advertisments, the question of limited liability and of course the monopolies issue itself. The NAM/ARCUK Group meets immediately before Council Meet- ings to allow discussion at greater length of the numerous and often complex issues. In addition, meeting are arranged whenever possible when non-London councillors are visiting to attend ARCUK comm~- ittee meetings. Some progress was made at the 3rd NAM Congress Hull, November 1977 in identy fing selcection criteria for NAM candidates in the unattached _ elections, and in establishingthe principle of councillors “stepping down” after an agreed term to allow otherstostandforelection. In such circumstances, to ensure the hard-won experience of outgoing councillors is not wasted, it is clearly desirable for prospective can- didates and any others interested to participate in group meetings and familiarise themselves with the pro- cedures of ARCUK in advance of the annual elections. In accordance with NAM const- itution, the Annual Congress and Group Forums allow an opportun- ity for the group to report back to the movement as a whole - and we have also endevoured to give regular accounts of our activities in SLATE Anyone interested in contributing to the group’s work is very welcome to contact in the first instance the NAM Liaison Group. July 1978 Although the unattached are the second largest constituency in ARCUK after the RIBA, the latters’ outright domination in Council, the Board of Architectural Education and all the committees has made it difficult for the NAM/ARCUK rep- resentatives to win motions in debate. Moreover the 40years undisturbed RIBA control has allowed us to be easily out manoeuvered while still “learning the ropes”. Nonetheless the very presence of a new and unfamiliar voice has had a certain dynamic effect which may be measured in at least one way by the extent that ARCUK affairs are now given considerably more press prom- inence. Issues with which we have been concemed include; corporate adver- CARDIFF A NAM LOCAL GROUP While the Cardiff NAM group was still in the throes of discovering just what is was supposed to ve about and where it was going, other things happ- ened which led to the idea ofa comm- unity design service. As the word spread that a group of radical archi- tectural workers had come together community groups were contacting us and it quickly became evident that they were primarily interested in us as a source of advice and ex~ pertise, interested in our professional capacity,that is. NAM nationally had already in- itiated discussions about what a National Design service might be, and it seemed that, at that time, we in Cardiff were in a position to initiate some such scheme. In view of the potential clientele there dev- eloped the idea that the project coul.] be run in an entirely different way to traditional practices. What we hoped to set up was a prototype community based design service which would begin to look at what terms like accountability’ and ‘a more democratic architecture *were really about - An apparantly ready source of finance at the time was the Manpower Services Commission (MSC) who were financing certain projects under their Job Creation Programme (JCP). In order to approach the MSC we needed to demonstrate that a poten- tial demand existed for the sort of design service we were proposing. We preparedaletter outlining the range and broad type of service we would be able to offer, and since we were hoping to use any responses we might get to back up our application, we asked respondents to say if they would use such a service if it existed and also HOW they would use it.The ' letter was circulated to residents associations ,community groups and voluntary organisationisn South East Wales. Response was extensive and positive from abstract encouragement to specific requests for help, some of them urgent. It came mainly from the run down older residential ateas of Cardiff, and from the mining valleys to the north and west. These responses raised questions about the catagories of work which should be undertaken by a design service such as the one we proposed . Should we be helping residents groups to provide voluntarily and out of their own pockets what government resources should be paying for, or designing kitchen/toilet facilities for the Church in Wales? These are questions that we had not even begun to discuss. Neither had we considered in any detail the ways in which the nature of the design service we would be offering would differ in essence from the sort of design service the RIBA might en- visage. The difficulties and short- comings of the sort of service we proposed would be enormous but I think it could be said that the demand for it had been firmly est- ablished. We agreed that in order to learn more about the mechanics of submitt- ing a JCP application we would need an early informal meeting with some one from MSC, Our first meeting was with the assistant to the MSC Cardiff CARDIFF GROUP area assessor. After outlining who we supposed lack of ability of the group were and who we represented we iden- to oversee the project, In order tq_ tified the need for a design input by have made the. application acceptable the community groups we had contact- to the MSC we would have had to ed and the linked need for employment have worked with local RIBA in South Wales for architectural workers groups and within the Local Author- To our surprise response was enthus- iastic. He thought the idea of a design service for community groups was very worthwhile attempting. He was full ofideas of how the project could be set up and along what lines it could progress. He even supplied us with the names and addresses of pecple and groups we should contact for letters of support. Towards the end of October 1976 we had a second meeting with the same assistant at the MSC, and this time the Cardiff area assessor was present for part of the discussion For this meeting the group had drafted out a JCP application. Once again the assistant was very enthus- iastic and helpful but the assessor was much more reserved about every aspect of the scheme, The wording and emphasis of the answers to some questions was altered to suit the assessor, Words such as credibility cropped up and he suggested that the workers employed under the JCP should be paid less than the negociated market rate for the job. However some kind of agreement was reached on the content of the form with particular attention to the comments of the assessor who it seemed would ‘judge’ the credibility of our apglication. A couple of weeks later after this final meeting the application, in its ammended form, went in with all the accompanying material. At the beginning of December we received a letter from the MSC inform- us that our applicatinn had been turned down with no reason for the refusal. We later heard mention of the lukewarm response of the local RIBA and the ity structure. The rejection of the JCP application made us realise that any work we did would have to fund itself. We are now doing improvement grant work to terraced houses in a previously blight- ed area of Cardiff for low income owner occupiers. This is being done through and with the encouragement of a local community and advice centre. The nature of these jobs and , more importantly, the financial’ status of our clients excludes a full percent- age fee service. Work is there fore being undertaken on a time charge basis. Extract from Slates 2 and 3 June 1977 Anyone wishing to contact this group should refer to the contacts list at the end of this handbook or write to the secretary of NAM. EDUCATION ANAM ISSUE GROUP Contary to statements made by NAM’s critics, only a small proport- ion of NAM membership is made up by students. Architectural students have always been reluctant to take action to alter the direction of architecture as a whole, or the direction of their education system. This apathy has contributed to NAM’s failure to arrive at a coher- ent educational policy, but it also demonstrates that a radical basis is required for students to identify and become involved with. Students have, however, consist- ently voiced legititmate complaints regarding the content and method- ology of architectural education. These include limited option opp- ortunities, lack of diversity both within and between schools, exces- sive emphasis on irrelevant academic and technological teaching, no com- EDUCATION GROUP munity involvement or accountab- ility, too many deadweight staff awaiting retirement, restrictive and elitist entry requirements, excessive power weilded by school heads, and soon. What is lacking is a crystal- lization of these grievances into an education policy, backed up by research and analysis. NAM'’s first education document, for the 1976 congress, was based on the need to “de-professionalize” the schools to create a radical acrhitect- ure, and encompassed student griev- ances in an analysis of education along Ivan Illich’s ‘de-schooling’ theories. It made proposals for action based around three aims: to enable a wider section of society to enter schools thus breaking down the middle class, elitist stature of = architecture; to ensure a more dyn- amic, adaptable and capable teach- ing staff; to dis-establish the schools make them democratic and account- able to the community and to real- ise the schools’ potential as a resource centre for use by all. This policy contained many excellent points and received support from students and staff in schools, but was not adequ- ately backed up by research and has never been developed. NAM’s recent activity in educa- tion has been confined to an analy- sis of the roles of the professional institutions and outlining the scope’ of an education policy. But the failure of full-time institutionalized architectural education to provide the ‘new architect’ to improve the image, relevance and ability of architects as a whole has promoted the establishment to call 1978 the year of the ‘great debate’ on arch- itectural education, the results of which will almost certainly be proposals for an even more rigid and irrelevant system. It is now of great importance that NAM can speak coherently on the issue and propose radical alternatives relevant to a more socially acceptable and democratic future role for architect- ural workers. It is necessary to formulate a pol- icy on three fronts: an analysis of the past and present education system, the pressures that created it and the results of it within a social, political and economic framework; the future direction for education to acheive a democratic, accountable architectural practice; and a programme for action within the system as existing to ach- ieve the needed. change. To be of any value and to have any effect, the formulation of this policy requires the participation and involvement of all NAM members, and the collective action of students and staff. July 1978 NAM Calendar 1977 FEMINISM & ARCHITECTURE A NAM ISSUE GROUP At the 1977 Congress in Hull NAM became tentatively aware of a gap in its radical approach to with and for women who are looking gq for an approach to design and build- & -ing which embodies these feminist wR ideals. We have been contacted by 8 several groups of women for help and & intend to set up a cooperative practice Fea} _in response to this demand. < architecture — that the ideas and experience of the Women’s Move -ment are as fundamental to the achieving of NAM’s aims as are those of the socialist movement and that they are intrinsically bound together. _ ised as follows: 8 Throughout their lives women live, work and study in an environment designed and built primarily by men and, more importantly, which reflects a male structured society. At present women who have beer successful in the architectural world have done so by taking up the values and modes of identification of that society and have therefore succeeded only in continuing men’s work, By working within the women’s movement and the labour movement as a whole we believe that a feminist architecture can exist. At the same time the circular nature of the relationship between buildings and society means that attempts to demonstrate the possibilities of an architecture where women are involved can be influential in the restructuring of that society. It is cherefore crucial that, as a group, we explore the alternatives both in theory and in practice, The theoretical discussion has developed along the lines described below and is outlined in SLATE 8 which is devoted to Feminism and Architecture and published an account of most of our work done up to that time. Qur action in practical terms is also summarised below but in partic- -ular it centres on the use of our skills Education — The conditioning of = girls away from technical subjects is a 4 Process which begins in early child < hood and is reinforced throughout = schooling. As few schools will a encourage girls to take up building Our current work may be summar- x telated subjects, we hope to organise a series of lectures for schools and colleges presenting architecture and building as a possible career for women. In order to facilitate this we are making a video film which will show women in this capacity. Women at Work — We have so far looked at the discrimination against women within our present economic system and the heirarchical organ- isations which exist in architectural practices. A Feminist Approach to Design — This centres around the relationship between the design of buildings and the role of ‘women in society todav and throughout history. We plan to show how design guides and hand- books tend to perpetuate the con- ventional role of women within the nuclear family and later kope to pro- duce a model design for a communal home. Women and the Press — We are investigating the ways in which architectural publications of all types promote the dominant role of men in the building industry and the conventional role of women in the home or as sexist aids to advertising. National Legislation — We have already made our reccommendations in the press that national legislation should require that a certain minimum percentage of women architectural workers be employed in all offices; that it should be mandatory for all larger offices to provide nursery Slate 4 and Slate 8 facilities and allow part time working and flexitime; that the goverment should actively encourage retraining schemes for women who have stopped work to bring up children; and that the government should support positive discrimination in schools in order to prevent conditioning of girls away from subjects requiring technical expertise. History of Women in the Construction Industry — The construction industry is supported indirectly by a number of manufact- -uring trades which employ mainly women. We are hoping to research more fully the facts regarding the employment of women in these trades and also to expose the part that women played during two world wars, and still do in many developing countries, in providing the main workforce for the industry. REALLY vo IiTTLE @RT) ‘SHOULD BE GiVEN | j Mowever, the treasury argues that specific rants tto sc 4 tresures must fe te Petition with otter public expenditure and therefore be under treasury control. ‘Ee sept rom he Eagenae Crmiie 19727 The Neti Lan Women architects demand a wore _ stag Sind plant in fespect cl better deal Troe | National tesislation should require that a certain p, Pang eovirnmen in Bish , ‘of women architectural workers be employed in | “2-7 The proportion ot womeg | abour 5 per cear. Thy paper prese: open eerie atten ow ABSURD To THiw ang Gin HAE BN ABILITY / Toiorie ToALLowwomen 76 STucy Fi ERIFiC HAVING WOMEN AS” is encee agrees mt he USN wont. omen Who must be eniplt whe meeung broadly fr ‘cs and ‘should also support positive di ‘er to preveat conditioning of girls “TBA survey ¢ The Feminist Group has been meeting regularly since it was formed in November 1977. Initially meetings. took.the form of informal discussions around our own experiences at work and as students. We then organised a few widely publicised open meetings with guest speakers on topics such as the communal role of women in early societies and women at work today. These meetings have been successful in many ways: as well as providing valuable material for research through the exchange of information and ideas, and a public platform for the views of the group and NAM asa whole, they have enabled us to practice skills in which many of us felt we lacked experience such as preparing, organ- ising, coordinating, chairing and speaking at largish public meetings. By November 1978, in time for the fourth NAM congress, we intend to have published a booklet chronic- 4s employing more than 20 people to prav’ sities and ta allow part time working o¢ flexiry “ovemment should actively encourage retra “en who have stopped work to bring up .> AncTheceTU?RE, THEYIRE OnLy Gea Lcom;NG FOR A HUSBAND ABOUT KiTCH! so he les generous iecatment of industrial bully ciation allowances for tax purposes may be at least cesposible for te lke nton devoued to produce x a Architecture Movement is planning to ra ce. The idea isto form a design andaild group whi sig. Already Oup’s activity gem part of the Group's contribution to the spa’ Women, Architects" exhibition being eNgbours in Pacis, starting on the 13 belandiatetitwudes: The tess 1») They feel chit women van ci. | technical devaiting, (b) They feel that women cannot expe st angressve cop.cactor on site, (c) They may have never employed 2 theredofnoavreventhink of thepossbilit (d) They feel rh: women are tnund children anyws fe) They may fet threatenedat eauld da the sume woe as theinselves may icel comtraimed by th the | axgainst werner. Several large a! swounen arch ehtch Pats get first job ron txsomewhat ma + carlyeighteenctehnt, ornerof thesite, Orenedfy Per (ales and cente, The evtof the workaround £40 00) 8 sgomber of the Federation sold icttheefhebling theAJthashewasvery soup, but thc the eorapertive ting dened oy a indemiey insurance quicly 35 they want the work © 88 Beomen areca valved |butts ilnoegalconatined, The scheme currently being put forward Borough Council forthe rejcena’ varket area AT 16.8.78 => “ehop thatthe m rea *i the foo woud have to be se 10 Fe FEMINISM & ARCHITECTURE fed work. design for a communal home for several families. This eclbped tbe propa ur ihe. pape, alo rewvmmended that it should be mandutney Je gt nytenesmeanfobicbeenepi e-apeatveprstcet up rece by NAS Peri -ling our research and findings on the above issues. We also have been represented at the Centre Beauborg in Paris this September at the exhib- -tion of the International Union of Women Architects. Contact with the group may be made through any of the members listed in the contacts list at the end of this handbook or through the secretary of the New Architecture Movement. July 1978 EEN A WOMIANON A FR COURSE SHE ONLY GOT 7 a” {CAL CLD HARRiDAN= FEMINIST 1 AN ASSCC TATE 6Y SCREWING Bae STAND THESE. AGSRESS ur GREEN BAN ACTION A NAM ISSUE GROUP A Green Ban is the action taken by groups of workers who refuse to work on socially and environment- ally harmful projets. The Green Ban Action Committee believes that only by creating a broad alliance involving ordinary working people as well as dedicated conservationists can effective action be taken to protect and improve our environ- ment. It is therefore composed of members of trade unions, commun- ity organisations and environmental groups, and seeks to involve a very wide range of people in its campaigns. The collaboration among those who live in the local environment includ- ing those who create it by their labour, results in a very powerful force. It raises the prospect of people working together to encour- age projects of a socially useful and environmentally desirable nature, rather than leaving profit to deter- mine the sort of environment in which we live. The Green Ban Action Committee was formed at a public meeting in Birmingham organised by people GREEN BAN ACTION COMMITTEE opposed to the destruction of the splendid Victorian Post Office in the city centre. The first actions of the comm- ittee were to start a petition (which collected 20,000 signatures ), hold a public rally, and to seek resolutions of support from trade unions such as EEPTU, AUEW-TASS, ASTMS* NUPE; NALGO, UCATT and TGWU. Support was aslo forthcoming from local MPs, and county and city councillors. Following the rally in March 1976, NAM was asked to prepare a planning report on the implications of the re- development with respect to the city and the financial return that was to be expected. Part of the report re- appeared in the first Green Ban Action Committee’s broad sheet which listed the arguments against the development, the support for the campaign and a brief explana- tion for the Green Ban idea. The broadsheet was distributed through all the local TV branches and schools as well as the people of the city, The campaign was featured in the local and national press, many magazines and journals and on Radio Birming- ham. The 24 hour occupation of a giant crane on an adjoining site in support of the campaign was feat- ured on television. During the summer of 1976 alternative proposals were formulated by the committee for the use of the building. NAM gained access to survey the building and prepare a feasability study on the reuse of conversion of the post office as a city recreation and leisure centre, In Novembera delagation rep- resenting the GBAC, the West Mid lands TUC and the Victorian Society met with the City Council and the Post Office Board - a meeting result- ing from pressure mounted by GBAC. The aim was to discuss objections of the proposed redevelopment of the GPO site. The leader of the City Council (now Tory) refused to consider revoting planning consent, and left it to the postal board to make. concessions. But in spite of detailed arguments about Birming- ham’s heritage, about planning for people instead of profits, and about the huge over provision of office space, the Postal Board remained totally fixed in its determination to demolish the Victorian Post Office and build offices. At the first AGM of the GBAC in March the following year, NAM pres- ented outline proposals for the use of the building as a leisure centre where they received unanimous approval. Following on from the meeting the alternative plan was brought before the UCATT regional committee and a resolution of support was passed. The proposals were brought up at the next Birmingham Trades Council meeting, received considerable support from the delagatesand a resolution of support. At the AGM of the West Midlands TUC the proposals received the unanimous approval from officals of just about all the unions of the West Midlands. Thus NAM has taken part in a revolutionary and historic depart- ture in the development of the British Trade Union movement and at the same time helped strengthen the support already given to the campaign. It may be too late to save the Vict- orian Post Office in Birmingham. That would be sad but it would not be end - rather the first step in a difficult and exciting process. The approach taken by the Green Ban Action Committee is a new one in Britain and it is hoped that it will be taken up in other cities and local- ities throughout the country. July 1978 landscapers, students and , of course, unemployment. The group meets regularly on the first Tuesday of each month holding extra meetings when necessary. In its activities to date it has not concentrated all its collective effort on its own specific issues but has tried to spread awareness of NAM’s existence and primary concerns. One example of the groups efforts on the part of the movement is its distribution system for Slate. Each member buys two copies of two successive issues and distributes them to lacal offices and the School of Architecture as well as attemipting to organise selling through bookshops. Another example was by visiting the majority of architectural offices in Leeds and Huddersfield to try to obtain signatures for the petition against ARCUK investment in South Africa. Also, contact has been made with the Wakefield and Barns.ey branch of the RIBA, the Huddersfield RIBA branch, Leeds City Architects Dept and people working in local practices, for the purpose of discussing the work and policies of NAM. * Anyone wishing to contact this group should refer to the contacts list at the end of this hand book or write to the secretary of NAM. July 1978 LEEDS A NAM LOCAL GROUP 2s The Leeds Group which consists of about eight members was formed a year ago. The occupations of the members are varied and include workers in private architectural practice, construction workers - including building cooperators, self employed builders, designers and builders working on theatres, comm- 8 Members of the group are very 8 unity centres and housing cooperat- The following list is of some of the organisations in which members are active as individuals: NAM liason group; ARCUK Council; local branch of AUEW ives, working with Women in Manual Trades (formerly Women in Construc- tion) , adventure playground workers, BDS-TASS; Women in Manual Trades; UCATT; ARCAID — this is a local org- conscious of the many possibilities for expanding the range of activities in terms of both local and national issues. Although in dividual members are separately engaged on most related issues, the group as a whole does not work on them as such. anisation which was started in response toa need for architectural and related services such as financial advice,-design, construction or refurbishing for local groups; tenants groups; community groups; groups concerned with local housing policy; building cooperatives and the Anti Nazi League. = LONDON Perhaps unayoidably, owing to the size of its constituency, the Lon- don group has proved the most signif- icant generator of NAM policy and action. Its form and role have chan- ged during its short history, according to the needs of its membeis, and the development of NAM as a whole. At present the London group provides a forum for NAM members to discuss a range of topical, theor- etical and practical questions which fall both within and outside the accepted body of NAM issues. Its meetings are held on amonthlybasis ate widely advertised and open to the public at large, so serving additionally as an introduction to the New Architectural Movement _ for those interested in a radical anal- ysis of architectural practice. This arrangement is , however, a relat~ ively recent innovation. At first, following the founding Congress in Harrogate in 1975, two separate working groups, the North and Central London groups, were est- ablished concentrating on distinct areas of interest and activity. In these the problems and contradict- ions of private practice and profess- ionalism were discussed, the case for union isation developed, the first National Design Service prop- osals formulated and the NAM sub- mission to the Monopolies Comm- ission undertaken. The first London seminar held in April 1976 in Covent Garden Community Centre, was well attended and provided the first pub- lic platform for much of this work. . Later, at the second Congress in Blackpool, the issue group structure LONDON GROUP. A NAM LOCAL GROUP Nick Wates co x» Ss An was formalised and distinct groups were formed to pursue the work on unionisation, the National Design Service, and the Monopolies issue, and to produce a newsletter for the movement which became Slate. A NAM characteristic had been estab- lished - that of the self-formation of a group of people through disc- ussion of an issue, resulting in a commitment to undertake the nec- essary work in terms of research of and formulation and presentation ofideas. Of necessity much of this work is undertaken in London and many London NAM members found themselves heavily committed to issue groups, or to the Slate or Liaison groups. In line with such developments it is hoped that the presently evolved format fulfils two functions. Through regular discussions it seeks not only to in- form and allow the membership a say in the work of issue groups, but to generate discussion and interest across a broader spectrunrof concern. Thus recent discussions have included presentations by NAM groups on the aftermath of the Monopolies Comm- ission and NAM’s proposals for the immediate future; Slate and Arch- itectural Journalism, centering on the problems of press accountability, and Women at Work, a discussion led by the recently formed Feminist Group on the current position of women in relation to architectural and building work and possible act- ion for future change. In addition meetings have been given over to discussion of the GLC Architect’s Department, the results and implic- ations of the drastic policy changes wrought by the Tories, and Altern- 3 ative Forms of Practice, a meeting at which representatives from co- operatives and other practices disc- ussed their experiences. The next meeting, planned for early September, will centre around Cynthia Cockburn’s book “The Local State’. London group meetings are usually reported in Slate and the weekly arch- itectural journals. They are adver- tised in these magazines and in “Time Out”, and anybody interested is wel- come to attend. Further informat- ion may also be obtained from, and suggested topics for the future prog- ramme send to the New Architecture Movement, 9 Poland Street, London, WIV 3DG: July 1978 MONOPOLIES A NAM ISSUE GROUP The ‘monopolies ’ issue - so called after the Monopolies Commission’s recent enquiry into architects’ fees has been a major element of NAM’s work since shortly after its form- ulation in November 1975. Dis- cussions originated in the old Central London Group and were continued in the North London Group early in 1975 until a specific Monopolies Issue Group was. needed to develop the work in detail. In September 1973 the Depert- ment of Trade and Industry asked the Monopolies Commission - a gov- ernment service department - to pursue the investigation of the arch- itects fee system which the National Prices and Incomes Board had begun. to reviewin 1968. The Commission set about gathering evidence from all parties considered to have an interest in the affair, ranging the RIBA (res- ponding as the monopolist) who through the statutoryAuthority of ARCUK make their fee scale and Conditions of Engagement binding on all architects; to many ‘consumer groups’ - including private organisation ations, public corporations and nation- alised industries. Towards the end of the evidence-gathering period NAM became interested in the issue and submitted its report “The Case Against Mandatory Fees”, in May 1976, The Commission was required to report on whether the fixed fee system used by architects was a that the way in which architects are paid led directly to the heart of the profession, how it is governed and the system of checks and balances that relates architects to each other and to those they claim to serve. Our report, which was closely cross-referenced to the RIBA sub- mission, was presented in three sec- tions. First we attempted to show the falsity of the Institutes’ central argument that the fixed fee scale is needed to sustain the architect’s “assurances” of integrity, unlimited liability, competence, accountability andaltruism. Next we juxtaposed some of the many incompatible statements within the RIBA docu- ment, and queried the inferences drawn from their statistics. Lastly we endeavoured to contsruct a definition of “the public interest” of broader application than the narrow formula adopted by the Commission. Asummary of the NAM position was featured prominently in the Commissions report, “Architects Services”, which was published in November 1977. The Commission concluded that the existing fee system was indeed a monopoly operating to the prejudice of the public interest and therefore recommended its abol- ition and the establishment of an independent government committee to determine new recommended fee scales. As the Minister accepted the report, monopoly(33% of the defined market) the Office of Fair Trading were asked and whether it operated to the prej- udice of the public interest. As our analysis developed it became clear to discuss with the profession how to ammend its rules to permit fee competition. At the same time, MONOPOLIES GROUP the basic NAM position having been vindicated, the Monopolies Group began to prepare proposals for anew fee system. These proposals, together with suggestions for Code of-Conduct ammendments and for the independ- ent Committee were published under the title “Way Ahead” and were pres- ented to the Office of Fair Trading by NAM representatives of Unattach- ed Architects in March 1978. : In May 1978 the OFT reported back to the Minister that no progress had been made with the RIBA or ARE€UK, leaving him to decide whether to use compulsory powers to enforce the Monopolies Commi ission recommendations. At the time of writing (July 1978) no further government action has been taken but the profession is active in lobbying both the Department of Trade and Industry and the DOE in an effort to persuade the Minister to set aside or modify the requirements. At the Third NAM Congress in Hull, November 1977, the Monop- olies Group’s interim report, “Do Not Pass Go - Do Not Collect 6%’. was presented and accepted, and the group was mandated to continue with the néce ssary follow-up action. A leaflet summarising the back- ground to the issue and the main proposlas of “WAY AHEAD” has therefore been prepared by NAM representatives of the Unattached Architects in order to bring our view point to the attention of the widest possible audience. There is much to be done, and with limited resources so that anyone wishing to contribute to the work of the Monopolies Group, which meets regularly in London, is very: welcome to contact NAM Liaison Group. Anyone wishing to contact this group should refer to the contacts list at the end of this handbook or write to the secretary of NAM. July 1978 PROFESSIONALISM A NAM ISSUE GROUP The current mode of professional organisation of architects in this country can only be understood in its historical context. In the early 19th century, new skills and areas of knowledge arose in response to the needs of rapidly expanding industry, and the traditional fields of expertise in the “professional” occupations were increasingly invaded by those possessing these new essential skills. Architects, seeing their territory being eroded by, for example, engineers and spec. builders, responded in a similar way to other threatened “professional” occupations. They defined the area which they considered to be their concern, and attempted to control the practice of skills which operated within that area. not gain entry to the profession. They could guarantee integrity, they claimed, by setting down a Code of Conduct, which those gaining entry to the profession must undertake to comply with. The profession sought to exclude the “unscrupulous and unfit” in order that the credibility of the profession should not be brought into disrepute. Well, you might say, what does it matter whether the motive for prof- essionalising was one of self interest, if the “guarantees” offered by the profession stem from what is, arguably, a need for ensuring compet- ence and integyity within the profes- sion. But this would depend not only on whether it is DESIRABLE to ensure competence and integrity, but also on whether it is POSSIBLE to“guarantee” these through a professional mode of organisation. Let us look at the “guarantee” off- ered by the architectural profession in terms of integrity - the Code of Conduct. (n an age where tree competition was “ deified”, how did professionals so successfully manage to organise to protect their own interest? Unlike similarly motivated attempts at organ- isation by industrial labourers of the period (which met with powerful and sustained opposition) “profess- ionals” did not identify themselves as a group whose interests were in opposition to those of their employers. action. In fact, the Code is prim- Rather, they identified their interests WITH those of their employers, and used this “common interest” as the basis for their organisation. They argued that, by organising, they would be albe to offer employers a “guarantee” of competence and integ- tity. They could guarantee compet- ence, they argued, by setting down certain minimum qualifications, without which practitioners would arily designed to cover relationships between principal architects and other principal architects, and bet- ween principal architects and clients. There is little applicability to salaried. The Code, in order to be compre- hensive, would need to cover the relationships between all the parties involved in an architectural trans- architects, and the users of buildings hardly get a look in (a mention has recently been made of them in Princ- iple 1 of the Code, but this is not supported by any of the Rules which follow from that Principle). PROFESSIONALISM GROUP In addition, the effectivity of any guarantee will partly depend on its enforceability. In practice, there is a reluctance to act on the Code until such time as guilt has been proved in acourt of law. The pot- ential effectivity of the Code asa “guarantee of integrity” can also be viewed in another way. It is said that the Code acts as a “moral oblig- ation”. Whilst not denying the pot- ential ofthis view, it can be argued that the weight of the Code as “moral obligation” can only be ass- essed when it is balanced against all the other pressures which operate on architects, such as the profit motive, the increasing bureaucratisation of the architects’s job, the contradictions of the salaried architects’ positions, an and the simple need to makealiving. The question that has to be asked here is, “what weight do moral obligations have against pressures such as these?” The major argument about “profess- ional guarantees’, however, is whether they are necessary at all. Society has moved on from the laissez faire atmosphere of the 19th Century when when professionalism was seen as the major counter to rampant indiv- idualism, Legislation, in the form of the Trades Description Act, Con- sumer Protection Act, etc., aim to offer the public protection, to per- form the very same function that the “professional guarantee” set out to perform.. So the Code of Conduct could be said to be incomplete and unenforc- eable, to carry little weight as “‘mor- al obligation”, and to offer the pub- lic little more than it is already offered offered in law. But it could be argued that it is nevertheless harmless enough for the profession to formally specify the way it would like its members to behave, even if this specification carried little weight. The trouble is that the profession is laying claim to a “social responsibility” it cannot ensure, and together with this, the profession lays claim also to the ad- vantages which accrue to “altruistic” professional groups in terms of status, self administration, etc. “Professional guarantees” are in- complete, ineffective, superfluous, and operate as figleaves, hiding from the public the way that the profession actually operates - in its own self interest. Currently, professional controls in architecture are undergoing change in response to pressure from within and from the Government. NAM seeks to add its voice to the debate and to contribute to future develop- ments through its representation of ‘unattached architects’ on ARCUK, its report to the Monopolies Comm- ision, and in its call for the reform of the Architects Registration Acts. (described elsewhere in this hand- book). For a fuller discussion of profess- ionalism and the Code of Conduct, see SLATE 3, and Way Ahead, the report submitted by representatives of “Unattached Architects” on ARCUK, to the Office of Fair Trading following the Monopolies Commission Report of Architects’ Services. Also ‘A Short History of the Arch- itectural Profession’: all available from NAM. A NAM ISSUE GROUP NAM’°s initial call for a radical change in the hegemony and patron- age in architecture led to two main points of action. Firstly the call for unionisation in private practice (explained elsewhere in this Hand- book), and secondly for a National Design Service which would meet the right of everyone to exercise control over the buildings which surround them and in which they live and work.’ This idea embodied the ‘commun- ity architecture’ approach, but also recognised that the existing system of public patronage would have to be challenged. Control over design could not be separated from control over resources. The NDS group developed their analysis in papers presented to NAM Congresses and in open meetings, culminating in a Conference in Birmingham in May 1978, which put forward several proposals for action. is that under the present economic system the majority of people gain their rightful access to environmental resources through the various layers of the State. The Public Design service is therefore visualised as a radically modified form of Local Authority (where most of the resources are in fact already distributed) rather than as a new parallel system which would have to wrest control from these pow- erful institutions. This approach led to careful assessment of Local Authority design departments and their potential for change. While the PDS group recognises that these are mostly bureaucratic instruments of social control necessary to support private capital, they also see them as susceptible to vigorous popular press- ure from below, being the lowest teir of government, The frustration engendered by local authorities could be directed into action for beneficial change rather than being spent in need- less and destructive criticism. PUBLIC DESIGN SERVICE GROUP LA Architect departments (and their logical partners, the direct labour organisations) are currently under attack from many quarters. The consequent weakening of these departments leads to the letting of design and building work to outside private architects and contractors, whose profit interest remove them further from accountability and control by the users. The PDS group is therefore in direct oppos- ition to any moves to dismantle these essential areas of public service. To help retain public control over resources, while trying to improve their distribution the PDS group are trying to develop the potential for joint action amongst Local Auth- ority Architects and workers, tenants federations, appropriate trade unions and direct labour organisations. The first point of NAM’s involvement will be to interest and organise LA arch- itects to defend their services, to promote their responsibility to the community, and to research and analyse the idea of a Public Design Service. There is much work to be done in trying to link the methods and exper- iences of the different local author- ities, to learn from the various uncon- ventional approaches already being tried, and in trying to take design and building to where it really counts counts - into the hands of Local Authority consumers. The PDS group has contacts through- throughout the country and anyone wishing to help or get further inform- ation should contact NAM, 9 Poland Street, London, W.1. July 1978 SLATE THE NAM NEWSLETTER Slate was first published in March 1977 asa resultof a resolution passed at the second NAM congress calling for anewsletter. Subsequently it has app- eared at two monthly intervals. The Slate Group sees the newsletter as having three main aspects: firstly as a message board for NAM’s dispersed membership by collecting and publish- ing information about NAM’s work in the various issue and local groups; secondly as an outlet for news coverage uncompromised by the need to pander to the whims of architects or to allow influence to be exerted over content by advertisers, as characterisesthe ‘straight’ architectural press; and thirdly as a way of building up a body of rad- ical theory with regular feature sections. Recent issues have included features on education, community architecture and Local Authorities. The latest issug is devoted to Feminism and Archi- J. tecture. The group sees the preoccupation \ * with form as displayed by most of the architectural ‘glossies’ as symptom\’, atic of the avoidance by the archit- ectural world of the crises faced by todays architects during a timeof. economic stress. In an attempt to compensate for this attitude,Slate has produced specific features on issues such as Government cuts in Local Authority architects depart- ments but, more importantly, given consistent coverage to currents of radical change within the profession and to the political background surr- ounding clients and their buildings which our profession so often chooses to ignore, SLATE GROUP” BUILDING A FUTURE FOR WOMEN. IN ARCHITECTURE | Aa The Slate Group, which is respon- sible for the production of the news- letter, is largely autonomous, It con- sists of approximately ten members who are elected each year at the i a= A IS <a has been established acting in offices and schools throughout the country. j Trade distribution is now handled by the Publications Distribution Cooper- ative with the result that circulation is steadily increasing. Currently the print run is 1000 copies. It is hoped that readership will ex- tend to include more building workers and community activists than at present, but the success of this dep- ends largely on contributions andin- volvement by people outside the group. 9 Slate welcomes any letters, articles or information suitable for publication and also offers of help in editing and production. Anyone wishing to contact the group should refer to the-contacts list at the end of the handbook or write to the secretary of NAM. ea annual congress. Most of the produc- tion tasks such as editing , graphics, typesetting, paste-up and some of the i printing , is carried out by the mem- mej bersofthegroupitself. A distribution network of agents sléte!, n,n. & vit, 1. Idinds of groy, green, oF bluish-purple rock easily split fato fat smooth plates; piece of euch e used as roofing-material; pieco of It ramed in wod used for’writing on UNIONISATION A NAM ISSUE GROUP Trade Union organisation is a major feature of modern profession- al, as well as industrial occupations and most architects in public employ- ment or in large Housing Associations have recognised Trade Unions at their place of work. Why then are only a tiny proportion of the 50,000 workers in the private sector of building design, Trade Union mem- bers? For architects the traditional ans- wer has always been that private arch- itectural practices are small liberal “families” of equal professionals sharing the same abilities, interests and goals. Within this “family” the hard- working architect of ability rises naturally to partnership, employs younger architects himself, thus pro- viding equal opportunities for the next generation. Trade Union org- anisation, it is argued, is thus of no long-term interest to the architect in private practice. Whether this image of architect- ural practice was ever more than myth in the past, it certainly bears no resemblance to today’s reality. Private architectural practices comprise some two-thirds of the pro- fession and are, by and large, business- es in which the 90% of salaried employ- ees have little hope of achieving any share in the control of the work they do, or ¢-£ their own salaries and cond- itions. In the pursuit of business ION’ —WHAT ON 1WEWANT NN A OMION FOR T!! \ PD <) UNIONISATION GROUP efficiency more practices are expand- ing, becoming heirarchicai and bureau- cratic. The smaller practice where it still exists uses the “family” metaphor to justify the low salaries paid to emp- loyees and to evade the obligation to provide good working conditions. They claim low profits - but invari- ably refuse to disclose figures to their salaried staff. Partnership law exempts practices from the inconvenient obl- igation to disclose trading figures but the declared earnings of principals in private practice recently* showed differentials of 50 fold between partners and salaried architects in some large practices - a far cry from ~ the equality preached by the profess- ional myth. The salaried architect is, typically, overworked, underpaid, and as much at the mercy of the market as any other worker. All architectural workers are now beginning to realise that better pay and conditions, job security, and control of the work they do can only be gained by acting together to bar- gain for these rights at their place of work. MANY UNIONS....7 At LUCAS AEROSPACE workers have refused to. accept that the manu facture of military hardware is the only expediency, architectural workers useful work available and through their remain unorganised and illequiped Trade Union organisation, are prom- to protest at the cancellationof oting an inventive new range of soc- ially useful products as an alternat- ive to redundancy. By contrast in 1977 at a well-known London arch- itectural practice salaried architects set to work on the design of gallows for a middle-eastern prison, were *.....iN no position to complain.” Architectural workers are the first to be affected by the use of the building industry as an “econom- ic regulator” in the pendulum of gov- ernment spending. Whilst hospital workers and teachers are actively fighting, through trade union organ- isation, for an end to socially destruc- tive cuts in social services made in the interest of short term economic Louis Hellman essential medical and educational buildings. = In any previously unorganised. occupation there is the danger that several rival unions, including “craft” or quasi-non TUC affiliated unions may emerge, encouraged by employ- ers, which divide workers and prevent effective united action. To avert this possibility and to encourage organis?- tion of ALL employees in private practice architectural workers in NAM set out to examine the options open and to launch a campaign to encour- age membership in strength of single TUC affiliated Union, by all workers in private sector building design. In 1976 the Unionisation Work- ing Group of NAM Central London Group submitted a draft report to the NAM Blackpool Congress prep- osing active Trade Union organisa-_ tion for architectural workers in the private sector. The Congress set up a national Unionisation Organising Committee to develop realistic prop- osals for organisation and to initiate an organising drive. The committee published the report - WORKING FOR WHAT?- setting out the case for trade union organisation in private sector building design and began detailed research into the options open. The committee exam- ined the possibility of forming a. wholly new union for building workers but this was considered im- practical without the financial and organisational back-up of an existing TUC affiliated Union. After detailed research the Organ- ising Committee held a building des- ign workers conference on May 14 1977 attended by over 70 delegates from throughout Britain. Briefed by a 10,000 word research report the delegates debated and chose TASS by a clear majority as the one Union within which building design workers should organise. TASS was chosen because of its record as an effective Union in enginéering design and for its high quality “back- up” of officials, publicity, legal and research facilities. TASS pioneer- ed equal rights for women (having If you refusetf iate withus. ther bor, tnion TASS will tate forus:.- a Angus Slate 3 UNIONISATION GROUP the first national Womens’ Organiser) and is linked with the powerful AEUW- - Britain’s second largest union. By 31 May 1977 a Building Design Staff section had been set up within TASS and the first Branch (BDS - London Branch) inaugurated. With the formation of BDS-TASS main responsibility for the organ- ising drive among architectural work- ers transferred from the NAM Org- anising Committee to the BDS- TASS membership though since many of these are also NAM memb- ers close links are maintained. A National Advisory Committee (NAC) of BDS members co-ordinates membership at national level, proy- iding a focus for BDS-TASS members in general TASS branches through- out Britain and dealing with general recruitment. The NAC publishes a BDS NEWS and recruiting literat- ure aimed specifically at building desi BDS- LONDON Branch meets monthly at Polytechnic of Central London, 104-108 Bolsover Street, London, W.1. Each meeting holds a general forum open to non-members and alternate meetings have an invited speaker. The branch has become perhaps the only place where many building design workers can discuss important issues outside the pressur- ised atmosphere of the office. The Branch research has produced a “model” contract of employment to assist members tied down to oner- ous (and sometimes illegal) condit- ions of employment, and joint con- sultations are in hand with public sector Trade Unions to form an “Architectural Workers Alliance” to represent the voice of all workers in both public and private sectors. A monthly Branch bulletin pub- lished by BDS London Branch giving full details of branch meetings can be obtained, free of charge, to- gether with further BDS—TASS lit- rature from: The Secretary, Building Design Staff National Advisory Committee, Onslow Hall, Little Green. Richmond. Surrey. TW9 1QN July 1978 CONTACT LIST ARCUK c/o NAM, 9 Poland Street, London W1. CARDIFF Sue Barlow 205 Arabella Street, Roath, Cardiff. EDUCATION Hugo Hinsley 449 Mile End Road, Bow, London E3. tel: 01-251 0274 FEMINISM Frances Bradshaw 14 Duncan Terrace, London N1. tel: 01-278 5215 GREEN BAN ACTION COMMITTEE David Roebuck 25 St Georges Avenue, London N7. tel: 01- LEEDS Norman Amold 9 Midland Road, Leeds 6, West Yorkshire. LONDON Ken Pearce 127 Fairbridge Road, London N19 MONOPOLIES c/o NAM, 9 Poland Street, London W1 PROFESSIONALISM Anne Delaney 28 Pane Place, Cathays, Cardiff. PUBLIC DESIGN SERVICE David Green Show House, Bardney Orton.Goldhay,Peterborough. SLATE c/o NAM, 9 Poland Street, London W1. UNIONISATION David Berney 23 Arthur Road, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey. BIBLIOGRAPHY . ARCUK Private Practice Report NAM November 1976 Professionalism Cardiff NAM Group, November 1976 Arcuk After 40 Years in the Wilderness Slate 1, March 1977 Professional Government 3 part feature in Slate 3 July/August 1977 EDUCATION FEMINISM Women Who Are Builders Building a Future for Women in Architecture GREEN BAN ACTION COMMITTEE NAM and the Green Ban GBAC sends PO plans to Council MONOPOLIES Slate, Issue 6 Slate, Issue 4 Slate, Issue 8 Slate Issue 4 Slate, Issue 7 NAM November 1977 Services — A Straightforward Guide Slate 5 Do Not Pass Go — Do Not Collect 6% Monopolies Commission Report on Architects Who Pays? — Who Gets It? Way Ahead End Architects Fixed Fees PROFESSIONALISM Professional Government Way Ahead A Short History of the Architectural Profession PUBLIC DESIGN SERVICE A National Design Service Building for Whom? Way Ahead UNIONISATION Working for What? BDS/TASS News, Issue 1May 1978 NAM July 1978 Slate, Issue 3 _ NAM July 1978 NAM 1975 NAM 1976 Slate, Issue 7 NAMJuly 1978 NAM 1977 NAM Calendar 1976 Soa. *! ge E==) Crxodus$0”Asthetica Andit was said “God is in the details’ the People trembled fore the might ofthe Word, they saw he light on ae They Sid without the Word nd their Selves Nant PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE FROM NAM Way Ahead New report proposing new fee system, changes in Code of Conduct and making suggestions to forthcoming Government Committe in the light of the Monopolies Commission recomm- endations. £1.50 Do Not Pass Go .... Do Not Collect 5% The only independent evidence to the Monopolies Commission arguing the case against mandatory minimum fees, plus proposals for a more representative, lay controlled ARCUK. £1.00 Public Design Service Conference Papers Analysis of the origins and role of Local Authority departments of architecture, and interim proposals for a locally based design service directly accountable to tenants and users, £1.50 National Design Service Initial critique of Public Sector design , considering alternative structures to allow local control of design and resources. £0.75p Private Practice Progress Report @nference papers on a new model of architectural practice, the need to reform the Architects Registration Acts, and the case for trade unionisation organisation of architectural and allied workers. £0.35p Short History of the Architectural Profession From its first origins to the present day. £0.30p Prices include postage and packing. Back Issues of Slate — £0.35p each Slate 1 Slate 2 Slate 3 Slate 4 Slate 5 Slate 6 Slate 7 Slate 8 Community architecture Professionalism — the myth and the ideology. ARCUK -—insignificant or not? Women who are builders and feature on Construction in Crisis. Report on 1977 NAM Annual Congress. Guide to the Monopolies Commission Report. Education special. Building for whom? - Local Authority primer. Women in Architecture special. DIDUINY NYANMLY 88 MEMBERSHIP FORM Please use block letters Name Address Telephone ___________ home —_______. work enclose a cheque/PO payable to the New Architecture Movement for the sum of £ Membership fee for twelve months including subscription to Slate is £5 for employed people and £2.50 for students, OAPs and claimants, Please make all cheques and postal orders payable to the New Architecture Movement and send to NAM, 9 Poland Street, London WI. Are you an unattached architect? I would like to become a member of the New Architecture Movement, The following information will hetp the Liason Group serve better its membership and readership: If employed, nature of work If student, name of school Unemployed Name of Trade Union, if member Ofer aL LEAS NAM Handbook 1978/1979 Published by NAM Liason Group 1977/1978 Design and Artwork by NAM Liason Group Typeset by Maggie Stack and NAM Liason Group Printed by Islington Community Press Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Liaison Group 1977/78 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1978 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/26e891dd4d2cda4acb68050d1d7032ec.pdf 00ed69e399bea54ecdd64cd5067da6b6 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 Liaison Group Including London Group Subject The topic of the resource Liaison Groups: NAM was initially structured as local groups. There was also a Liaison Group whose role was to coordinate the different groups, deal with correspondence and arrange the next annual conference. NAM campaign groups, which were largely autonomous, worked across local groups to develop their ideas. They arranged their own conferences and reported through SLATE and annually to the NAM Congress. The seven different campaign groups listed had members from a variety of local groups. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976-1979 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 Index From Harrogate to Blackpool Subject The topic of the resource An Index of all documents relating to the Movement from 11/75 to 9/76. (92 entries) Description An account of the resource JUSTIBAOP] 9.1N{D9IIWOIY MON J Index N.A.M. INDEX FROM HARROGATE ‘TO BLACKPOOL Copies of any of these papers are available from NAM Central London Group, 143, ‘whitfield St., London 71. They are free, unless otherwise stated, but please enclose 5.A.z. 1. 2. 3 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. ARC DE TRIOMPHE Announcing Harrogate Congress "Building Design' AKC Draft Manifesto ARC "Start the New Architecture Movement" N.A.M. Congress Program for Harrogate. N.A.M. "A New Architecture Movement” Paper delivered at Harrogate by John Murray. Paper delivered at Harrogate by Ken Thorpe. Summaries of Congress Vorking Parties: Proposals relating to the Profession. Practice Proposals Proposals on Education ist. Congress at Harrogate: Press Helease 14.11.75 Pre- Harrogate Congress 10. Harrogate Congress: Attendance Liat 11. Minutes of ist Liason Committee Meeting 12. "When the Talking had to stop" . Keview of Harrogate. ‘Building Design' qs "When the Contribution had to start" Liason Group reply. Building Design. 14. "Dissidents Architects' New Movement". Review of Harrogate "Building' 15. "New Movements in Architecture". Review of Harrogate A.A. Events List No. 10. 16, "Marching towards the new Architectural Dawn” Review of Harrogate in Architect's Journal 17. Liason Group letter to all members 18. N.A.M. Broadsheet One oe oe oe oe se ee es ee 50 21.11.75 22.11.75 23.11.75 23.11.75 23.11.75 26.11.75 28.11.75 04.12.75 27.11.75 8-12.12.75 03.12.75 11.12.75 11.12.75 19. Liason Group Minutes of 3rd. Meeting( Published as 2nd.+ ) 11.12.75 20, 21. 22. 08.01.76 01.76 18.01.76 22.01.76 02.76 "N.A.M. to fight R.I.B.A. all the way" Paul Gorka's letter in ‘Building Design' . 02.76 03.02.76 03.02.76 04.02.76 Letter from Rob Thompson refuting Edinburgh Group's letter. 05.02.76 Edinburgh Group reply to Brian Anson's Green Paper Notes by John Murray on CLG/Liason Group Minutes of C.L.G. meeting Minutes of N.L.G. meeting Minutes of C.L.G. meeting Minutes of N.L.G. meeting Minutes of C.L.G. meeting Minutes of N.L.G. meeting 11.02.76 23.02.76 25.02.76 01.03.76 09.03.76 12.03.76 16.03.76 17.03.76 26.03.76 March 76 31.03.76 31.03.76 April 76 35.6 N.A.M copy for Time Out Minutes of C.L.G. meeting Letter in the Architect's Journal from David Roebuck and John Murray. "NALGO Action: democracy not insults". Letter in "Building Design' from Adam Purser. 596 "Professional Representation" article by Louis Hellman with references to N.A.M. in Architectural Design. 40. Minutes of C.L.G. meeting 41. Letter in Architect's Journal from Marion Roberts and Giles Pebody. 42. Letter in Architectural Design from John Allan and Giles Pebody. Minutes of Central London Group (C.L.G.) meeting. Brian Anson's Green Paper Minutes of North London Group (N.L.G.) with John Allan's report of Highbury District group meetings concerning the Islington Plan. Minutes of C.L.G. meeting Letter from Paul Gorka to N.A.M. 43. Minutes of N.L.G. meeting 44. Minutes of C.L.G. meeting 45. Minutes of N.L.G. meeting 46. "A history of the Architectural Profession" by Adam Purser. (Price 10p.) 47. Minutes of C.L.G. meeting 48. Monopolies Commission Report (Price £1.00) 49. Reference in Architect's Journal to N.A.M. national design service in'Bring Architecture nearer to the people’. 50. C.L.G. report to Birmingham Green Ban Action Committee. St. "N.A.M. attacks H.I.B.A. on its fee scale" review of MCR in ‘Building Design’ p.28 52. to 56. incl. Papers given at the London Seminar, 52. An Historical Perspective, by John Allan. 53- Prom Radical to Revolutionary, by Brian Anson ARC 54. A National Design Service , by John Murray 556 The Relationship between ARC and NAM, by Rob Thompson 06.04.76 15.04.76 28.04.76 May 76 03.05.76 14.05.76 19.05.76 20.05.76 21.05.76 56. Group statements from the Cardiff Group and North London Group. 61. "N.A.M. working to re-distribute power in architecture”. review by Louis Hellman in ‘Architect's Journal’ of the London Seminar. 62. Minutes of C.L.G. meeting 63. Minutes of NAM/ABT meeting. 64. Paper on Trade Unions to C.L.G. by A. Fekete. 02.06.76 21.06.76 24.06.76 21.06.76 65. "N.A.M. reservations on Unions", letter in the Architects Journal from Andrew Fekete. 23.06.76 57. "Fixed fees deprive poor says New Architecture Movt." review of MCR in ‘Architects Journal’ p.1020 26.05.76 58. "N.A.M. wants new patrons for community design service", review of London Seminar in ‘Building Design' 28.05.76 23.05.76 25.05.76 59. London Seminar Attendance List. 60. Minutes of C.L.G. meeting 66. News item on London Seminar in 'Building Worker's Charter' Vol.3 no. 11 p.4 67. Paper to C.L.G. on ABT. by A.Fekete 68. Minutes of N.L.G. meeting 69. N.A.M. Leaflet. 10. Minutes of C.L.G. meeting 1. Minutes of N.L.G. meeting 72. Minutes of N.A.M./ARC meeting 73. Paper on Unions to C.L.G. by Giles Pebody 14. Minutes of C.L.G. meeting 15. Draft Program to 2nd. Congress 16. Minutes of Liason Group meeting 17. Minutes of 6.L.G. meeting 78. Draft document on Unionisation (C.L.G.) 19. Draft report on Unions (C.L.G.) 80. Why Join a Union? (C.L.G.) 81. Draft of campaign document no.2 (C.L.G.) 62. Minutes of N.L.G. meeting 83. Minutes of C.L.G. meeting 64. Minutes of C.L.G. meeting 85. Minutes of ABT/NAM meeting 86. Minutes of N.L.G. meeting 87. Agenda to Cardiff/C.L.G. meeting 88. ‘N.a.M. presentation at UWIST seminar 89. Reflections on Cardiff 90. Minutes of N.L.G. meeting 91. Minutes of Liason Group meeting on 2nd. 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Title A name given to the resource Later NAM Congresses, 2-5 Subject The topic of the resource A further 5 NAM Congresses after the initial Harrogate Congress in 1975, plus other documents 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 Letters to the Press Subject The topic of the resource AJ Report on Cheltenham Congress 15/11/78; NAM letter to AJ 04/05/77 querying RIBA Earnings survey; NAM letter to AJ re Assoc of Consulting Architects' report Description An account of the resource NAM LETTERS TO THE PRESS 6 @ Students wanted explained the proposers. PIG would be a kind of ‘mop up’ group enabling NAM councillors to play a More positive role by taking initiatives. Congress formally endorsed the work of the eight NAM councillors, and aslate of candidates has been drawn up to x = : "awth PIG isborn To back up the work of NAM members acting as unattached representatives on ARCUK council and those working on the mandatory fee scale issue,Congress Set up a Professional Issues Group (PIG). The councillors have their work cut out responding to day to day issues contend the forthcoming unattached elections as it is anticipated there will be a further increase in the number of unattached representatives. Fee scale abolition endorsed Although there was a handful of dissenters Congress endorsed the work of the Monopolies Group which produced the report ‘Way ahead’ recommending The fourth annual national Congress of the New Architecture Movement was held at the School of Architecture in Cheltenham last weekend, In between wholesome meals and arejuvenating bop toa punk rock group, over 90 people thrashed out the neat year’s policy of a movement which in only four years has signiticantly altered the face of architectural politics in Britain. Tension over alternative practice the abolition of the mandatory fee scale and the introduction of a fee system ‘based on standardised clements of Service and ranges of cost to safeguard the public against unreasonableprice increases and check the profession from unhealthy price cutting’. An end to secrecy Symbolising an end to the cloak and dagger secrecy that has been a feature of the movement until now, it was agreed that telephone numbers of spokespersons for the different issue groups should be circulated to the press. Speakers however reiterated that the movement should avoid creating ‘leaders’, because issues and ideas then* casily became obscured by personalities. € out by the ARCAID group in Leeds and *Support in London, both of which After virtually the only contentious debates in the whole weekend, Congress agreed to set up an Alternative Practice issue group “to develop the theory and practice of NAM members involved in worker controlled private sector organisations with the aim of providing socially responsible alternatives’. New constitution A constitution for the Movement was adopted which firmly establishes it as a federation of issue, local and working groups accountable to the annual Congress and working for the general aim of promoting ‘effective democratic control of al people over their environment and by design and construction workers over theirworking lives’. A Liaison Group iselected each year to conduct administrative and financial affairs and to ‘act for the Movement’ between Congresses. Membership of NAM has increased over the last year from 92 to 120. Participants were shown work carried Operate in the private sector but work co-operatively for poor clients such as tenants and community groups. Members of these groups believe that in the short term this kind of work provides the best way of making architects’ skills available to working class users. But several people believed there was a danger of the group clashing with the already established PublicDesign Group which recently submitted its Own report on community architecture to Minister of Housing Reg Freeson.* This report argues forcibly that a community architectural service ‘should be based on the public sector and not on the private sector’. Despite initial tension between these Two views, itwas generally accepted by both groups that they could work in parallel. It was likely to take years to achieve reforms in the public sector and unul that time the private sector experiments could provide valuable experience, a vehicle for propaganda, and a means of providing working class people with services they would otherwise be denied. *Community Architecture: apublic designservice, available from NAM, 9 Poland Street, London W1. ii. StudentNAM groupsshouldbesetup in schools of architecture, butthey should be autonomous groups and not controlled by any central body or the already established Education Group. This was the outcome of a debate in which some speakers advocated a recruitment drive among students. Few students are members of NAM although more attended the Congress than in previous years. Monday and the millenium “The Movement isgrowing inmaturity as its critique of the profession grows more refined’, said John Allan, a founder member at the opening of Congress. A substantial body of literature has been developed and the Movement’s magazine Slate isimproving with each issue.What isnow needed istotranslate quality into quantity. The profession ison the defensive, he said. While the trades and ‘para Professions’ are becoming more Professional with the introduction of codes and guidelines, the traditional Profession is being forced to become | more secular. NAM could take i advantage of the consequent instability. Referring to the inherent tension between long term aims and short | term tactics, he said that while the | former could not be achieved quickly, | some of the obstacles barring the way | could be removed immediately. } “Our predicament isnot aquestion of i the millenium or Monday’, he said, ‘but | an affirmation of the millenium and Monday.” a eseses—te The Architects’ Juurnal 15 Novernber 1978 The editor reserves the right to shorten letters unless writers specify otherwise. Short letters can be dictated to Jane Pike over the telephone on Thursdays, for possible inclusion in the following issue of the Af. as fees are exempt from the ‘social contract’, inflation has created something of a bonanza for the partners. For example it appears that it is not unusual for partners’ incomes (clear of overheads but not taxed) ina medium/large firm to range from £45 000 to £65 000. Other returns show even higher incomes, next visit to one of our sites in case he should run into one of the World’s End team. Peter A. Kreamer London SW1 Henry Herzberg replies: Iam sorry that Mr Kreamer feels that we failed to give sufficient credit to Bovis. No ‘side swipe’ was intended: the words complained of are a plain statement of fact. Bathing for warmth From G. Wigglesworth RIBA Sir: I very much agree with Christian Hamp’s letter (AJ 13.4.77 p674) about the oriental or Japanese bath. I too enjoyed using it in Japan. It is not only very economical because the hot water is not drained away, but topped up and re-used, but it is akin to the sauna in that it is relaxing. Washing before entering the bath is, of course, essential. In the past, the Japanese used energy sparingly in their houses; there Was no attempt to warm the house, but only the person. Before getting into your padded bed, a hot bath was essential; once warm in bed, you could remain warm all night even when the room temperature might be just above freezing. G. Wigglesworth London SE1 Earning survey wrong? From M. F. McCarthy RIBA Sir: The 1976 RIBA earnings survey (AJ 6.4.77 p635) shows that the increase in architects’ earnings between June 1975 and June 1976 was significantly greater in the public sector than in the pri- vate sector. The explanation for While we are not surprised that the RIBA’s interpretation attempts to show that there is a trend towards the reduction of differentials between partners and salaried staff, we would point out that our 1976 submission to the Monopolies Commission showed the exact opposite. Itappearsthatitisthemethod of presentation of the RIBA’s results which isparticularly misleading. All your readers know that the income ofa medium to large sized practice, doing medium to large sized jobs is considerably greater than that of atwo person firm cking out a living on kitchen conversions. Consequently the RIBA), these firms received 81 per cent of al fee income. In 1972 the same group of offices employed 82 per cent of salaried architects in private practice. 3 At the same time as partners in medium/large firms were averaging £22 327 per annum, the average income of all salaried architects in private practicewas£4743. The differential between partners and salaried architects thus increases in relation to the size of practice. Weare in the process of updating our data, and we would welcome further information from salaried architects regarding their partners’ profits. At this preliminary stage itappears that World’s End (AJ 20.4.77) claims not to attempt to discuss the architectural, but to concentrate on other things. One would have thought that such a disclaimer would have prefaced at least some passing reference to the form of contract used to build the majority of the project. One would have thought that since that form of contract is a fee based one, and that the builder concerned is fee remunerated for all his work, that his name would be deemed worthy of a mention among the other professionals involved on p734. But no. Henry Herzberg, itseems, is 50 concerned with slanging what he regards as the evil main contractors of the ’sixties (p743) that he doesn’t have Space to describe how the ultimate contractor on this job managed a disaster into a success story. While taking a side swipe at the client for accepting the higher of two so-called ‘tenders’ to Table I Average annual income per Architectural Partner by size of Architectural Team Size of practice arch team 15 6-10 3778 5591 8992 11-25 6108 9040 14537 26 or more 9381 13 6&4 22327 Sources: National Board for Prices and Incomes report om architects’ 1968; Updating Factor—RICS building cost information March 1976. Size of practice een 1958 1960 1962 1064 1900 1068 1972 31-50 51 and over 95 13:0 145 15-5 15-6 i596 2-0h16:3 programmepromisedwhen employees areoneofthelast Average income per architectural partner 1966 1970 1974 £L £ £ 2575 3811 6129 partners’ profits are greater as well. Profits vary with the size of practice. The RIBA’s method of averaging out apparently random samples, or of relating partners’ income to age is therefore of dubious value as a source of knowledge about the state of the profession. Presumably for this reason, the National Board for Prices and Incomes, in its 1968 Survey of architects’ fees and costs, used size of practice as the only relevant yardstick for comparing) incomes. This was also the method used in our submission to the Monopolies Commission, and we enclose copies of the relevant tables showing figures references and sources. We would draw your attention to the main findings: 1 There is a considerable difference between the average income of partners in small and large firms. In 1974 these incomes were £6129 and £22 327 respectively. 2 There is an increasing trend ‘The Architects’ Journal 4 May 1977 817 TERME 5 NAMquestionsfindingsof towardslargeroffices,the DanBullen RIBA earnings survey From Dan Bullen of the London Group, NAM Sir: percentage of medium and large practices almost doubled between 1958 and 1972. The Prices and Incomes Board London W1 What about the builder? From Peter A. Kreamer of Bovis Construction Lid Sir: We would take issue with the findings of the RIBA’s 1976 carningssurvey(AJ6.4.77p635). (32-1percentaccordtiontghe HenryHerzberg’sarticleon found that while comprising only 30 per cent ofall practices costs and fees TableIfAveragesalaofryallemployedarchitectisnallprivatepractices tomentionthattheworkwas ‘theexistenceofincremental 1966 £1993 1970 1974 £2950 £4743 _ pleted by the ch contractor well within his estimate of prime cost. He also fails to mention that the management team involved achievedeveryphasedhandover by the original date promised. Finally, in his last sentence he scales for public employees which were allowed to operate during the Incomes Policy’. I believe this to be a fundamentally wrong interpretation. Local authority pay review periods run from July to July cach year whereas the Incomes Source: Ibid. Note: All technical salaries in 1967 formed 34°5 per centof costs; RIBA handbook suggests approx similar figures. Table[ilDistributionofprivatepracticesbysize1968-1072 743 69:0 634 61-7 618 67-9 ; . : . 7 . grudging acknowledgm: August. The effect of these 0-8 1:3, Hav PRR MehPydseraperg to wear a disguise before his aeuuRAEDPS: gear. | Between June 1975 and June 7 ‘ toavoidevena PolicyrunsfromAugustto Mninehacinitmicdenientivrar 15 Aa DO ere anaes eae oars ih thecompletiondatealsometthe periodsisthatlocalauthority plete the project, he fails this disparity was attributed to “Source: RIBA Submision to Monopolies COmmisstorr Nay P97t6————————— NAM's tables: see Bullen’s letter. 4 TheArchiJoturnealc4tMasy1’977 “976 local authority employees were not “entitled to their annual increments on top of the £312 per annum which was the maximum increase allowed in the first year of the Social Contract’ because their pay award for that period was made in July 1975, before the Social Contract came into force. It follows that for the year in question normal negotiating procedures applied. The £312 per annum cost of living award under the first year of the Social Contract will be reflected in the next RIBA earnings survey, and itcan be expected that a closer correlation between the sectors will be shown, The 4 per cent or £4 & week second stage of the Social Contract will not be awarded to local authority employees until July of this year. When the results of the 1978 RIBA earn- ings survey are published the relative positions of the two sectors over the whole period should have balanced out. p691), but wish you to note that approximately one-third of the illustrating photographs related to ‘the only non-standard house’, and also accounted for half of the interior shots. These photographs demon- Strated, in most cases, major design features which are not attributable to Royston Summers, set within an adaptation which paid respect to the overall design idiom and constraints imposed by his system. The only departure from this discipline is also the only feature that your article attributes to “different architects’, namely the placing of three windows in what would other- wise have been a blank wall (photo 22), due to a good, practical requirement for change by the client when the building was well under way. Unfortunately, the Royston Summers approach did not permit a less inharmonious solution at that juncture. Jeffrey Mansfield continued the Vauxhall Bridge Road through another lens. is currently much 1@.. onapossiblestage3 workbegunbyRoyston was not to ‘chop a road through Petworth’s incomparable park’ but to tunnel under the park— this following an evaluation of over 20 alternative schemes, public meetings and even a referendum of the locals. Thecountysurveyor,Mr Harrison (not Hutchinson), actually commented that the one virtue of the postponement was that it would enable the dialogue on Petworth’s traffic problem to continue. The problem of Petworth is extremely difficult. Not only is it a town of great architectural and ~ historical interest but itisalso set in an outstanding landscape. Iconsider the council and its officers have acted and are acting in awery responsible Iwould hope the Architectural Press would act in an equally responsible manner. B. J. Seaman Chichester, Sussex Sorry about the Hutchinson error. The council did propose to chop a road through the park—though a short tunnel was to run in front of the house. Astragal = Credit for code From Bob Giles RIBA, chairman SAG Sir: item in your issue of 13 April (p675) with a picture of the nearly completed first phase. The photograph, which I guess to be taken with a wide-angle lens, gave the effect of an isolated building surrounded by largeareasoftarmac. This misses the whole concept of a building designed as a link between two differing urban scales, The high mass of the building fronts Vauxhall Bridge Road, safeguarded as an urban clearway for the GLC and with high buildings on its north side, and the rest of the building tapers down to match the domestic scale of the Victorian terraces to the south of Tachbrook Street. Similarly, the text could be misleading. As you know, many local authority architect’s departments have some kind of hierarchical structure and design teams containing several architects. In this context I feel it is difficult and possibly invidious to single out one individual to whom the design can be attributed. However, your news item contrasts with a similarly brief item on the next page of the same issue by not naming the job architect; instead itattributes the design to the person who was the group leader. As job architect, I of the Social Contract. Whatever happens, local authority employees will be forced to fund stage 3 inflation from a stage 2 increase in income. It is well known by trade unions that pay awards are held down prior to the entering of a formal period of Pay restraint, and that there is considerable advantage in having an annual pay review date at the beginning rather than the end of statutory periods. I believe that at the end of the period of Incomes Policy the public sector will be seen to have lost ground. Incremental scales of pay are inflexible and can be criticised on a number of grounds but they should not be blamed for discrepancies in earnings of cts in different sectors. FMcCarthy London WS Lakeside Drive designs From Michael Wilson RIBA Sir: I do not wish to deny credit to Royston Summers for his overall design scheme and commendable standard detailing system for Lakeside Drive (AJ 13.4.77 Summers for two years following his resignation from the commission, and handed it over to myself early in 1972 in close liaison—particularly with reference to the above-mentioned house which he had already designed in outline. The design work to this house, and to others requiring variation, was continued by myself and my former partner, Gerald Harvey. Michael Wilson London SES Petworth county line From B. F. Seaman RIBA, West Sussex county architect Sir: Astragal’s Petworth reprieve (AJ 13.4.77 p672) must get my nomination of the year for the most inaccurate and sensational piece of journalism. Anyone who knows Petworth will certainly support a plan by West Sussex County Council to divert heavy traffic from the narrow streets of the town and anyone in the area will certainly know that the dialogue between the county council, the National Trust and the local people has been going on for many years. The council’s plan Your otherwise excellent report | designed the overall layout of of the work of the RIBA the redevelopment for which Salaried Architects Group (AJ | planning permission was 30.3.77 p579) was marred by a misleading description of the group as ‘the leading force’ in the work of revising the Code of Professional Conduct. Although SAG was involved in the production of the final draft the present code is the culmination of nearly 10 years’ work by successive working groups under the direction of David Waterhouse, to whom just credit should be given. Bob Giles London W1 Vauxhall Bridge Road From H. A. P. Quince, architect Sir: Inoted with interest the news obtained, originated the design of the building illustrated and supervised itsdevelopment up to tender stage. H. A. P. Quince London SW17 Tax alternatives for practices incurring losses From K.$. Slade ATIT Sir: One reads ofa recession in the building and construction industry which indicates that some of your readers in private practice ontheirownaccountare suffering from a diminution of income which, in the more serious cases, means that the practicies incurring aloss. The Editor The Architect's Journal 9 Queen Anne's Gate London SWI 9BY Sir: enough patrons. The New Architecture Movement Central London Group 10 Percy Street London W | Tel: Of 580 2621 4 March 1976 [veus We welcome Hellman's letter arguing for more equitable forms of architectural practice. This contrasts with the findings of a report sponsored by the Association of Consultant Architects which con@ludes that the ilsof architecture are eaused by there being too manyarchitects. Amoresearchinganalysismighthaverevealedthattherearenot The fact that the present patrons of architecture are rich and powerful Individuals or organisationsIsreflectedInourarchitecture. Thepeoplewhoarenotpatronsof architecturecompriseover80%ofthepopulation. Theremedyforthiswillnotbe architectural. 1twillonlybeachievedwhensociety'svalueschange. A paper was given on this subject at the Harrogate Conference of the New Architecture Movement. One of Its conclusions was the need for a National Design Service. Since then the North London Group of NAM has been studying the practical implications of such a service, In conjunction with methods of achieving cooperative office structures. Any changes in existing practice must be set in the context of the need to expand resourcesInvestedinhousing,educationandhealth. Therecentexpenditurecutsseem torepresentanattempttoreducepermanentlysuchprovision. ForpeopleInclearance areas the question of redevelopment v. rehabilitation Is being replaced by the fear that they will never secure a decent home. The current direction of resources into non-resident controlled housing associations Is no substitute. Itmaybringworkandprofitstoprivatearchitectsandotherprofessional groups, but it is at the expense of working people. We believe that any new form of architectural service must include a formal mechanism of local control through which architects are accountable, not only to thelr clients, but tothosewhooreaffectedbythelrdesigns. Onlyinthiswaycancompetenceandquality of service be measured. Although we would encourage co-ownership In architects offices, it is clear that without local accountabllity such a development would merely extend professional elitism and allow a wider distribution of profits within the profession. The Editor The Architect's Journal 4 March 1976 In our opinion, the basis of a National Design Service already exists, albeit in a very Inadequate way, In the service provided by local government offices. At present access to local authority architects ts restricted to the spending committees whoselinktothepeopletheypurporttoserveIstenuous. ThearchitectsInvolvedare solelyresponsibletothesecommitteesandthenonlythroughthelrchiefofficer. This Is unsatisfactory, The New Architecture Movement will press for the principle of a national design service In the form of small scale collectively organised offices, coupled to local accountabllity and control. Our initial work will be sufficiently advanced for this to be the main subject of our next conference in London at the beginning of May. Yours faithfully David Roebuck and John Murray Central London Group New Architecture Movement 10 Percy Street London W |! i NAM CONGRESS TRADES UNION CENTRE 12,14, PICARDY PLACE, EDINBURGH: NEW ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT SIXTH ANNUAL CONGRESS 7th,8th&9th november1980 TRADES UNION CENTRE ,EDINBURGH . This years congress takes place in a period of gathering gloom,unprecedented since the 1930's,for the economy as a whole as the country plunges further into recession, for the building industry in particular,as the government expenditure cuts begin to bite,and for those in, housing need as the government dismantles the mechanisms of public housing provision. This governments refusal to intervene in the economy or to modify its policies has pushed unemployment to over 24 million,and this figure is expected to grow.This year has seen a continuation of unprecedented attacks on the living standards of the mass of people in this country by denying access to decent housing ,decent health care, public services and jobs.The effects of this policy on the building industry is to make it unable to respond in an upturn of the economy. It is in this context that the New Architecture Movement Stages its sixth annual congress.The Majority the the weekend will be devoted to an examination of this deeping crisis,with a view to exploring constructive avenues of opposition.This is a major opportunity for those concerned and frustrated by the destructive impact of government policy to debate and initiate courses of action for an environment that is democratic and that does respond to the needs of the majority,not the few. 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PROGRAMME FRIDAY 7th'nov 18.30-19.30 19.30-20.00 20.00-22.00 SATURDAY 8th 9.30-10.00 10.00-10.15 10.15-12.30 12.30-13.80 13.30-15.30 15.30-16.00 16.00-19.00 19.00-20.00 Registration Buffet supper/Bar opens Discussion and meeting ‘Political Economy of Tory Policy 'Decay ,Deskilling, Deindustrialisation,Destitution and Disaster.Guest speaker George Robertson M.P. Coffee'The day begins' Introduction to the Workshops WORKSHOPS : Lunch WORKSHOPS Tea Plenary session Supper Group meetings 20 .00- 9.30-10.00 10.00-11.30 11.30-12.00 12.00-13.30 The way forward 13.30-14.30 Lunch and farewells. WORKSHOP 3.COMMUNITY ACTION; democratic control of the environment;tenants federations; housing co-op's; community enterprise and alternative community; developments;design for the WORKSHOP 1,.WELFARE STATE; housing and social services; privitizaticn of housing;designing for the state;Public Design Service; accountability in the public sector; planning; transportation; power and energy WORKSHOP 2.BUILDING INDUSTRY; unemployment; craft skills; design and build;direct labour; unionisation; co-operatives; aJternative types of practice;building defects;training and education,ARCUKand professional issues;women in building. saving; (LH) - Licensed “otel Edinburgh Accommodation Register ' prepared July 1980 AREA 1. = Edinburrh Bast End AREA 2, = Edinburgh West Ena AREA %, - Edinburrh South Side (ULH)-~ Unlicenced Hotel sts WO vA2 (GF) - Guest House é 385 (Pri)- Private House B&B g 5838 : B ni ABERCRATG (LH) paon Ved (GU 2 Picardy Place 01,69 EHL ZT or6257 Uhee Som. 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L° witch after Preston 20.14 16.16 P0.1k chanme Preston 18.42 dj ch, Wigan 1: 17 seater £16 per day seater £14 ton a Dia New Architecture "4 RL arenamponBR. eee Sy ied OG phone: Ford -320564 031-557-2403 re Pathhead Mildioth!: + NAM CONGRESS 1980 2 ‘For the sixth time radicals and activists involved in the built environment will meet to discuss and exchange {deas, Provoking plans of action for the coming year,using NAM as the springboard for activity. These last 18months of monetrist Policies have decimated the building industry,we must build aNew Architecture Movement with a loud voice, that can unite users,producers and designers to challange the assumptions and ambitions of the dominant class, CONGRESS FEES(including meals) &8 .00p We/] woUld like to attend the1980 NAM Congress and enclose PO/cheque made payable to New Architecture Movement,sent to 9,Poland Street,London,W1. “The sixth NAM Congress is to be held in Edinburgh over the weekend 7th,8th and 9th november:iat the Edinburgh Trades Union Centre, conveniently located in the middle of the city, In the last 5 years since the founding Congress at-Harrogate NAM has done much to challange the status quo in the design professions;campaigning for structural changes through ARCUK launching TASS/BDS the union for Private sector design staff Gnd encouragingthe NAM Feminists,Public Design Services, AlternativeMethodsofPraSclate,iEcduecat,ionandDesign Theory, No of places unwaged sat only unwaged &5,.00p_ &5,.00p7 &@3,00p No of people requiring transportation Depending on the response and accessability to NAM centres of activity various types Of. powered transport will be arranged, Name Address Acconmodation required HOTEL yes/no CRASH PAD | yes/no ; Street © LEdrly_bookiwnilgl save the congress committee alot of energy] tS ATOM MOI At TM CTPCCT tanmeat us | 47zji VLU W OPMECI LUAU AL Dear “i 6th NAM Annual Congress EdinburghoS / 6,’7,8, November 1980 Congress time is fast approaching again... We are concerned that a rigid group orientated workshop structure, common to all previous congresses may not best suit NAM at this time. Given that NAM remains in some respects at a crossroads, less than two If it is te prove constructive it that all interested parties be consulted in the formulation of a suitable programme. To this Ken's house, 127 Fairbridge hkoad, at 2.30pm, and we would call me (home- 249 0020, work- (272 0580) if you have any queries, = a) oe Sayy_ aH (for NAM Liaison Group) days is remarkably little time. would seem advantageous end we propose a meeting at N19, on Saturday 11 October be glad if you could come. 405 3411 ext135) or Ken Pleas protests, problems, etc. Vt ADCLITECTHOO NOVCPCNT Now npriTreenior “th 1 Puy hI TECTURE VEL ENT NeW ARCHI PEC TUNE PUVEDE Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Architects Journal Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Murray Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1978, 1977, 1976