21 10 310 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/ba391f8919d0a15ac4a7eec125c88376.pdf 0b9668d8db15913b91de7eceb545aa68 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Public Design Group Description An account of the resource Argued that it was only through the public sector that the majority of people could have access to the land and resources needed for housing, education and other essential services. The task was therefore to reform the practice of architecture in local councils to provide an accessible and accountable design service. The Public Design Group proposed reforms to the practice of architecture in local councils to provide a design service accessible and accountable to local people and service users. The following 6 Interim Proposals were developed which were later initiated and implemented in Haringey Council 1979-1985 by NAM members. <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Local area control over resources </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Design teams to be area based </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Area design teams to be multi-disciplinary </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Project architects to report directly to committee</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Abolish posts between Team Leader and Chief Architect </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Joint working groups with Direct Labour Organisations</li> </ul> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Public Design Group Description An account of the resource Argued that it was only through the public sector that the majority of people could have access to the land and resources needed for housing, education and other essential services. The task was therefore to reform the practice of architecture in local councils to provide an accessible and accountable design service. The Public Design Group proposed reforms to the practice of architecture in local councils to provide a design service accessible and accountable to local people and service users. The following 6 Interim Proposals were developed which were later initiated and implemented in Haringey Council 1979-1985 by NAM members. <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Local area control over resources </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Design teams to be area based </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Area design teams to be multi-disciplinary </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Project architects to report directly to committee</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Abolish posts between Team Leader and Chief Architect </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Joint working groups with Direct Labour Organisations</li> </ul> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource NDS Group Subject The topic of the resource Minutes of meeting of NDS Group on 2.6. 77 Description An account of the resource NGI ALCINTE= TURE MevEMEDT i ~dWbPapareAiagymnnshoui~gveelpellicle, LAS| SotmheaeasorlecloneafAA 197%.YadbocmfoetTonle.J, 25 IM sumpocted might bo exrvttotule % dp suns af 3-4 Arclultet> bypartmenk fordoutactuel fast 2rheng teebisiby a] tobeArclubicte Tenant, Could Car be queled talkerihrernbying OM anontasS, IM Choe LIZAT ofSone 2ypay cago-dnbicleLyMales. YU, Tiere fate WT. 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VA - 23 IM rf orled mn. onfaa bien poten on Miteonal Asercahe~ of (euits Eedaakas cual Arsiatiar of Murweupal Aulboulior ,de “tll ny 0 mela well. ths forte fat etext MOS muliig wt a ven) “9 | ved, 3-0HeepHeeli-4{ Mavadend23dime197at7:30ponaf25StGungesMenus 4-0 Dishibufion: — There paecont Neville. Megan, Mary Scott, lean Group). Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John Murray Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Allan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2.6.77 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/c8f85d8be9d3340b2fac07d85f298e4f.pdf 2fcee7fff2866ed4c724fd285177fecb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Miscellaneous Subject The topic of the resource Miscellaneous issues Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976-1980 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New Architecture Movement - How it all began Subject The topic of the resource A personal description by John Murray Description An account of the resource NEW ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT HOW IT ALL BEGAN - A PERSONAL DESCRIPTION User involvement in Design As the project architect of the new Edgewick Primary School in Coventry, I was briefed by the City Education Client Officer, a helpful, experienced and committed client. But when I asked him how I should accommodate useful suggestions from the new Head Teacher about the design of her new school he said, “Just ignore her”. I decided instead to ignore him and went on to work closely with the Head teacher, staff and pupils in developing the design of a successful and well-regarded Primary School adjacent to the existing Victorian Primary School, situated near a large Courtaulds factory and not far from the centre of Coventry. For me this was proof that the users of a building must be fully involved if the design is to be successful. It was a very important lesson and my respect for the committed Head has stayed with me ever since. Now of course, consultation and participation are an integral part of the design process. But in 1968 they were not. (I discovered that in 2014 because of a shortfall in school places, Coventry City Council decided to double the number of pupils so both schools were demolished and replaced by a large PFI school) Working for Tenants and Residents In the early 1970s many architects while working in offices were also providing free design advice and alternative schemes to tenants and residents groups faced with unacceptable redevelopment proposals. This work was in stark contrast to how they were earning their living during the day, but it taught both sides the benefits of having a design service available to and accountable to the people who used buildings. I was working for tenants in Newham while during the day I worked for BDP. BDP incidentally was a very good firm whose idealistic founding partner Grenfell-Baines stated it should be multi- disciplinary and fully involve and reward its staff. (3Rs, Responsibility, Recognition and Reward) (These ideas subsequently influenced the NAM Public Design Group’s proposals). At that time, my wife Ursula was working in a Community Development Project in Canning Town. Through her I became involved with West Ham tenants. Most private firms were not so good as BDP for salaried staff, hence salaried architects desire for change. The RIBA was seen to be a mouthpiece for private Architectural Practice. These ideas became more widespread throughout the profession both amongst salaried architects and teachers in schools of architecture. At the same time, new young Labour councillors, who had emerged from tenants’ struggles, were beginning to be elected and this encouraged the development of NAM ideas in councils, for example Haringey. Architects Revolutionary Council (ARC) While working in BDP, we used to occasionally visit the AA in nearby Bedford Square at lunchtimes. There was also an AA Studio in Percy Street near the BDP office. There I met the tutor, Brian Anson and his students. Brian had established with his students the Architects Revolutionary Council (ARC). They talked to us about ARC’s proposal for a New Architecture Movement to develop ARC’s ideas and especially to take on the RIBA, ARC’s bête noir. They were trying to encourage sympathetic architects, teachers and students to attend an inaugural conference to establish the New Architecture Movement. After I talked to Brian about my interest in public design he asked me to make a presentation about a national design service at the proposed conference. In November 1975 an advert appeared in the architectural press inviting participants to attend the inaugural congress of a hitherto unheard of New Architecture Movement in the unlikely setting of Harrogate. The congress, organised by ARC after discussion with sympathetic architects, brought together a considerable number of like-minded salaried architects and students. NAM was born 1 The New Architecture Movement Harrogate is a very attractive and stylish former spa town in Yorkshire. No doubt ARC chose it for that reason. I presented a paper on a National Design Service to the Congress. Apart from meeting many like- minded architects, the main thing I remember about the congress is the debate about the proposed structure for the New Architecture Movement. NAM Structure ARC proposed that an elected Leader and committee should govern NAM. This resulted in an animated debate. The women at the meeting persuaded the men that the New Architecture Movement should be structured like the women’s movement; ie, groups of people interested in particular issues who would come together as necessary, not at the diktat of a higher body. In retrospect I think this was NAM’s great strength so we didn’t spend our time nit-picking as would inevitably have been the case if we had agreed to the centrally controlled body that ARC wanted. It was eventually agreed that NAM should be structured as local groups. There was also to be a liaison group, whose role was to coordinate the different campaign groups, deal with correspondence and arrange the next annual congress. Groups would report to each other through a magazine called SLATE. Liaison Group I was involved in the first London liaison group and in due course we got a grant from the Rowntree Foundation, which enabled us to set up an office in 9 Poland Street. During the first few months after Harrogate, we discussed how NAM should develop. We drafted NAM’s objectives (attached) and organised our first meeting in May 1977 in Covent Garden to encourage more salaried architects to join. Anne Karpf reported the event very favourably in Building Design. Groups The following campaign groups developed over time: • Alternative Practice • Education • Feminist Group • Professional Issues (A number of us were elected to ARCUK to represent ‘unattached’ architects) • Public Design Group • SLATE • Trade Unions and Architecture These 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. Although I was involved in the liaison group and other groups, my main interest was in developing the ideas for a National Design Service. This eventually became the Public Design Group. It included one of Brian Anson’s AA students and architects and students from Sheffield and Nottingham. So we did a lot of travelling, usually meeting in Sheffield. See separate report on how the Public Design Group evolved and how its ideas were eventually developed in Haringey. NAM’s ideas became more widespread throughout the profession both amongst salaried architects and teachers in schools of architecture. John Murray NAM Founder Member 31 August 2015 2 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource JM 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 2015 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/36b02cec53c6b1373b59d1cd4b69d8bc.pdf b75322e7d0116d0dfaeee98be5faad91 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 Education Description An account of the resource Many NAM members were engaged in the field of architectural education, either as staff or students, and pursued new ideas for course content and pedagogy, reassessing existing course structures and priorities in conventional architectural training. The concern to focus on socially necessary buildings and to find new and meaningful ways of engaging with building users and the wider community- both central NAM themes - illuminated much of the discussion. 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 News Release Subject The topic of the resource Statement by IAAS supporting ARCUK, plus other papers Description An account of the resource 2. There have been eeverai. Not the leaec ig tha fact that ARCUK policy over the last tvo years has guyed strongly in the direction OE UK School recognition, notice OE ending of direct recognitiou baving been Bivan to 7 overgeao Schools; in contrast to the the poo it ion of the RIBA which, vith different a ins and objects hag a vorld vide recognition netvork. The JCAR neetings of recent yeare Mith our colleagues in the USA have tended to query why ARCUK does not do its ovu independent recognition. The EEC geetng to be foiloving a general pattern of EEC Visiting Boards and in tha case of at least tvo other profeoøiono ouch Visiting Boards run by competent authorities are already operating or planned; there is little doubt that vhen the position of architecto is examined ARCUK vili have to operate ac an independent inspecting authority. Word bas reached us that ARCUK'o present position ac a coapetent authority is likely to be questioned if it does oot control its ova accreditation and that the inpreseion should be avoided that architectural policy is being determined by a separate organioation to vhich ARCUK is danger of appear ing to pay lipoervice. There vere tvo revievo. The first by Honorary Off icerg foiloved by a full discussion in the GPC. In considering vuat action should foilov, cha issues described in che second and third paragraphs of paper 161/86 emerged ao those calling for priority action. You raised the question of representation on the BAE and the recent changes, made vith RIBA support, to increase the number of representatives fron Schools of Architecture. The gap has not been completely closed but ve vouid like to see 100% representation and have suggested vayg in vhich, vith the collaboration of the RIBA tbi8 can be done. As Bob Adams pointed out these changeo have oot throvn the composition of the Board out of balance. If you had been at the last neet ing you would have seen (and heard) evidence that the voices of those representing practice are loud and clear. Their votes also contributed to the large oajority by vhich the Visiting Board proposals vere carr ied at the previous meeting. Paog ing to the category 2 questions, va have already given a good deal of thought to the vay the proposals would be inplenented. We acknovledge of course that there auxst be a pro rata ghar ing of coste (detailed ageeoonent later). But ve also see that the office administration cannot for practical reasons be split up and must be situated in one camp or the other. From the point of viev of expertise the RIBA oft ice •eens the obvious choice. But the steering body vould be a Joint Board vhich vould be mandated to approve appointnent8 dravn up by the reøpective Sacretarxats. I would see in practice a procedure evolving vhereby at one of the 4 (ve anticipate) BAE neetiuge a year the list of Schools for the cotaing 12 moths vouid be considered and nanes of Visiting Board toemberø for each li8ted having regard for particular fields of expertige. The ARCUK Secretar iat would have the task of approaching those on the list and vould in due tine present the final i ist to the Joint Board for endorgenent. It vould be the object, ou each occas ion Co achieve a vell balanced 3. ARCUK vould take responsibility for enouring that necessary iatere•ts. including coaotitueat body interest', are catered for. wuid bope that a of alternating Chairøea could be arrived at both in the Joint Board and in each Vioiting Board; vo vouid also bope to •ee a joint report energing — a very oborC after each vigit. I hope the coatentg of thio letter vill be helpful in your consultations and look forvard to bearing fron you vhen you are ready for auochør discussion. Yours sincerely Professor D Hinton Department of the Environment Room Al 16 Romney House 43 Marsham Street London SWIP 3PY Telex 22221 Direct line 01-212 8 4 4 Switchboard 01-212 3434 GTN 212 10 February 1987 Kenneth J Forder Esq Registrar Architects Registration Council of the United Kingdom 73 Hall am Street London WIN 6EE RECEIVEü When we met on Friday we spoke about the government's view of the way in which ARCUK should set about recognising courses as complying with Articles 3 and 4 of the Architects' Directive. 1 promised to write confirming the line we discussed. Once the order in council has been made ARCUK will be the statutory "competent authority" for satisfying HMG that architectural courses satisfy Article 3 and 4 of the Architects ' Directive. This is therefore a statutory function that cannot be de legated . How ARCUK sets about deciding whether to recognise courses is, in the first instance, up to ARCUK. It would be quite possible to appoint non ARCUK assessors to visit educational institutions and make recommendations to ARCUK. What those assessors cannot do though is to take the decision. The decision on whether to recognise courses has to be taken by ARCUK. I hope that is helpful. Please let me know if you would like to take this issue further. Jenny Williams Copy to Peter Gibbs—Kennett •JEWS RELEASE ARCHITECTS EDUCATION BACKGROUND I r. the current confrontation between the RIBA and ARCUK over the education of archi tects, the inter-disciplinary Incorporated Associ ation of Architects and Surveyors (IAAS) has cone down firmly oa the side cf ARCUK. It was recently reported i G the press that ARCUK now plans to exerci se its statutory responsibil ity for architect 's education by appointing an education officer and seeking equal representation cn school visiting boards — whereas at present it supplies only one representative to RI EA visiting boards. This development has not found favour With the RIBA, which announced recently that it sees ARCUK primarily as a registration body and bel ieves that any expansion into other roles Wi l l cause confusion and diffusion of effort. The IAAS, founded years ago by the celebrated architect Sir Edwin Lctyens and committed to an inter-discipl inary principl e, has released the fol lov;ing statement cn the educaticr. issue: The IAAS welcomes the recent publ ic announcement by ARCUK that it intends to exercise its statutory responsi bil i ty f cr the educatica Archi tects. ARCO}' by statute, was from the outset never intended to act solely as a regi stratica body. Otherwise the Archi tects Reqi straücn Act would have been drafted di f ferent I v. The Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors Jubilee House Billing Brook Road Weston Favell Northampton NN3 4NW No (0604) 404121 As a constituent member of ARCUK, the IAAS has a I ways voiced its regret that ARCUK over the years failed to resist the b I cc l: partisaa lobby which resulted in the true role of ARCUI( being almost stymied f r cm As an inter-disciplinary body, the IAAS is uniquely placed to appreciate the value of the composition of the ARCUK Counci l and Boards in that their membership, like the IAAS, is drawn from a wide breadth of representation. The IAAS believes that this was a del iberate measure with a view to the self interests of single-ainded professional bodies being put aside and thus the needs of architecture being considered independently and as a whole. This is surely recognised by the fact that i G order to practice as an architect in the UK a person needs only to be registered by ARCUK to which requirement membership of a professional body, whi lst to be encouraged, is secondary. The IAAS applauds ARCUK for its self assertion and i r, full support the IAAS has changed its nominees and seeks to increase its representation cn the ARCUK Council and Boards. The IAAS hopes that ARCUK will receive universal encouragement aad support i this fresh and independent approach which the IAAS believes can only be for the good of students, educaticaal establishments, architects, industry and the public at large and act least the professional bodies themselves.' ENDS PR No. eus Embargo: Iamediate release Date: 13 February, 1987 Contact: Jack Scott, PRC prian Hughes, Administrator Telephone: Northampton (0604) 40412 i RIBA News Royal Institute of British Architects. 66 Portland Place. London WI N 4AD Press Officer: Acting Press Officer: David Atwell, Director, Public Affairs Date: 9 February 1987 Subject RIBA Nomination for ARCUK The RIBA wishes to strengthen its negotiating hand with Government and to this end has thoroughly reviewed its representation on ARCUK in the light of Council 's recent decision to resist any further closures of Schools of Archi tecture . The President, Larry Rolland, and the Senior Vice President. Rod Hackney, have been concerned during the past 12 months that the policies being pursued by ARCUK, in particular the increasing involvement in educational matters, are not in the best interests of architecture, the public or future student intake. They agree that in general RIBA representatives on ARCUK should be younger and in active practice . They believe that the team put forward on beha--.of RIBi. Council which includes Gordon Graham, the RIBA PasPresident serving on Council next session, will provide profession with a much more effective i nfluence in the difficult times ahead. The RIBA has been discharging its responsibilities for archi tectural education since long before the formation cf ARCUK and continues to fulfil its obligations •4 n this fie. - • It makes an annual investment in education of over million and has a committee structure of respected practitioners and academics supported by an experienced staff. The Institute sees ARCUK as primarily a registration body and believes that any expansion into other roles can only cause confusion and diffusion of effort. The full list of nominations submitted to the Registrar, ARCUK on 6 February is attached. The Senior Vice President added that the position of the Huddersfield School and the North East London Polytechnic School should be reviewed to see if, with the demands for architects in the inner cities being on the increase, the•.• can orient themselves to an enabling course in line with government policy to upgrade the inner city environment. Larry Rolland has suggested that Peter Melvin, Vice President Education, should meet with the Director of inner City Aid to see if some joint working relationsh:g could be established along these lines. RIBA NOMINATIONS FOR ARCUK COUNCIL 1987/88 1. P Beckett 22. M S McNidder 2. K S Bingham 23. M Me tcalfe 3. N M Brill 214 . M C Nickolls R S Critchlow 25. R - A Parnaby 5 . A Cunningham 26. D A Penning 6. J Curry (Mrs ) 27. Q Pickard 7. c W Daly 28. P W G Powell 8. R K Eastham 29. C W Quick 9. R Forsyth 30. T H Sherlock 10. G Graham 31. R C Shriaplin 11. R M Greenwood 32. T D scow 12. J Gregory 33. Prof J N Tarn 13. J Groves 34. A M Taylor 14 . P Hall 35. K H Taylor 15 • A M Horsley 36. J C Viner 16. J M Hutchinson 37. D B Waterhouse 17. M W Jeffels 38. J C Williams 18. P E Jones 39. A Worsley 19 J A Lane A F S Wright 20. Dr J Low:nan 41. R J Wyatt 21. J S Mackie 42. D M Yorke DH/CR/23/87 29 January 1987 Peter A P Kelvin Esq Vice President Education and Profess ional Development Royal Institute of British Architects 66 Portland Place London Dear Peter B0ßrdg We were grateful for the opportunity to neat on 28 January and begin our diocuooions. The neat ing nada sone progress if only because ve reached agree.ent on bov ve vouid proceed and the nain purpose of thic letter is to provide anovero to che questions vhich you raised. la fact ve nada progress in tvo other vayo — first by your that ARCUK proposals are not prina facie unacceptable and that the infornation you are seeking is to enable vider consultation to take place in the R IBA: and second, by accepting that ve should aim at a conclusion to our discussions by the late •uner vith an inter in report to the ARCUK BAE in Hay. To make this possible ve envisage a further zeetiag ia March and, to aid progrego, vould be willing to call a special •eating of the BAE in July or Septeuber. The questions vhich you put to ug fell into teo categories. Interpretation of the text of paper 161/86. 2. An extens ion of the proposals set out in the paper to illustrate hov ve think a partnership would vork. In attempting to provide this iufornation I vant to repeat that the paper 161/86 is the only one vhich the BAE and ARCUK Council have discussed and, ag in your ovn cage. they vould have to endorse any detailed proposals. Hovever. I an reasonably conf ident that vhat ve are putting forvard under category 2 vould obtain the assent of the Board. Under category i there are no sinister undertonea and I an sorry if the gave some people that impression. Our proposals are unconnected vith any criticisnø of the existing Visiting Board nacblnery and indeed our proposals do oot suggest any change in procedure in the field. We are avare that ouch criticisn• have beeu made and accept as you do, that any system can be improved. we night find that a partner•bxp vould provide the of bringing about improvenent — but that is oot the reason for euggesting it. You asked vhat vere the n recent events" referred to in the far st paragraph vhich prompted a reviev of the present arrangenaat•. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource IAAS Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Allan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 13 February 1987 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/da414e60427de80023f203c87961f9af.pdf c6d7df2d9500ca68216f05b9c8d56677 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 & 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 Newspaper of TASS BDS Subject The topic of the resource 4 sides A3 newspaper "Who pays it…Who gets it ?", et.al. Description An account of the resource Who The end of professionalism as we know it,or the first step back to reality? Variously described as a ‘bombshell’ and a ‘foregone conclusion’, the Monopolies Commission Report on Architects’ Services promises to be a major topic of debate among the architectural profession during 1978. Because it opens the entire Pandor's Box of fees, profits, salaries and quality of service and the relationship—if any—among them, it is as worthy of attention by architectural staff as by the partners who were the prime object of the enquiry. In fact salaried staff haveacriticalroletoplayinshapinganew system of architects’ fees. The Story So Far In case there are any readers still unfamiliar with the main gist of the Monopolies Commission Report, ict us begin with a brief outline of the events leading up to the present situation. The Monopolies Commission Report, ‘Architects’ Services—A Report on the Supply of Architects” Services with Reference to Scale Fees’, was published by HMSO on 9 November 1977 after four years of investigation carried out at the instigation of the Department of Trade and Industry, was not the first time the |Government examined theprefessiononthis if .beiasdfo Asjongdebenpcosage the Natinna! Board pays Who gets it? employer-dominated RIBA is already trying to Propagate the fallacy that dropping the man- datory scale will lead, through “fee cutting’, to reduced salaries for staff and increasing likelihood of redundancies in times of depression. This last ditch attempt to save the present high profit, low-salary system relies onpresenting the picture of a homogenous profession united against changes that ‘will entail a lowering of standards’. Anyone stil holding a lingering belief in these argurnents should ponder how successful the existing fee scale system has been in distributing profits, equalising salaries with other professions, preventing redundancies and main- taining “Standards’—in the light of, respectively, the above quoted figues the unprecedented numbers of architectural workers currently unemployed and the almost ambiguous public disenchantement with our profession. Alas, the mandatory minimum fees scale may be capable of procuring healthy profits for partners in private practice, but it is less successful at performing these more important functions. Rather than rushing to the defence of their employers’ fee scale, salaried staff would do better to organise in TASS in order to exercise effectively their combined strength and secure equitable salaries and conditions. At the same time organisation will allow them to begin, together with other organised workers in the construction industry, to bring to bear on the Prisca rand laconseaensuitvecorir’ nded that tm mandatory fee scales should be dropped. Although several amendments to the scales followed that report, the RIBA contested its principal proposal and, bya mixture of obstinacy What else should salaried staff do? 1, The Commission has opened the door to a major rethink in the way archictects are paid. Salaried staff can press fora new fee system based on the cost of architectural seryices rather than the capital costs of construction. 2. Implementation of the Monopolies Com- mission's findings will entail major surgery to the Codes of Professional Conduct. Salaried architects can play an integral part in reforming the Codes by exerting their influence through TASS, their ARCUK representatives and the technical press. and stealth, succeeded in retaining the mandatory status of the fee scale. By assigning the present investigatiootnhe Monopolies Commissiont,he Government in effect made the mandatory element of architects’ fees the prime target. The Commission's conclusion that the monopoly operates to the detriment of the public interest has made the abolition of the RIBA—sponsored ‘price ring’ (the scale of Fees) a virtual certaintly Few peoplestill expect that the RIBA Conditions of Engagement and the RIBA and ARCUK Codes of Professional Conduct will last out the year in their present forms The main feature characterising the system of architects’ fees in the UK is that here fees are union organisation Nor surprisingltyh,e Monopolies Commission Issue 1 May 1978 The Commission's Report has now passed to based almost exclusively on a percentage of the Director of Fair Trading who must report to contruction costs. This distinguishes it from the the Minister by May on his progress in dis- systems of virtually every other country covered cussionswiththeRIBAandARCUK astohow bytheEnquiry,(seeReport,Appendisx6,p156), their rules will be changed to give effect to the in which some serious attempt is made to relate Commission'srecommendatsions,aswellason feestothedegreeofcomplexityofthebuilding siblity occupationswithoutmandatoryfee forsttaodfisfcussopenlyamongthemselvestheir hisprogressinpreparingforanindependent project.Thedifferiesnsicmpelebutimportant.In agency to determine a new system of voluntary the UK fees are based on the clients’ building fee scales. If the Minister considers that the RIBA costs, whereas elsewhere fees relate more closely and the RIBA dominated ARCUK are dragging to the actual cost of providing the architecutral their feet in these matters, he will make an Order service. Architectural design being labour rather ofParliamentrequiringthenecessarychanges, thancapitalintensive,coarsectompsrisedalmost in1973,thelastyearforwhichfigueswere overheadsandprofitsaswell. which if unchallenged in the Commons acquires entirely of staff salaries and overheads. theforceoflawafter40days.Inshort,the TheRIBAfeescaledivtoherdetcermeinastionof available to the Commission. Hands up all 4. Lastly, the Monopolies Commission requires salariedstaffcarningevenhalfthatamountfor thesettingupofaspecialagencytodevise Government issaying to the RIBA ‘Jumpnow, or we'll push you" Eight Tenths of the Iceberg practice income from the cost of providing the service, thereby reducing the leverage staff may exert in influencing their own salary levels. We are all familiar with the large practices doing large projects who minimize design input and max- those years Of even greater significans the Commission's proposals for a new fee system, but deliberately left its composition and terms of reference vague so that they could be the subject of recommen- dations by all interested parties. If architectural workers will take the initiative and debate the Readers are probably aware that since the imise partners’ profits, since they can't be Commission's investigation was into fees—as ‘undercut.’ Without a minimum fee scale, they distinctfromsalaries—itsattenwatsfiocousnsed mighthavetoprovideaqualityofserviceto primarily on the activities of principals in private survey further showed that principals’ profits increase dramatically with the size of practice Figures for 1973 show average profit per principal rising from £6,469 in partnerships with 1-5 direction the agency should go, they have only to technical staff (including partners) to £61,394 in present their case to the Directorof Fair Trading. partnershipswithover50!(Andprofitsofsome practice, hardly 10 per cent of the architectural profession and their clients. These are the parties, who respectively charge and pay mandatory to high profits but ithas had littlebeneficial effect minimum fees. These parties however, represent on the salaries of the architectural staff who only the tips of two very large icebergs, namely actually get the job done and earn those profits the building design staffs, 90 per cent of the Salaries, not surprisingly, bear little relation to a profession who provide the bulk of architects’ practice's fee income under the present system services;andthecommunity,whoasusersof Whenfee’sgoup,it’sthepartners’profitsthat buildings form the groups whom the clients rise, not salaries. ‘Tepresent’. Although neither receive much Salaried staff must face the fact that their coverage in the Commission’s Report it is standard of living depends on two factors far less ceriainly none too soon to speculate how both will be affected by its recommendations though in the case of this article we concentrate on the former. UK on its own esoteric than the mandatory status of their bosses” fee scale: 1. the demand for architectural staff, which is of course a function of ‘work load’ in the industry, rather than fee income, and 2 the degree to which architectural staff exercise their collective industrial strength through trade fee scale for the partners than in a mandatory minimum salary scale for the 90 per cent of the profession who are salaried. Farago of fallacies Salaried staffs must grasp these facts fast, as the Movement. ‘The Monopolies Commission Report—A Straight Forward Guide’, pull-out feature inSLATE 5, also the full NAM-report ‘Do not pass go—DO NOT Collect (4° Both from 9, Poland Street, London, W.1. John Allan justify such lucrative fees... and pay the salaries to get it! of the professions most lucrative big firms weren't Reveille even included in the survey!) The point to remember is that though big practices are less numerous than small ones, they nevertheless In condemning the existing fee system the employ most building design staff. This means Monopolies Commission has unwittingly helped quite bluntly that most architectural workers are Point the way for salaried staff in architectural busy carning the largest profits for their offices to better conditions. For years the system employers little of which is ever passed on to has been operated by principals for principals. themselves. Willstaffallowanewsystemtooperatelikewise? Many staff are now beginning to remedy this situation by organising in TASS. They are less Readers wishing to pursue this subject further are likely to be interested in a mandatory minimum referred to matcrial published by the New Architecture The minimum fee scale may help the partners In this issue we start o special insert on the major issues affecting building design staff. We hope readers will keep these inserts and build them up into a library and thus in time give members demands an authority which they would otherwise not have inthis issue, welookat the Monopolies Commission Report, Pensions, and the Government's recent Green Poperon Housing. Ideas and articles for future features are most welcome discovered that the revenue yielded by the present fee system has not been equitably distributed to provide architectural staff with salaries com- Percentages of construction costs. But how much parable with those in other occupations at similar do staff know about salaries, overheads, and levels of qualification, experience and respon- partners profits? Often the easiest way to begin is scales, ownsalaries.(Thosewhoneverbeforehaveare The average profit per prinicpal in all usually quite surprised at what they learn). The partnerships (including the many small ones next step is to organise in TASS, achieve union’ without staff where fee income relates more recognition and press for “open books’ in orderto closely to costs) was estimated at nearly £13,000 give staff a clear understanding of the firm's overnment the kind of pressure w! better 3. Everyone knows the present fee system of The Government Housing Green Paper reafirms to people who have ben defined in some way ms propesedistometexceptionalneds ment, housing and political party and housing case following increasing general afluence, the| for the workers. The aiim was to show that good cheapertobuildandcanbebuilttohigher Crossland’sviews,theLabourGovernmentnow|,yeresetatalevelwhichevenartisans thatrents similartothosedesignedforsocialcontrol.19th intopublicsectorhousingstandards.Thiswil foptionof th speculative housing market. These are below those whichhavebeeninforceinthepublicsectorsince maxima. Any reduction’ willcertainly mean a loweringofquality.Intheprivatesectoritmaybe thatacouplecanbuya3or4personunitandthata 4personfamilycanbuya5or6personunit.Thisis not, however, the case in the public sector, wl 4personfamilywouldordinarilybeallocateda4 makagreatrdeal.sIf,youareconcernedabout oo about the|compensateforthelowerspacestandard Property, and perhapsadifferent area. ust be repaired adequately in order to achieve Neaparticulardutytoprovide forthasewhocouldnot goalofsociety.Individualsgouptheladderone Tung atatime. werebased,arguedstronglyforhouseswith gardens rather than flats. This predisposal towards runing through bour | From the Peabody tenements of the 1870's to Herbert Morrison's LCC flats of the 1930's, nd then fo the tower blocks of Birmingham Slasgow in the 1960's, one can se only a slippery line of descent from one optimistic | ‘solution’ of the housing problem to the next; each one increasingly inhumane and inflexi- ble, and each more rapidly becoming ob- solete. The Peabodies were slums in 70 years; The Morrison flats in les than 40. With | sing speed of improvement in the standard of livingou,r bravetower blocks are | likely to haye an acceptable life of bately 20. years—only athirdofthewaythroughthe | repayment of the instalments on the loans by which they are built. The Government Green Paper ‘Housing ative Document’ afforded an oppor- tunityfora radicalreappraisalofwhatwe buildandhowwefinanceit.The GrenPaper isadisappointment. Itmakes very few and in some cases damaging and discriminatory proposals for solving the housing problem. We as architects, planners, engineers and surveyors cannot aford to sit on the fance. tion that itis adapt someand ies—of theplaces we live in—in the light of radicaly changed conditionsoftodayand tomorow.Wilthe public good prevail, orwill profit motives {both private and public developer al |override public interests and amenities by squeezing the last ounce of revenue out of the development at the expense of quality and a civilised environment? Labour government Therelationshipsbetweenhousingandgovern of the cotage style. The cheapest plan fo rectanglelaidouttothehighestdensityallowedby abourGovernmentinthe1960'sandinthe1977 sanitationandadequateworkerhousingwere Although the planning authority together with that commen- Green Paper have attempted a more extensive | compatible with a fair return on capital. But the the gate is long discarded, many suratewithmarketdemands.Butalthoughterraces integrationofthetwocultures. Infollowing||isingcostofcentralarealandmeant Presentdayhousingschemesdisplayfeatures formandpoliticalpartymayberegardednot | merely as a result of political party policies, but as part of an overall pattern of how cultural densitics, they account for only a third of owner appears to believe that clas differences and, thus, | {ford could barely uses. Detached and semi-detached opposing cultural ideas have lafgely been sub~ Tegulations, but in the social knowledge of designers, relationiships are established and reproduced, in’perpetuating existing social arraisbements togetheraccountfor67percentofowneroccupied sumed into one general dominant culture, | |‘Thee«combined efforts of commerce societyproducesideaswhichfurtherthedominant houses, Thereisthusacorresponbedtewenencethe Followingthislineofargument,emphasis philanthropyandcharityhardlymadeanyimpres- oneortheotherformoftenurecan on|sionontheproblem.Loacndacenltralgovernment emphasis on one or the otheronlybeseen as_|,became involved inhousing through asuccession dassandarerepresentedastheonlyrationaland universally valid ones. These ideas, attitudes and ideas of individuality and the desirabi sed both in terms of cost and the culture. The|oftumclearancelegislation.Eventually,theywere GovernmentGreenPapertacitlyacceptsthatview|forcedtofinancehousingandbuilding,théfirst aCDPpublication‘WhateverhappenedtoCouncil formadominantculture Themostimportantoftheseideas,accordingto Jacksonnotesthatinthe19thcentury‘most whichsaysthatsocietyisnotdividedintoopposing)councilestatebeing193threeroomeddwellings classes, but it is a continuation of individuals | opened in Liverpool in 1875. Seven years later the rankedinorderofmerit.Thewinnersgetdetached|LCCobtainedpermissiontobuild,inLimehouse vilas.Thelosersgetcouncilhouses. Raymond Williams, is a belief in individualism. knew exactly what their potential Thecorrespon igideainthefioefhloudsingisthe |customersrequired.Assiduously,oftenclumsily, 197GovermentGreenPaper‘Housing,a conceptofprivateownership.Thepotential theystrovetoevokeatleastasuggestionofthat thefirstcouncilestateinLondon.lance 2 nypeoplethekindofhometheyward This view, which promotes owner occupation tothe In PrOCES, onlyofhowtheexpandingworkerpopulationwas|AddisonActlaunchedthecountry’sfirstfulscale architectatthedrawingboardtotheapprenticoen housingprojectstoday,thenjoinTASandwith yourcoleagues,workforabeterfuture. oppositionbetweentherighofttsheindividualand the limiting of private ownership is resolved by a further concept—that of the idea of permanent scarcity associated with success through individual meritachievedincompetitionwith otherin dividuals. Society may then be considered as a continuumwiththesuccessfulatonepoleandthe this‘safeguard’doesnotexist,Anditisherethat housedbutofhowtheyandthemiddleclas}housingprogramme.By1915lackofhousesfor summarises conyentionalwixdam.Atthesametimecouncilhousing inadequateattheother.Inbetweenisaseriesof government policiescanbescenoperatingto isrelegatedtohomesforsociety'sdeprived. stratifications,ofhurdlestobeovercomeenroute. controlthebuiltform.TheTudorWaltersReport, perceivedtheproblem. Theappearanceofcholera|renthadbecomeacute.Houserentsrosesteeply whichscourgedthepopulationwithoutregardfor|andtheresultingdemonstrationsbyaggrieved Althoughthegovernmentproposesthepartial ‘Decayinginercityareasmustberevived.Thiswil clasorlocalitybroughttoattentiontheextentof|tenantsinGlasgow‘camenearenoughtothe restorationofpastcutsinexpenditurethiswilstilrequirehighinvestmentwhichmustbemadenow.’ *replacementoftherofcoveringandrepairing theproblemwhichalreadyexistedandwhichgrew|appearanceofrevolutionathomewhiletheamounttoonly£830milionofthe£1.30milion ThisistheesenceoftheresponofsteheTASS- andstrengtheningoftherofstruc asthepopulationexpanded.Itwasaproblemof|countrywasatwarinEuropetofrightenthe BDSLondonBranchtotheGovernment's ©stabilisingtheexternalfabric; thedistributionofdwellingsandadeclineinthe|Government’intopassingtheRentandMortgage Sinceaurgeproportionofarchitecturalstaf HousingGrenPapTeherGr.eenPapisearwide efficiencyofpublicservices,especiallywater|RestrictionsAct1915.Rentswerenowfixedat workonhoustihenovger,allefectwilcontinueto rangingdocumentreviewingalaspeofchotusing supplyandwastedisposal suchalevelthatprivatespeculatorsnolongermeanalossofjobs.Ithepublicsector,somelocal policybothinthepublicandprivatesectorandhas honities.newtownsandhousingaxsociations Thesuccessfulendoftheladderisheldtobethe onwhichthedesignsforthefirstcouncilhouses Furthermore, relations between individuals are indirect, mediatedbymoney,sothatthewhole starts social organisation can readily be thought ofas a governmenthousingpoliciesexceptforabreakin ‘aggregaitecadnbesenthatforthefirsttimeaLabour marketpluor.Thehousingmarketcanbeandis jeramenthaspresidedoverasituationwheremore overlaidonthiscontinuum.Thetenuranedformof Between1919and1927forexampleaperiodof WriterslikeStedmanJoneshavedescribedhow|founditeconomictobuildforrenttoworkers.The authorityarchitectsdepartments(mostrecently Onlythencanitbeimproved.Ifthisisnot deepeninglabourinfluence85percentofcouncil petvatethanpublicsectorhousesarebeingrenovatedor housingmustreinforcetheideasofthedominant houseswereofthecottagetype.Between1930and Thediferencefsstilsmall—210,000private culture.Justbecauseoftheveryimmediacyofthe 1939underacoalitiongovernment,Jesthan7per sanitary,socialandmoralquestionswereinex-|governmentconcludedthatitcouldnolongerlook HillingdonandYork)arealreadysubjectto TheBranchbelievesthatthePaperwastedan possiblenowwhatwilafurtherreductionin century,boweverbriefly,matykestlb_ninatetheirsue. betwenthenatureofthegovernmentinoficeand Rangedagainstthis,speculativehousing,bothin and high sensity flats for council tenants are the hal marks of their public sector housing policies, the a policy of high density city centre for al subsequent housing legislation. There| flated tenements linked to slum clearance. This ©wasalsoalink,whetherdirectorindirect |between the built form of council h Anon-traditionalformofhighdensity associated on the one hand with slum clearance and cottage idiom, has been linked to g operationandinbuiltform,expressesvery trolledmoreandmorepreciselythelayoutand|establishedbythedesignersofthe19thcentury ; Aggregationofthehousinguni modeldwellings. . “basicstandard”ratherthanmakea‘fulimprove- ment’asdonenow,toasmallernumber. buit asthe visiblecontextcorrespond toand reinforce these overall ideas which we take for granted. whilstlimitingthedebatewithinunnecessarily vertedfor£10,f0ive0or0sixyearsago(pritotrhe 1974 Housing Act) arenow having major repairs They also critisiced it for emphasising owner carried out at costs up to£5,000. Not onlyis this a deper occupationastheprimaryformoftenurewhilst veryhighmaintenancecostbutitdoesn’ttakeinto The form of the speculative house iscontrolled Itisreproduced and reinforces Although the 1890 Housing of the Working ClassesActgavethelocalauthoritiesthepowerto Thehistoryofhousinginthe19thcentury,asinthe| acquirelandandtobuild,houseprovisiondidnot 20th,isessentiallyanurbanone,Itisarecordnot|becomeastatutorydutyuntil1919whenthe Private sector by future extension thelikelyefectsoftheGovernments quick,comer-cuttingquantitativeapproachto impossibleinthepublicsectorwhereth centofcouncilhousesbuiltwereofthecottage happenedcanonlybeanswredbysituatingthewhole Councilhousingdoesnotreinforcethedomi- designguidesandstatementshavefavoureda TheGovernmentintervenedin1844byin-|government'shousingpolicyprogramme fnthefactthatithasoccurredatal This break with pre-1964 Labour Government houningpolicesisintriguing.Theobviousquestionwhat welasofilhealth i BolshevismtoprodtheCabinetintoacceptinghis thanlosofjobs.Localauthoritystafwilbecome restrictingcouncilhousingtopeoplewhohave nantculturebutisinopposititonitinanumberof traditionalformwithalimitofthreestoreys, ways.Itisinfactaformofhousingwhich Emphasisonrehabilitationcompletesthepicture represents the ideas of an oppositional culture Conservative administrators seck to reinforce troducingtheLondonMetropolitanBuildingAct| By1919also,thetwobuscformsofworkers whichfor the first time imposed restrictions onthe | housing had already been established. The Tudor way buildings could be related to each other, | Walters Committee of 1918 recommended subur- minimumstreetwidths,lightingandventilationof|banlowdensitycottages.Until1964thiswas habitable rooms. This Act was followed by the | Labour's approach to council housing. Conser- PublicHealthAct1845whichlaidthefoundation| ¥ativesfavoured increasinglydemoralisedastheyscetheirofices experimentation will be frustrated by lack of funds, so architects and beendefinedinsomewaysasdisadvantageous, ©thedisplacementofestablished Councilhousingisremovedfromthemarket theideasofthedominantculture.Slumclearance ©thelosofrentswhilework isc: The Union is opposed to any lowering of standards. These reductions are in effect already “Therearestil9.2milionpeopleinBritain takingplace.TheHousingCorporationhasissued livinginhousingunfitforhumanhabitation, guidance notes to housing associations reductions in specifications for rehabilitation in order that more conversions can be achievedusing the same money. A number of housing associations fear that, by freezing the Housing Association grants and keeping yardstick increases to a rate lower than that needed to keep pace with inflation Oncebuiltitdoesnotbecome acommodity,buti solely for use. Secondly with its pooled bistoric costsete.council housingexpressestheideasof collectively rather than individualism. Houses are not achieved by success on the ladder of society squalid. The new high density developmentofcouncilflatscompetewithowner precisclytheideasofindividualismandsuccess occupationneitherinquantitynorinbuiltform. from acontinuingfallin.workloadandhence through individual merit, the success being measured by value. In council housing, use predominates,Intheprivatemarket,valueisthe criterion The Conservative problem, however, is how to avoidsocialunrestamongstthosewhocannot compete in the housing market. For Labour the problem ismore dificult. Ifthey perform their The early Acts, included provision for demoli- | | An examination of contemporary 19th century tion,stretclearance,accordingtoStedmanJones,| literatureonthesubjectrevealsthatanapparently wereinbredwithalmostmagicalefficiency.A|functionalsolutiontoaphysicalproblem reading of housing history shows how successive was in Insocietywherevalueisthecriterioncouncil functionasagovernmenttheyadvathenidceaesof fact rooted in ideas about social control. Model Conservative governments until the 1960's also | dwellings were designed to enable easy and turnedtoslumclearanceinaneforttocontrolthe| ¢fectivesupervision —‘regulationwithoutdirect nature and appearance ofworker livingconditions. | control’ as itwas caled. The frontages therefore Butdemolitionexacerbatedtheproblem.Thepoor facedontoasquareratherthanastret.Therewere did not disperse a limited number of access stairs and in many cases formers turned towards the problem of who | the one entrance and exit from the square was lacking baths, hot water, inside lavatories, or innedofmajorrepairs.The(Housing)Green Paper isnot worth the paper itiswriten on until and unles the cuts in housing are housing does not conform and may thus considered a threat to the dominant culture. Conservative governments are likely to suppress council housing and Labour governments to further it the dominant culture, Insofar as they support the oppositional culture and its ideas they are in integrate the two cultures by producing council jhousing which adheres in form, but not in tenure, iotheideasofthedominantculture and this trend is likely to continue. Many architects Form,however,issecondarytotenure.Inwhic! takinga‘lowestcommondenominator’approach authoritiestheintroductionofgreaterfl Upa blind alle tricablylinkedtothequestionofhousingthepor.|toprivateenterprisetoprovidethegoodquality Themiddleclasbelievedthatthebringing|homesprotomtheiretusrninegsodldiers.The1919 togetherofthepoorinlargenumbers,inareaslike|ActwasalsoinfluencedbytheHunterand theLondon Rookerwhieresth,ere waslitleorno | Salisbury Commission, aided according to Enid access by the middle clas, created a danger of| Gauldic, by Lloyd George who used the dangerosf and—bureaucratic spendinggiveus?InonewelrespectedLondon . The opportunitytoreappraisethecountry’shousing housingassociationpropertiesboughtandcon igners wil by pushed more and more into followedaseriesofActs(descnbedindetailby|policyculminatedinthetowerandslabblocksof applyingstandardplansandstandardformulae. Theyreomldohousvinge whichis,intheirterms, EnidGauldiein‘CruelHabitations’whichcon-|the19$0sand1960s.The geneictypewas Theprivatesectormayalsobeexpectedtosuffer possiblebyimproving’thesehousteosanadequate working in private practices, wil hesitate about moralrulesregardingbothfamilylifeandhome- workingforthepackagedeaker—whomtheyseeas falingbackontheGreenPaper therebylabellingthepublicsectorassecondclas Promised in the Green Paper would also result ina reduction in the quality of housing provided both innew construction and inrehabilitation. Itaims Another worrying resultofcutbacks expenditure isthedisastrousefecttheyha unemployment, but they also result in lowering of it The built form also. The ofhousing ‘speculative’house seemstobe which appearsrelated as an archetype througtheocountry isadevelopment should provide housing for the poor how itshould | controlled by a gate locked at 11,00pm. Strict be financed and managed, and what standards of accommodation should be provided. Private { working completed a picture of the Victorian philantrhopists elected to build model dwellings } middleclasses’ determitonianctulicatoenthe ideas | There was theflat rate old age persion scheme, |whicheverybodyere butwhichno-one relied upon unless they 0. | ‘Therewasthegraduatedpensionscheme,which no-oOneseetmohsave underosrrteloiedoudpon | with any confidence. ; Now we have the new State Pension Scheme, introduced by the 1975 Social Security Pensons Act, which is not impossble to understand, and doesseemtoprovideareasopensiaonbfolremost people, The new State scheme, which becomes effective on 6 April 1978 scts out to guarantee that al employed people will get a pension on retirement. For those people whose working life conforms to a certain idea of ‘normality’ this will be a pension \on retirement which issufficient tomaintain astyle |oflifecomparable totheonethey‘enjoyed’ whilst s ers Theamountofcontributionandne ATTA 1 ae eeab they within ¢ertain limits, But the Rove orfpeasion is not determined by mnominal cash carnings. It is determined by the value of carnings. On retirement, the amount of pension having been established, its value ts then main- ined irrespective of inflation. That, at Jeast, is the upoftwoclements Thereis nt availab >all wh have almost all heir p sbasiic pension sadjust es in its purchasing pov you ret re or G compulsory state scheme. to the In doing this they will elemen ating to the value of tain| mit. W an indivadua entagetheiractu: earnings(uptc altuoaellodwfor ee S a »make some allowance f inflation. mitof earnngswhichwill contribute the same contribution as before if the scheme is similar but the pension received from the second employment will be reduced to three quarters (it will relate to 30 and not 40 years) and the frozen pension from the first employment will yield about onetwelthratherthanthequarterwhichisneeded to bring it up to its expected level. The more an employee changes jobs the greater the rate of inflation, the less pension is received on retirement. What is the solution of this difficulty? If one Private pension scheme were to be adopted by the majority of employees in the private building design sector, then transfer of pensions would be facilitated and they would not have to befrozen when employees changed jobs, The Architects Benevolent Pension Fund Trust offer a scheme of this sort, but it has to date been adopted by only forty offices. In many offices the Pension scheme chosen is an extension of insurance schemes already selected by the Principals which may explain the multiplicity of pension arrangements. It seems that itisdifficult to designa Private scheme which suits both large and small offices. Will you still pay eC you? The ways of government me carmings related clement is also departments are strange. The only way to find the d periodically. The scheme, which came answer to this question is to ask, with caution on 6 Apnil, fixes the upper limit at Most employers wil, by now, have decided tannum. So, if TASS-BDS does whether tocontract out or An employer who ost building design staff should be contracts out of the state Pension scheme has to king for some means of topping up their state proportions and How You Benefit’. If you want tc is that the DHSS computer doe tbl W Up just as produce enough children Unfortunate! not benefit from the contributions which the employer makes to an occupational scheme and it is unlikely employces will really be able to squeeze the equivalent cash from the employer as extra salary senior citizen utopia for al protra | educa Cement reduced have a The solution to these difficulties is obviously not clear, but it may be that the majority of large offices could be persuaded to adopt one main scheme, and that employees working in small offices might choose to rely on the state pension scheme plus individual life insurance, at least during thecarly The Xplains at what point you cross the nts on part of their working lives when they are most likely to change jobs. What carnings Avetleeaty tiwevl Employees can refuse to join occupational pension schemes and buy insurance to provide any benefits that they require in addition Pensions! The mere mention of the subject brings # glazed kook into eyes that have not scenthirty |summers and a distracted and nervous twitch to i |those that have seen more than forty. The Radio Times usedto carry an advertisement for lifeinsurance showing adapperchap oftwenty saying‘ItscleikemasprettygoodjobbutIhear |they don’t have a scheme’, As time passed |hegraduallybecaamsiextyeho erie fora pe purse of trancuilisers : |asteror ichwusfrelyavailablethen)tearing | at his scalp und saying ‘only five years fo go to retirement. What am Igoing todo? Itwouldhave beenfunnyifithadnotbesoetragnicallytrtuoleife. | The State Pension scheme has gradually |improved since the days whe, ifyou ork) Tos | worked until you were no longer fit, and were | sent to the workhouse hospital oto live on the Rubican. It does not tel what happens if you do! Provide an alternative pension scheme which meets the criteria laid down by the DHSS. The contrib- a OFJoininganoccupationalpensionscheme,orbytuionstothestateschemearethenredutcoaefdlat putting pennies under the mattress rate. The contracted out scheme must Provide a The whole c related \ conseque! of the new state scheme is guaranteed minimum pension which is the sameas F than cash amounts, and isthe pension which would have been Provided under ner fluid. The actual figures, the state scheme. It will usually provide benefits that the guaranteed minimum and the contnibutions will be greater than those required by thestatescheme. Ifforsome reasonacontracted this scheme does not provide a Those who are self- employed or who work aborad or whc 1contributionand benefitaresetout in the DHSS leaflet NP30 ‘New Pensions acted period of self-discovery and informal n for too long wil find their pension I'm 64 pensions. This can be done by buying life insurance Predict the value of your state pension you will out scheme can be seen to fail to work in an © read the leaflet with your own case in mind ndividual employees case there is Provision for the Set out what you ¢ * to carn on the basis of private scheme to make a payment direct to the Present s: scales, a ic ¢ what you will DHSS to compensate for the reduced con- getintermsofcurrentvalue.Allyoucanhopether tributions,andtheindividualis“boughtback’into you would get a proportion of the pension wouldn't the state scheme some Government doesn't start The benefits provided by a Private “contracted fiddling theindex to control money Supply through out’ pension scheme are additiofial to the basic pensions, or that the predicted diminiti Population doesn't rebel at maintain enormous retired population which state pension and are only substituted for the carmings related element of the state pension. So the level of your notional state Pension not only affects the ount of benefit from the private scheme through the guaranteed minimum but you will actually be trotting along to the Post Office to collect one part of your Pension from the state whilst receiving separate Payments from the Private scheme. It seems that there will also be some arrangement as yet undefined, whereby the incre the notional related element of your pension will be paid to your direct of the We understand that the DHSS wil notgive general by the DHSS. Anyone who has changed jobs and 1 the best wenty information about these cases but will o belongs to several different contracted out schemes ye carnings. This element of the consider each indiv dual enquiry. It is implied that will surely be receiving pennies from all con- pen $salsosubsequentlyadjustedafterretire-youwillloseallrigtohatstsatepensionbutsurelyceivabledirections. Employers can elect not to contract out but to run a private pension scheme. In fact, the purpose of the private schemes, whether contracted in or out, must be to provide additional benefit. This additional benefit can be some means of providing @ pension which relates to salaries over the upper limit of £5,500 pa, or Providing additional dependents pension, or sickness benefit, or lump sum payment on death in service, or some combination of these benefits. One additional facility which most private schemes offer is that a Proportion of the benefit can be taken on retirement as a lump sum. There is, however, one aspect where the state pension scheme will have an advantage over the private scheme There is only one state scheme. It does not tic an employee to any particular employer. When an employed person who joins a Private pension scheme and subsequently moves after, say, five years to another office with a different private scheme the pension relating to that employment is either frozen or if it can be transferred to the scheme at the new place of work, there will probably be ‘administrative charges’ deducted from the fund which is transferred. Most Private schemes are fined by nominal cash amounts rather than value, that is, the benefits are determined as a Proportion of te average of a small number of best years actual salary and the length of service. An employee who stays with the same firm for 40 years fromtheageof25toretiarndeismaememnbetrof the pension scheme will receive a level of benefit which probably will be determined in Practice by some of the final ten years, Ifthe employee belongs to one scheme for 10 years from the age of 2S and another scheme for the next 30 years he will make Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Several authors Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Allan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 1978 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/5a6c7eba44412f9a2909d2c16943d59c.pdf 67db042a08486d41ec20255040b8da5e 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 NOT QUITE A CLUB BD article by Owen Luder 10 October 1980 Description An account of the resource NOT QUITE A CLUB... THE objectivesofthe Whetherthatshouldbetheferredonitbyparliament— inreturnarequirementthataldegreeofcontrolbythePrivyareFRIBA,ARIBAorLRIBA RIBA, as set out in the 1837 situation iseitiesHCna DC) The something it increasingly buildings are designed by quali- Council on the requirements of before the 1971 charter, who charter, are “the general unhapy duality initsrole with tended to overlook over the fied architects ARnough archi- its charter and the by-laws can continue to use those advancementofcivilarchi-ARCUKhasbecomeincreas-years.Asignificantchangeoftectsmayfeelthatthisiswhichstemfromit. affixes. tectureandforthepromo-inglyobvovieroreceuntsyears.lawwillberequiredtomakeitnecessary,therearemanyout So,inadditiontoanyre- Forthosereadersunawareof IsARCUKthebodytolookmoreeffectiveandindepensidetheprofessionwhodonotcoursetocommonlawrightsofthesituationbeforethoseearth tion and facilitation of the after the consumer interest? If dent of the RIBA which has see architects in such a com natural justice in its dealings shattering, momentous acquirement of the know- it is, what is the role of the always had a substantial majo- petent light with its members, there is changes in title: ledgeofthevariousartsand RIBA? Ararefiedtradeasso- ritycontrol ofitsgoverning Arguably,ARCUK should alwaystheriogfhapptealtothe (licentiateswerethosewho sciences connected there- ciation to look after its council. lookaftersociety,theusersand PrivyCouncilifamemberor hadpractisedarchitecturefor with”. i f members? BecausetheRIBAmembers clients,whiletheRIBA con- membersfeelitisexceedingits sufficientlylongaperiodtobe Unalteredtoday,itisawide If so, what about the ofARCUK arenominatedby cernsitselfwithitsmembers’ powersorisbehavingunfairly consideredcompetent,without enoughbrieftomeanwhatyou majorityofitsmembewrhosas the RIBA establishment, the interestsandtheadvancement orimproperly. havingpassedanyexaminations want at any particular time, in salaried architects sometimes chance of ARCUK doing any- of architecture — the learned So while the RIBA has — a necessary back door, now SUEROr of any argument of feel it should be a trade union thing about RIBA general policy society role. The conflicting absolute control over member- firmly shut; icy. andnotabosses’club? seemsunlikely.IftheRegistra- pressuresindicatethatifposi- ship,itcanonlyexercisethis Dassociateswereyoungarchi- TheobjectivesindicateanIfthatisthecase,whoisres-tionActsarechanged,RIBAtivechangedoestakeplace,itcontrolwitarheaisonableandtectsqualifiedbyexamination, d looking insti yet ponsible for archi or is control would be certain to go, will result in the inevitable fair interpretation ofitscharter proud of their youthful vigour theconflictnowasthenisthatnotimportThaenatdv?an-withthebiastowardsoutsidecompromise,sothatawriterandby-laws.Itcannotactcap-andqualificationandnot between the wider interests of cement of architecture, the representation. ARCUK afew decades from now will no riciously or maliciously in wishing to be associated with society—thecommunity,peobjective,seemstohavewouldthenbecomethewatch-doubtbecommentingonthe LRIBAs,orelderlygreybeard users, consumers, clients — and een somewhat overlooked. dog of the consumer interest, unsatisfacto) relationship fellows. the self-interest of members. How this duality with er than the weak and in- between ARCUK and the Both junior classes could Ostensiblysetupin1834asaARCUKwillberesolvedeffectivewatchdogofregis-RIandBdepAloringthelackof applytobefellowsbyelection, learned society itwas, and stil remains to be seen. ARCUK’s tered architects that itistoday. emphasis on architecture. is, mainly concerned with pro- role is severely restricted by Itis doubtful whether in the ¢RIBAisaclub—but not tecting and organising the beinga statutory body. Ithasto present climate parliament a private club. In return for its interests of its members. keep within the powers con- could be persuade to accept royal charter, it accepts a after a period of years, backed by evidence of a high standard of architectural excellence in the buildings for which they were responsible. available, when allied to up-to-date roof design and high standards of workmanship by today’sreputableroofing contractors, can give modern flat roofsa greatly extended life-expectancy. They also release the potential ofthe flat roof asa building form, so that all the essential advantages it has always possessed can be utilised to the full. They are advantages that add up toan impressive total. Witha flatroofthereisgreaterflexibility of design. Large areas can be covered more easily, while in manycaseslessmaterialis needed, And because the consistent roof height obviates voids, there isno wasted space to light and heat —another important incorporating a high-performance theUSA,thescopeformoreRIBAdiplodomesanotbelong non-British architects is con- to you, so ithas to be returned, Flat roof, c.1980 Various pressures, including the need for greater subscrip- tion income (fellows paid a50 Per cent greater sub) led to ‘ellowship becoming virtually automatic after five years membership. Probationary membership is a sub-class which has dis- appeared. This was the first step on the ladder towards ful qualification for the youngster just contemplating architec- economy point for the cost- conscious '80s. Similarly, a flat roof simplifies the matter of internal partitioning. And then there isthe plain fact that, in many industrial and commercial environments, aflatroofissimply more aesthetically pleasing. The all-important difference There is surprisingly little difference in installed cost between a modern insulated roof incorporatingastandard waterproofing membrane and one membrane =in the region of 20% Yetwhentheescalatingcostsof maintenance, repair and replacementare taken into account, that modest difference can lead to enormous savings over the years. The 1980s, then, will undoubtedly be the decade in which the merits of modern high- performance roofing materials become widely known . and the decade in which you can use these materialstoprotectyourclients against the ravages of inflation as well as against the elements siderable, but as the current presumably so that you cannot rules are very restrictive, the purport to be stil a member, aie ep Tarmac Building Products Limited Ebury Gate, 23 Lower Belgrave Street, London, $.W.1. Forinstantinformationtickps|] onreaderinquirycard The 1969 revolt, when mem- The current subscription is berscalalpoelldontheissueof £64,whichistobeincreasedto BUILDING DESIGN, October 10, 1980 49 Luder/Parris ture as his vocational career. The cost was small, the benefit File accepting orrejecting members or in expelling them. minimal, but the principle of ersonal association with the nstitute become established at the outset. Today only a minority of architectural students botherto Ithasrulesandithastoapply joinasstudentmembers—a them properly and fairly, classofmembershipwhichhas otherwise itcan be challenged declined dramatically over inthecourtsorbypetitionto recent years. hoever the Privy Council. changed those rules forgot the John Parris will no doubt old adage ‘‘catch them young have much more to say on this and keep them’’. aspect when he deals with the legal powers of the RIBA over time and subsequently apply its members. Membership oftheInstitute Outstandingsubscriptions,but ispersonal and nocorporation, readmission is not necessarily firmorpartnershicapnbecome automaticeveniftheapplicant a normal member, one of the is stil qualified for admission. hurdles to be overcome ifprac- The RIBACouncilshallnot ticesubscriptionsaretocome unreasonablywithholdordelay into effect. Members do not ily although it is difficult to see a have to be British. There are situation where there would be provisions _ for — accepting much sense in refusing to oreiaa nationals but, unless accept a resignation, unless they avetrainedasarchitects therewereseriousdisciplinary inthe UK,itisnoteasyforthem actionpending. to comply with the special As the intention of that requirementsforqualification. actionispresumablytoridthe s the number of mutual Institute of a culprit, even that registration recognition would be a somewhat hollow arrangements with other exercise. countries increase, particularly If you do resign — your numbers involved so far are rather than to enable the Insti- relatively small. tutetore-issueittosomeother Qualification for normal lucky applicant. membership consistsof passing Apart from ahandful ofhon- recognised examinations or orary fellows and the like, al architectural courses. Once members are Bropedly quali- that requirement is satisfied, fied architects. Few realise, membership is, in practice, automatic yout subscription is however, that there is already needed) although applicants specific provision for a sub- have to sign an undertaking to scriber class of membership uphold the charter, by-lawsand who would not be architects code of conduct before their and not allowed to suggest they appl ation can be accepted. are architects in any way. Pre- nlike the similar declaration sumably this is intended to ARCUK requestsbeforeregis- provide an association of tration, this undertaking is people interested in architec- enforceable. ture and the RIBA objectives. membership classes, resulted £78 on January 1, 1981. in le class of membership: The loyalty of many members a classless society — no elite. will be tested when the new, Weare nowall RIBA members subscription demands ary except, or course, those who with all the other New Ye: Members may resign at any for readmission, subject to any Pp of Should RIBA be more of a trade union and less of a private club? Owen Luder takes a look at the role and membership of RIBA. Robert Harbinson. once again free. whose control panel has been As Harbison warns in his in- taken off, the visitor feels he troduction: “This book tells a should not see. Such examples disastrous history.” And itdoes, only show that functional too is for it endeavours selectively only a way of thinking, largely but with staggering confidence er the control of the designer, to chronicle the ruinous effect not a necessity leading him by of romantic individualism in the nose through ugly ducts...” thought and art from the 18th Pompidou is the most recent Martin Pawley takes a look at a book which charts the ruinous ffects of romantic ARCHITECTURE isnota century to the near-present of building mentioned by Harbison individualism. game of tennis, in which Stalin and Hitler and while one may quibble at style is bashed back and It’s divided into roughly his categorisation (the Sains chronological essays on such bury Centre is abetter example forth across the centuries, it themes as thecult of death in of functionalism: Pompidou is is a function of the social neoclassicism, tribe and race in mechanical expressionism writ order, and particularly re- anthropology and fascism, and large) the real lesson for archi sistant to coherent analysis. the millenium in modernism tects in Deliberate Regression is For this reason we should al and social realism. not here but in the second part besprenared to do a little Architecture does not play of the extract. What the author work when a promising ap- a large part in this survey. does best is to find subjective proach comes along, as it Passages are devoted to Pugin, evasion everywhere — either does with this radical work Ruskin, Burges, Lethaby, gloried in or patnencaly dis- Malevich and Lissitsky, but guised with the trappings of of art history. architecture really emerges in impersonality. Book Reviews Deliberate Regression is a asides and examples projected obody, says Harbison, will dense and fragmentary book, forward in time from the period accept the implications of science both a confusing mess and a under dissection and reason in design powerful document. Like Mc- Consider this evocation of In the case of Lethaby, once Luhan’s Understanding Media the Pompidou Centre which cited as a proto-modernist, —i t achieves notwithstandin *...masquerades as_ rational, now re-emergiinntghe cloak of many faults the Herculean task but treats bolts and wires as man, myth and magic, we see a of liberating its subject from decoration, making its greatest y figure at the dawn of the Deliberate Regression, by accepted categories of the pre- display on the underside (the Eins| era cowerinign a land- Robert Harbison. Andre sent and leaving the ground back) which, as with a machine ape of histori al associa ations, Deutsch £8.95. installedinhisbusiness. e Would you... a)Find aplace out the back fora boiler. A hot water tank. A header tank. Knock ahole in the wall fora flue tovent away the fumes. Get someone to rip up the floorboards and laylengths ofcopper piping,carefully bent to go round awkward corners. Fit the radiators to the walls. Putthefloorboardsback. Then the carpet. Carefully cut to go round the pipes. Fill the whole works up with water. And light a fire under it. (Ifyou can get the fuel these days.) ons Of the machine? hurtling through space, and the standing — the same frivolous building as an enyelope without bankruptcy, the same childish, content” petulant, stubborn evasion off Today sees the same crisis the truth. unresolved, the same scamper- “It is not always easy to ingfigureswithdifferentnames separateanauthenticsenseof andnowwithevenlessexcuse. doomfromadesireforpersonal Malevich(underpressure,Har- importance...thewishtoliveat bisonimplies)turnedhispaint- theendoftime,”writesHarbi- ingsintoarchitectureby“afew son,whosestyleismuchcriti- deft additions which make them cised by critics but which con- read as axonometric solids”. tains passages of astonishing The conceptual architects of eloquence. the 1970s, by a few deft omis- This book makes itclear that sions, make their architecture the real speculators now are read as art. those hiding in pseudo-history. The Paris artists of the first The book leaves me with one decade of the century seized final question. Why, in his evo- upon African sculpture as a cation of the “building without formal, non-historical device content” as the authentic voice whichcouldbedeployedinany ofscienceandreasoninarchi- context. The architects of post- tecture, does Harbison ignore modernism run through adreary Mies van der Rohe? —the one but extensive yocabulary of great figure of the present cen- historicalallusionsinnoorder turywhonotonlyunderstood andwithnoreasonedunder- thisbutsaidit,60yearsago. or b) Get the electricians in with some heaters, a screwdriver, and a length by clipping this coupon. ae ) Formoreinformaonteileoctnncheatingsystems,controls and tanffs, send this coupon to The Build Electric Bureau, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WCLE 7BT or ask the operator for Freefor ne 2284 and talk to our commercial heating specialists. Name2s Address__ HEATELECTRIC Electricity Cot uncil, England and Wales reamcaSESSHeeaeoc on reader inquiry card rified nuts and bolts at the Pompidou Centre. BOWH) 50 BUILDING DESIGN, October 10, 1980 ING FROM EINSTEIN2 ee Your client wants heating Of. thiS)qussuenen | 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 10-Oct-80 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/87b99027978e9228969553bfd00f7407.pdf c91c8bac125a9a48b0d350240eb6648d 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 Note from Code Monitoring Group (CMG) Subject The topic of the resource Note from Code Monitoring Group (CMG) re Advice to Architects Description An account of the resource The following suggestions for improving the draft Advice have been made : -- Draft as agreed 10 April All registered persons have equivalent recognition from ARCUK and architects concerned with the selection of other architects for appointments should not without demonstrable justification make any requirement or preference other than registration if to do so would put their integrity in question by unreasonably limiting choice . line 3 after " appointments " add "or advancement. line 4 delete "other than" : substitute "in addition to " These seem to me meritorious and unless I receive objections will be included in the draft for discussion by PPC. D B WATERHOUSE CONVENER c.c. Registrar . Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource D Waterhouse Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 15.4.85 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/408ff8a982fcfac5ba02a685cc4f6ffe.pdf 58213e41a51371619a4081a3a14db231 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 Note on membership of ARCUK advisory panels Subject The topic of the resource 2 page note on membership of ARCUK advisory panels Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource ARCUK Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 5. 3. 87 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/002230b0c0b8e3f24c7309c7bb425668.pdf cfa4fe2ef060f1ba71d99e99efdb4fe4 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 Alternative Practice Description An account of the resource This investigated other forms of organisation of architects' offices based around the concept of cooperative working and shared equity. Several members went on to establish their own practices adopting such models. A pre-eminent example was Support Community Building Design, which emerged from a small group of graduates from the Architectural Association which went on to create a cooperative practice focused on potential client groups in society which traditionally were not the beneficiaries of the architectural profession which, we would have said, was essentially the handmaiden of capital. These groups eventually included local authority tenants, women's groups including refuges, ‘black’ i.e. racially self-defined groups. 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 Notes Subject The topic of the resource Alternative Practice to Guide Discussion' (1 side) Description An account of the resource 4th N. A.M. Annual Con$ress 1978 Cheltenham 'Alternative Practice' Some Notes to Guide Discussion There has been no specific interest group in NAM concerned vich alternative practice or 'community architecture 'though there is a great deal of overlap vith the PDS group However there have been a number of developments which make it important for NAM members to clarify their psition on these topics These are The growth of groups such as Support , ARCAD , the Feminist Design and Build Group and so on . The attempts of the RIBA to get Government assistance and credibility for their ideas of 'community architecture' The growing interest in co—operative of employment in the private sector Firstly there seems little doubt that it is feasible for a group like Support to be set up and find fee earning vork with tenants cotmnunity; trade union and radical groups . The details of how this happens and the associated problems can be discussed . There are contradictions ia vorkiag in the private sector and a debate with the PDS group which may emerge at this congress but the demand for such a service from groups who vould shun conventional RIBA Architects must be acknowledged By dealing with real and immediate problems it would be possible to carry out research and propoganda which would aid the long term proposals of PDS . Meanwhile the vorking class and labour movement can be more effective if it has good buildings to live in and vork from Secondly there are some vho advocate co—operation between NAM and the RIBA to support the Co:mnunity Architecture Group proposals for a Community Aid Fund . They are asking Reg Fresson for E 2 million . If ve are . to critiscize the RIBA these critscisms should be more articulate and videly understood . There are 'progressives' involved with CALG vho would make overtures to NAM but independent approaches to FReeson are more likely to be in our interest Thirdly there vas a very succesful seminar on October 20 attended by about 30 architecst and others which discussed co—operative forms of organis ;mg practices . Mary Rogers vill be able to give a report on the results of this meeting It is suggested that in the morning vorkshop ve discuss more general and political issues and the points of conflict and co—operation be discussed with the PDS group in the plenary . At 6p.m. in the evening ve hope that a number of NAM members from different groups vill give short presentations with slides about vork they have been doing Tom Woolley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tom Woolley Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1978 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/d965edd3906af8484a1a682c53f3ca21.pdf 7c6f03a6aadb133fe9abd755573eb5b4 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 Notes of Unattached Representative meeting. July 1978 Description An account of the resource ARCUK Unattached representatives meeting Notes on meeting at Tom Woolley's house on 9th. July, 1978 Attended by : Tom W., John A., John M., Bob M. and David R. N.B. Next meeting : 17th. September, at 67 Romilly Road, London N4, at 11 a.m. Please let John Allan know if you cannot make it Agreed to persuade local libraries to have copy of ARCUK Register. Discussion of Way Ahead. Slogans at end to be more positive. Lengthy discussion on our position on Summerland. Agreed to get ourselves briefed by looking at AJ reports on the Enquiry etc. John Murray to write paper on Discipline principles. Bob Malz to contact Nick Wates for info on Summerland. Corporate advertising. We should force RIBA to stop until matter is settled - or unattached shouldn't be discriminated against. Motion on this to be formulated. Ledger of unattached motions should be kept, especially those we lose, and we should note who supports us. .“ John Allan to come to meetings as an observer / reporter for SLATE. Slate to write to Forder for credentials. Are members of public allowed to attend meetings ? John Murray to raise matter of whether RIBA facilities are paid for - possibility of alternative venue in the future. Directorships — not discussed. ICOM / TASS seminar important. (see enclosed Lathe from Mark Gimson) Limited liability - we are in favour. Ann is working on this. Tom and Support to look into this and insurance. Monopolies Commission David R. had disappointing meeting with Green. DoE rep. on ARCUK. Meeting to take place with Fraser. MPs to be circulated. Hallam Street address to be used for reply. Job Advertising. Bob Malz to redraft letter to Forder taking into account comments. Investments John Murray to ask for more details. Do they actually make money — Annual Report suggests Hill Samuels fees are higher than investment income. Need to press ARCUK for policy. 12. Visiting Board / BAE We should go and look at reports before next meeting. 13) Part 3 Examiners Are these 'separate' exams or for the ones set by schools. We need to find people to put forward . John Murray has been asked to by EE at Hull. Tom W. tofind out. 14. Visiting Boards Who are the ARCUK reps on these — what are the ground rules ? Unattached should be on them. 15. Unattached meeting for November We should ask people if they are interested in being on Visiting Boards or to be Part 3 examiners. Everyone thought the BD article was good. 16. Circulation of information We should send committee minutes to each other and reports to the liaison committee and Slate. Las NAM Handbook John Allan to write something. 18. ARCUK Handbook We should attack it, especially Metcalfe's foreword. 19. Action on Norman Arnold's letter Discussion of this. John Murray to send his reply. 20.NAMConferenceon10th.November._Pravwalthis we froawa Who 1,Giaudlu.g Sue Jackson, Secretary, BDS/TASS London Branch, 4 Highshore Road, London SE15 5AA Dear Susan Jackson, 9th. August, 1978 I am writing to you about the joint ICOM/BDS conference on alternative forms of architectural practice, which was planned for the autumn. We had started to compile a short list of people we thought should be invited : e.g. someone we know from a law centre who knows a lot about co-operative structures, people from other professional co-operatives etc. But when we phoned David Marshall of ICOM about this, he told us that it was going to be a meeting of about half a dozen people, and he grudgingly agreed that maybe someone fram Support could attend. Although we agree with keeping the numbers to, say, two dozen-or so, his proposal sounds totally useless. If it goes ahead we at Support would probably have to set up our own session on alternative forms of practice. This would te a regrettable duplication of energies, but unavoidable from our point of view if we are really to get clear in detail what the available alter- natives are. When we contacted Bob Malz about this, he said that he had been too busy to take- it all on, and suggested that we could take over the organising with ICOM and Ian Tod. Apart from what we at Support think about it, as a member of BDS/TASS I am concerned that it seems to be turning into something quite different In any case, there is some urgency about their plans. If you agree that the situation needs some sorting out, could you write to David Marshall at ICOM, 31 Hare Street, London SE18 (Tel. 01.855.4099). Perhaps the best way to resolve things would be to set up a meeting with you or someone else from the branch committee and ICOM, at which we could be represented. Yours, WeeksGe oe Mark Gimson from what was discussed at branch meetings. up at the next branch meeting, but I am going to be away in September. 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Preggetian sir, Cteiiwia .WE are epewdsres Qos CEE mA Or Ort BE fas ew ta, t 2) actetiesTM cdLeods i, Fao th leak Corp |Z. ma cals Wee Kargre, SOL hy mo cowriwilyayeenerwoSleeoupla, oe arg opehieohaus eo Orch AanneCUWE oeyMoreecee North— heitdor en Zeb Crees aun On Yel Ace 2A Qrid4 Moaxo¢ wi, han bos wriooclsrtaho wee=ts narCRE cotta Po-tinmsaat eit A uN apare TR aa SN eas. ot bw WrAemrplrnnge Clk wok bmckircsertcd) onl (ray clwuinorkerk is on reek {eartac. jerSwww-+CueAAto aetheySia C astauw (seakla, oy RRCAID), BUILDING DESIGN JULY 28th. 1978 FOLLOWING a committee meeting at RIBA headquarters last week, the RIBA’s Community Architecture Working Group iscompiling a list of community architecture case studies, which it will £0.75m. Community architecture architecture, including could become as established as architects on the dole, local present through RIBA CAWG has already drawn up President Gordon Graham, to a national list of all architects Housing Minister, Reg Freeson. with experience of community the National Health Service if authority architects working in the group’s plans are put into their spare time, and students. practice. CAWG’s idea is that community architecture groups would be set up in urban centres It would like this list to be operated through the RIBA Clients Advisory Service. ““We would manage areas of in the same way as doctors’ blight. The demand for this Surgeries and legal aid centres. kind of work is so great that They would be financed by community aid funds which would bridge the gap between local authorities and private money and would enable them be financed by Government to carry out remedial work on money rather than private run-down properties for people because we need full who could not afford private architects. Freeson is thought to be sympathetic to the idea and the commitment”’, said Hackney. He added that CAWG would be pleased to hear from anyone who could quote examples of list of case studies is a good community architecture preliminary to seeking financial and these should be sent to support from the DoE. Two DoE representatives sit on the Portland Place, W1. CAWG committee. Commu- | amount of money — about individual people working in community architecture can only start on the pinnacle of the iceberg. Architectural aid must Charles McKean, RIBA, 66 Architecture for needy communities nity architect, Rod Hackney said: “Initially we are not setting our sights too high, we are seeking a reasonable Mr. K. Forder Registrar ARCUK 73 Hallam Street London WIN 6EE Dear Mr. Forder , I enclose a copy of my Practice Information sheet for you to hold . I was concerned to read in this week's Building design’ a claim that the RIBA Community Architecture Working Group has drawn up a "National last of all architects with experience of community architecture including ......." It wants this list to be operated through the RIBA @lients advisory service . I wonder af you could write to the RIBA pointing out that any such statements made by them should make it clear that their " national list" is of RIBA members and not of " all architects " . There are a substaftial number of architects with the kidd of experience described by the RIBA CAWG as TM community architecture " who age not members of the RIBA and to the best of my knowledge have not beeh approached to be on this list . This list cannot, therefore be one of all architectswith this experience . J would think that you should also be concerned at the way the RIBA CAWG is publicising experience of'community architecture’ as though it were a qualification . Having been a leader in this field for many years I have always tried to handle the concept carefully and refer to it in inverted commas . However the public might easizy be misled into thinking that this term is a recognised specialisation of qualification . Please get in touch if you would like to discuss these points with me but I would expect meanwhile that you ensure the RIBA puts out factually correct statements . yours sincerely Tom Woolley July 28 1978 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource TW Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Murray Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 1978 Subject The topic of the resource Notes of Unattached Representative meeting. July 1978