23 10 310 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/9d43869f467f8e8bee5ebda449c7c478.pdf 3a333afb33704c7545b37503583d1246 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 Open letter to Unattached Councillors re an 'Unattached Handbook' with draft contents Subject The topic of the resource Open letter to Unattached Councillors re an 'Unattached Handbook' with draft contents (4 sides) Description An account of the resource I have been worried for some time that while we can claim to be democratically elected (unlike the R IBA) to ARCUK, the links we have with unattached architects are tenuous. The annual election statement is an inadequate form of communication. But if the unattached continue to grow we must find some way of ensuring that the ideas we supposedly represent are well understood by our constituency. It is all very well the AJ quoting "unattached leader John Allen" referring to NAM principles, but these were formulated nearly a decade ago. Furthermore are we ourselves in agreement as to what these are? I think it would be futile to try and organise a conference or even regional meetings - too much work for too little return. Instead I think we should produce a handbook setting out our ideas and giving an account of what we do in ARCIJI<. If launched at a Press conference, with attendant publicity and adverts in the Press, we would get at least some unattached writing to us for copies. Such a document could be written so that it doesn't date too quickly and could be used to broaden support through mentions in community, trade union and political publications. We could even have a go at the National Press. If we are serious about ideas to have architects accountable to society through ARCUK we need a document which sets out our programme succinctly and backs it up with supporting data. This can be used to lobby the Labour Party and the Alliance in an effort to get our ideas adopted in their programmes. We have only two years to get this done unless we want to see Rod Hackney as personal architectural advisor to Neil Kinnock as well as Prince Charles vlLm€ 2 . I suggest a document which we could write easily from material most of us have to hand. Dividing up the work and then circulating a final draft can be an efficient way to get things done. I would be willing to take on some of the editorial and administrative functions providing we agreed to meet for a day to final ise the text. I suggest that we finance it by putting in an amount like DO each which we would recoup from sales - but we would need to look for further money for advertising and distribution. I am circulating this before the next Council meeting, hopefully there will be an opportunity to discuss it then. If you will not be there - please 'phone me by October 10 with your comments. Best wishes Enc� Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tom Wooley 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 4.10.85 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/fd832968a2b34159cce52bbc98415345.pdf d0899742f3c632ec149bdf9b9042a175 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Trade Unions and Architecture Description An account of the resource Themes included action on asbestos and Health &amp; Safety, and involvement with Direct Labour Organisations and Building Unions. Following comparative research of possible options, NAM encouraged unionisation of building design staffs within the private sector, negotiating the establishment of a dedicated section within TASS. Though recruitment was modest the campaign identified many of the issues around terms of employment and industrial relations that underpin the processes of architectural production. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Organise with Stamp Subject The topic of the resource Promotional leaflet for STAMP Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Adam Purser 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 14 May 1977 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/b9c8efb22694013f33b0b790acec8b37.pdf 6ea27b95abe8e426523a554c86e803b6 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 Papers for Fifty-fifth Annual Meeting of ARCUK Council Subject The topic of the resource Papers for Fifty-fifth Annual Meeting of ARCUK Council (28 pp total) Description An account of the resource 73 Hallam Street London WI N 6EE Tel: 01-580 5861 Registrar. Kenneth J. Forder M.A. 41/87 FIFTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING 18 MARCH 1987 AT 66 PORTLAND PLACE LONDON WI Note: This meeting will start as soon as the 220th Ordinary Meeting has ended. (An ARCUK tree is attached for nev Members of the Council) A G E N D A Apologies for Absence 2, The Council 'To constitute the Council in accordance with the appointments listed as Annex A 3 . Appo intment of Chairman and Vice Chairman Board Committees and Panels etc. To constitute Board and Committees- — see lists attached as Annex B & C To authorize the present members of the Awards Panel and General Purposes Committee to the Board of Architectural Education to continue to serve in these capacities respectively. See lists attached as Annex B Pc 11 (c ) To authorize the present members of the Advisory Panel on Admission to the Register of Persons with Commonwealth or Foreign Qualif ications under Regulation 27 to continue to serve in this capaa it y pending the next meeting of the Board of Architectural Education and Admission Committee 5. Cont inuation in office of the Chairman of the Board and Committees until new appointments are Inade at the first meet ings in the new Session 6 . Dates of Meet ings To approve the provisional l ist Annex D Any Other Business Registrar: Kenneth J. Forder M.A. 43/87 COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP 1986/87 AND 1987/88 Members marked (R) are due to retire on 18 March 1988, those marked (A) are appointed on the same date. Nominating Authority Member(s) FRIAS, FRTPI, FCIOB MIA (R) Miss N D Beddington, MBE, RIBA, FSIA K S Bingham, RIBA N M Bri 11, MSC (London), Dip Arch (Leeds), RIBA R S Critchlow, Dip Arch (Sheffield), RIBA A Cunningham, B Arch (Ľpool), RIBA Mrs R Curry, Dip Arch (Sheffield), RIBA c W Daly, BSc (Hons) Arch, (Belfast), RIBA K Eastham, Dip Arch, Dip TP (Manchester), RIBA R Forsyth, B Arch (Strathclyde) , RIBA, FR IAS G Graham, CBE, MA, PPRIBA R M Greenwood, B Arch (Ľ pool), RIBA, MRTPI D J Gregory, RIBA A J Groves, RIBA P Ha 11, MA Dip Arch (Cantab), RIBA (R) Prof D J Hinton, AA Dip, RIBA A M Horsley, JP, Dip Arch (Leics), ACIArb, RIBA J M Hutchinson, AA Dip, RIBA M W Jeff el s, Dip Arch (Leeds), RIBA P E Jones, Dip TP (London), FRTPI, FRSA, RIBA J A Lane, Dip Arch, (Leics), PRIAS, RIBA (R) M D Lewis, RIBA Dr J Lowman, RIBA J S Mackie, Dip Arch (Sheffield), RIBA (R) Prof R K Macleod, B Arch (Brit Col), RIBA M S McNidder, Dip Arch, Dip TP, RIBA, FRTPI, FBIM M Metcalfe, RIBA 43/87/2 Nominating Authority Member(s) R Parnaby, BArch, MCD (L' pool) s MArch (Oregon), RIBA D A Penning, Dip Arch (The Polytechnic) RIBA Q Pickard, BA (Newcastle), RIBA P W G Powell, Dip Arch (PNL), Dip TP (Lond) , FRTPI, FCIArb, RIBA c W Quick, TD, Dip Arch (Wales) T H Sherlock, AA Dipl, RIBA R C Shrimp 1 in, MA, (Cantab) Dip Arch, R IBA, FRTPI, FCIARB T D Snow, BA, BArch, RIBA Prof J A Tarn, PhD (Cantab), B Arch (Dune 1m) RIBA A M Taylor, Dip Arch (Aberdeen), RIBA K H Taylor, M Sc. , Dip Arch (Birm), RIBA J C Viner, Dip Arch, Dip TP (Birm), MRTPI, RIBA D B Waterhouse, RIBA (R) c K Wearden, B Arch, Dip CD (L' pool) , RIBA (R) T W Wilkinson, Dip Arch (Manc) , RIBA c Williams, DA (Edin) , RIBA F S Wright, MBE, DA (Dundee), RIBA J Wyatt, MA (Cantab), RIBA D M Yorke, B Arch, BA (Hons Arch) (Manc) , RIBA 43/87/3 Nominating Authority Member(s) Ms N A Hughes, BSc (Wales), B Arch (Wales) Dr M Jenks, Dip Arch (Oxford) PhD Ms M E Kelly, BArch, Dip Arch (Hull) Prof A Lipman, B Arch (W' Wrand), MA, PhD Ms S M T McManus, BSc (Belfast), Dip Arch (Hull) Prof T A Markus, MA, M Arch (MIT) , FRSA T A Woolley, B Arch (Hons) (Edinburgh) Society of Engineers ( 1 ) � 43/87/5 BOARD OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION 1 - PROVISIONAL MEMBERSHIP 1987/88 (subject to election of the members nominated for that purpose) Statutory Nominations �The Department of Architecture University of Sheffield The Cambr idge University School of Architecture The Department of Architecture University of Nottingham The Department of Architecture Polytechnic of North London The School of Architecture Leicester Polytechnic The School of Architecture The Polytechnic of Central London The School of Architecture University of Newcastle upon Tyne Prof C A St. J Wilson, MA (Arch) (Cantab), Dip Arch (London), RIBA Prof C Riley, MCD, B Arch (L'pool), RIBA Prof T Matoff, RIBA Prof Ben Farmer, DA (Dundee), MA (Bristol), RIBA � Plymouth Polytechnic Prof A Gale Royal College of Art M Dytham Nominations under the Gentlemen' 8 Agreement �Nominationg for free election 16 vacancies: For biographical details see Document �Registrar: Kenneth J. Forder M.A. 43/87/12 1 - PROVISIONAL COFNITTEE MEMBERSHIP 1987/88 (subject to election of the members nominated for that purpose) ADMISSION CObff{1TTEE Statutory Nominations Nominations under the Gentlemen' 8 Agreement Nominations for free election: 3 vacancies For biographical details see document 43/97/22 11 - ADVISORY PANELS AWARDS PANEL Chairman and Vice—Chairman of the Board of Architectural Education (Composition due for review in May 1987) G Atkinson E Benroy Dr I Cooper A Cunningham M Darke D J Gregory M Jenks P Hobb8 Prof T Markus W Paine J Smith Mrs J Symons GPC to BAE Chairman and Vice—Chairman of the Board of Architectural Education (Composition due for review in May 1987) G R Adams B Beckett A Collier Cox C Dean J P Jacob A Lipman R W Paine �DISCIPLINE COIOf1TTEE Statutory Nominations Nominations for free election: 4 vacancies: FINANCE AND GENERAL PURPOSES C020f1TTEE Gentlemen's Agreement Nominations Nominations for free election: 6 vacanc : PROFESSIONAL PURPOSSES COhff1TTEE Gentleman's Agreement Nominations Nominations for free elect ion: 6 vacancies : �43/87/19 BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS Board of Architectural Education Nominations for free election 43/87/20 William L Forsyth Alan J Groves Alan R Lipman A L Maddison Peter A P Melvin Ingrid M Morris Stanley G Oven John Pringle Kenneth H Taylor Patricia R Tindale Age 37. Unattached. Lecturer, Department of Civic Design, University of Liverpool. ARCUK Member of Council 1984—87, Professional Purposes Committee 1984-85. Chairman of ARCUK Council 1980—83. RIBA Councillor for 13 years. RIBA Vice—President 1974—76. Member of the BAE for 8 years. Leader of Common Market Liaison Group. Architects Directive Steering Group 1985—present date. Worked in Sheffield on housing re—development. County Architect for Cornwall. Age 61 . Unat tached Professor, the Welsh School of Architecture. Presently ARCUK Member of Council and Board of Architectural Education. Pa8t senior Lecturer and Course Tutor, N.E. L.P. School of Architecture. Past Chairman RIBA West Essex Branch. Have served on IAAS Council and Education and Examinations Board. Have represented IAAS on ARCUK Admissions Committee and Board of Education for some years. Founder Partner Melvin Langley & Mark. Eastern Region Member RIBA Council 1977/82. RIBA Vice—President for Promotion 1982/83. RIBA Vice—President for Education and Professional Development 1985 to date. Principal in Private Practice. Member of the AA. Previously ARCUK Council, PPC and Admissions Committee, Private Practice, Glasgow; R IAS Practice and Contracts Committees Scottish Building Contracts Committee; Arbitrations. Director in Private Practice. Member of the Architectural Association. A Principal in Private Practice. Member of ARCUK Council for some 7 years. Previously served as Chairman of Admissions Committee. Member of Regulation 27 Advisory Panel. Architect in Ministry of Education and Department of Environment until March 1986, when retired from position of Chief Architect. Nov consultant in private practice. 43/87/21 �43/87/22 Admission Committee Nominations for free election 43/87/23 Discipline Committee Nominations for free election James R A Blamire Michael D Broad Roger G Brown Anthony Hickman Neil M Jack Michael W Jeffe18 W J Lidbetter 40 years. Unattached. Self—employed architect with Arcade Architects in Edinburgh, working mainly on inner city housing. Previously a salaried architect in central and local government and in private practice both in Britain and the US. ARCUK Council 1982—87. Admissions Committee 1981--83 . Finance and General Purposes Committee 1983—85. New Architecture Movement 1981—82. Previously involved in various student, union and education cormnittees. 36 years. Unattached. Self—emp loyed partner of Mick Broad and Terry Hughes Architects in Edinburgh. Previously with Edinburgh District Council Housing Department and Sir Basil Spence Glover & Ferguson. Member of ARCUK Council 1981—87, also served on Professional Purposes Finance and General Purposes Committee and Admissions Conmittee. Member RIBA Council 1982-5. Member RIBA Professional Conduct Committee 1979—85, Chairman 1982—5. Member RIBA Code Policy Committee 1985—. Regional Architect NW Regional Health Authority 1975-87. Partner in private practice. Secretary—General of Franco British Union of Architects. Justice of the Peace. Architect in Private Practice. Convener R IAS Investigation Committee. Past Chairman, Scottish Branch, CIArb. Experienced arbiter and expert witness. Hoffman Wood Scholar 1953. Partner, Bass and Jeff e 18. Previously County Architect Cambr idgeshire RIBA and ARCUK Council member. Vice—President R IBA, 1985 - 1987. Thirty—six year 8 varied experience — Local Government, Ministry of Works, Chief Architect & Surveyor R.A.C.S. Ltd. (450 staff various disciplines). Private Practice and College Lec turer. Justice of the Peace (1967) supplemental list. Member of Admissions Committee, ARCUK ( some 15 years). Expert witness (liaising with Q. C' s). At present own practice as architect and surveyor. Richard K Eastham Michael W Jeffelg Sheelagh M T McManus John S Mackie Thomas A Markus David A Penning Peter W G Powell T Harley Sherlock Past North West Regional Chairman. Member of Planning Advisory Group, employed as an Architect/ Planner in Local Government Planning Department (A88i8tant County Planning Officer, Lancashire.) Hoffman Wood Scholar 1953. Partner, Bass and Jeffels previously County Architect, Cambr idgeshire. ARCUK Council lore Vice—Preg ident RIBA 1985-1987. Age 27. Unattached. Salaried architect with Matrix Feminist Design Co—operative, London. ARCUK Member of Council 1986—87, Admissions 1986-87. Partner in Practice of Hugh Wilson & Lewis Worms ley (Middlesbrough Office). Past Chairman RIBA Northern Region & Tees ide Branch. Chairman RIBA Housing Advisory Group. Age 58. Unattached. Professor Emeritus, Department of Building Science, University of Strathclyde. ARCUK Member of Council 1984—86, Board of Architectural Education 1986—87 and prev ious 1 y. Age 58. Member R IBA. Associate Regional Architect with National Westminster Bank. Committee member with Architects in Industry and Commerce. Member ARCUK Council 1977/86. Member of Finance and General Purposes 1979/86. Partner in Private Practice. Registered Architect and ARIBA 1951 . FRI BA 1968. Treasurer, Hertfordshire Association of Architects 1973—1980. Treasurer, Eastern Region RIBA 1979/84. Principal in private practice. Chairman London Region 1984—1986. Member RIBA Council 1981—1987. Member RIBA Finance Committee 1981—1987 . Adrian M Horsley Michael Jenks Mary E Kelly Quentin Pickard Roger C Shrimp lin Angus M Taylor David B Waterhouse David M Yorke Partner in Private Practice since 1978 — Gelder & Kitchen. Past President North Humber 8 ide Society of Architects. Past Chairman Yorkshire Region. Member of the RIBA Professional Conduct Conmittee. Justice of the Peace Associate of the Institute of Arbitrators, Age 41. Unattached. Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Oxford Polytechnic. ARCUK Member of Council 1984—87, Board of Architectural Education 1985-87. Age 29. Unat tached. Salaried architect with Bradford Technical Aid Service. ARCUK Member of Council 1986—87, Finance and General Purposes Conmittee 1986—87. Member, R IBA. On ARCUK Council and Professional Purposes Committee since 1985. Partner in private practice since 1978. Chairman (1984), Junior Liaison Organisation. Member of 'Aqua' Group. RIBA Contracts Conmittee. Member of ARCUK Council 1985—86. Past Chairman and Past Chairman and Past Secretary RIBA Bedfordshire Association of Architects. Past Member Eastern Region Council. Member RIBA Planning Advisory Group. Member of RIBA Overseas Affairs Committee and past member of European Liaison Group. Age 53. Principal Private Practice — 30 years. Member ARCUK Council, RIBA Council, RIAS Council. Past President Aberdeen Society of Architects and a Council member and member of its Practice Conmlittee. Age 65. Member R IBA. Retired from private practice. Past Chairman of ARCUK. Member P PC and Admissions Committee. Age 39. Salaried Architect in Local Government. ARCUK Council Member s ince 1979. Member of Professional Purposes Committee Since 1981. �Annex 204/06 ARCI[ITECTS REGISTRATIOII COUNCIL OF UNITED P roar raidi.le for 1907—1988 DAY COUliCIL/C'Oli111TTEE 1987� 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 18.3.87 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/9102b012e200eb390cd81d516a38499c.pdf ef674cc507329ee600970636cfdec8e7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. Hitherto entirely dominated by the RIBA bloc, the Council began to yield to a new dynamic through NAM's involvement, enabling fresh perspectives on such issues as mandatory fee scales, greater lay representation on the body, ethically-based standards of professional conduct, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Particulars about candidates for the 1985 election Subject The topic of the resource Particulars about candidates for the 1985 election (4 pp leaflet) Description An account of the resource Architects Registration Council of the United Kingdom Brief particulars about candidates (i) Age Date of Admission to the Register of Architects. Name of Archtecturai Constituent Bodies of which candidate is a member (if any). Present professional post (including the name of the firm or employer) and previous professional experience. Committee experience (architectural and otherwise). Personal statement (if any). Tho views expressed in the candidates' statements below are personal to tho writers and do not repræent the views of the Council of ARCUK JOHN STEWART ALLAN 39 years 1976 (iii ) Unattached Director member of Avanti Architects Ltd., (Cooperative Practice). Previously salaried architect in private practice, and with the Greater London Council. ARCUK: Member of Council 1979-85, also Professional Purposes Committee, Conduct Monitoring Group and Admissions Committee. Design & Industries Association 1967•69; Junior Liaison Organisation 1975-78; Chairman of Highbury Plan Group 1975; Steering Committee of Blackstock Road Advice Centre 1978•79; TASS Building Design Staff National Advisory Committee 1977 ; Founder Member, The New Architecture Movement. In 1984 ARCIJK realised it was bigger than its big brother, the RIBA. and used its statutory authority to speak directly to the Government on education. This sort of independent stance must be strengthened and developed if ARCUK is to fulfil the •public interest' role it always claims. If elected I shall continue to press Council to take the wider view of its responsibilities under the Act that this process entails. NORMAN FRANK ARNOLD 38 years 1979 Unattached Self employed in Leeds ARCUK Council. Finance and General Purposes Committee or Professional Purposes Committee, 198085. New Archi• tecture Movement. There is now concern over the use of the titles "Architectural" and "Architecture", sometimes associated with (surprisesurprise) "British Institute of", "Technology" or "Kitchen". Rather than have ARCUK bicker (B.I.K.A.?) over titles questionably not even covered by the Architects Registration Acts. perhaps the issue should first be left for the RIBA to resolve via the Trade Descriptions Act before they attempt to exploit ARCIJK's statutory powers for protection of their own interests. A more important issue is the RIBA's support for education cuts in order to reduce the number of ne•vA' architects. Whilst it may be prudent to review the numbers of inappropriately educated architects already in circulation. as well as those likely in the future. surely the last thing anyone needs is less environmental education. ARCUK is in fact empowered by statute to increase the Retention Fee ". . . . to improve the general practice of architecture and . all subjects related to architecture . Were it not for RIBA restraint, ARCUK could be making more positive efforts towards the provision of a technically and aesthetically improved archtecture. JAMES ROBERT ALISTAIR BLAMIRE 38 years 1975 Unattached Self employed architect with the firm of ARCADE Community-based Architects. Edinburgh. working mainly on inner city housing. Previous professional experience as a salaried architect in central and local government and private practice both in Britain and the United States. ARCUK Council 1982-85; Admiss ins Committee 198183; Finance and General Purposes Committee 1983-85; New Architecture Movement 1981-82; previously involved in various student, union and education committees. This year the proportion of 'unattached' architects on the Register has increased yet again and ever greater interest in and support for the 'unattached' lobby is being expressed. Much valuable ground work has been done over the past eight years by the founding activists in the present group of •unattached' councillors and. along with this expertise. the continuing trend in numbers is essential if ARCUK is ever to fulfil what I believe to be its statutory role as a publicly accountable body under the terms of the Architects (Registration) Acts. Only in this wav will architectural education be allowed to develop and widen its social objectives and, by extension, the practice of architecture become the democratised service to the community which ARCUK should be seeking to represent. �MICHAEL DAVID BROAD 34 years 1977 (iii) Unattached Self-employed in Edinburgh. Previously employed as Senior Area Development Officer, City of Edinburgh District Council working on inner city Housing ection areas and with Sir Basil Spence, Glover, Ferguson and Partners. (v) ARCUK: Member of Council 1981-85, Professional Purposes Committee. Finance & General Purposes Committee and Admissions Committee. New Architecture Movement 1975•82. This year the number of unattached architects has continued to grow and along with my fellow elected councillors, we continue to seek your views sent c/0 73 Hallam St., to enable those elected to represent you with greater authority. Kno•aing that both the government and the RIBA had expressed a wish to restrict numbers within the profession, the outcome of this years education debate will have surprised few. It is only by increasing the democracy and restoring the voice Of ARCUK that we can give any real hope to our inner cities. There may be a shortne of rich clients but there is an urgent need for architecture. Support democrecy. use your vote to elect Unattached Councillors and send us your views. NICHOLAS DOMMINNEY 27 years 1984 (iii) None Salaried metnber of the Architects & Builders Co-operative (Hull) Ltd. Previous experience: Architectural Assistant for Central Govan Housing Association, Team Architect, STO, PSA. (v) Reporting: CGHA Development Sub-committee. Chairperson: Peel & Hutt Street Residents Association. Local representative: Hull City Council Residents Liaison Committee Association representative: Hull City Council Participation Committee. Chairperson: Hull Innovation Centre Growth Association. ABC Delegate: Hull Co-operative Development Agency Steering Committee. ABC Delegate: Hull Independent Housing Aid Centre Committee. Socialist Workers Party Delegate: Hull Miners Support Committee. ANDREW JAMES EARL 27 years 1984 None Present professional post: Salaried member of The Architects & Builders Co-operative (Hull) Limited. Previous experience: Architectural Assistant, City of Durham Architects Department. Ex-member of management committee Of Hull Architecture workshop. ALAN R. EDWARDS 32 years 1980 Unattached Salaried Architect with Falkirk District Council. Previous employers, Thomas Smith Gibb and Pate (Edinburgh) and Thomas Munro and Co. Of ARCUK Admission Committee 1983-84-85. Member Of the Executive Committee of Falkirk District Council Branch of NALGO. I believe that ARCUK's role is to see that the profession is publically accountable and that all sections of the community, users as well as paying clients, get an adequate service from their Architects. I have put myself forward as a candidate because I feel that the membership of ARCUK Council, to achieve the above, should reflect a cross-section of the profession. both in professional position and place of origin. All too often the process Of government is left to the partners of firms in the South East of England. WILLIAM LESLIE FORSYTH 35 years 1974 Unattached Project leader COMTECHSA Ltd. Liverpool. Previously employed in public and private practice. ARCUK of council (1984-85). Professional Purposes Committee (198485); COMTECHSA Ltd, Secretary (1979. 84); Asociation of Community Technical Aid Centres. Secretary (1982-84): Merseyside Youth Business Initiative Committee (1981-82); Liverpool Inner City Partnership Programme Joint Panel (1982, 83). Community Accountancy Project. Liverpool (1984). Under the terms of the Architects (Registration) Acts ARCUK should be a public interest body and, as such. it should develop that role to include as wide a range of interests as possible. Registration with ARCUK is mandatory for any individual who wishes to use the title Of architect, therefore ARCUK must assume and develop the powers conferred under the ArchitEts (Registration) Acts. ALLEN BERNARD EDWARD GEAL 38 years 1973 (iii) None Present professional post: Salaried Architect. Urban Design Section. City of Bristol. Previous professional experience: Architect in private practice with; Power Clark Hiscocks Partnership. Futcher & Futcher, Architects. Student representative. School Academic Committee, University of Bath. (vi) The decline of public regard for our profession and the erosion of our traditional responsibilities by the encroachment of allied professions is. in part, a result of a flight from responsibility. I believe that we should strive to overcome deficiencies rather than donv them. Much of the current RIBA debate on Professional Liability is concerned with reducing still further our responsibility and duty — and thus our influence. Little of this debate is directed at the service we owe to clients and building users. This trend must be reversed if our opportunities are to expand and our status restored as a profession. I will advocate the increased use of architectural competitions as a means of achieving a more equitable distribution of opportunity. I will support the efforts to *cure lay representation on ARCUK. RICHARD JOHN GRAHAM (i) 39 years 1977 (iii) Unattached At present I practise as an architect on my own account. and teach in the School Of Architecture. Humberside College of Higher Education, •in the capacity of Senior Lecturer in Design. construction and humanities. My previous experience has been, since 1966, in various architectural practices (some famous, some otherwise) in Newcastle and in Hull. (v) My Committee experience is limited to Humberside College's internal committees, including Faculty Board. various course committees. and currently Academic Board. Being in practise in a small way and in teaching in a rather bigger one. I am forced to experience from the painful end these two sides of our profession being systematically dismantled by the government and the Institute. Many dreadful and obvious blunders are to be perpetrated, which make our futures look bleak. The overbearing influence of RIBA members on the presently constituted ARCUK Council is creating an unbalanced impression to the public Of 'official' attitudes to architecture and education. I feel that a stronger unattached contingent (in voice now. and numbers later) is vital. MICHAEL JENKS 39 years 1975 (iii) Unattached Senior Lecturer and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Co-ordinator, Department of Architecture, Oxford Polytechnic. and Research Fellow. Buildings Research Team, Oxford Polytechnic. (v) ARCUK Council 1984. Steering Committee of Faculty Short Course unit, Research and Advanced Study Committee, and Postgraduate Course RWiew Committee, Department of Architecture. Oxford Polytechnic; involvement with advisory groups in BRE. DOE and Housing Research Foundation projects; member of local amenities committee. The future of the architectural profession is being decided by unrepresentative committees outside ARCIJK's control. Instead of seeking to explore and widen the architect's role and employment possibilities and to strengthen education. retrenchment has been advocated. Such a narrow view cannot be healthy for the profession's development. The unattached have been active in ARCUK to try to widen the debate. If elected, I will seek to promote a wider perception of architectural practice by supporting the varied needs of salaried architects and encouraging more socially responsive practices, and by supporting CPD initiatives and an education in the Schools of Architecture that reflects this diversity. ARCUK has devolved too many of its responsibilities which, with other unattached representatives, I will press ARCUK to restore. The future of the profession is too important to be left to unrepresentative factional interests. CHRISTOPHER GEORGE JONES 36 years 1973 Unattached Member of Architects and Builders Co-operative (Hull) Limited. Senior Lecturer at Hull School of Architecture. Previous experience mainly Local Authority and Housing Association new build at Phippen/RandalI and Parkes. London. Hull Independant Housing Aid Centre. ARCUK Council, 1983-1984. Member of the Association of Community Technical Aid Centres. My two main concerns, Education and Community Architecture again face butchering by the RIBA block vote on ARCIJK. The current NAB proposals on Education go against the ARCUK wbmission. that cuts must be on the basis of quality and notquantity. The gradually returning confidence in Architects through genuine community involvement is being eroded by the RIBA's •jobs for the boys' attitude. ARCUK must rescind its devolved powers to make architecture and education relevant, to the community STUART LINSLEY 25 years 1984 (iii) Unattached (i) James Parr and Partners (architects) Edinburgh as architectural assistant. to become architect upon registration. (ii) Wester Hailes Representative Council Community Design unit. Edinburgh as architectural assistant. (iii) Stephen Easten (building contractors) Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne as architectural trainee. Represented WHRC Community Design unit at ACTAC Meetings; served on WHRC building sub-committee as architectural While considering a professional institute or association to be a useful entity in which such as architects can participate. I feel the RIBA to be a less than adequate body in terms of its representation of architecture, with particular reference to the promotion of the art, or professionalism. of its members. I feel also that its response to the recent Esher report to be a very poor stance to take towards education. I prefer to support 'ground swell' rather than 'established' organisations in all matters involving the public at large. I feel ARCUK should regain control of its devolved powers. I support the Architects for Peace movement. ALAN ROBERT LIPMAN 59 years 1963 (iii) Unattached Academic (Professor); The Welsh School of Architecture. UWIST, Cardiff; practitioner in southern Africa and in the UK — various practices, public and private. I have served on academic. professional, public and political committees — including ARCUK. the Board of Architectural Education and the Visiting Board Panel of the RIBA (ARCUK representative). until recently. I was Chairperson of CND Cymru (Wales) and a member of the New Architecture Movement. 1975-1982. We architects must, I believe. help to establish ways of making the profession responsible as well as responsive to its social clients. to building users. In arguing for this essential public account±ility — for this idea of service to public interests — I urge that ARCUK and its Board of Architectural Education exercise their proper rights and obligations. I urge that the responsibilities vested in these bodies when Parliament the Architects (Registration) Acts be wrested from others (mainly the RIBA) and duly reinstated with the Council and with the Board. (Duo to severe illness. during the past year I have not been able to fulfil my obligations as a Councillor. I do not anticipate that this will recur.) �THOMAS ANDREW MARKUS 56 years 1950 (iii) Unattached Professor of Building Science. University of Strathclyde since 1966. Previously Reader in Architecutre. Welsh School of Architecture; Manager of Products Applications Department, Pilkington Brothers, Architect, I.C.I. London; Assistant Lecturer in Architecture. University of Manchester; Assistant Architect. Manchester City Council; Studio Assistant. universitv of Manchester School of Architecture. Experience in practice. research, teaching and consultancy. chief involvement in architectural history and theory; buildings, climate and energy. Involved in teaching and assessment at Schools in USA, Canada, Malaysia, Nigeria, Turkey, and a number of European countries. (v) Severat three year spells, including till May 1985, as Strathclyde representative on ARCIJK Board of Architectural Edu• cation and its committees; from 1956 onwards at various times member of several RIBA Committees and Vice•Chairman of Board of Education 1977-78. Chairman of Schools of Architecture Council 1977-79. Intermittently member of the RIBA Visiting Board 1969-77, Member of CAA and ARCUK Visiting Boards. Member of CNAA Architecture Board 1979 present. (vil I believe that Parliament's intentions in the formation of ARCIJK included bringing in influences from the building production and the building user. I believe ARCIJK can once again broaden the intentions behind architectural production so as to make it a fully benevolent social process. ARCIJK must now prevent further restrictive educational practices. PETER GEORGE RANSON 27 years 1983 Unattached Architect with co-operatively run ASSIST Architects Ltd., Glasgow. Previously employed in private practices. Co-tutor at student organised Winter Schools 1982-1984. Member of Visiting Board Panel (student representative) 1980-1982. Co-representative for ASSIST Architects Ltd., as Associate Member of Community Technical Aid Centres. Particularly concerned to oppose cuts in education and encourage ARCUK to rescind its devolved powers to the RIBA. Committed to encouraging work with local communities on minimal funding and more public accountability of architects. CHRISTOPHER RAWSON SHAW (i) 28 years 1984 Unattached Partner in John Planet, a small architect's practice based in Hull. Recently completed my architectural training. During "years out", I worked in a Local Authority architects department in Cumbria, and spent several months working freelance b3sed in London. Nothing wonderful. but I've done my time on various "staff/student" and "course survival" committees. Small is quite nice . . . realistic anyway. THOMAS ADRIAN WOOLLEY 38 years 1971 Unattached Director of the Housing and Rehabilitation Research Unit, Strathclyde University. Previously Practising Architect with "Support' and tutor at the AA. ARCUK Council and Board of Education for several years. New Architecture Movement 1976•80. Associate Member of Association of Community Technical Aid Centres. This year the number of unattached have grown even more, this increases the potential for us to influence the direction taken by ARCUK. As a result the falling RIBA majority on ARCIJK is less and less able to get its policies passed 'on the nod'. For instance we have been able to ensure that ARCUK does not toe the RIBA line on the NAB/UGC plans to cut the number of students studying Architecture. However many other controversial issues are quietly referred on from one meeting to another in the hope that we will overlook them. Thus continuity among unattached representatives is crucial as well as introducing new people to our growing lobby. Vote "Unattached" and encourage your friends to become 'Unattached'. PHILIP ANTHONY WREN 27 years 1984 None Salaried member of The Architects and Builders Co-operative (Hull) Limited. Previously Architectural Assistant, Philip Mercer ARIBA. 197880. None current, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource ARCUK Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1985 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/63e4601962282ba671d9ef545bb48fcc.pdf 5f54569593ddbdd147672b061567987f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Public Design Group Description An account of the resource <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Argued that it was only through the public sector that the majority of people could have access to the land and resources needed for housing, education and other essential services. The task was therefore to reform the practice of architecture in local councils to provide an accessible and accountable design service. The Public Design Group proposed reforms to the practice of architecture in local councils to provide a design service accessible and accountable to local people and service users. The following 6 Interim Proposals were developed which were later initiated and implemented in Haringey Council 1979-1985 by NAM members. </span></p> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Local area control over resources </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Design teams to be area based </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Area design teams to be multi-disciplinary </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Project architects to report directly to committee</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Abolish posts between Team Leader and Chief Architect </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Joint working groups with Direct Labour Organisations</span></li> </ul> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource PDS Conference Subject The topic of the resource PDS Conference May 1978: Invitations, Programme, Applications, Attendance List File, Press Release Description An account of the resource qailan aS heeTa DD =Sek i S=AX SDaNv2S aSav ow—oSS c Diay. LS<7D 3 e P27 FLL (note Inches | | eae Blue Cyan ai iB g \4 E | 0 { 2 3 4 ‘ Centimetres Ss Green Yellow Red Magenta White 3/Color Black ©© Inviatatiaon PUBLIC DESIGN GROUP New Architecture Movement, 9 Poland Street, London WI. 3rd April 1978. Dear PUBLIC DESIGN SERVICE CONFERENCE, UCATT HALL, GOUGH STREET, BIRMINGHAM As you may know, the New Architecture Movement decided at its Hull Congress in November 1977 to develop further its policies relating to the Public Sector. Since then, work in this field has continued steadily and the Public Design Group which was delegated at Hull to arrange a conference now invite you to attend this, the first NAM Public Design Service Conference in Birmingham on Saturday 6 May 1978. During the past months we have met regularly and consolidated our propramme. In addition to refining our critique of architectural patronage and local authority working arrangements, we have been considering the origins and evolution of local authority architectural departments, their internal structure and their relationship to the profession, private practice and to society as a whole. Papers on these Will be available at the conference. We feel that discussions have now progressed sufficiently for interim proposals to be made. At the same time areas of further study and action have been identified and more support is needed to extend the work | of this group. We therefore hope that you will wish to participate in | the conference and to contribute subsequently to the programme. AS you can see from the attached papers it will be a very full day. We hope you Will be able to attend, and we look forward to receiving hi application as early as possible and to seeing you in Birmingham on th May. Yours sincerely, for Public Design Group, NAM. Programme DEMOCRATIC DESIGN A PUBLIC DESIGN SERVICE CONFERENCE T2.15 - 13.00 13.00 = T4.00 14.00 = 14.30 T4.30 - 15.00 15.00 = 15.45 15.45 = 16.00 16.00 = 16.30 16.30 = 17.15 E7eL5 = 17230 17.30 Their origins, structure and their relationship to private practice and the profession. DISCUSSION. LUNCH - Food available at the Conference. NEW APPROACHES IN HACKNEY - Tom Bulley. Some first steps by L.A. Workers. THE D.L.O. EXPERIENCE - Peter Carter. DISCUSSION+ TEA. A NEW ROLE FOR PUBLIC DESIGN = Adam Purser. Including Interim Proposals and future strategy. DISCUSSION. CONCLUDING REMARKS = Chairman. CONFERENCE CLOSES. SATURDAY 6 MAY at UCATT House, Gough Street, Birmingham I. I0.00 - 10.30 10.30 = 10.35 I0.35 - 10.50 10.50 = II.15 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE. TI.15 - IT.45 II.45 i T2.15 DISCUSSION . CURRENT ROLE OF L.A. DEPTS. OF ARCHITECTURE = John Murray, CONFERENCE OPENHD BY K. BARLOW, REG. SEC. UCATT, AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE - Chairman's opening comments. THE PARTY POLITICAL CONTEXT - Howard Smith. Implications following the Local Elections. SIRMINGHAM| City Centre ROAD Gough Street __| Location Guoas¥* ag New Street Station —_ Application NOTES: Te Please make cheques payable to New Architecture Movement. 2. To save postage we will not confirm unless so requested. Sia If you can, please copy this form and pass to anyone you think may be interested. 9 POLAND STREET, LONDON WI. f PUBLIC DESIGN SERVICE CONFERENCE: Birmingham 6th May 1978. CONFERENCE FEE: Number of People: £1.00 each (exclusive of meals) Cost: Total £ Ay Please send completed form and cheque as early as possible to: PUBLIC DESIGN GROUP, NEWARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT, NAME ADDRESS TEL. NO. OFFICE (If L.A. Worker) 12.45 a 1.45 1.45 = 2.05 2.05 Ls 2.30 = 3,00 3.00 > 5.30 2.30 — 4,00 4.00 = 4.30 4.30 = 4.45 4.45 = 4.55 4 5.00 een Un ebnlivt 3.3” Wwe|, DEMOCRATIC DESIGN - A NEW ROLE FOR LOCAL AUTHORITY ARCHITECTS DEPARTMENTS Registration and morning coffee Opening Kemarke by Bro. K Barlow, Regional Secretary, UCATT. Chairman's Address, A Frurser Role of Local Authority Architects Departments, J Murrey Discussion Lunch Local Level Experience = Hackney, T Sulley ° DIO Experience, F Carter ~- Political Parties and Their Views, H Smith . Discussion A future for Public Design, A Purser Discussion Resolution Chair's Closing Remarks, J Murray Conference Closes Organised by the Public Design Service Group, ‘ew Architecture Movement, 9 Poland Street, LondonW le 4. Goamna. Fp 4vee CONFERENCE TIMETABLE To ve held on Saturday, 6th May 1976 at UCAT? House, Gough Street, 146 Mustinne Read lida. Clade 16 Motkianwn Creat Sheet Birmingham, 1. 'ae wore pas eewyrermmeaaryyNUM -CUFRyeWK. Crude HES Wale yp PNehad j 10, lng Meades Real Cromey Sheet wel. David Abln, wks lol Whyko Lane Cluclostty Sussex CAfhel. Ceany Bishop | 275 Man OL, Rectlutl ob4 Ann. 1 Aare Forkh . CloBina hannah)Aclulset Dopt mele Backes *tence Blum . {Im . 146 hushinwe Mad livda Clrkg 16 Norttian Jeanna. oN BooTiFul AluiTSHE ? G YO HANBS T0O (COE IN KIKAA HANDY “TA STORE MA CATRE bs, FE66..!) J 6-31 March RIBA ‘Paper sculpture’ exhibi- tion will be retained until 31 March. At the RIBA, 66 Port- land Place, London W1. Mon- day-Friday 10.00-18.00 (closed from 12.00 on 23 March until 10,00 on 28 March). Admission free. 13-31 March RIBA ‘Turkish architectural At the RIBA, 66 Portland Place, Lon- don W1. Monday-Friday 10.00- heritage’ exhibition. 18,00 (closed 23-28 March in- clusive). Admission free. 30 March Society for Architecture and In- stitute of Consulting Architects joint meeting “Sensing architec- ture’. Raymond Moxley and Frederick Chadwick introduce a new programme of events in More architects but fewer new admissions In 1977 there were 26 223 architects on the ARCUK register. There has been a steady rise since 1973 when there were 24 559. New admissions, however, have steadily fallen over this period from 1156 to 843. Kingsweston scheme turned down Planning permission to build a police HQ on land around Vanbrugh’s grade I listed Kingsweston House, near Bristol, has been refused by the city council. The scheme, designed by Avon county architect’s department (AJ 28.9.77 p538), included the repair and conversion of the house and garden aildings. The police have not yet decided whether to appeal or find another site. The Architects’ Journal 22 March 1978 HYRAM .K, ZIMMERMAN 1S NEGOTIATING THE PURCHASE OF THE CURRENT OBJECT OF 1S HEARTS DESIRE Carnegie Trust launches environmental fund Local amenity groups registered with the Civic Trust are eligible for a three year programme of grants launched this week by the Carnegie Trust. The scheme is intended to help groups provide facilities which will give residents and yisitors an insight into the character and resources of their areas, Grants for the projects, expected to include town trails, conservation area guides and wall sheets, will normally meet up to 50 per cent of costs. Obituary: Philip Scholberg Philip Scholberg, who as Brian Grant edited the AJ’s products pages for nearly 40 years, died last week aged 72. He retired in 1975. Future events B...BUT WHY EXACTLY Do YOU WANT, T° BUY St PANCRAS MR ZIMMERMAN 7 GUESS ITS JES’ MA HOBBY, Son... AIM TA TRANSPORT 1TBACK T'HA RANCH IN “TEX--A.S GOT 27 OLE ANTIQVvE STATIONS BAGC “THERE ---/ TELL YA WHAT J'LLBO... £6 MilLion ON TH’ NAIL MY FINAL OFFER ---Au! AS AN EXTRA BONUS LLTAKE “THET THARE.-+> Entries invited for Saltire award The Saltire Society which presents an annual award for good design in housing in Scotland is inviting entries for its 1978 award. The award is given in two categories, new and restored. Closing date is28 April. Housing Centre Trust national conference ‘A better life in towns’. Speakers: Roy Emerson, Professor Graham Ashworth, Leslie Ginsburg and Ed Berman. At Scientific Societies Lecture Theatre, 23 Savile Row, London Wi. Fees: members £1620; architecture and the senses, pre- ceded by the film Beauty i trust (recorded commentary by Sir John Betjeman). At London House, Mecklenburg Square, frers WCl. Details from: Hon Secretary (01-589 0726). 19.00. non-members £21-60; £8.64. Details from: 3424 extns 283 or 291. 13 April students 01-240 oe Institute of Advanced Architec- tural Studies ‘Building perform- ance’ a two-week study course to examine the evaluation of build- ing performance and feedback from user to designer. At Univ- ersity of York, King’s Manor, York. Details from: David Rymer (0904 24919). 1-12 May ee NAM Public Design Service con- ference ‘Democratic design—@ new role for the local authority architect?’ to be held in Birming- ham. Details from: The Secre- tary, PDS Group, NAM, 9 Poland Street, London WI. |6May Pe 1 Nestling on an awkward site in the centre of Brighton is a new office building which shows that it is possible to build successfully in historic towns without resorting to pastiche. Much of the inspiration for the design comes, in fact, from the awkwardness of the site. Located in a narrow strect below Brighton station, the building occupies a pivotal site between immenscly tall buildings on Frederick Place and small terraced houses in Queen's Road Quadrant. To make the most of this dramatic change of scale the building is designed (architects Hughes Lomax and Adutt) in two parts of differing height linked by a service core and dominated by a tall brick tower. So, when viewed down Queen's |Road Quadrant from Queen's | Road (the only direction from | which most people will see the building) the office rises in scale from three storeys, similar to the terraces, to five storeys behind. This difference in height will probably be increased for elfices at required apen atfice space Frederick Place 0 5 10 \Sen a Schematic floor plan. Tint shows circulation the building is designed to allow for another floor to be built on top of the tall portion. The other factor determining design was the client’s (a firm of solicitors) desire to keep costs down. The architects had to design a building which was cheap to construct (it has cost £16 per sq ft to build totalling £331 000) and which would be cheap to heat and maintain. Consequently only the tall part of the building has a reinforced concrete frame with the rest being constructed of load bearing brick. The windows’ sizes have been kept to a minimum and the walls are extra thick with a double size cavity half of which is packed with insulation. Job architect: Stephen Adutt Photographs: Duncan McNcill 1 The Frederick Place frontage from Queen’s Road Quadrant. 2 Looking past the terraces in Queen’s Road Quadrant from Queen's Road 3 The entrance hall. lave| reception Tt central facilities The Architects’ Journal 22 March 1978 537 5. — Rest Gloucester \ | hoa Ted, WARA PulolieTern Soriee Corferencte : Wntrelasy Ci aeeinen :) PhatWweagiedte-matothave2 fay J road sillbeverypleatotdeodthirbul dncasyeou Yor Sica, qe Mann, aoe have Homebefotere cory = rar tre Somenotes,@Lette,ofdniuinian / dal fov B.D. wuk edig blannsa my absence pr~ nivile.$0 perhaps a Dayal Be Sess an yous maniags» Tel: 888 1212 Work 348 87'3 Home aol proye—rne shu may ye you auengh to Sav - © Sow ured lilymnt difomationpliatHg mo. Somat Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Invitations and Applications 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 1977 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/33158cdf2a51d538181ef19936ae6317.pdf 0842fbc285558df975d6e2392d014589 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Public Design Group Description An account of the resource <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Argued that it was only through the public sector that the majority of people could have access to the land and resources needed for housing, education and other essential services. The task was therefore to reform the practice of architecture in local councils to provide an accessible and accountable design service. The Public Design Group proposed reforms to the practice of architecture in local councils to provide a design service accessible and accountable to local people and service users. The following 6 Interim Proposals were developed which were later initiated and implemented in Haringey Council 1979-1985 by NAM members. </span></p> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Local area control over resources </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Design teams to be area based </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Area design teams to be multi-disciplinary </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Project architects to report directly to committee</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Abolish posts between Team Leader and Chief Architect </span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Joint working groups with Direct Labour Organisations</span></li> </ul> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Gets tt —ste a ybueg)Lt Micongquoldy tHebe Tew 4 Af L SolefSouee i sa 2Shull Of buldhg ThocyloWesat tesfeds : fe the ) Apne,t alcat procuctosby : ey Convtceeu ie Aevelus Hoey awn AW aa eel /oo at shuha« ae mi S| on.ioe: Se jpeg /SRU 2 Pony Cole yutansaf Liphihied | Uonl WedthangAosalueifaff7 Lot eh evade \JPhe Hurrah 2Q 4Gwile? ees lishack WJ G) AMlnrA fo preload in.bs | anyAlas”duby 29 | ee aie We wt hains Pp Design. Semeex “Se pin\i x ms a as =a -- hy, may ¥ oT: — } a& ‘ ones *) Us a ' r fr | | |i iK { Dear “ igen. rr Aig,e~) — =< 82, Kimberley Rd. Leicester, July 16th. '79 o nS your group rep, please can you get your group to discuss and &ct on the following: The preparation for Congress is now underway and @ arart &genda h&s peen drawn up Oy the Liaison Group. Acopy of this agenda Will oe circulated to &ll groups in the Liaison Group Minutes. £. Annual report (brief), and motions (if any): These will be needed by the first week of October So that they can be sorted out and printed in time to send to people before Congress. - So start Writing now. » 0. Display panel(s): We would like each &roup to prepare a bright, attractive, zappy display panel Showing in an easy to assimilate form the Work, projects and activities they have deen involved in. This will form an exhivition Giving 4n introduction to i. Workshop topics; lhis year we are departing from previous practice and organising workshops (Some of them With sympathetic people from outside N.A.M.) which cut &cross our oWn specialist &roups. You should ve Betting @ more detailed list soon. Can you Send us any criticisms of existing workshops or Proposals Tor new ones that you may have, preferably before mid-August. We can obviously change things right up till the beginning of Congress, but it Would be vetter to get things sorted Out &S soon &8 possible for effective Publicity ete. N.A.W.'3 work at the Congress. For those of us who are not so well organised - a timetable: r id-August: suggestions re. workshops. 1979 N.A.M. Congress, ist. week in Octover: Annual report &nd motions. Novemoer: display panels. Bev. Daa Prepwrals Now you've got no excuses, We look forward to hearing from you. Yours fraternally (or Sidlingly?) Jobn Mitchell, for Congress organising cttee. _ ‘ rar é j a Aaa ye ; 42 5) lhasland Sa. Mm,{-éINAIASpCal)=La (Dy‘typeCyile5bytwd.}.!a ectBsoepeif u‘, (oi. Cl- fos lS? Ne L Adon SE f Pease reply to above address, or Phone Leicester \daytime) if you've got any queries. 671513 ext ge NM lO FUTURE cote- Should Rap cpag Ted Eeposh aeWieGeyaeLys.Y. ee Lech bel Dine G, [Min saggyeld auc if bes Ment te pact, po ette eae ro ED. 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G2 fdweny oF war Srmenns Sherk Ulm « f acocun ae jo see of Fe85n- o nie~vemaclayUarctilzoture,teet—a(ey KEL | bo +bre dpeuned nin nio~ hareatk Sy Som Cr-hetzhX~ t theopelicah 1stlS ca beArena it 52 Crtistel scheotls, Speculataiootn ant ofit willbeers eq Uirhidfo Mrefta,eait 10 Wiki Fare Prot « Sop nev qritnEgo Huon Dobra Sc UAtSerdceuP LELRERT :(obo~ Mifell) a 2 mol ance bodewieKheAmeSoSage « No ene | VO MELT MEETING: _ . 3 lest i.; | u7, 60 Commwnity AremtecTULE COmFEMGnee « profotl7teli ee 5at.deh, Ee ee aaa 7 tlaae ebOthewre.Minto&praySOEAe aayeder| it the goat tmtagh yp)beat ict Ga ypen Wife pa LA. ARCHITECT'S DEPARTMENTS — UNDER THE AXE? job Cen 25% | iia <r a pet if (N ae (ANskein , With the Conservative Government now seemingly entrenched for a five year term the effects of their promises to drastically reduce public spending, and to place major importance on the private sector, are Starting to be felt. The Conservative manifesto stated that they did not intend to use the construction industry as an economic regulator, but it is becoming increasingly obvious that they have to do this, and that the cuts will hit the industry severely. The Group of Eight have already reacted by lobbying the new Environment Secretary, Michael Heseltine, on a number of points, including their beleif that any further cuts will jeopardise the industry's chances of handling the country's future needs, and that the change in emphasis i to the private sector will cause many short-term problems. The construction unions have all expressed concern and threatened action, UCATT in particular has pledged to oppose any restrictions on D.L.O's. Various bodies concerned with housing, most notably Shelter and many Labour councils, have attacked the proposed drops in councilhouse building and increases in councilhouse sales. Soar Architects will of corse be as hard hit as everyone else concerned with the provision of buildings. Their workload must drop as the level of construction ddops (even allowing for labour intensive rehab work). They will have to design to even greater cost controls and to even lower standards, and will bear the blame for the resulvs. j ait Private practice may hope to gain from two possible sources, the transferal of work from L.A. architects departments and an upsurge in private sector building. L.A. architects departments are in a more difficult situation. They will be expected to bear most of the cutpacks in architectural services. If the government succeeds in it’s aims these departments will have work taken away from them, will suffer serious stafi reductions, will lose their heads and be absorbed in other departments to hide the losses, and their activities will be generally curtailed as much as possible. { di Yet although there have been many defences for general construction levels, council housing and direct labour, L.A. architects have so far not risen to the defence of their departments, and their jobs. The other interested bodies are defending themselves, why aren't L.A. architects? i i their cause any less defensible? Any such defence of L.A. architects departments must firstly consider @ number of points, including how effective the Conservatives can be with their policies, and where room will be left for local autonomy for .«f tae councils. Then the results of these considerations must be coupled | eis their cause any more’ hopeless than that of direct labour workers, is ‘if [ito arguments for the need for (and the worth and possibilities of) these in-house departments, ‘ It is of course impossible to say how succesful the Conservatives will } be with their attempted switch to the private sector, but a look at i council house sales can give us an idea, I A survey carried out by Shelter has shown that one in every six tenants who have bought their owm homes have lost them within twelve months due |} to failure to keep up payments. In the private sector the record isn't much better. Glasgow for instance has 120 applications to it's housing list every year from families who cannot keep up their mortage repayments: on private houses. Even with discounts the people who are tempted by ; Heseltines aprle of home ownership are not going to find it easy. There is some doubt that they will be even able to sell that many houses. ; Edinburgh has only sold 600 houses out of a stock of 57,000 since the war! with a continuous policy of house sales. This is a pattern repeated s throughout Sritain: witiz: the exception of London, Leeds and Birmingham and the rise of the minimum lending rate to 14% is bound to bring a reduction in all house sales, , ; Prypmmur -- Gg o- Papal Gre F Shuts bs Cc & sfes (aoe Moir ; re £ c /ats x NMRLS | —5 The implications of these figures are that in housing the private market will not be able to rise sufficiently to compensate for the drop in council houses, Even if developers do manage to build more houses who will buy them? There would anyway be a serious delay before private developers could increase their housebuilding, leaving another shortfall in housing starts, The Conservatives are therefore likely to be embarasse by the lack of housing starts over the next year and the pressure for Similarlyt}he Government will be under pressure when unemployment rises | especially in the building trades. The Conservatives may have a 44 seat majority but that does not mean that they can easily enforce their policies, They are reliant on the private sector to take advantage of the help they will be offering it. They are reliant on the money market to release enough capital for private investment, They are subject to pressure from various bodies including trade unions and local councils, 4 i bg The Conservatives will try to carry out their policies by means of Stricter control on the way that Local Authorities Spend their money. However they have also promised a certain amount of local autonomy. Mostly this autonomy will be in choosing which standard or service to Cut, but there will be some room for local decision making. They will find it hard to force some Labour Councils to abolish their D.L.0's or to sell their council houses. In the Same way Some Local Authorities wil., defend their architects departments, seeing them as an integral part of council buiding provision, ; ; 4 4 j L.A. architects departments have been the subject of much criticism in tH recent years, both from within the profession and outside. As part of a public service and a non-profit making institution they are naturally viewed as a threat to the prevailing ideology of individualism ana the market place. Cries of unfair competition can be heard from private practitioners , but what they are worried about is any competition, as building contractors are worried about D.L.0O's. Private practice already handles a substantial amount of local authority work and would be grateful to have more. 1 1)te Tenants and building users often associate L.A. architects departments | with all the faults of recent council house building. However a lot of the decisions which led to these faults were out of the architects vans and much of the work was done by private practices, Local authority | ; { TAs ee ,architects aren't blameless but they aren't the only culprits either. rp Local authority design has actually been receiving more favourable publicity recently, the AJ for instance has been criticised for it's m €mMphasis on local authority work. The prevailing ideology however leads to private practice being judged on it's better products, whilst local i authorities are judged by their failures. if To defend in-house departments it is necessary to to analyse what they | can offer that private practices can't. These departments are the only way of getting a continuity of service, with direct links to user % departments and the possibility of feedback, The London Borough cf { Hammersmith for example has co-ordinated and ‘integrated it's functions of; design, planning and housing management in an attempt to link housing ; policy implementation to actual housing needs. This integration would be i| impossible without in-house departments. (see AJ 25/4/79 pg 847) Unfortunately Hammersmith have not included their D.L.0O. in this integration, but it could be done, and it would lead to necessary links between design and construction, t The London Borough of Haringey have also reorganised their design process. They have restructured their architects department as a design co-operative in an attempt to overcome bureaucracy, give greater job Satisfaction, and to establish vital links with the community. The ; department has been split into area &roups who will do a cross-section of work and will have close contacts with tenants associations and community groups, The normal hierarchies have been flattened with job architects reporting direct to the Borough architect, team leaders only being responsible for job co-ordination. (see BD 4/5/79 vg +) }jf Dave Green/ public Design Service Group/ NAM/ June '79. f BANesting, ; “ai: E i ee am — L.A. architects departments could go much further in this direction. The ideas of Haringey and Hammersmith are Similar to the proposals of the New Architecture Movement's Public Design Service Group, as put : forward in their paper 'Community Architecture- a Public Design Service!*| These proposals include area control of resources, area based teams, f more responsibility for job architects, t.e flattening of hierarchies, and contacts with D.L.0's, One of the main problems with councils is that although councillors are elected on an area basis they serve on function committees where they have to make decisions on an assumed general interest. To safeguard ; local interests area committees are needed. These could be made up of representatives of tenants and.residents groups, trade unions and the local councillors, They could deal with the council matters that relate to their area, briefing architects and approving designs and standards. So that architects could relate to these area committees and make extra contact with the users of there buildings they nee? +o be organised! 3 on an area basis as well, For job architects to get involved in their work, and to take 7.- f responsibility for ti, it is necessary for them to report direct to committee, which would cut down irresponsible work done under blind ‘ orders. The present vertical structuring of architects departments sts from the lave 19th. Century model, which private practices have since changed to a system of multiple partners each with their own area of responsvdilit Local Authorities have however made more and more tiers of non-design ; staff to control the job architect. If the cuts are to hit anywhere it rid should be this hierarchical structure, through redeployment of staff, ae ; To spread the architects range of contacts, which would enable them to design more responsibly, joint working groups with D.L.0's could be 4 j set up. These could lead the way to an integrated design and build system, Te These changes would enable greater contact with tenants, and would give those tenants a greater say in their environment. It is by these means that a real community architecture could be established. Local authority architects therefore offer a unique Opportunity in architecture today, an integration of the building process in complete contrast to it's present fragmented state. ; a i Therfore we need to defend these departments both for their value now i and for their value in the future. The case is by no means hopeless. i Other local authority workers are fighting with some success to maintain } wtheir position as part of a service, and some of the more progressive \ councils have shown themselves sympathetic to ideas for reorganisation i i| put forward by staff, as at Haringey. The means of action for this defence need to be varied. Any attempts : >i at cutbacks or reorganisation should be met with alternative proposals, Organisation within NALGO should be attempted. The RIBA should be lobbied, if only to see their reaction. Councils need convincing of the worth of their architects departments and general publicity of the positive sides of local authority architectire is needed, i zy *'Community Architecture-a Public Design Service' is available from NAM, 9 Poland St. London W1 £1.00 A meeting of the PDS group to discuss the issues in this article will be held on Sat. July 7th at / SO rr2peSpee ers+ ere oe AD * raat’ oe Naeseed Hows= Cvaerored tcmad ¢wo) oN‘OQUN‘HA = Satis <n. ye Bom Hos urxckand ;‘ COmee ¥ e-oeaeNe\culeme)semeke Cw) The wad wr Ptebob ly jos eleqekee ERO MOK, houren P ger po Decauna eo Comm0rle ifyou Aare ay p 1! See nlaMela~ | “ )prpf afee Crrafa~;| +hefrertuceolnyet dian. 'ofh,oe ber shail nor empro iy 15 Of Statutory appr ' BRYAN HARRY RidFERSON. 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The problems facing the building industry, both Shorter-term and Structural, have Produced a wide ranging and heated debate over recent years. At one stage, with the Iabour Party in office, the Partial nationalisation of the industry &long lines Proposed in Building Britain's Ratioren becdme & distinct POSSivility. The recent election of a Tory government, however, with their firm committment to monetarism aay ees his article Will take the form of @ review of Building Sritain's Future from the architect's Specific position Within the construction process. It will look &t changes in the organisation of the industry that &re necessary for the development of the New Architecture Movement's &im of a fully enterprise, has radically altereg this situation: CABIN has &ccountable ang democratic architectural Service. ie Suilding Britain's Future - Iabour's Policy on Construction. Ihe Labour Party. October 1977. 2. The Campaign Against Building Industry Nationelisation. This w&s the campaigning body set up by the contractors! organisations in opposition to Labour's Proposals. ( See 'Slate' no.g ) [HE NEED FoR CHANGE : construction Process, both to extend cooperation and understanding Within the industry and to increase Popular control over the design and Construction. The Toots of this split are complex, but for the last 150 years or So it has been a central element of 4rchitectural practice. It is a division of interests that has Produced, and is in turn reinforced by, the legal forms that govern Working relationships: it is inherent in the Contracting System. The effects of this division &nd the Problems it causes are obvious, as an R.I.B.A. official quoted in 5 Building Britain's Future has stated: is the Signal for the battle between the various parties - contractors, Su0-contractors, Suppliers and the various Professionals-— to commence, a battle which soon develops into a continuous tactical game of catch-as—catch-can, €&nd hard luck on the one left holding the baby when the music stops." There is an ODvious need to find ways in which this OppoSition and mistrust can be overcome, to create 4 relationship of cooperation between architects and Duilding Workers, where o- Building Britain's Future. p. 20, e@ch other's skills &nd abilities are recognised and can be creatively developed. A move in this direction requires not only @ change away from the contracting system and the conflict of interests it Produces, but also a Conscious effort to break down the dam& ging ideological divide between Professional and manual workers. This Process can be started OY Support for existing union Camp&igns around health and safety, unemployment, the lump, defence of direct labour, ina&dequate training and all the other problems Which not only affect Duilding workers, but also the Quality of the built environment and the Potential for constructive relationships between builder and architect. Cooperation can then begin to be built on the basis of common interest as workers in the construction industry. The section above has Srgued for changes Which start to increase democracy and Cooperation within the industry; of equal importance however, are attempts to make the industry as & whole more &ccountaple to the people who have to live in and With its products. Greater control is required over cost and Quality of Work. The problems and inefficiences of competitive tendering hawe been descrived very clearly in the document "Building with Direct Tabaueien They are also recognised by the Iabour Party: "... constant competition for each &nd every contract on the Sole basis of lowest tender price has not brought to the surface the most efficient contractor, or the best employer, but the 4. Building with Direct Iabour - Iocal authority building and the crisis in the construction industry. D.L. Collective. 1978 had TM effectively exploit Peculiarities of the market or the weakness of other Participants in the construction pidoestane; his SyStem, far from 8iving value for money, can often have disasterous effects on cost, quality and Subsequent m&intenance, especially for local authorities, During the Speculative boom Contractors to take on Work. When work is in short supply, on the other hand, competition for Public sector Contracts is fierce, and Contractors, having put in low original tender Prices, are often forced to cut corners: the resulting claims, skimped Work, bankruptcies and &SsSociated Problems al] push 4p costs and reduce quality. Although exaggerated during Periods of rapid expansion or depression, Poor quality ana high cost work are permanent features of a construction industry Organised around the contracting System. The result of al] this is that the Public Sector, which Commissions about a half of all building work in this country, has little real control over the cost and quality of work Produced, and it is the Public, Who pay for ang use the buildings, who Suffer the Consequences, o. Building sritain's Future. p.14 overall system of economic 4nd industrial planning. must be the development The most important aspect of control over the industry, of user control over the built environment, particularly at the local level. This requires not only a radical transformation Within &nd development It is on the the industry basis as a whole of these criteria - democratisation { of accountability | however, especially for architects, of existing architectural Services, but also a closer and longer term Cooperation between architects and builders; a cooperation Whereby links can be fostered between the entire building team and local tenants @roups and Community associations. From this a dialogue and understanding may develop, giving rise ® to @ quality and flexibility of work that is sensitive and responsive to local peculiarities ang the needs of the user. and popular control over the industry - and the implications they hold for architectural practice, that the Proposals contained in Building Britain's Future should be &nalysed, e, eee ee a enea eesMe Sew Process." THE LABOUR PARTY'S APPROACH : The severe recession facing the building industry has been 4 major factor Stimulating deoate; the Labour party's Proposals in Building Britain's Future are both a response to this immediate crisis and an attempt to solve some of the underlying structural Problems of the industry. These Problems, they argue, are vased on the fragmentation of the industry - a fragmentation of construction activity into Separate, finite contracts, and of construction organisation into numerous contractors, Sud-contractors, design Professionals etc.; reinforcing this fragmentation, and adding further Problems of its own, as outlined above, is the System of competitive tendering. The use, by government, of the construction industry &S &n economic regulator exacerbates this situation &nd makes for an industry characterised by its instability. This instability 4nd uncertainty causes Problems both for the contractors, with resulting large scale inefficiencies, &nd for the workforce, where job insecurity and lump la@oour make unionisation difficult, Siving rise to bad working conditions, appalling health and safety precautions and insufficient training. The extent of these defects and their complex inter- Connection lead the Iabour Party to conclude that: "None of them can be tackled in isolation; each makes sense only in the context of the others, and only a comprehensive &pproach can solve them. taken together they add Up, in our view toanSeeeecaseforradicalchangesintheconstruction 6. Building Britain's Future. p.20 De neEe >a C.I.M.B. o. Staoility of Work: Lo provide a stable flow of work industry, both terms of contractual of forward planning of a proportion the public client of the quantity to the construction and timing of work, and in from in terms proceedures. Systems for It proposes capital programmes, the extension & guarantee These "radical changes" take the form of a series of interventions in the organisation and the structure of the Quilding industry. The following is a Summary of these proposals, under the same Subheadings and in the same order as used in Building Britain's Future. 1. Puolic Spending: An "immediate and substantial" increase in public spending on construction is needed. 2. Working Conditions: By the registration of all employers and employees under the Construction Industry Manpower Board (C.I.M.B.) Standards of working conditions would be imposed on employers, JOD opportunities and manpower coordinated, 4 national apprentice training scheme established and trade union membership encouraged among registered employees. A levy on employers would provide fallback pay to all temporarily unemployed building workers registered under the C.I.M.B. In addition to this, a Code of Construction Site Practice would be drawn up ".prescribing high standards of safety and welfare 7 provision.". Public sector contracts would be limited to of future construction work against expenditure cuts, and a firms complying with this code and registered with the 7. Building Britain's Future. p.60 Would be ",.managed professionally as municipal enterprises" 8 reserve shelf of future spending programmes to be advanced or put back dependent on €conomic policy requirements. 4 Public Procurement Agency should be set up, based initially on the Property Services Agency of the D.0.E., to coordinate the letting of Public sector Contracts. There should be, in addition to this improved quantity and coordination of work, & move away from competitive tendering towards continuity and serial contracts, with a Code of Conduct laid down by the National Building Agency Covering negotiations between contractors and the Public client. To improve continuity Within the industry there Should be greater standardisation of building plans, Construction details €@nd components. 4. Public Ownership: This Would take three main forms. Firstly, the exp&nsion of direct labour departments, with national and regional Coordination, the right to tender for &ny work in the locality anda greater industrial democracy. These D.L.0.s &nd would operate in competition With private contractors. Secondly, the Setting up of a Publicly owned National Construction oe TEED, ",.basedinitiallyononeormorem&jorcon- tractors"; this Would take the form of a State holding company, Covering & number of different enterprises competing in n&étional and region@l construction markets. As with D.L.0.s, increased industrial democracy would be a feature of these enterprises, Thirdly, workers'cooperatives Would be encouraged at a4 local level through an extension of the Industrial 5. Building Britain's Future. p.61 9. Ibid. p.62 Common Ownership Act; these would operate mainly at the level of specialist Sud-contractors. In addition to this expansion of the public Sector, large private contractors should be brought into the Planning agreements System through an oi Planning agreements system. The Forestry Commission should Should ve used to promote the Standardisation of building | components. 6. Organisation: This , this suggests out of the hands of the R.I.B.A. & oody representing the whole industry, such as the Construction Industry Training Board. Recognising present exists between architects between design and construction, integration and as one way of achieving section proposes a closer that architectural education &nd put under the control of should be taken the conflict which at &nd contractors, a statutary Regulatory Board for Contracts, Procedures and Disputes in extension of the 1975 Industry Act. Building Materials: Increased public sector control of Production should be matched by increased control over the Supply of building materials. fo this end, a new state holding company, the Building Materials Corporation (B.M.C.), Should oe established. This would nationalise mineral rights and associated production facilities along with a range of monopoly materials Suppliers, including Pilkingtons, B.P.B. Industries, London brick, and one or more maéjor cement, ceramic tile, concrete roof tile, clay pipe, concrete slab and sanitary equipment manufacturers. Plumbing, heating and ventilation equipment producers Would be brought within the expand and diversify its activities and bulk timber importing consortia should be set up. This public sector involvement SpE rsenna 7 the Construction Industry, with trade union representation, hes been proposed as a means of solving these contractual disputes. In an attempt to secure a better deal for the client, Gesigners and contractors should be legally responsible for any faults in their work that might occur up to ten years after completion; a national indemnity scheme is Proposed to cover this liability. Among ways of ensuring greater client control over cost would be the greater independence of quantity Surveyors from the design team. In addition there are proposals for an independent Source of technical information for designers, possibly provided by the National Building Agency, and for a greater proportion of the industry's work to oe open to design competitions. This summary of the Iapour Party's proposals has been given in the form of a Shopping list, without comment or of the criteria established at the beginning of this article - the extension of democracy and cooperation within the industry, { criticism; its implications will now be examined in the light and the increase of popular control over the industry. CRITICISMS: Although different priorities &nd emphases might be Placed on many of the issues discussed in Building Britain's Future, there is little in the a@ims and intentions with Which to quarrel. A number of the proposals, however, seem to effectively contradict these stated aims and Severely restrict their 1. Contracting: Despite a lucid and coherent exposition of the problems and inefficiences of the contracting system, and particularly of its most common form, competitive tendering, the Proposals do nothing to undermine or replace this system of organisation in the construction industry. Continuity and serial contracts méy temper some of the worst excesses of the contracting systen, but the basic conflicts and divisions will remain. The Public Sector will still have little real control over the quality and cost of work, while public funds will continue to boost private profits, and the conditions will be created for further Widespread corruption. Especially important for architects, the continuation of this system will maintain the division of interests between architect and builder; the Labour Party's expressed desire for closer links between design and construction will not be achieved. Restricted to the private sector, this @pproach might be acceptable, put it also structures the proposals fora greatly expanded public Sector, both in direct labour and in the proposed National Construction Corporation. The advances represented by direct labour, both for the implementation. These will now be examined in greater detail. workforce and the client, have been clearly recognised, and a CRITICISus: 1. Contracting: Despite a lucid and coherent exposition of the problems particularly the proposals and inefficiences of the contracting system, and tendering, of its most do nothing in the construction méy temper but the basic contracts system, remain. The sector will cost of work, profits, and corruption. still have while public of this system architect and will maintain builder; the the division Labour Party's of interests expressed desire closer links achieved. Restricted be acceptable, greatly expanded will not be approach might the proposals both in direct Corporation. by direct labour, the proposed The advances represented both for the common form, to undermine competitive or replace this system of organisation the conditions Especially industry. Continuity some of the worst excesses conflicts and divisions will public little real funds will will be created important for architects, between design to the private out it also structures for a labour and in public sector, National Construction and construction sector, this and serial of the contracting control over the quality continue to boost private for further the continuation between for and widespread implementation. These will now be examined in greater detail. Although different priorities &nd emphases might be Placed on many of the issues discussed in Building Britain's Future, there is little in the a&ims and intentions with which to quarrel. A number of the proposals, however, seem to effectively contradict these stated aims and severely restrict their workforce and the client, have been clearly recognised, and a Significant expansion of D.L.0.s is planned, &llowing both an increase in new construction work undertaken and the right to compete for work with both private firms &nd other public bodies in the locality. For this expansion to take place, the document argues that D.L.0.s must ve "..run. as municipal enterprises, and not purely as local authority service departments." : This is & fundamental Shortcoming in the Iabour Party's Proposals. Some supporters of direct labour argue for competitive tendering on the grounds that it Will prove the efficiency of D.L.0.s against private contractors, but as Building Britain's Future itself contends, the original tender price bears little relation to subsequent cost, efficiency and quality of work. (It ais Worth noting that this form of Sccountability is not only ineffective, but also restrictive, in that the &ccounts of direct labour departments, at present open to public Scrutiny, Would have to become confidential, to avoid the passing on of information to Competitors.) All this is not to deny a need for close control of direct labour accounts but to say that competitive tendering does not provide a suitable basis for this control. Direct Labour departments offer the potential for the creation of locally based, democratically &ccountaple building teams working in close cooperation with both architects and users. The Iabour Party's insistence on their being run 4s "municipal enterprises" denies this potential by reinforcing the contractual 10. Building Britain's Future. p.s9 ll. See, for example, some of the depate in Slate 9, Split between architect and Duilder, and by replacing the concept of building as a service to the community with one in which Profit and loss predominate, with al] the adverse effects this Produces, as argued above, for building Workers, designers and clients. These criticisms can be extended to cover the proposals for 4 National Construction Corporation - Proposals which in themselves tend to five rise to further contradictions. Public Sector intervention On projects of a size and type not applicable to D.L.0.s would seem to be Sensible, and the Suggestion of taking profitable Sectors of the economy into public ownership With substantial internal democracy is & welcome break from past types of nationalisation. However, the relationship of this body, 48 organised at a regional level under the parent holding company, to the expanded D.L.0.s seems extremely unclear and needy of reexamination. The main point of disagreement with the Iabour Party's Proposals, therefore, is the acceptance of the contracting System &@s @ suitable basis for advancing the democratisation of the industry; this will severely restrict many of the professed aims, most importantly the closer integration of peep TT Proposals for greater standardisation through "..standard building plans, simple construction details, and a restricted 12 range of fixtures, fittings and components." are the logical primarily to reduce costs, it is also argued that greater construction and design. ere Standardisation: Outcome of the Labour Party's approach to the industry. Proposed 12. Building Britain's Future. p.352 standardisation will facilitate the introduction of the new contractual arrangements Suggested in the programme. While €conomies in construction are to be welcomed, the infinite variety of built form necessitated by different user needs, Sites,climates and other variables severely restricts €conomies through standardisation: the argument in favour of Standardisation for contractual reorganisation, on the other hand, becomes invalid if, as above, this form of reorganisation is found wanting. Standardisation to reduce unnecessary competition and waste m&y be desirable, but the limitations and restrictions can outweigh the limited financial savings produced. For workers in the industry, both in design and construction, it c@n represent a severe loss of job satisfaction and a sSub- stantial deskilling, at a time when the m@intenance and development of both traditional and new creative skills is essential. Technology should be used not to replace these skills, but to remove the drudgery from work and allow an increase in its creative ana fulfilling content. Equally, standardisation can be restrictive for Duilding users, limiting the possibility of their exercising control over the built environment; "standard plans" hardly seem a Satisfactory way of making buildings responsive to user needs. If we are to produce a colourful, varied, interesting and responsive environment, greater standard- isation, though valuable in some areas of the construction process, is more likely to be a hindrance than & help. o. Independence of the Quantity Surveyor. In another attempt to control costs to the Public client, Building Britain's Future proposes that "Quantity Surveyors rod could.... become technical auditors, employed by the client and 15 independent of the design team." This may well be appropriate to the private sector, but in the Public sector, where the client already employs "in-house" architects and quantity Surveyors, and architects remuneration is not based on fees, greater Separation of the two functions Would only be harmful. Instead, area-based, integrated design (and in the longer term bDuilding) teams should be developed in which all the different technical Specialists, including the quantity surveyor, would work closely together; greater control over both cost &nd quality in this context should fall to the real users at a local level, with Whom this team could establish an Ongoing &nd cooperative 14 relationship. ee core eeeteeel ere lo. Building sritain's Future. p.o6 14. For a further discussion of these ideas see "Community Architecture-— 4& Puolic Design Service ?", @ paper produced by the P.D.S. Group of the New Architecture Movement. zt CONCLUSION: This critique of Building Britain's Future, from the Position of architects in the public Sector, leads to the Suggestion of some ammendments to the Iabour Party's proposals. The most important of these changes is in the &4pproach to direct lapvour. The Iabour Party's committment to the expansion of direct lavour is to pve welcomed, but if a framework is to be Provided in which the Split between design and construction can be mended, this expansion must be on the basis of D.L.0.s &S service departments. In the same way as "in-house" architects departments are Sutomatically allocated the work of, for example, the pvorough they serve, direct labour Ouilding teams should automatically ve allocated the work of that architects department. This would necessitate new forms of cost control and accountability, but Would provide the basis fora regionally devolved and democratic extension of Public ownership. With local authority work asutomatically allocated to locally based direct labour teams, the role of the National Construction Corporation at a regional level would need reexamination. The N.C.C. should primarily be concerned with larger scale work not suitable to D.L.0.s. The same criticisms of contracting apply to the N.C.C. as to direct lébour. iF lhe incorporation of these proposals on direct labour and the N.C.C., along with @ reappraisal of standardisation | &nd cost control, as argued above, would leave little in the ] document with which to disagree. In this form it could both 4 q help the development of a militant, but positive and critical, defence of direct labour against the current attacks of the Conservatives and building contractors, while at the same time providing a longer term programme for radical and pro- gressive change throughout the industry. Public Design Service Group, The New Architecture Movement. 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The Fens mag try and encomeage mere th. thinrock ausathese ak (bufferoo me:matopla Mata on He trewnin Cynthia Cockebuen In fak I hewan’+ read eee Ele ba alee koMaecOteeaesSecasakaceeinergepttsitesghine refered—te preinieus (Mite Pn, tls eee haem le Ghee hasanes atc Sey Loeete : Sons aalhs oe phys a eae ee is (aJe Vue cetieenaleleteGetbecstenettnearthgoesnaebe weet thy He frome fm percha Lethe othe hepa ek uae a, Pe tagtealilosle ~ OE HLS saber sa, 4 na els poner Has» ercsica ake i Dear Friends, Mike Fleetwood Peta Sissons s Tues, 3rd. April, er vices to lanChristie ommun ity DexterWhitfield tion and 31 CLERKENWELL CLOSE The venue for the meeting has now been confirmed - {t will be held on Saturday 28th. April at the Digbeth Civic Hall in the centre of Birmingham. (We will be sending a map nearer the date). The meeting will take Place in Lecture room no. 1, will start at 10.30 am. anc will continue until about 5.30pm, The room wili hold about 100 people, so when we have heard from all the campaigns we have contacted, we may have to limit the number of delegates from any one campaign, To help us finalise these arrangements quickly, we need the following information; 1) The names (or at least numbers) of delegates you wish to send, 2) Approx. time of arrival, and whether you will need accommodation on Friday night. Please state whether delegates are willing to share a room. (Accommodation is being arranged with tenants in the Birmingham area.) 3) Whether you would need to make use of a creche for your children, the latest, (or phone). eee Anti-dampness campaign strategy meeting enants TELOFASeo So please fill in the Slip at the end of this letter and return it by Thurs. April l2th, at So far, we know that delegates will be coming from Glasgow, Edinburgh, South Wales, London, Sandwell, Manchester, and several other areas, We are making every effort to raise funds to help with delegates! travelling expenses, but obviously 1t would be a great help if campaigns could agree to pay their own delegates! expenses. Possible sources of finance might be ea local resource centre or law centre, local charitable trusts, or Council of Voluntary Service etc., or the usual fundraising events. However, if you have any problems raising the cash, let us know and we will tell you how much money we can put in towards your delegates costs. Brief papers are being prepared on the following; 1) Finance - how repairs/renedial work is financed; impact of the possible new Housing legislation. 2) Brief overview - of progress made by campaigns, drawing together common issues and problems, response of councils to demands, the scale of the problem. Types of estate, and kinds of dampness experienced etc, 8) Dampness and health, 2. Best wishes, jen aaa Deiilossee 3) Remedies - what causes anid what can be done about condensation, rising damp and penetrating damp. 5) Joint Action between tenants and DLO_workers,as in Sandwell, W.Bromwich. —— rantsandDLOworkers 4) The construction and contracting System, and the role of Direct Labour Organisations. 6) Historical background = development of council housing, high rise etc., housing cuts, attitudes to council housing, 7) Legal Action - different sorts of legal action, uses and limitations. We will be inviting people with Specialised knowledge - an architect, a public health inspector, a solicitor, and possibly a doctor - to come to the meeting to comment and answer questions on some of these issues. However, the emphasis will be on future Strategies for campaigns, rather than on a detailed discussion of these issues in isolation. Rs We enclose a questionnaire for you to complete and send back to us as soon as possible, to help in the drawing up of the "overview" paper. The questionnaire will also be duplicated and passed on to other delegates at the meeting. This will enable groups to see what the Situation is elsewhere and to contact groups with similar problems. It would be useful if delegates could bring material for an exhibition which will be displayed at the meeting - photos, leaflets, posters, and any surveys/reports which you may have prepared during your campaign, We feel it 1s important for delegates to discuss their contribution to the meeting with their groups beforehand, particularly the success/ problems met by your campaign, and possible future strategy to get your demands met. The meeting 1s being sponsored by UCATT Midland Region, but we are still waiting to hear from other organisations which we have approached for financial support. We look forward to hearing from you shortly. Local Plans Housing Finance SLUS 2Other Reports obtain. : Tequires as 0 Seat N . ven ; clarification or Registered office 9 Qucen Anne's Gate London SW1H 9BY Telephone 01-930 0611 SCAT Publications W y Registered England 1175699 6 March 1979 A pamphlet about tne Uistr..°, action Aree and Subject Plans which local authorities now have to prepare as a meons of try- ing to guide and control change ond development in their areas and as supplements to Structure Plans. It will show how all the important decisions about the use of land and resources within a Local Plan crea are detemined by political and economic forces beyond the control of the local council. It will also in- clude a stage by stage guide to the legal procedure for prepar- ing local plans and an action section suggesting how groups can exploit the procedure to meet some working class demands and to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of loca! planning within a market economy. The pamphlet is being prepared with help from the Southwark Low Project and North Southwark Commun- ity Development Group and wil! draw on the experience of gf in Coventry, Birmingham, Edinburgh, London, Manchester and other creas. (Publication late 1978) movement is finding itself more ye; the national and local press ortunately quick to seize on the sort of controversy obscures fan equally, if not more, important the amount of progress being made ft€rol in Management, design and ithin the movement. This pamphlet will describe the present and proposed systems of local authority housing finance and government controls, and will put housing finance into a wider economic context. It will be produced jointly with an economist atUniversity College, London and will attempt to unravel the complexit- ies of housing finance in as simple and straight forward a way as possible. It will explain where the money comes from, how council housebuilding, improvement, repairs, slum clearance, council mortgages etc are financed and how to use and understand a Housing Revenue Account etc. The pamphlet will show what happens to socialised housing ina capitalist system and how landowners, financiers and build- ers profit. The implications of the kind of policies proposed n the Green Paper on Housing Policy will be examined together with the need for and impact of radical alternatives td the present system. (Publicatior early 1979) As part of the subscription you will receive 2 other reports or pamphlets. These will be EITHER reports or pamphlets publish- ed by SCAT Publications covering issues on which Services to Community Action ond Tenants is currently working eg. the impoct of housing policies on employment in the housing sector, high heating costs and defects in council housing, build-for—sale schemes, OR reports or pamphlets produced by local campaigns and organisations to which Services to Community Action and Tenants has given advice and assist- ance. These local reports or pamphlets will be ones which have national relevance. They are also often difficult to ~ {e SladeWe % The Architects’ Journal DAL LVAIlMamis / ‘ticle this week, OUT OF THE PUBLIC | that much of the process of irk, by force of circumstance and 10 ignore tenants and as Such is i key principles for opening up jociations' contribution to the ibe pleased to receive your in take dictated letters Over x rynA L 7besey 4 \en ® sae VCR ROL, ee $UPke, CLIO ZL { Patrick Hannay Buildings Editor -_ The housing association movement is finding itself more e- If any of the analysis requires clarification or refuting, then we would be pleased to receive your comments. Eve George can take dictated letters over the phone. John Murray Esq NAM PDS Group c/o 5 Milton Avenue London N.6 Dear Mr Murray TM Yo Slate we % :x | fa Td Octobe 1912 A : Se ee ~ 7 an? UV fei, Registered office 9 Queen Anne's Gate London SWLH 9BY Telephone 01-930 0611 Rogistored England 1175699 6 March 1979 and more in the public eye; in its usual way, is unfortunately quick to seize on the financial scandals; this sort of controversy obscures what might be considered an equally, if not more, important issue of debate, namely the amount of progress being made in developing tenant control in management, design and development decisions, within the movement. Roger Barcroft in his article this week, OUT OF THE PUBLIC ‘ EYE (pp 471-487), argues that much of the process of housing associations' work, by force of circumstance and legislation, continues to ignore tenants and as such is a betrayal of one of the key principles for opening up the scope of housing associations' contribution to the housing provision. The Architects’ Journal the national and local press : PAX NVM iy /ithR ROW aaaetaU Cibk yinbheal:tife Yon.5 i J 22910” SEW ’ Dear Friend, The Report of the Alternative Practice Seminar is at last completed. We will keep you informed about the Conference when this has been arranged. The Alternative Practice Organising Group. oo} GoFS GA wet ND ~~! 7 As the seminar decided, this report is intended as a basis for further discussion, and a working group is to be set up to further investigate the issues raised at the seminar. The working group will report back to a Conference to be held at a later date. The first meeting of the working group is at 5.00pm on the 16th March, at the offices of Support, and it is hoped that each group will send a delegate to that meeting. Would you contact Mary Rogers at Support to confirm this. Saturday: 10.00 a.m. : ANN BLISS — BILL HILLIER and JULIENNE HANSON 41.00 p.m.: Lunch break. 2,00 p.m. SHIRLEY ARDNER CLATRE COOPER trained in geography and urban planning,,has worked as a planner and researcher in Britain, Sweden, Puerto Rico and the USA. She is now Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Landscape at Berkeley. She will be talking about St. Francis Sq., a case study of an inner city multi-racial housing co-operative in San Francisco, both as researcher and as resident. 4.00 p.m. :Workshops. Women and Buildérs (led by Krystyna Domanska). Women in Housing Co-ops (Seagull\. The St. Francis Sq. Case Study (Claire Cooper). Women and Space (Julienne Hanson, Bill Hillier). ie Women, Space amd Human Evolution (Denise Arnold, Chris Knight). Defining Female (Shirley Ardner). “4 6.00 p.m.: SHOBSRING TREATRE: "HOUSEWORK", WOMEN AND SPACH: Feminist Anthropology, Architecture and Community. Weekend School: March 10-11, 1979. will be looking at present-day housing from the standpoint of her own personal experience as a woman with two young children and as a-social work assistanndtwi,ll talk about whyshehas found:anthropological knowledge concerning women in other cultures relevant. are from the, Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, researching and teaching on the comparative study of architecture and spatial organization in different cultures, BILL HILLIER will look at the social forces behind changes in urban space which have taken place in the twentieth century. He will suggest a framework for discussing the relationship between the built environment and forms of ‘community. JULIENNE HANSON will sketch an overview of how different societies organize, the relationships between men and women in space, suggesting how the organization of space can be used in weakening or strengthening women's solidarity. : is a social anthropologist at Queen Blizabeth House, Oxford. Her topic will be 'Defining Female'—-the title of a book which she has recently edited, and which was sponsored by the Oxford University Women's Studies Committee. ay SUSAN WALKER JULIENNE HANSON KATE YOUNG DENISE’ ARNOLD VAL VENNUSS is an archaeologist at one of the major London museums, participating in the preparation of an exhibition on everyday life in classical antiquity. She will be looking at women and physical space in antiquity, both in ceremonial and domestic life. will talk on developments in housing forms since the nineteenth century. She will be looking at life in traditional urban streets and in their modern counterparts:-—high-density, high-rise estates and low-density, low-rise suburbs—-and will be examining the consequences for women's solidarity of these different kinds of urban locality. is from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University, and is a social anthropologist. She will say a few words on the effects --which the, installation of piped water had on women's social life in ‘a village.in Mexico in which she did her field-work. is a practising architect, and will look at the influence of design “guides in reinforcing the privatisation of the nuclear family and the isolation and oppression of women within the context of mass housing. chairs the Housing Committee of the Islington (Labour) Council, and has been an active campaigner for working-class women's rights for a number of years. She will be discussing the practical problems aifficulties which she has faced both inside and outside the council as planning and architectural policies have changed within the area in recent times. : : PEGGY BEAGLE and as a N.U.P.E. shop-steward and women's representative on Greenwich Trades Council. She will say a few words on What kind of housing 1 | like to see", particularly in the. light of her experience living in a 30 year-old 8-storey block of flats. 4.00 p.m.: Lunch break. 2,00 p.m. Gh iD) 1S) BE Oa . Design Workshop (Anne Thorne). 2.30: Workshops. ; Housing since the nineteenth century (Julienne Hanson). The political struggle for good housing (Val Venness). Cuba: community, buildings, living and working spaces (Dr. Mo Mowlan) . an History and women's spaces (Susan Walker). a House as an image of self-psychological perception (Claire Cooper). Design Guides, CcO-OpS, creches, society co-operative dwellings (Sarah Stron We fine ; S eee AAUSWN [ Se 453 Discussion. . |Z Steff 8 Bruce Dirne Gree , Fie pe faoocteie “ Le uel bic. 8 ae PIS fo (afro + 2/70 fof. |Coo haAe|TO|SLeblig Feta i. <—fA fa G Pydtatoyry+Soe fey Growl oben Seok 445 2P? Kamin typrl SDesin Qe? Sup Wallen uc eo) a ayne »et NWAMAMK meeEROYEOveCO-}, oe NA PRS. NERTING S FEB.’79 Presenk:— Ti EES ,SMtne, D.Grea, J R.Ge BSmith,R0ae E.Smivxk chaire R.Genton Gok hie thinutes. I) Matters arising — No, branchofRIBAmeeting €E0discuss “Does ie Koga | |InsGeeoesfreiews~a1daspimmGousBe icine “whl Gtke m Apc 3rc. R. Gres NAM Femunise and P. groups asill akeend. RG ovAon eo f < paste , f , ( fies lopics 7 discussion — rina dHes Co-cperaGve prac&ce. ® Pre nad he user Shave CARs |ORLEEEAE. 4) Jace wasa discussion omideas about GlacaGon. Sees gees Wh aViewGarepo’ciAy i qhe influcnze the our Party's pokice on Consoickion. Tech oe Oeslumpas AoeKeenas€iCvauemc / anh 4 NexeMocking—BNET ab19MousfietdRd,Nos; D oiscussion of haw Coe Should be ; ured, Mak Freeson «sith allocat&eos Communicy A rchiteckure. Communé: Arhitedoue-a RDS?” report b be sone & ( ® AcsRilhi of pave Mma peomanent basis. Ae he Same Gre, here isan i. cal alla om Direct bubou; hin has -ernen ES “Iau IRED “Building Britains Facure? We cmside- DLO's must he senize Acparemenés, So an | bo exbad accountability. 3 Mmarch_ i VAPayerFockwascmaucted,ithicinclJ.uMditechedlls Liasm Group xprnsco. (Sadaat 4.220 “am lfc in he Kitty. nen A —ceilingof £e-so) c ere | te TM i 1, 2, 3» Notes On Nationalisation Of The Building Industry for P.D.G. Meeting 3/2/79. The State Of The Industry. a, the present crisis, 1, unemployment and it's associated problems, 2, inefficiency of idle plant and -rundowns, 3, effects onll-A.'s (attacks on D.L.0.'s, low tenders etc), many people believe that all that is ‘needed is more work but there is a need for fundamental changes in the industry and now is the time to make them. b, underlying problems, 1, tragnentation a, in discontinuity of contracts, bd, in splits within the industry, 2, the use of the industry 4S an economic regulator, 3, the competitive tendering system, these lead to instability and insecurity affecting, The L.P.'s Reasons For Intervention In The Industry. a, economic influence over the industry, 1, for internal efficiency, challenge the monopolie's and oligopolie's although not for bankruptcy reason's, 2, to tie industry into overall economic planning, b, the desire to control profit's generated from public fund's, c, to improve working and safety condition's. 1, firms and employees, job insecurity etc., 2, client's and user's, lack of control over cost and quality of work and extra work and bureaucracy. The L.P.'s Mean's Of Intervention. they see the need for diversity and flexibility of approach and the need for accountability. their main proposals are; A National Construction Corporation based on one or more major contractors, A Public Procurement Agency to co-ordinate the industry's work load, The registration of employees and employers under the Construction Industry Manning BOard, with restriction's of work to those registered, The reform and expansion of D.L.0.'s, changing them from service to trading department's, The encouragement of Co-Op's under 2 Co-Op developement agency, especially for small and specialist firm's, The acouisition of major material's producer's under a Building Material'’s Corporation, A @ode of Construction Site Practice to be drawn uD, Programme, serial and continuity contracts to be encouraged, they alsm recommend changes in the organisation of the building profession's; The integration of design and construction, Professional education to be under the Construction Industry Training Board, Greater standardisation of design's and component's, Greater cost control with more independance for Q.S.'S, More responsibilities for defective design, all these are seen within the context of competition and the tendering system. oe they state that competitive tendering problem's, to firm's which are =the N.C.C. to be an umbrella almost incidentally nationalised in normal with standard building firm's and D.-L.0.'s, but don't challenge it at all, b, standardisation of plan's, contract size, competition is of insignificant importance compared to a regulated work load and it limit's user -economic consideration's completley ce, architect's and Q.S.'s need to be integrated same design team, all under democratic etc. (in for moving service possible?) department's The political competition limitation's of an d them need extensive tackle large scale work, between design and (for all as regionally football encouraging argument enforcing not? the L.P.'S the 4, The P.D.G.'s Reason's For Intervention. democratisation a,within; 1, break down division's build, = 2, improve working condition's, industrial democracy and safety, by, over; 1, accountability and greater control over quality and cost, | 2, national and local control, planning, theee require more stability and increased efficiency as argued by the Labour Party. 5, The Limitation's Of The L.P."s Proposal's. a, all their proposal’'s are within the competitive tendering system; —D.L.0.'s to be trading department's which duplicates the is wasteful etc. component's etc. the need both designer and overide social, into the controle for 6, Proposal' s. expanded I.Mi/D.G. 1/2/79- as work where ownership. although way's way's to reform ilding industry. Tentative Outline a, DeL.0.'s to be Local Authority devolved public isn't applicable of D.L.-0.'s and investigation, bd, a limited N.C.C. to civil engineering with the exception of the proposal's provide a basis democratisation of the bu or above toward's motorway'S, 3, PDS Commnity architecture Keporc — tty ae ; ; ' i | t | i fhe next meeting is on 3:rd Feb 11-59 118 Mansfield Ra. Nott. more capies of the report are to v2 sent ty relevant T.U's selected journalists, the National Tenants Aszcciation, and political pazties. The paper is selling well. Furtker action is awaiting Freeson's response. 4, Programme of work Develop ment of theory and history,the J.M's Nationalisation, J.Mitchell ana b.Green County Councils difficulties Rafael Wakesburg Education discv ssion paper Bob Gordon Standards discussion paper Brice Smith Feminists link Dave Green also, Contracts Tom Bulley preliminary work on thesg to be done for the relevant meeting im the prcsramme bdelow. Ideas on talks and ways of presentatign fromm everyone the next meeting. : 7 D+ Programme of meetings '79. 2, 3xd Feb, nationalisation and ideas on taiks. dy 24th Fev, education 4, ifth Mazxch, meetinz with feminicts,Tom Bulley on to contr=cts history, alternative agate for feminists tt 6, 28th Apetl general. review and standards i} ‘| alli meetings in nottingham except the feminist oné in Lendon ‘| 5, 7th April theory anda the kitty now stanas at £1.70 ;| ; | ' LJ PDS GROUP MEETING 20th JAN 79 MINUDRS. ( Pave G ter, ) : *1, Liasion Group Report ay the L.G. has agreed to tenay 211 debts to the PDG, £79 has deen received, £60 will follow. b, the L.G. asked if Wwe wanted to speak at the Notts and Derby RIBA meeting on April 3jrd- It was considered a Possibility depending on a, the debates title b, & neutral chair. Z c, JeMurray is to be the PDG press contact. GQ, our Slate contact bersan is Andy Brawn, Slate 114 will be e, £, &» on the inner city etce, submission ¢«ate 24th Feb. NAM events_ feminist group seminar ‘Women and Space’ 10th Mar Alt. Practice seminar in May (we're te be invited). the LG. Suggested that we have local meetings with tenants Groups etc. to be investigated. Suggestions for union contact between NALGO and BDS Tass to David Burney, 2, RIBA Cawg report J.Mitchell has done areport far Slate, criticising the RIBA's motives whilst admitting the need for Some short term measures (that we up to now haven't deeply considered) .The school's were thought ta offer a. good alternative, their present activities should be encouraged and develicped. The incorporation of architects into aw Centree needs considering. The basic ‘reovriremert is that these effort: should not gct ruined by the neecs of profit etc. alk starr involved should be saillaried. ; NEW. ARCHITECTURE David Basnett, General Secretary, Workers Union, General and Municipal Thorne House, Ruxley Ridge, Claygate, Esher, Surrey. Enc. MOVEMENT i 9, POLAND St,LONDON. W1V3DG. Daytime tel: OI-888-1212 Your ref: RES/DG/SMC 5th January, 1979. A copy of your letter of 8th November 1978 has been forwarded to me by the NAM Liaison Group. The creation of links between user and architect, leading to the control of design by the user 4s the most important aspect of the policy of the New Architecture Movement in general and of our Group (Public Design Group) in particular. Consequently we were pleased to receive your letter advocating that your members and other trade unionists, as consumers of the product should be involved in the specification and planning of buildings. We also suggest that those workers who construct and service buildings should similarly be involved. No doubt many of your members Would belong to this category as well. We therefore would give every support to your proposal for the practice of closer liaison between user and architect. Dear David Basnett, I enclose for your information a copy of our report “Community Architecture = A Public Design Service?” which we submitted recently to Reg Freeson. I attach also a brief summary of NAM's and our Group's activities. For our part we would welcome the opportunity to discuss with you in greater detail, both your ideas for user/ architect collaboration and your reaction to the proposals contained 4n our Report. Yours sincerely, \(e ,Maman John Murray for Public Design Group. NAM cc. NAM Liaison Group. emer rer romer tO Warburt ear Sirs, National Industrial Officers ena RES /DG/SML Yours faithfully, {) .is Vivg2S (VV DAVID BASNETT General Secretary = Incorporating MATSA General and Municipal Vorkers’ Union 8th November, 1978 I am writing to enquire whether you give any support to » idea that the people who consume the products of your profession S..uld be involved in their specification and planning. We have had a great deal of evidence from our members in the past to show that health, safety and welfare have not been effectively included in the design specifications for new buildings, and that the views ; of eventual users are frequently excluded from the consultative stages. As part of our effort to eliminate hazards at source we are advising our members that they should be involved at the earliest stages of planning alterations to existing premises or of construct- ing new ones, You may know that the new Safety Representative and Safety Committee Regulations 1978 oblige employers to provide safety representatives with information about "the plans" and their "proposed changes" insofar as they affect health and safety. New Architecture Movement, 9 Poland Street, London W1V 3DG I am sure that many architects would welcome closer liaison between themselves and users of their designs, and the article regarding an order office at BOC Crawley in yesterdays Guardian (7th November - Women's Page, Peter Gorb) illustrates the general point we are making, We would like your comments on this, and in particular any Support that you can give to the practice of closer liaison between user and architect. We realise that the extent and nature of liaison will have to be agreed between the architect's client and eventual users, but if we knew that architects would welcome this idea it would assist in it's general adoption. I enclose a copy of the Guardian article for your information. FA Baker CBE W.J.C Biggin F Cooper FW Cottam C.Donnet FEarl J.Edmonds E.P Newall MW. Reed JP RSmith Patricia Turner D Warburtor but to creative al authorities whose i Wriefs demand rence to Standards, rihy in themselves ually inhibiting fike multiple retailers 3oa ceees 6 i aa a or orewers. But unless build- ing itself is their business, even the most dynamic Organisations are unlikely-to need new factories or offices very often. Their skills in briefing architects are bound to grow rusty. Indeed, they national theatre. The build- ing does look good from the top of an Embankment bus; al right if you prefar looking often commit millions toe architecture with an insow! ciance which is totally incon- Sistent with their usual hard- nosed control of their money, and which scares their arohi- tect rigid. deliberately unconstrained by uP ratlony: recently In this state of mind the architect needs a_ well- developed ego to draw a bow at a venture — choosing from and copying existing models is easier, and proba- bly cheaper. But when the dDuilding has no models he is forced to thrash around for a brief, and too often designs to a set of generalised social and aesthetic considerations; h means designing: to please other architects. Unfortunately he js encouraged this way, because the accolades (like those given to many professionals). @re awarded by his own kind — other architects. . The National Theatre is a case in point. A large, expen- Sive, oneoff building, it has heen awarded a major archi- going, « . ee Brian Boylan, an architect esigned an’ order office in CraWley, Surrey, for BOC, the company that’ supplies gas cylinders for.welding. He too by Ww it is the policy of the National to attract a higher than usual proportion of first-time theatre goers. For newcomers to the National, in Studying the wild life in the wood which bordered the site. There was no reason why the new building should not be set on the wood edge with windows, and _ bird tables designed’ to accom- modate this interest. = = Don McPhee... . _ deplore Ahad a generalised brief but luckily he discovered that the bullding was to be used for onl 2 ‘people. So he and his ‘team talked to all of them, and at some length: not,their:representatives, or thejr. managers, hut each and €very person. The’ brief, in consequence, was uniquely enriched and -particularised. Kor ‘example, .they dis- covered that for some years the; loaders, in -the rest, ériods between humping eavy gas cylinders, had ef tecture. Most of the time easier to copy something which can be good or al, depending on the mudel. Nur is the poor architect ich) betler off with his cor- * clients. The best usually cume from who build little and ee architect is only Peter Gorb the building inside and out is a bewildering obstacle course of apparently unrelated levels reached dy Alice in Wonderland stair- cases pointing away from. where they are supposed to’ QO Sivan Team vaeans The discreetly - obscure signs, the carefully hidden ticket collection and informa- tion points under claustro- phobically low ceilings com-’ ‘pound the visual confusion. To this is added the inescapa- ble cacophony of the foyer performers and the airline terminal announcements. The oor first-time ‘visitor must ong for the certitude of Pad- dington Station. or Milan’ Cathedral, large buildings designed with the needs of strained and much more useable space. There are many other details which a sympathetic company, its interested employees, and a -conse- fall out with your architect. Oi Law 1K: ;Ons Whatyoucandoifyoutr—ytheBOCoffatiCrcaweley ashis brief An piper as es | quently, well-briefed architect have managed to incorporate into this satisfying building. It may not win any architec- tural prizes, but it is an tectural prize. Had the users been the judges “this elegant concrete addition to London's riverside skyline’ would cer- tainly have got the wooden Spoon. ° Actors and their audiences are its.main users. The actors the time lag of response’ in:the Olivier audi- torium where the design con- centrated on sight lines at the expense of the essential rapport between audience and actors. They describe the “Wimbledon” effect in the Lyttelton, -with a stage so wide in relation to ‘aud torium depth, that the audiences are vigorously exercising their neck muscles to follow the action. Averting their eyes from the inert back stage technology, they the newcomer in mind. will take you to the tiny con- crete cells that serve as dressing rooms, set round a courtyard so large that a visit to a colleague turns into a route march, It is disappointing too, (2 queue for a drink, and dis cover that the nearest sand- wich is two foyer levels and another queue away, ‘Or to try and reach the terrace tables with a trayful of food ‘developed a serious. interest The actors’ complaints are interminable; the audiences through an inward opening are less articulate. After all door. Not that you can sée much more than concrete from the terraces anyway. Of course the priority in the design brief was for a national monument mot 4: opject lesson on how not to © ALL dail out with our hitects. It isnt their fault. se ollier designers (hey are »better than their brief; Having created a glass-clad building the architect had to protect it from the gas uch ts usually abysmal. le trouble is that so few lis are competent ¢o brief anclutect ‘ lake houses, Most of’ us suld claim familiarity with fiouse or two. But how of us have actually But perhaps the greatest breakthrough came at the organisational level. The expectation of local manage- ment was for a traditional e, and have tried to y experience a ign brief ? Remember “Mr Dream and how poor Mrs dings added a flower building which reflected functional separation; offices from canteens, blue collar from white collar workers, and so forth: The inquiry revealed that the magnificent twenty seven didn't want it that way. As a result every- thing (except the lavatories) happens in one open uncon- uk io her porch and got bill for extras for $10,000? yway, most house Ouildin by speculative builders a -at,townscapes to -theatre- cylinders which. have a habit of toppling over; prison like guard rails were discarded in favour of a sloping bank of @tass which in any case enhanced the rural nature of the building. 374 The Architects’ Journal 30 August 1978 In the Netherlands many architects working on low income housing projects for the inner city are effectively appointed and controlled by the communities for which they are designing. At a time when the RIBA’s Community Architecture Working Group (CAWG) is attempting to formulate a new system for funding community projects in Britain (AJ 23.8.78 p356), the recent experience in the Netherlands has particular significance. Itcould well provide a pointer for the ,uture here. NICK WATES reports. ‘Neighbourhood groups choose their own architects’ asserted one young Netherlands architect, and although oversimplified, this statement is not far from the truth. The Dutch have de- viJ}+d aform ofarchitectural practice which gives ordinary citizens in inner cities a great deal more direct control over their architects, and it is already producing very interesting results. The most sophisticated system has de- veloped in Rotterdam. Eleven areas have special project teams in which half the members are officials and half are citizens appointed by neighbourhood groups. The officials come from the Departments of Town Development, Housing, Building and Housing Inspec- tion, Traffic and Transport and Social Affairs. Project groups have their own budget, and buildings located in the area concerned. They are responsible for drawing up plans for neighbourhoods and then implementing them. Proposais and finance have of course to be ranted bees he municipal council and central £ —ament,butwithincertainfinancial toshowphaseddevelopmentinthearea. Right: Window poster ‘This flat to be renovated’, limits the project groups effectively determine development. Architects are appointed by pro Oups, usuall ie intensive interview essions at which previous work 1s shown and working methods described. Project groups then write briefs and act as clients throughout the building pro- cess. Usually a number of architects are employed on different schemes in any area, and altogether some 20 practices of varying sizes are doing this kind of work in Rotterdam. Most architects are from private practices (the private sector con- tains a higher proportion of the pro- fession than in England), although it is possible for architects from the public sector to be seconded, returning to their former posts on completion of a project. Official members of the project team are paid civil servants, though each team also has an ‘external expert’, appointed and controlled by the neigh- bourhood group, but whose salary is paid by the municipality. fo audition there_is__a__local ombudsman service team (LOS), which consists of seven professionals sub- Sidised by the government but independentadvicetoactio upsand oe aeigourhood Broups which want it. This kind of neighbourhood controlled client body has had a marked effect on the architects. ‘We try to work with the people’ said architect Piet Bennehey who has designed buildings for several projects. “You have to explain how you do things.’ The first thing he does wnen appointed for a scheme is to hire a bus and take neighbourhood inhabitants aeoe tld WN ec BeLoshed r ny 1Trenty-eightnewdivellingsinCool project area, central Rotterdam. 4 ps pt ats "2 oo peas errr Pree2 2 Series of drawings published in the Oude Westen project team’s broadsheet wave : 3Lowincomehousing onsiteofaformership-butldingyard,Simmonsterrein,Rotterdam. Neighbourhood orgamsation, BOF; architect, Henk van Schagen. Netherlandsneighbourhood architects “LISSW a0 ’4 € p) W278C34d DHL n ~VALNZD ,SIVLS_W227 BRLealsahore to see other schemes both in Rotterdam and in other cities. ‘They get an idea of what ispossible and what isnot possible’ he explained. ‘Otherwise people don’t know what you are talking about. We also learn what they like and whar they don’t like.” The end product of such a process of direct democracy secms to be far more sensitive developments. For instance the Oude Westen district close to the centre of Rotterdam, which contains about 5000 low income residents of mixed nationality, was first destined for office and commercial development. Active neighbourhood groups stopped those plans and a combined programme of rehabilitation and rebuild is now well under way. New schemes maintain old street patterns, and shops and work- shops and community buildings are . incorporated into new buildings. Build- ing work is carefully programmed so that there is always somewhere for people to move to when houses are demolished or renovated, 2. Bush emt is stdoy 5 Erected ona half-completed dual carriageway, this new low income housing signifies the victory of a neighbourhood group's vision of the future over that of the city planners. Van Eyck & Bosch. portance in other cities, where the system ismuch more adhoc. In Amsterdam for instance some neigh- bourhood groups are able to choose their architects—not because there is any recognised procedure but because the city authority has discovered that it is the only way to avoid conflicts which have in the past resulted in large scale physical confrontations between citizens and armed police with many injuries, arrests and much political em- barrassment. As architect Hans Borkent pointed out ‘It is not by accident that the most active neighbourhoods have the best architects’. He himself was selected by a neighbour- hood group in Dapperbuurt, a nine- teenth century area of Amsterdam, originally to be torn down under a grandiose redevelopment plan. He holds mectings in the neighbourhood every three weeks to which everyone in the area is invited although inevitably only a small proportion actually attend._Un- like England, the housing authorities, whether municipalities or housing: associations, appear to be capable of designating tenants (both from the neighbourhood and from outside) for new schemes before design work starts. (Borkent admits that it was quite a battle to get them to doso,)_ A full scale mock up of one flat was constructed in an old synagogue and everyone visited it and discussed it. Separate meetings were held with tradesmen, to discuss how to incorporate them in the new scheme, and temporary buildings were provided ifthere was any lume gap between the old buildings ‘being demolished and new ones con- Structed. Once again the result has been a phased sensitive new development which above al is well liked and cared for by the new inhabitants, 4, 6. Amsterdam is illustrative of the process 4 Communal roof terrace, Dapperbuurt, Amsterdam. Architect, Hans Borkent. All flats also have private bcicomes. Inevitably the population in these high density areas is reduced but this has not proved to be a probiem for there are al- ways some people who want to move out of the area altogether. In any case neighbourhood groups invariably want higher densities than planners. Of course the community cannot totally control the development. Investment and subsidies are restricted and con- trolled in much the same way as in England. But within these parameters, project groups can adjust levels of quality thereby influencing rent levels. Indeed rent levels are a major concern for neighbourhood groups, and on one occasion, an architect was sacked by a group for refusing to lower the quality of his design and hence future rents. Architects have an interest in working for active neighbourhood groups be- cause the strength of the group is crucial in forcing extra subsidy money out of the government, through political campaigning. Amsterdam more improvised The political strength of the neighbour- hoodgroupsisofevenmorecrucialim- fullscalemock-upofanewflatfortheDapperbuurtscheme. The Architects’ Journal 30 August 1978 375 7 Architect Hans Borkent (taking notes in the centre) showing future inhabitants round a rd | f id , \) A powerful they are”. A lot of this money is invested on the Stock Exchange and in Governmont stocks. An increasing proportion is invested in property. So much so that property development is starting again. Take a look around your city. YOUR MONEY is behind those empty office blocks, a) 4 airconditionedshoppingcentres, : luxury hotels, yachting marinas and warehouse estates. ARE THESE PRIORITIES YOURS TOO? : A NATIONAL CONFERENCE PENSION FUNDS: YOUR MONEY AND YOUR LIFE see back for details Do you ever wonder what happens to that money, after its deducted from your pay? Obviously, its your deferred wages, and it will be paid back to you as a pension when you retire. In between, however, your money is put into @ pension fund or insurance company. These institutions are controlled by a small group of fund managers and are responsible to noone, least of all their members. They have become financial giants, and even Harold Wilson admits “they are so power- ful, they do not know how When you retire you can expect a little more on top of your basic pension os @ result of these speculative develop- ments. But ask yourself, what use will this extra money be to you then. Our health service is collapsing, and housing, public transport, education and social services are in crisis through lack of investment NOW. The tragedy is that many workers may dio before they draw their pensions because of the present poor provision of these services, many more are likely to be mado redundant and be unemployed. They will not get much of an extra pension. SST Puetsxe AOA AAR JSOO eae: +ee aes:‘L IS IT YOUR PENSION FUND TOO? There are three types of Pension Fund: PUBLIC SECTOR: this includes the large nationalised industry funds, including the Post Office which, with assets of over £1200 million, is the biggest in Western Europe. PRIVATE SECTOR FUNDS: there are well over 50,000 of these with some very large funds like those of Unilever £400m, of IC] £593m, but many are quite small and are invested with insurance companies LOCAL AUTHORITY PENSION FUNDS These funds are based on Local Authority boundaries. The biggest is the GLC at £235m. TRADE UNION CONTROL The Pension funds have grown because of the struggle for a decent pension and the strength of white collar trade unions but also because in the 70's pensions have not been part of the wage freeze and so have been o subject of negotiation The funds face very few disclosure of information requirements. They are responsible only to their trustees who in most funds are the employers. Only the nationalised industries and a few ‘enlightened’ private companies have trade union representation. In June 1976 the Labour Government produced a white paper “The role of Members in the running of Schemes”, which proposed better disclosure of information requirements and the right of appointment to 50% of the membership of the controlling body of the fund to recognised independant trade unions, the backlash of this proposal from the employers, the CBI and Pension fund managers, not to mention right wing bodies such as Aims for Freedom and Enterprise, was such that the proposals have been quietly dropped. Yet even where trade unions do have representation there is no evidence that this has made any difference to investment strategies apart from disinvestment in South Africa. According to The Economist Intelligence Unit “present evidence from the nationalised industries shows that whenever trade union representatives become trustees, they are just as keen if not more $0 to act in acapitalist fashion” THE INNER CITY ALLIANCE FIGHTS BACK The overall picture of but still intends to press on the Pension Funds is one of with its office venture. Almost “PENSION REPRESENT IMPORTANT PART OF OUR AS WORKS OF ART OR SURPLUS WEALTH AND WE THE BRIGHTON MARINA” ARE CONCERNED THAT IT David CSasnett GMWU, June SHOULD NOT GO ON 1977. surplus funds being used to generate a new property boom. This threatens the homes of people in inner city areas and our heritage of historic buildings in the cities. It does not provide working people with better understand and publicise the living conditions. problems referred to, In FUNDS AN ECONOMIC VALUE SUCH Ptah=|=[= tLe TO. LET One day conference for trade unions and community groups: 20th JANUARY 1979. PENSION FUNDS: YOUR MONEY AND YOUR LIFE at TREFOIL HOUSE PURPOSES OF NO Nr. Holloway Circus La Birmingham re|hd PVsltl) rela 643 0751 IF OUR CITIES ARE TO BE DECENT PLACES IN WHICH TO LIVE, WITH GOOD STANDARDS OF: HEALTH, EDUCATION AND HOUSING, THEN THE TRADE UNIONS MUST TAKE SOME CONTROL OVER WHAT IS BEING DONE WITH THEIR MEMBERS’ MONEY AND DIRECT IT INTO SOCIALLY USEFUL INVESTMENTS. Name . PAGCLOSS c ccsvessecsesoteseccosessnseccrcscners Trade Union/Organisation Fee: £1 per person. Return this form to: Green Ban Action Committee, 35 Chantry Road, Moseley, Birmingham 13 The Green Ban Action this broadsheet, the Inner City Committee's campaign to save Alliance (a national affiliation Birmingham's Victorian Head of Community Action Groups Post Office from demolition fighting for more socially and replacement by a useful urban development) speculative office block, has reached 2 crucial phase. Planning permission, for an alternative leisure centre scheme has been granted. The Postal Board is now prepared to save the original frontage, have asked the Green Ban Action Committee certainly it will turn to one of the Pension Funds or Insurance Companies for the necessary finance. We are campaigning to stop this. In order to fully explore, to arrange @& conference. This is also backed by the South Wales Housing Action Group and UCATT Midlands Region. Dear Iriends, way for such developments. How cal working people have more control over the dizection of money? How can the mosy be used for socially useful production really ncoei? of these vast suns and things we + How can ordinary people develop control over the planning of the cities in which they live? We look forward to hearing from you, Yours sincerely, Va Sc VAL STEVENS. ns ‘gAiS Vow ater 2 45, Chantry Rd., Moseley, Blrminghem, 13 2{th. November 1976 4 BN 2£2 AC Dita Ww r mY WY TW Q x " class communities, whether inuer city sreas or mining communities in the Soug$h ...-z vales valleys. Often too, a citiy's heritage kas to be destroyed to make ! ~ your orgeanis>tion or trade union bulletin, local Councillors or M-P.'s with whom you have contacts, ani your locel trades council. We hope that a wide Vollowing two meetings cf the Innen (ity Allionce, ani oun own goncern over Gily redeveloppent plans in Birminghem, we agave been esked to organise 2 ngtional confercnce on the theme of PENSION FUNDS and their major role in financing property davelopment in our cities. As a vesult of financila institasions investments since 1974 the property narket id picking up Speculative office blocks, luxusy hotels, warehouses estates, shopping centres, are a safe source of orofits but they come into direct conflict with the needs of Ordinary people living in working spectrum of delegates will astend from the Labour movement, and from community associaltions ani environmental sroups. These are the kind of issues which will be debated at the conference. At present there is a lot of talk about the possibilities of directing a proportion 9f the funds'money into industry, but will this really make any ditference to to the way in which they operate? Some Trade Unions are struggling to get some control over investment panels. but will they just end up administering the present system? In the nationalised industries there is no evidence that traie union representation has made much difference to investment policies. THS CONFERENCE aims to reise these issues and to explore ways in which we can begin to change the present situation. Please help us to publicise it in Hore copies of thie letter and the leaflet are available from us (postage cost appreciated) at the above address. Gremln eC: Vo b b a—— CALL FOR EXTRA PROPOSAL TO BE SENT TO REG FREESON. It seems to me that we may well have lost out on our position in the "Community Architecture" problem,in the short term, because we have failed to come to grips with the question of why there is now a call for government subsidies to designers werking in this field. Nick Wates has summarised the problem for us in his review of this year's N.A.M. Congress A.J.15/11/78. In the following extract from the review Nick is trying to give an impression of what the "alternative practice" people felt about our P.D.S. proposals: "It was likely to take years to achieve reforms in the public | sector and until tinat time the private sector experiments } could provide valuable experience, a vehicle for propaganda, and a means of providing working class people with services | they would otherwise be denied," The key phrase in this quotation is the one I have underlined. If we look at the provision of services to the public sector in this country we will find that they are provided in four different ways: by private.enterprise for a profit; by central & local stateas statutary | & discretionary services; and by voluntary effort by individuals or groups on a charitable basis, It is in this last provision that the "alt-— « ernative practice” people are primarily interested, although there is interest in central state sponsored services such as Housing Associations, The main elements of their argument for providing design services to this voluntary sector run as follows, r 4 i | | Most of the voluntary services are formed to fill a gap in the central & local state provision,or to provide a superior service, The lack of a central or local state provision may, for example, be for several reasons.| They both may not have the resources to provide the service and politic- | ians are opposed to providing it. A good example of this opposition might | be sexist poiiticians refusing to provide cash Tor the rehabilitation of houses for local Women's Aid groups. | I think that it is fairly true to say that the usual historic process is that central&local stte politicians eventually take over the idea of the necessity for providing a service, such as Women's Aid, or in the distant past the provision of adequate housing from the charity bodies or philanthropic trusts, The main point, however, of my argument is that there often seems to be a time lag between the voluntary provision of services and the state be- coming involved in that provision. It is this time lag that the "“altern- ative practice" people feel they must organise to operate in, although we should also recognise that they may well believe that the state is never going to be able to operate an adequate service because of bureaucracy, Because the P.D.S. group is unhappy about the profit motive and lack of accountability lying behind "private" and "alternative practice" operat— | ions in the "community architecture" field, I therefore propose the follow: ing: the setting up by central & local state of a subsidised Community Design Service operating from. but senperctely, within local authority architect& departments, The service should be available to all voluntary service groups, except perhaps political parties, and should not be con— trolled by local state politicians, but be accountable directly to Parl- lament through the D.O.E. It is obviously important that design fees should be below the R.I.B.A. mandatory fees but to ensure that the State |does offer adequate subsidy to local authorities to employ sufficient |design staff to cope with the workload, there should be some right of appeal by voluntary service groups if they are kept waiting for the design work to be done, I appreciate that central state control is against P.D.S. theory, but what I am looking for isaTMneutrality" of service which I think will oper- ate better with politicians being in a distant arena rather thata local one. It could be said that generally local politicians are exceptionally touchy about the adequacy of the services they operate in their area, Bruce Smith, Nov.1978 Reg Freeson, MP, House of Commons, Westminster, London SWi. Dear Mr. Freeson, ‘Comunity Architecture’ I work as a member of the ‘Support’ group which provides architectural advice and profeséional range of low income and working class organisations. While my work is within the 'private' independent and rely on fees earned, the proposals of the PDS group, and would strongly oppose ang encouragement to the RIBA proposals which you might give. There is such an enormous immediate demand for the kind of service we offer that we have chosen to work in the private sector, and plan to establish ourselves as a co-operative in the near future. To this end, we have organised a seminar with the Industrial Common Ownership Movement to discuss the problems of professional operative lines. and tenants complaining about defects, we would conclude that Because of our co-operative nature, we have inevitably been asked for advice by a number of co-operative groups, and are currently negotiating with a housing co-op in Brent to provide them with architectural services. From our experience in working with groups opposing local authorities at public enquiries 46 Church Road, Harlesden, London NW10 SPX. 10th. October, 1978. services for a wide sector in the sense that I am I lean towards supporting (ICOM) on 20th. October, incorporating on co; tT understand that you are currently considering proposals from the Royal Institute of British Architects concerning the establishment of a community aid fund. You should also have received a report from the Public Design Service Group of the New Architecture Movement. As an architect in private practice in the field of "community architecture" , I am concerned to ensure that you are aware that a substantial number of young architects like myself do not support the RIBA's proposals. You will see from the enclosed leaflet about ‘Support’ that our work is primarily with tenants, trade union organisations and user groups concerned with community buildings. In a number of cases, we work closely with the local authority involved, and see our role as an "advance guard", an experiment in working closely with local people and users in a way that could easily be followed by the area design teams advocated by the PDS group. there would need to be independent architectural advice services for groups in dispute with local authorities; however, because these would need to adopt a radichl position on professionalism - tather like law centres - there is no way that the RIBA wobld encourage this. The financing of our operation is, of course, problematice We are currently completing an analysis of our time and income and this pointe to the need to obtain grants in addition to our fee income in order to sustain research and advice work. However, we cannot see how a community aid fund as proposed by the RIBA would channel money in the direction of work organised along these lines. There is a strong suspicion that it would be used as bait for more established commercially minded practices who currently find the work we do unprofitable. In considering the CAWG proposals, I think you should look to the appalling record of the RIBA in its failure to encourage social responsibility. The profession has done nothing to raise money itself to support ‘community architecture’, has failed to invest money in research, and now looks to you to help improve its public image, I would hope you can recognise the distinction between the RIBA approach to community architecture - which is to mould community problems to fit into existing pattewns of professional services (therefore égnoring many difficulties) - and the approach of Support and PDS, which is to reform architectural practice to make it more relevant and accountable to ordinary people. I know most of the people involved in the RIBA CAWG personally. I I have talked with Rod Hackney at various stages during his process of building up his successful practice, I was involved in the early and subsequent discussions about ASSIST, and we have worked closely with Chris Whittaker. While I respect their motives, I feel they are placing too much trust in a professional bedy which has no understanding of ‘community problems’ and therefore takes a paternalistic and narrow view of things. I believe that it is necessary to be much more closely in touch with local needs than is the RIBA. I am, for instance, a member of Brent Community Law Centre Committee, and the Brent Federation of Tenants and Residents, and other members of Support have close links with grass roots and trade union organéfations. In this way, we can shape our professional role to meet their needs. From such involvement, I am in no doubt that public opinion of architects and architecture is very low, and the responsibility of the RIBA for this is one of the reasons why 25% of registered architects léke myself refuse to join the RIBA. I would suggest that your response to the RIBA CAWG proposals is to consider a general review of the architectural profession including the need to strengthen the rale of the Architects’ Registration Council of the UK at the expense of the RIBA, the need to improve the availability of professional services to groups like housing co-operatives, and the need to implement proposals along the lines suggested by the PDS group. Renort of Public Design Service Group Backeround: 1977-1978: At its Hull Congress in November 1977, NAM decided to develop further its policies relatinr to the nublic sector. NAM's interest in this field had already teen established at our first Congress in Harrogate, in 1975, when the idea of a National Design Service was nut forward. The National Pesign Service (NDS) proposals, based on 4 a critique of architectural patronage, argued for locally based desicn service directly accountable to local representatives of tenants, residents, councillors, suggested that local authority departments of architecture could provide the basis for such a service. sector. By late 1977 it was considered that a more concentrated programme of research and action was required, and following the Hull Congress an enlarged NDS group were mandated to carry out the work and to arranrce a conference in 1978 to establish the potential support for these ideas. The NDS Groun evolved into the Public Design Service (PDS) group @r: in addition to refinins, its critique of patronage and local authority working arrangements the group has been studying the origins and present role of departments of architecture and their relationship to the profession and private practice. Work has also been done on the narty political context and on an analysis of housing associations. From theories discussed in the group, a series of interim proposals were suggested, which would lead to the denocratisation of departments of architecture and to closer links between users and architects. and trade unionists. It was ~)iscussions on the NDS were continued initially under the auspices of the former North London Group of NAM, and a small issue ; sroup evolved. Further NDS papers stressed the view that since nublic control of finance and land were a prerequisite of any design service which would be available to the majority of people, any long term advance in architectural service to the public could only come through the public The Mav 1978 PDS Conference on Democratic Design endorsed these proposals and also our future programme of research and action. An important feature of this conference was a description by a local authority worker of how joint action by architects and building workers was able to influence and change council building policy. The conference was thus given proof that change from within can be achieved by trade unionists working together. Since May, the reorganisation of departments in two London Borourchs has given the opvortunity for our ideas to be tested in practice. Sunport by staff for some, if not all of our interim proposals was gained at departmental meetings. The final outcome of these taiks is not yet resolved. At the same time the Sheffield PDS group have been discussing the p question of standards in relation to central government financing and local control over resources. While this study is still at an early stare, an introduction to this group's work will be given at the conference. We trust that the participants of the 1978 NAM Congress will find Within the last two months the group has submitted to Reg Freeson, the Minister of Housing and Construction, a report on community architecture, to assist in the investization which he is currently undertaking into this subject. our material of interest and that the Congress will sunport our proposals and future programme. PDS Groun. November 1978, PNS Group Publications: *A National Desinn Service (Papers 2&3; 1976) * Proceedings of Public Desisn Service Conference, May 1978 (includes: "The origins, evolution and structure of local authority denartments of architecture" & "lousing Associations - A Democratic Alternative?") 75p. EAb GS) *Communityv Architecture - A Public Design Service? £1.00 (Institutions -£1,25) j The New Architecture Movement was founded in November 1975 at the llarrogate National Congress, to effectively channel the collective action of architectural and allied workers, in order to bring about radical changes in the practice of architecture. NAM seeks to restore control over their environment to ordinary neople, and social responsibility and accountability to the work of architects. NAM seeks not only to challenge the existing relation- ship of architect to client and user, but also the existing industrial relations between employer and worker, to restore a voice both to those who provide the labour for architecture and to those who use its products. To this end NAM exists as a network of sroups which have over the past three years campaigned on specific issues in pursuit of these agreed aims, programmes for action being formulated from detailed critisues of current practice. In terms of democratic control over architectural practice NAM seeks a lay controlled governing body, ARCUK, which though established as a 'public interest! body, has for its entire existence been controlled by the RIBA, thus effectively regulating oractice in favour of the architectural establishment. NAM's elected oresence on ARCUK Council is growing in line with disenchantment with the RIBA amongst architectural workers. NAM's proposals for a reform of ARCUK are a component of its submission to a covernment sponsored Monopolies Commission into architectural practice which concluded in favour of the NAM case that existing practice constitutes a monopoly operating to the prejudice of the public interest. NAM continues to campaign for the abolition of the RIBA instituted mandatory minimum fee scale which restricts the availability of architectural services to the wealthy, cornorate or bureaucratic. In the belief that the State represents for many the only means of access to resources, NAM proposes a Public Design Service, a reform of public sector practice, deriving from analysis of existing Local Authority devartments. It seeks to establish locally based design and build teams, directly accountable to tenants and users —- the abolition of existing hierarchical arrangements in favour of ynarticinatory democracy at a decentralised local level. In May 1977 NAM's work on the unionisation of architectural workers, an essential component of the democratisation of architectural practice, culminated in the setting un of the Building Design Staff branch within AUEW-TASS. The responsibility and initiative for this work has now passed to the Union. NAM has, since its inception, sought out specific issues around which to campairn in furtherance of its aims. The recent successful formation of a NAM Feminist Groun demonstrates NAM’4s ability to seek out real issues as a focus for concerted action, whilst developing its critique across the whole spectrum of architectural voractice. For further details of NAM, meetings, publications and newsletter, 'Slate', write to: New Architecture Movement, 9 Poland St. London ‘V1. / NEW ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT LONDON / SOUTH dohn Allan A.S. Bagley John Bewimer Andrew Brown a Romilly Rd, N4. 01 359 0491 2 Prince of Wales Rd. NW5 82 Balaclave Rd. Surbiton, Surrey 12 Hill House, Harrington Hill, ES 01 806 1273 NEW ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT 4th. ANNUAL CONGRESS CONTACT LIST Francis Bradshaw 14 Duncan Terrace. Nl Anne Brandon Jones 2 Reddington Rd. N.W.3 7 C. Brandon-Jones 2 Reddington Rd. N.W.3 01 435 429 Tony Brohn 53 Millbrook Rd. S.W.9 01 274 767 8 David Burney 23 Arthur Rd. Kingston-upon-Thames Suurrey ‘ 01 546 5634 Collective Actions Rep. - 175 Hemingford Rd. Nl J.M.G. Cooper REGS GRU BER aRKa Susan Erancis Mark Gimson Noel Glynn Hugo Hinsly Susan Jackson David Jennings Christine Leylandb Caroline Lwin Bob Maltz Neville Morgan John Muuray Robin Nicholson Ken Pearce Giles Pebody Marian Roberts David Roebuck Mary Rogers Barry Shaw ' Douglas Smith Cathy Taggart Ken Thorpe Nick Wates Julia Wilson-Jones Tom Woolley 202a Squires Lane, Finchly. N3 01 346 4100 37/Couleton Rd, N7 Becondale Rd. SE19. 01 761 0332 9:St. Georges Ave. Tufnell Park N7 01 609 2976 8 Cambridge Terrace Mews. Nwl 01 486 7597 13c Crealock St. SW18 01 870 8280 4 Carlisle Rd. Finsbury Rark N4 01 272 3747 4 Hidhshore Rd Peckham SE15 5AA 01 639 8264 32 Balaclave Rd Surbiton Sumrey 38 George St. Wl 01 935 2115 10 Tolmers Sq. Nwl 01 368 1650 14 Holmdale Rd. NW6 O01 794 6437 2nd Fl. Flat, 18 Charlotte St Wl 01 633 8389 (wk) 5 Milton Ave. N6 01 348 8713 5 Richmond Crescent. Nl 01 609 06 08 127 Fairbridge Rd, Holloway N19 0 1 272 0580 48 Sutherlend Sq. SE17 01 703 777 5 4) Roden St. N7 01 609 2065 25 St. Georges Ave. N7 6HB. 01 60 7. 4183 23 Grove Hill Rd SE5 01 733 4896 6 Tolmers Sq. NW1l 17 Delancy St. NW1l 68 Victoria Rd NW6 10 Tolmers Sq. NW1 01 388 1650 MIDLANDS etc. Richard Anderson 9 Stoneygate Ave. Leicester Helen Teague Chris Dent Dave Green Anthony Mercer John Mitchell Adam Purser Rafael Waksberg Richard Wea&herill 21, Beis . “eyworth, Nottingham "" 63 Barnstock, Bretton, Peterborough 0733 6893] x244 14 Derby Greve tTenton, Nottingham 32 )la Marston Rd. Oxford R 82 Kimberly Rd Leicester. 10 Spencer Rd, Belper. 37 Penarth Rise Nottingham. 0602 622034 251 0274 27 Clerberss11 Close ECIR OAt 01 Contact list cont'd NORTH etc Norman Arnold, Dave Breakell Mick Broad George Cameron Chris Cripps A.J. Earl W Halsall Maurice Lyons Jim Scott Bruce Smith 5 Bob Gordon Ian Tod Edward Walker WALES and WEST 9 Midland Rd Leeds 6 Liverpool School of Architecture. 5 Brewlands Ave, Kinneil Bo'ness, Scotland ‘ Ian. Cooper Anne Delaney Tom Foster Janis Goodman P.J. Hayea John Hurley Paul Knowles Gerry Metcalfe Chris Saxon Chris, Shaw John Shepherd Angela Sutton Dave Sucton David TypaRady 123 Malefant St Cathays Cardiff 196 Albany Rd Roath Cardiff 492047 18 Upper Camden Place. Bath BAl 5SHX Laurel's Farm Upper Wraxall Chippenden Wilts. 87 Prestbury Rd Cheltenheam 4 Priory Terrace, Cheltenham 25. Sandhurst Rd. Gloucester 23 Exmouth St. Cheltenham G.C.A.D. - Sth year student. 5 Suffolk Sq. Cheltenham Fieldhead, Amberly, Stroud Gloc. 3 Elsewick,,Tanhouse, 0695 32545 Bo'ness 4811 Skelmersdale WN8 6Bx 42 Ullet Rd, Liverpool 17 051 734 0454 13 Severus Rd, Fenham Newcastle upon Tyne Elat C 15 Croxteth Rd. Mersey side. 051 708 8944 (wk) Liverpool School of Arch. 138 Upper Parliament St. L 8. 42056 (wk) 56 Sunnyvale Rd TOtly Sheffield 363095 25 Market St, Huddersfield. ditto 9 Midland Rd. Leeds 6 783907 15 Briarsdale Croft, Gipton Leeds -&& 655793 205 Arabella St. Poath Cardiff. 23 St. Lukes Rd. Cheltenham Dunedin 1.Western Rd Cheltenham 196 Albany Rd Roath Cardiff. 492047 Susan Barlow Lizzy Brandon-Jones Pete Buchwald Tain Campbell Rosemary Clements 52 Oakfield St Cardiff. 398005 34721 3 Brecknock Rd. Knowle Bristol ditto 18 Uppex Camden Place Bath. 89 Prestbury Rd. 20761 32731 Birmingham May 6 1978 ATTENDANCE LIST NAME Norman Arnold Dave Breakell Tony Brohn Andy Brown Tom Bulley Hugh Byrd Iain Campbell Peter Carter Ian Colquoun Chris Dent Benedicte Foo Bob Gordon Jean Geldhart ADDRESS 9 Midlands Rd, Leeds 6 c/o BUDA 173 Lozells Rd. Bham I9 53 Millbrook Rd. London SW9 I2 Hill House Harrington Hill London E5 146 Rushmore Rd. London E5 45 BeechburnWay Handsworth Wood Bham 20 I96 Albany Rd. Cardiff 6 Passey Rd. Moseley Bham 73 I8 Brookhill Dr. Woollston Nottingham * Ra— 29wal lh Sheffield Shaffuld Ll 235 Kennington Lane London SEII oI- 806 1273 oI- 985 2559 02I- 533474 0222- 492047 02I- 7771019 0602- 282370 OI- 267 1774 274 7722 Ext. 396 if UCATT Convener City Arch, Dept. Sheffield Student Notts. Univ. GLC Student Sheffield Univ. L.B, Tower Hamlets 633 8301 NEW ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT PUBLIC DESIGN SERVICE CONFERENCE T4 Leyfield Ra. Sheffield 44 Grafton Terr, London NW5 ® OI- 703 7775 077- 3824484 oI- 609 2065 ATTENDANCE LIST CONT‘T. NAME Dave Green John Hurley ADDRESS 4 Priory Terr. Cheltenham TEL OCC), J 495072 WORK Site rane Lecturer Chelthm TEL 108 Gaff Wel 45 34S Sproat JohnMitchell seberoy~cuereBE Read|—__| et pero: ¢ Trevor Muir John Murray Richard Myall John Napier Hugh Pearman Giles Pebody Adam Purser Marion Roberts Jim Scott Bruce Smith Douglas Smith OI- 348 8713 Student L.B. Haringey 474 5637 888 I2I2 Uobibogham Nottingham Univ. 5 Milton Ave. London N6 I2 Paton Grove Moseley Bham BI39TG 68 Wragby Rd. Lincoln 5 Gordon Pl. London W8 48 Sutherland Sq. London SEI7 I0 Spencer Rd. Belper Derb yshire 4I Roden St. London N7 Whinney Bank House Wooldale Student Ele Yorks P 7110Rerewrinflea ; o7¢e —j— 56-Sunnyvale-RA. Totley Sheffield I7 Delancey St. London NWI Hy 66 (04| 6742 City Arch. Dept Sheffield | 734261 L.B. Camden - 0242—{ 27801 363095- OI- 388 3369 S+ SofArch. 3Woot Bham City | 02I- Arch. Dept | 2353196 Arch. Cathedral Area Reporter Building Design Private Practice Housing Dept. Derby Private Practice Private Practice oI- 937 7372 ATTENDANCE LIST CONT'D. Mick Broad 5 Brewlands Ave, Kinneil, Bo'ness Scotland 3. NAME Howard Smith ADDRESS TEL WORK TEL Martin Springs ’ 4 Catherine St. London WC2 OI- 836 6251 Reporter *Building’ Val Stevens 77 School Rd. Hall Green Bham 28 Green Ban Action Cttee. Chris Thomas 134 Westfield Rd. M. Topham 43 Milverton Rd. Knowle Solihull Knowle 4oho Regional Richard Thompson IO Longmeadow Rd. Walsall I0 Walsall DCs Arch. Dept|xt. 2160 Nick Wates IO Tolmers Sq. London NwI OI- 388 1650 Reporter AJ I9 Langtree Ashunt Skelmersdale West Lancs District 0695- Kings Heath, Bham 02I- 4432010 Private Practice PEOPLE EXPRESSING INTEREST BUT UNABLE TO ATTEND John Allan Shirley Ashton 67 Romilly Rd. London N4 oI- 359 O491 Private Practice 734 8577 David Bartlett L.B. Islington Arch. Dept Gloucester House Margery St. London WCI Liverpool City Arch. Dept NALGO Staff Committee Blackburn Chambers Dale St. City Arch. Dept L"Pool L*Pool 169 2JG 02I=- 7775726 Council 77177 Health Board AOA Rep. L.B. Islington | 837 4242 27244 930 O6II oI- Ext. I5I PEOPLE EXPRESSING INTEREST BUT UNABLE TO ATTEND CONT 'D NAME Joanna Clelland ADDRESS TEL WORK TEL Mike Goulden Tom Jones 47 Tetherdown Rd. London NIO OI- 883 7222 Peter Luck Steven Mitchell II Nettleton Rd. London SEI4 OI- 639 5569 Student 9352207 Neville Morgan 2nd Floor Flat I8 Charlotte St. London WI ,7 Chainnye | 42UlletRd,LPal : Wicle Tadele 7 Beeclureoel Ave. Macleli. S! Marke Myson 23 Fuller Med order SWB *Foelas* Tanrhin kd. Tregarth Bethesda, Bangor Wales Local Authority 7 Allemund Ct. Bdward St. Derby DEI 3BR OI- 221 5847 Researcher GLC oI- 580 5270 GLC PDS Group May, 1978. Interim Proposals and which create the potential for further change : status to chief architect. i.e. towards a two-tier system. ESTABLISH JOINT WORKING GROUPS WITH DLOS. To consider how to achieve better designed, constructed and To achieve an effective Public Design Service the NAM Public Design Service Group proposes local authority design and build teams which are area based and which will be accountable to users and tenants. We suggest the following interim Proposals which are feasible now DESIGN TEAMS SHOULD BE AREA BASED INSTEAD OF FUNCTION BASED. To increase the potential accountability to local people, and while giving each team a varied work load. AREA DESIGN TEAMS SHOULD BE MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND SHOULD HAVE AROUND 12 MEMBERS AS A SUGGESTED OPTIMUM. JOB ARCHITECTS SHOULD REPORT DIRECTLY TO COMMITTEE. TENANTS AND USERS SHOULD BE PART OF BRIEFING TEAM, AND SHOULD HAVE POWER OF APPROVAL OVER DESIGNS AND STANDARDS. ABOLISH POSTS BETWEEN GROUP LEADER AND CHIEF ARCHITECT. As a preliminary step towards group leaders having equivalent maintained buildings. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various 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 Nov 1978-Nov 1979 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/1df71babf783c8ca5d146e280c33aa59.pdf b46d0f0773fe6e826f9f16ed174d6da0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Harrogate Founding Congress Subject The topic of the resource The Harrogate Congress was the founding of NAM. 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Title A name given to the resource People Attending Harrogate Congress Subject The topic of the resource List of people who attended first NAM Congress at Harrogate Description An account of the resource 49)6 -0cp4 Yir-3 2 /4 HARaOGATE CONGRESS, NOVEMBER 1975 ATTENDANCE LIST ALLLN John, 67 Rom- lly Road, London N 4 01 359 0491 ---GUS David, ArcTlitectural 1,scociation, Bedford Square, London W01 ANSON Brian, 16 Claremont Gardens, Su72biton, Surrey 01 636 0974 P J 18a Melbury RDad, London W 14 b-.21cG John, 36 Elm Gro,,c, Hor4Qy, London N 8 01 348 7669 eki L:1-,1-3.ELL Andy, Architectural Association, Bedford Square, London -,,IJANEY Anne, Geulan Feler!, Pentre Court, Llandysul, Dyfed. _Uandysul 3407 * ME 211RRY David, Beech Lodge, Beech Woodcote, Reading RG8 OPX Dr',.en, 34 Stainb=n Drive, LcQds 17 0532 687386 %.•±1-1;111=G Eariy. 82 Road, I-..ndon NW5 01 722 6048 1'31= 0ii7e, 73uildini; D2c4;n C.27.1')ON Hark, _L-2ctitectural AE:9celatJon, 71-eaford Square, London -1_1,,Jr3S holms v 9 Grilo 5 1.dARTVZI lc), John P 9 Fullerton C2escfJnt, Troon KAI() 6LL Ayrshire home OL92 313'236 office 041 424 3625 Jennift,r, Old Windy Mains, Huiloie, E. Lothian. _ Humbie 647 01 607 2536, Aar,:arut AT!ehitectural AsF;ocimtion, Bedford Square, London WC1 ,L7cLIWS0N Peter, 3 lio:51:e Street London SW3 01 584 1 398 Wilt 20 Stock-ton Road, Chorton Cum Hardy, Manchester M21 lED 061 28i 7859 L_;1.1JI :13n. 1.6 Yo:c],: '±cdding7..on, 01 997 9879 Peter, Tiedford Square London WC1 01 7 r7.r hJqJ UjIiis-ps;r 2';1560 :_Ducy). 56 1'l.litecl;a7,,1 Aia.7.=)Gr:v. Iiianchcster 061 434 4067 Canterb-Li2y oZ Ar, Canterbury. Bill :Irenitechc,r-1 :.-2ociation, Bedford Square, London Maga7;_ic lvhitley Bay, NE26 1DZ L- ohitecti, Iedford ST-are, London 01 63:-, 14 2u 60 71Deuoh Slree.t, :.Luddersfield. Huddersfield 36553 6C Paddock,Haf,dcrsfield. Huddersfield 36553 :ohn., 5 .London 6 01 348 8713 C Cl 548 8713 fyge,4141 17 Lolidon NV6 01 794 930 di 73 43a Tec/i'clouse J-Jf,n,= -Je-(11 2 t'L2-2 2L1a7_1, 50 -Lart-,at„; EA)a0_, Belper, Dellpyshire. 01 636 0974 ext. 14 n. Howard -2.-arc. 22 Tittle Portland Street, MT)c--1 52J.? rri_OP2;RIZS 37 qreenhara luad, TJo,ador I 10 Hore 883 9246 work 359 549 David, 0/0 Glyr Ha=rsix_iTh Road, London W 14 602 3462 Jon, YiamJ_ Exchange St1 dent, kfchitk2ctural Association. David Lept of Arch, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh 711:_hlan) 031 229 9311 jt7iKS 11S CL:fol-d Gi 602 2270 0 , r 2 t1)7: Eisnophill, York W11,0? Lichttec'6u-al _ii3ociation, Bedford Square, London WC1 T.PT__T J, 27 CrusrIC,or Close, Whitwick, Leics. Coalville 37809 1=_7' ''E T, 1C9 Cado,zan Tei-race, London E 9 01 985 2676 to _1017) Roaa, :Feuds C 0532 785907 & Hull, 0482 25938 raul, 37 1:-J-7411c RJ.:±1. lorbituA, Kinuiton on T1-..2es 01 546 0614 ,;,ITERS Wayn, E;:changc Student, Architectural Association. WT3';-2 iTiek, 63 1;i72ohnlonc T.7._q3t, London WO1 WITON 12 -7=cli=re ?Thco, Edinburgh EH3 9JJ 03-: 226 6991 W 11 ftori W 5 1101T D E 166 Walton St2eet Oxford. Oxford 52876 _v NikJA:i, 23 Kin3scote Road, Ciliswick, London W 4 995 5504 Jonathan, :1.1-chitect=al Society, 35 ,Tarylebone Road, W 1 % ;..32RIN,1 Brian, 43,1, Wood:LDI„se acne, Leeds 2 ThYJLD Elaine, 35 Ea-,:yleto:n„; Roata, London W 1 997 4884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource JA 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 21-23 November 1975 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/de39df1bdbea6501dd932b60f8680f26.pdf d314aa25837d1fdd71b290caea9e2dc3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. 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 Platform article by G Wigglesworth re Architects Registration Act Subject The topic of the resource Platform article by G Wigglesworth re Architects Registration Act Description An account of the resource 16 BUILDING DESIGN. Apr" n. B.D. WINE CELLARS ESTATE BOTTLED SPANISH RED WINE CASttuo "RNA V A' '0 ctcuns, w.iE. bom Enter Lovell exit dry rot, woodworm and rising damp . for a professional service second to none. Expert treatments backed by the resources of our Group. providing a package which can include all buildinq work. Phone our Technical Services Department for personal attention. Lovell Lovell Specialist Treatments Ltd., Baring Road, Beaconsfield. Bucks. Tel: Beaconsfield 5481. For instønt information tick 17 on inquiry e•td The best laid plans... Is it time to change the Architects Registration Act? Gordon Wigglesworth argues that recent French legislation is highly relevant to Britain. A NEW law just passed in France has overnight trans• formed the position of architects and is as crucial to their future as the passing of the architects Registration Act of 1931 in Britain. The new law is based firmly on the premise that "sound architectural creativity is in the public interest" (News in Focus, February I I). The French legislation comes at a time when a large number of the architectural profession in France is unemployed and Platform when the proportion of build• in which architects is to be maintained at a decent ncommunity. The time has come level. architects must be used at Vto implement their theories in Barbour Index Plan Storage Please tell me more about Barbour Index Plan Storage Name Organisation Address Tel. No. BARBOUR Barbour Index Limited New Lodge, Drift Road, Windsor, Berkshire SL4 4RQ Telephone:Winkfield Row 4121 (STD 03447) every opportunity. Their initi• ative should bc followed. W lgglovorlh. If architects are to demand a greater say in using their professional skills for the bene• fit of society. the question of competence must be squarely faced. It would be wrong for the architectural profession. in view of the interference of central and local government in professional matters. to accept responsibility for all defects arising in their buildings. Nonetheless, those who de• mand rights must accept responsibilities and it could be argued that the Registration Council. by relying on the RIBA to scrutinise exami• nations in universities and poly• technies. d<RS not ensure sufficiently high standards from graduates. or adequately protect the public against poor professional work. The situation could be improved if ARCUK were to free the RIBA from its surrogate examining role by examining students themsebes on completion of a full•time or part-time course. Registration would then depend entirely on a successful examination result. and the link between regis• tration and competence would be strengthened. this country. The problem of increasing the profession •s workload could be further eased by direct G€nrrnment intenention. If the present reduction in the activities of the construction industry is to continue. surely the Government should take presentativc measures? If the Government is willing to make preferential arrangements for the construction industry to export, rather than to gear its production solely to the home market. there is every reason to provide similar encouragemcnt to the consultant professions. Central Govern• ment should improve its co. ordinating and advisory role and should provide guidance and financial assistance to enable firms without large capital resources to export Brittsh expertise. •ntis might take the form of low interest loans and fee guarantee on the lines of Export Credit Guarantee. Additionally British cultural and commercial representatives abroad must be encouraged to take a much more vigorous and creative role in selling British architectural For itgt•nt tick 18 on inquiry c•td Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Building Design Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 22.4.1977 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/49b4868bd4b54059c4b34aa701f2b119.pdf e4bdd86c327935e0e41d628f0ab18cdf 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 Practice Subject The topic of the resource Article by Ray Cecil on ARCUK's Standard of Conduct Description An account of the resource had a quiet chuckle this week when the annual report of ARCUK landed on my desk. You mav remember that a few years ago the great unwashed objected to ARCUK's slmsh adherence to the RIBA Code of Conduct and managed to obtain a new Standard of Conduct. Because it was deliberately written in the vaguest possible terms, the Standard can apparently be interpreted to mean just whatever anybody wants it to mean and in fact became a licence for those architects who do not belong to a professional institute to behave according to their own aberrant standards. It seems that ARCtJK's discipline committee has found itself at odds with the Council owing to what is termed •different perspectives' and has experienced difficulty in making charges of disgraceful conduqt stick. It is now proposing to rewrite the Appendix to the Standard and give better 'guidance' to the unattached on what constitutes 'disgraceful conduct', •and I can understand why this should be necessary. Still, it should not be a difficult task. How about attaching the RIBA Code? I am sure the Institute would not mind. Leaky umbrellas Do you have Professional Indemnity Cover? Of course you do — or at least you think you have. The trouble is that you will not really know until you have a claim and your insurers accept it. The mere fact that they have recorded a 'notification of circumstances' is no guarantee that if a claim actually arises they will not repudiate liability or even void your policy altogether. I wrote some while ago of the unfortunate case where an architect had eight years of previous policies voided because he had failed to notify a circumstance (which had not given rise to a claim) and was left without cover on a number of other matters which had been RIBAJOURNALAUC,UST1988 Practice Ray Cecil discusses ARCUK's Standard of Conduct, the advantages of RIBA insurance, site safety, and the dangers of the cult of personality. 'There is a real possibility that buildings will come to be judged not on their merits, but on the eminence of the name in the bottom right-hand corner.' two years, has so far an unblemished reputation in this respect. Furthermore, no insured member has yet to resort to the condition that allows the Institute to investigate and intercede in the event of a threatened repudiation. I am well aware of the criticism that the RIBA scheme is expensive, although investigation of individual complaints generally throws up some good reason for high premium quotes. But bad cover is probably worse than no cover at all. You would not buy an umbrella with holes in it and that is only to preserve the clothes you are wearing at the time. Your insurance covers everything you possess! Incidentally, another criticism of the RIBA scheme is that it is ceasing to issue free to all practitioners the publication Professional Liability. As I am involved, let me deal with that one. RIBAIR, the company set up and financed by the money arising from the RIBA scheme, exists to promote activities which will help to reduce the liability of architects generally. It is currently funding a whole range of activities which previously had to be funded from the derisory budget of the Practice Department. With the current cuts in expenditure necessitated by a severe attack of Hay fever at Portland Place that situation is likely to continue. But just remember that the money arises from the members of the RIBA Insurance scheme. Extras like Professional Liability and the advice booklets produced by RIBAIR are part of the benefits of the scheme. The information in them is generally available elsewhere, either in the Practice supplement (partly funded by RIBAIR), in these articles, or in books commercially available. And plans are now afoot to make the other RIBAIR publications available to non-members of the scheme, on subscription. However, the best answer, if 17 �James Stirling was 'by It's shortsighted to ignore protection Being sued for negligence brings the benefits of professional liability insurance into sharp focus. Suddenly, it becomes priceless. If you haven't got it, however, the consequences could be too dire to look upon. The chances of a claim against you are all too real. It doesn't take much—an error by a junior, a simple omission, an oversight caused by too tight a schedule— all may lead a client to sue. You need the expertise of Nelson Hurst & Marsh. As the leaders in professional indemnity insurances we know precisely what cover you need and we have unrivalled knowledge of the market So we know where to find the right cover at the most competitive price. Then. if the worst happens, our expert advice, assistance and protection go into action, through our Claims Handling Service and Client Services Division. Our support is there when you need it most. You can't avoid professional risk, but you can certainly minimise the consequences. For further information write or phone today. Professional Indemnity. More than ever a necessity: QAI-)Nelson Hurst & Marsh Ltd. 1 Seething Lanq London EC3N 4NH. Tel: 01-481 9090. 18 names that tell us nothing about the guiding lights or the actual building designers. 'Ihey prefer to view architecture as a collaborative effort and let their work speak for itself. A few months ago I wrote of the pressure that the RFAC was bringing on clients to commission one of the 'name' practices for important prowcts, and pointed out the dangers of that. The parallel is clear and there is a real possibility that buildings will come to be judged not on their merits. but on the eminence of the narne in the bottom right-hand corner. And that cannot be good for the practice of architecture, or for bringing through and encouraging new talent. The author writes thoj articlcs as an architect in practice. TIC does not hold himself out to be tin expert in law or insurancc. For advice on detailed or spec:fic matters readers are (Idt'isdfl to consult their own lawyers. Computerised Classicism We enjoyed Martin Pawley's sardonic comments (April. RIBA Joumal) on the impact of CAD on the typical architectural practice, but we would like to correct one statement on our National Gallery competition drawings: about 25 per cent of our submission consisted of CAD originals. Most noteworthy, perhaps. were the large-scale site plan and elevations of Trafalgar Square. These drawings were our first foray into CAD. For the first year, we used our system solely for design and presentation work. We found it particularly helpful in drawing the Classical orders. You need draw the Corinthian capital only once: then you can resize it and move it around wherever you want. About 50 per cent of our tender documents for the National Gallery, including all the elevations and plans, are CAD generated. The oppurtunity it gives to revise and update drawings quickly, co-ordinate other disciplines, and deal with complex geometries is invaluable. While CAD has not changed what we design, it allows us to refine and improve the design much further into the documentation process than was possible or practical in pre-CAD days. It gives us architects a very fast pencil. Steven IzenourofVenturi, Rauch and Scott Brown, Philadelphia, USA Royal Remarks Norman Tebbit's unsubtle attempt to silence the Prince of Wales reveals yet again the paranoia of this Government. I trust the Prince will not be intimidated. The message is now clear; the Church should restrict itself to the 'spiritual', Amnesty International to criticising RIBAJOURNALAUGUST 1988 .4 Letters The impact of CAD, Tebbit's comments on royal views, help for black students in South Africa, and the Welsh Access Committee. foreign governments, theCharles' remarks as Citizens' Advice Bureau should constructive, as do the more keep its thoughts to itself, andmature members of the the Royal family may wave from profession. Royal boxes and pose for press I am sorry to have strayed photographs.from the drawing board, Mr T. Prince Charles is said byGeorge Ferguson, Chairman of Tebbit to be virtually without aAcanthus, Bristol job and yet he has been more effective in alerting people to the South changes facing our environment African Debate and future than anyone. EvenI have read the report in your those architects who were firstNIarch 1988 edition of the insulted by his remarks aboutCouncil debate on South Africa. modern architecture nowI am in agreement with the appreciate the enormous benefit reported sentiments as of the increased public interestexpressed in the Council's in our art. We may not becondemnation, and would like to flattered, but broader andoffer some suggestions deeper debate can only improve regarding any proposed architectural design.assistance. Charles' concern for theI would be delighted to see environment, from the buildings some kind of help being around us to the ozone layerextended to black architectural above us, and the plight of thestudents in this country by the unemployed, is a natural andRIBA. There are already thoughtful concern that hasbursaries available for this nothing to do with party politics,purpose at our universities and but everything to do withtechikons and any addition to humanity and his desire not tothese funds would be most reign over a deeply damagedhelpful. kingdom within a seriouslyIncidentally, there is no bar threatened world. The Princessbased on race, colour or creed Royal is, no doubt, the next toto anyone wishing to study be ticked off for revealing herarchitecture in this country. The concern about the plight oflimiting factor at present is starving children.simply that other professions The fact that Tebbitare favoured by blacks in apparently sees these Royal preference to architecture. remarks as dangerousWe at the rockface really need opposition reveals a your help and encouragement. mindboggling level of insecurity Our own office is at present from a Government that has employing, encouraging and neutralised all effective political lending support to several opposition. A more mature students who have not had the Government would see Prince means, and yet wish to become architects. and it is our wish that they will be able achieve their goals. Finally, one how British architects react if architectural bodies South Africa were to debate possibility of supporting an training centre in a third country, considering that it was your Prime Minister who compared the ANC as being an organisation similar goals. J. W. H. Meiring, Cape Town Disabled Access The Access Committee Wales, a committee of the Wales Council for the Disabled, provides a national forum on access issues. Its membership includes representatives of disability organisations, councils, professional associations and the Wales councils for the deaf and provides guidance and advice on access matters to developers. We are currently monitoring the operation of Part M of the Building Regulations 'Access for Disabled People'. If any readers have experienced Part M could they details to the Access Wales Council for Caerbragdy Industrial Bedwas Road, Caerphilly, Mid Glamorgan CF8 3SL. Carol Thomas, Access Officer, Wales Council for the Disabled European Exchange I am looking for a British architect's family with daughters aged about 13 and 15 who would like to get in contact daughters. They are interested in having British pen friends and an exchange in 1989. We live near the Black Forest not far from Baden-Baden. RudolfJohannes Schott. Kåthe• Kollwitz-Strasse 14, 7505 Ettlingen 6 — Ettlingenueicr, West Gennany 19 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource RIBAJ 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 8.1988 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/06fea4f1d033a1cd833084890a960091.pdf ac9991b766e12dee3310b3474b2ae091 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Introduction and Origins Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Press Cuttings Subject The topic of the resource NAM related Press Cuttings including letters from November 1975 Description An account of the resource sblishe? Stan Arnoid iyertisement Manager ay Doyle sssitied advertisement manager ~y Lambert arigemient production wager Peter Roylance ation aen a decision on whether ‘ould be given or not can ore itis even applied for. cic that the Minister’s id seem to confirm com- Lord Esher, Rector of de earlier this year at the soce when he said: “We 2, not a graded list (of ad need abeve ail to face the financial im- uich are formidable... vaching the point where horities will be under designate the whole wi¢ aS a preservation geint itwill have become atis needed is not con- as but good planning.” istee’s decision reflects ',thea itisessential that roduces the RTE, iical timber beam COURT 8 A. Orton v J. Allan 4 P. Bell v O. Davies 5 A. Pitt v C. Owen Powell CESTIFICATE NO. 7345s Marshall J. Condon V 8S. Malcolm wise, that one can listen to’ 3 before the mind isnumbed. In the event three positive decisions were made. Conacher v J. Allan 4 Firstly, it was agreed to set up locally based groups to debate issues like architec- tural education management for architects. Secondly, a liaison group was established to organise the next congress, which will take place in about three people at the congress wil] write reports on work they have been involved in and these will be circulated for discussion before the next meeting. The idea for the congress came from the Architects and_ self- V R. Courtenay A. 6 vernon, Many of the del- Clive Fleury reports from the first New Architecture Movement congress and asks: could it be the last? months. Finally, some of the ni looks closely at the system and listed build-_ sawn on site and ccessful Corrply eeetieteeeereeieeneiee wiy Grade IJ, should be n the light of this But over the three-day event, which had a good at- tendance of 60 people dissa- tisfied with the present state of architecture, it was aitficult to know at times if “A PIECE of history is going to be made at this conference,” said freelance writer Peter Whelan who, with writer Nikki Hay, chaired the New Architecture Move- ment’s first congress at Harrogate last weekend. anything was going to be done or achieved at all. There is a limit co the number of speeches, prepared or other- ——$—$ Organisation was left to participants, most of whom were surprised and un- prepared to take such a positive part in proceedings Revolutionary Council who arranged the publicity and accommodation. But it was apparent from the first day that ARC was trying hard not to lead or take over the run- ning of the cangress. Tt preferred to leave or- happen on the second day, it was disconcerting tofind that the main speaker was not go- ing to turn up. Participants took the news Stoically and prepared to launch into another day of speeches. A representative for unat- tached architects, Ken Thorpe, .opened the proceedings with a stirring speech calling for collective social action by architects. aims But applause was muted egates saw NAM as an umbrella movement for groups with similar . etnerenerereenenreet when Thorpe explained that he did not know ifunattached architects would join NAM since, not surprisingly,many of them may prefer to remain unattached from any group. The media became the subject of debate later in the: day when one of the delegates picked on your reporter as being one of the reasons for the lack of success the con- gress had achieved so far. Being the only profession- al journalist at the event for any jength of time, I was surprised by this accusation and rallied to my: own, and BD's defence. After this small diversion, the congress suddenly took a new turn. Participants, bored by the continuing speeches, demanded something “more positive”. Three motions were hurriedly drawn up and these contained the major decisions reached. Later the congress split into working groups when architectural education, redundancy, the possibility of forming an architects un- ion, and the role of the movement were discussed. By the end of day two it was clear that many of the \| Harrogate last weekend. But aged is mot conm- pod pianning.” decision reflects itisessential that x3 closely at the . and listed build- yade 1, should be light of this aces the Roe itimber beam wise, that one can | tendance of 60 peop tisfied with the presie dissa- speech calling for collecuve social action byarchitects. | Revoludcaary Council who Thorpe, Opeiiow _ proceedings with a surring | with broadly similar aims. By day three the effects of alcohol and speech-making had taken their roll. Many of the -participants could not themselves to make more speeches oF calls for action, and were content to listen to chairman Peter Whelan and a few other en- ergetic speakers summiarise the results of the conference. ARC leading light Brian Anson, late of the Jimmy Savile show, seemed happy with the outcome. But after the orgy of talk, it is difficult to know whether NAM’s birth pangs might over the three-day event, which had a good at- of architecture, speeches, prepared or other- | left to participants, most oiwhom were newturn.Participants,bored surprised and wn- “everything” was going to the run- get more of ent state But applause was mute it was gto be Many of the dei- egates 'saw NAM listen to as an umbrella movement for groups with similar | they icked on your reporter as being ome of the reasons for the lack of success the con- gresshadachievedsofar. aims er A when Thorpe explained that he did not know ifunattache architects would join NAM since, not surprisingly, many of them may prefer to remain unattached from any group. — The media became the subject of debate later in the daywhenoneofthedelegates A J. Avian = LY. P. Bel - Being the only profession- al journalist at the event for difficult to know at times if done or achieved at ali. There the number of debate issues like Secondly, 4liaison group was established to organise the next congress, which will place in @ out months. Finally, some of the eople at the congress will Wwrite reports om WOF 1have been involved inand these will be circulated for arranged the publicity and -accoramodation. But it was apparent from the first day that ARC was trying hard not to lead or take overt aa such A positive part in By day three the e proceedings. Consequently, on the first eifects of alcohol ,- onerange ofideas and speech-making uried at delegates Hertmany ‘ of them bemused. Ideas like had taken their toll usingNAM tooverthrowthe- " capitalist systems or as a of many groups like ARC the right ty e” of architects RIBA were mooted, but most were either ignored or scorned. Perhaps the only speech on the first day which was ac- whole-heartedly by congress came from architect . ohn Murray, who said users of buildings should control the design process and archi- patrons work together more. also wanted locally controlled National Design Service centres set Up tOgive services free to everyone. ese would be staffed by local people and as architects. informed by not also turn out to be death throes. Phe answer will come in three months time when the next congress is due to be Whelan that anything was goin before the mind is numbed. In the event three positive decisions weremade. Firstly, it was agreed to set up locally based groups [0 rural education and management for architects. ning of the congress. It preferred to leave or- is a limit to the congress suddenly took 2 COURT 8 wn on site and asgful Corrply architec- self- ginsreenrTeTente . A. Orton v take three 8 The idea for the congress discussion before the next meeting. pressure group to elected to me held. al surprised by this accusation came from the Architects and rallied to my own, and 6 i A. Pitt V Cc, Owen aS * was Organisation .BD’s defence. After this small diversion, demanded something “more prepared to take positive”. Three motions such a positive part were hurriedly drawn up and these contained the major decisions reached. : . ° in proceedings . ganisation tothe ticipants, Most of whom were surprised and unprepared to By the end of day two it was clear that many of the delegates saw NAM as an umbrella movement made up tects and by the continuing speecies, Later the congress split into working groups when architectural education, redundancy, thepossibility of forming 49 architects un- ion, and the role of the movement werediscussed. actual par- cepted He architects’ any length of time, I was 5 Powell 6 1 JAS Marshall v t: 2 R.SS § twyo: Condon V §S. Malcolm 13 ‘ Conacher v J. Allan 4 t :y ‘ builders aswell Having been chairman Peter Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource AJ, BD, Building 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 1975-1980