25 10 310 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/0bd64dcc345570289de9d271872c9aec.pdf 223b00fc37cf0f7b4f7b8761b6b413b0 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 Registered Status Subject The topic of the resource Letter from J Weller Description An account of the resource BUILDING DESIGN. March 27.1987 13 Letters Sacrificing the environment THE BUILDING REFERENCE BOOK FOR BUILDING DESIGNERS BY HENRY HAVERSTOCK 'The Easibrief" is d compendium of the technical pages published under that name in Building Design between 1983 and 1985, covenng a wide range of design methods, techniques and materials. Prepared by architects Haverstock Associates, the book vhll be an invaluable aid to anyone whose business is designing buildings, providing fullyindexed technical advice, plus references on where to obtain more detailed information. Plus Plus u The Easiregs" Our guide to the rewritten Building Regulations, which appeared in weekly instalments from autumn 1985 until July 1986, is incorporated in 'The Easibnef', giving the most up-to-date all-in-one publication of its type now on the market. Order your copy now, price €15 plus €2 p&p. An invoicing charge of E2 will be made for orders which do not include a Plus Please send me d copy of 'THE BUILDING DESIGN EASIBRIEF'. 1 enclose herewith cheque El 7 including P&P made payable to "BUILDING DESIGN EASIBRIEF'. Name: Company: Address: . The Building Design Easibri•i Morgan Grampian House 30 Caldervood Street cheque. Woolwich. London SE 18 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 27.3. 87 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/2dac682db4361fadecfc8e42e21babeb.pdf 1365dafb080004e02c10b886b9ae169a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Education Description An account of the resource Many NAM members were engaged in the field of architectural education, either as staff or students, and pursued new ideas for course content and pedagogy, reassessing existing course structures and priorities in conventional architectural training. The concern to focus on socially necessary buildings and to find new and meaningful ways of engaging with building users and the wider community- both central NAM themes - illuminated much of the discussion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Regrouping for ARCUK round two Subject The topic of the resource Article in Scorpio Description An account of the resource BUILDING DESIGN. February 27. 1987 11 Statistics SORRY yo VOUR CIASS THERES A MINISTRY THE 000 IS Scorpio HEADMISTRESS. Bur AN , INSPECTOR IN YOUR OFFICE HE SAYS HES FPCM THE EWIRONMENT DEPARTMENT Nor EDUCATION AND SC'ENCk Bryan acnes Regrouping for Arcuk round two WILL the education lobby on Arcuk take the RIBA's latest move to crush them lying down? Not very likely. since the registration council's constitution does allow for elements other than glove puppets from Portland Place to have a voice. HEADMISTRESS CALCEO Aßour THE TEMPORARY' CLASSROOM WHICH YOV ÄÆ HAD IN YOUR PLAYGßOUND SINCE 1953 ..THEYOE FINALLY ER..!FRAD NOT, Its JUST BEEN GOT AROUND ro BUT 1 GPAOE 2 REPLACING IT ! YOU'D LIKE TO LISTED STATVS KNOW.. The story so far: Arcuk council is dominated by RIBA nominees. whtch for years has meant that the two orgamsations have had more or less the same policies. Certain anomalies in Arcuk's make-up. for example the fact that many schools were without representatives on the board of education, were gradually ironed out. Trouble arose when Arcuk. entirely against traditional practice. dared to take a different line over school closures to its erstwhile master. It then decided it should have an education officer and should have more of a say on school visiting boards, thus emphasising the statutory responsibillty it carries for architectural education — something it has always devolved to the institute. All this was too much for the Portland Placemen, who decided that poor old Professor Denys Hinton and Bob Adams should be sacrificial lambs. and who were thus not nominated for the new council, But Will this be the end of the story? After all. both men could bcnominated to the architectural education board by schools themselves. And under the terms ofa "gentlemen•s agreement" between the RIBA and the Unattached Architects. netthet side challenges nominations that each makes to the council. It is thus possible that Hinton and Adams could be invited by the unattached to stay on council. The curiosity in alt this is that the RIBA. having supported the closure of two schools. is now saying that they should be kept open to teach what amounts to community architecture. Having adopted Arcuk's clothes. the RIBA has decided to freeze out those Who have dared to question its infallibility. Three's a crowd . . . THE Cotb exhibition opening at the Hayward next week reminds me of the night in 1953 when the great maneame overto London to recetve his Royal Gold Medal at the RIBA. Noless than three of his most ardent lady architect admirers were to be seen vying for his attention at the party after. They had reasoned that a night with the master of the modern movement was as close as it was possible to get to an earthly paradise. Discretion prevents me from saying which lady won the contest. However. I confi• dently predict that all three Will be at the private view of the exhibition this Sunday. Scene and heard THE picture of ex-BD editor Peter Murray and wife Jane in the Sunday Times colour supple. ment showed their new home — a Norman Shaw villa in West London. Murray thus joins his fellow Blueprint apostle of all that is modern in today's design, Deyan SudJic, by livtng in a listed building! At least Deyan had his styled by Jan Kaplicky. TALKING of JR. the BBC were doing their usual bit for architects lie next to nothing)on Tomorrow's World last week. Quite a good explanation of Future System's design for a futunstic tower was marred by the non-mention of designers Kaplicky and David Nixon. This follows in the tradition of coverage of the Hongkong Bank building without mentioning Norman Foster. Why oh why do they behave in this way? RUMOURS have been flying across the Atlantic as to Arthur Drexler•s successor as director Of architecture and design at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Stuart Wrede, curator at the museum sincc 1985. and orgamser of the recent Mario Botta exhibition. has been appointed acting director. but informed sources suggest the museum is lookin for a higher profile director. t won't be Alvin Boyarsky, SS-year-old Architectural Association supremo for the past 15 years. He was offered the post but turned it down. Now FT critic Colin Amery is reported to want the job. MY sympathies to Architectural Press. who began the promotion of their new monthly giveaway last week. The editor? None other than Richard Willcock. fun•loving ex-AJtechnicaI man. Unfortunately no-one had told them that far from editing the new organ. he was in fact leavtng it to join Jose Manser.as deputy editor of The Architect. and as editor of its interiors supplement. GREMLINS scrambled a line in last week's item about people seeking money. The relevant sentence should have said that the British Architectural Library Trust isso short of cash that it can't even afford to pay a solicitor to draw up its trust deed . . . Meanwhile the Building Communities organisers are still seeking cash — the Community Architecture Group has declined to help out. 10 years ago AN extra €2,100 million investment in housing and jobs is needed on Merseyside over the next 10 years to prevent the conurbation's inner areas from sinking into urban decline of staggering proportions. This is the message the county council has sent to the secretaries ofstate for environment, industry and employment. Budding Design. February 25. 1977 WHO C EATE When you need a door to provide half-hour Supplied pre-primed ready for further fire resistance, and your budgets are tight, applications of paint, and you don't have to sacrifice ideal for new character. Simply specify buildings or where budgets the Adam Range from are of a prime Longden. consideration, the door gives character at a low Manufactured using a cost unique pattented process, tested and certificated to And as if that was not BS 476: Part 8, the Adam enough, there is a door uses a die pressed matching non-fire resistant embossed hardboard skin door, which allows to give th ppearance of a specifiers to ensure traditionql ised and consistant high qual fielded lied door, throughout the cont t producing lear, sharp lines to th mould details and even Find out about the Adam Range and reproduc the timber grain. put the character back into fire- resis nce. Longden Doors of Sheffield of course. DOORS Longden U ted. Pattwood Road. Sheffidd SO 8AH ON EXPRESS Enter 12 ENQUIRY CARD 12 BUILDING DESIGN, February 27, 1987 DESPITE the impression Partners (1983) 2 ACI where Charges brought by the Latent Damage Act given by the Latent Damage the limitation period ran from discoverability without any may not be as extreme as they appear, Act 1986 as having wreaked terrible changes on the lia- longstop. Further. whether or not there will be many cases says Susan Midha, solicitor with Herbert bility of builders and professional advisers, and having where damage actually occurs more than IS years from the date Oppenheimer, Nathan & Vandyk enlarged the scope for em- of the negligent act or omission. ploycrs and others to sue. the the Act are the wide terms of the longstop clause such actions changes madc by largely of degree only, and will prevent being brought altogether. except Degrees of one's overall view of the Act where there is deliberate con- will, to a certain extent, cealmcnt of the defects. Pirelli have contributed to a false depend on whether one is an may sense of security in professional optimist or a pessimist. extra three advisers; surprisingly, perhaps, Lord in the It is the case that an years to bring proceedings has since Fraser's speech case clearly indicated that the damage been given by the Act (which law, as he was required to came into force on September pronounce it. was not just and from the discoverability of should be changed. Parliament years from the completion oft he such a claim. Further. if at the damage. But this is tempered by took the hint. job. it will be necessary. after the end of four years of litigation the fact that "discoverability" The practical effects of the Act comes into force. to keep, (which takes us up to Il years and not "discovery" is the Act are. therefore. matters of maintain and retain them for I S from the date the damage starting point for the limitation degree rather than substance years. This is not entirely true. It occurred) the defendant. having period, and a IS year longstop and those professional advisers is true that the old limitation lost the action. issued a contri• has been put on all negligence who indulged in good practice in period was six years from the bution notice against a third actions (other than personal the keeping of records etc before date that the damage occurred, party at the end of the two year injury) and not just those the Act will have little to worry but it was always possible for a period allowed under the Civil involving latent damage. about after it. plaintiff to issue a writ at the end Liability (Contribution) Act From the professional advi- The change in the period of of the six-year period, and serve 1978. he would have a further ser's point of view. this must be liability it a year less a day after that. two years! an improvement on the state of It has been said that now. 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TELEPHONE: 0206) 562400 TELEX: 987991 breach of duty. a further period confirmation can be time. can be added to this scenario. consuming and not necessarily Under the new Act. the cost-effective. longstop period is absolute and Written evidence starts from the date ofbreach of It has been suggested that duty (ie the negligent act or written statements should be omission concerned). It is taken from all personnel in- essential to appreciate this if the volved at the end of the job. effects of the Act are to be put which could then bc used in into their proper perspective. It evidence if a member of staff has also been suggested that expires before the limitation contribution notices (which, as period does. It is unlikely that has been seen. can extend such statements would address liability for a further three, four themselves to the matters rele- five years) will be barred after vant to the latent damage in the IS yearlongstophasexpired. question. They would be shoot- In view of this. the Act does ing in the dark,and would havea not call for a radical reappraisal by contractors and professional very limited application. advisers of their liability, more a Insurance methodical look at their prac- It is not yet clear how the tices and a hard-headed look at insurers will approach the the economics of claims man• question of long-term insurance agement. for latent damage. The current Keeping records position is that in general, cover IS given on a claims made. not It IS always possible, though claims arising. basis. If. there- not necessarily practicable or fore. a builder or professional economically viable. to keep all adviser is insured when he enters records of completed work into the contract with the indefinitely. Space. however. is employer. but not when the an expensive commodity; mic- problem manifests itself, the rofiching is not cheap andcan be plaintiff may find himself withe very time-consurmng. Good out any effective remedy. practice, therefore. dictates that From the viewpoint of the only a selection of material be builder or professional adviser, kept when a job is completed. in theory the need to retain From the point of view of insurance after a job has been litigation. obvious documents completed has now been limited to be kept would be: (to just less than 16 years) rather client's brief and any other than being limitless. Whether in relevant correspondence; practice it is desirable for contract documents; professional advisers to keep up variation of instructions; insurance for even this long. vs site meeting minutes; another matter. certificates of practical com- In the recent case of Investors ptetion. and dates ofany inspec- in Industry Commercial Proper. tions. surveys etc; ties Limited v South Bedford- state of the art information; shire County Council. the claim progress charts. against the structural engin- The approach to the selection eers was dropped because they would be to have in documen- were no longer insured. It tary form as much as possible of has been suggested that the what the client's requirements effect of the Act will be to let were, problems during the job, '"fly-by-night" builders and pro- and their resolution. fessional advisers off the hook. It is possible that the person- While in no way seeking to nel involved in thejob will not he suggest that the structural available to give oral evidence, engineers involved in that so that it will be difficult to prove matter were "fly-by-night". it is what is not in the papers. All this salutary to note that thecase was information is such as would brought under the old law. ordinarily have been kept in any Whether or not premiums will event. except perhaps that cone rise when the Act comes into cerning the date of any inspec- force will. it is hoped, depend on tions, surveys etc which are of the insurcrs• claims experience value in calculating longstop — and is at the moment impos- periods. Sible to predict. Fears engen- It is frequently the case that dered by the Act may. however disputes turn on the state of the unfounded. lead to more urgent art at the time that the work was consideration of more generally done. A presumption will im- applicable building insurance mediately be raised in favour of and a consequent reduction in the professional adviser who the amount of litigation. retains the literature on the state Summary of the art with his records The Act will not. therefore. provided. of course. that he has followed it! make sweeping changes to the practice which professional Recording advisers and builders should Where there is a change in the adopt. It does, however. give us instructions, by the client or the all an opportunity to reconsider adviser, it is obviously desirable our own practices in protecting that it is recorded in writing. ourselves from liability. in the Many builders automatically light of the knowledge that our confirm site instructions in liability is now limited in time. so writing and it would be an that we can make informed unwise professional adviser who decisions as to the cost-effective- failed to check such confirma- ness of those practices. tion and raise, in writing, any The wide interest which the disagreement as to its contents. Act has evoked may also lead to Site minutes are a frequent fundamental changes in the way bone of contention. in that they in which responsibility for latent often raise problems without defects and latent damage arc recording the attempts to re- apportioned, with a consequent solve them. Keeping attendance reduction in the aggregate notes of all telephone conversa- amount of insurance premiums tions should be considered. but paid. and time spent pursuingor it has to be said that written defending fruitless claims. If you would like further information concerning the products on these pages, please fill in and return the pre-paid reader enquiry carg,F, Enter 1 3 ON ENQUIRY EXPRESSCARO Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Building Design Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Allan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 27 February 1987 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/8c68ab87d630790349838e8cbb28f9d3.pdf 89303eb08babecb583bc859bc6256044 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Liaison Group Including London Group Subject The topic of the resource Liaison Groups: NAM was initially structured as local groups. There was also a Liaison Group whose role was to coordinate the different groups, deal with correspondence and arrange the next annual conference. NAM campaign groups, which were largely autonomous, worked across local groups to develop their ideas. They arranged their own conferences and reported through SLATE and annually to the NAM Congress. The seven different campaign groups listed had members from a variety of local groups. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976-1979 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Report Subject The topic of the resource Report of the North London Group of NAM 3 pp (2 copies) Description An account of the resource REPORT OF THE NORTH LONDON GROUP OF THR NEW ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT Giles Pebody So, from meetings to the first meeting: we left Harrogate with this much common ground: a shared disgust at the part the architect plays in the brutalisation of the physical and social environment and at the power that seduces or forces him to play that role, and also a shared- commitment to find collective ways of building a humane architecture It is, I hope, quite unecessary here to start to list the questions begged by such sentiments. We made an early decision to concentrate our work on private practice, at least at the start, as all North London membérdare employed in private practice and have most experience there we acknowledged that we neede to find a new understanding of the social economic and political role of the architect, different, that ts, from the one promoted by the RIBA, the schools, and the principals in private or public practice. But there was algo an urgency for action to provide ways in which frustrated working architects and assistants could direct their energies. Action itself could take two forms: the mah e of propaganda, and the setting up of alternative structures both in the profession and in the organisation of practice itself. A combinationrof theorevical and action projects would support each other: the theory wculdinform the action and thes action the theory. For all this, it is now necessary to divide this report into two parts: I will deal first with our theoretical work, and. then with the ' Interior Perspective 'project. I think that-it-is fair to say, at “least 'in retrospect, that we set out to investigate two of the central myths on which the architectural profession iis based: firstly, that the profession was set up in order to ensure that the public was well served by its architects; and secondly that every practising architect works ag an individual, bearing the torch of architecture, and enjoying its priviledges himself as the peer of evry other architect ( poetically christened ' the Brass Plate Syndrome !). Firstly, before telling you about the results of our work, let me describe how the group works: we meet fortnightly, at the home of each member in turn. The actual work of researching, writing, making posters and so forth, is done outside the meetings so that the meetings thems‘earlerveseersvedfordiscussion.Inthiswaythemaximumbenefit is mace of the exchange of views and ideas, and the group has time to learn and maintain its coherenve. The 'host' takes minutes and writes the agenda for the next meeting. this process gives continuity, but does not inhibit the raising of new topics as they occur. The subsequent meeting is generally arranged on the pavement outsids the nearest pub ( we rarely have time to get further than that ) at about 11 15pm, and at 11 20pm “bhe host for next time heads home to count the coffee cups. Ts deal briefly with the first: the established arbiter between the archotect and the interests of the public is the RIBA, through its code of conduct The Interior Perspective project was first suggested at the Harrogate Conference: employees in private practice would send in information on the offices in which they worked, which would then be made available to job applicants. This way the sort of information to light at interviews would be made available, and so strengthenthe position of the applicant at the interview itselfA.s’we discussed the idea it became clear that its implications could be broader than this. Firstly, the information, if siutebly collected, could be used by other parties with an interest in a parvicular practices prospective clients wishing to use a practice with high standarda and, on the other: hand action groups fighting schemes in-which architectasre involved. It could also form a vehicle for pressing for of employment, and of a mors sensitive approach to design. The most Significant aspect of the Sore, however, is that it would be sét up which rarely comes the adoption of -better sonditions and its supervision of education. The title architect is also controlled by law under the Architects Registration Acts. We looked first at the origins of the RIBA in the C19th, and then at the registration acts themselves and concluded that the RIBA, far from being founded on altruistic principals, was set up to ensure that the profession could run its own affairs, free from interference, especially from government, who, if anyone’ one would, would represent the interests of” the public:at large ‘throvgh the democratic process. Thi8 was achieved in the early C19th during a period. of’ éénfusion and corruption in practice by offering a’ code of conduct to regulate the behaiviour of architects, in return for which the RIBA was granted the autonomy it enjoys. This was further reinforced by the virtual monoply granted under the Architects ' Registration Act, whose adminstering body, ARCUK, rapidly came under its control. The second topic, the ' Brass Plate Syndrome ' is closer to the daily working lives of architects, and is best. considered in- that context. 80 percent of architects axe calaried, and, clearly their autonomy as architects is heavily circvmscribed by thee duties as employees. The argument -has often been advanced that the outlook of the RIBA, and the ethic underlying the codes of conduct are based on the ideal of the architect as an individual practitioner, and they do not therefore represent the interests fo the salaried architects. Further this contradiction increases the frustration of salaried architects who are justifiably angr: that their considerable talents are wasted on unwanted or even destructive projects when the need for sensitive and useful:-architccturec is so painfully evident. Wetre looking at the possibilities for the reform cf practice: Collective decision- -making over design policy or working conditions is extremely rare, in either public’ or private practice, This situation is.aggravated by the difficultoyf finding asiutablelegal form for the institution of cooperative or employee controlled practices. The processes invclced in partnership law are extremely cumbersome, while the limited liability company would provide = siutable for m weve architects not forbiden from forming. them, for other reasons, by the code of conduct. The setting up of a national design service, by which the architects! services would be freely available, much ag a doctors are, could perhaps provide a framework for new forms of nvactice, REPORT FROM THE CARDIFF GROUP OF THE NEW ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT Anne Delaney A small group of architects, technicians, students and planners has been meeting irregularly in Cardiff since February. Initial meetings concerned themselves with discussion as to the most effective form of proceeding as a group of radicals in the environmental field. We decided initially to familiarise ourselves with relevent work which had already been done locally.The South Wales Housing Action group is perhaps best described as a federation of local community action groups inCardiff, Swansea,and the South Wales mining valleys.The people involved in this group had put up a strong opposition to a scheme for comprehensive redevelopment of Cardiff city centre. Centreplan, the P.R's sell-name for the scheme,was set up as a partnership between Cardiff City Council and Ravenseft,a firm of property deveclopers.Come the economic recession,Ravenseft pulled out of the deal,leaving the centre of Cardiff pitted with vacant or blighted nites in searck of a developer. At the suggestion of .the Ss W. Housing Action Group, Cardiff NAM are looking into the feasibility of alternative schemes for the centre,At the moment we're attempting to tackle this in two ways:firstly by preparing a general report on inner © city development in whichwe hope to discuss a few alternatives to office and large scale store development;sesondly by attempting to apply the theories contained in ou report to one particular site in the centre of Cardiff.It's early days so there's nothing to show as yet. One spin off from this work is that we've been asked to contribute to an exhibition running concurrently with this year's RTPI conference which is being held in Cardiff next month. Community action groups in Cardiff were allocated a few metres' space in the official RIPI exhibition at the conferencebu,t decided they had more to say to planners than could be contained in the space offered them,so they decided to run their own exhibition concurrently in a vacant shop in the city centre. The emphasis on this sort of action seems to set the Cardiff group apart from other NAM groups.There are obvious dangers in diving headlong into action of this sort - the old debate as to whether theory can or should precede action or whether it should arise from experience of action.Hopefully by being awake to the dangers our theory and action will develop side by side,one reinforcing the other. and run by employed architects to serve their interests and those of the users of. buildings. It has the potential to open up a direct. channel of communication between these two groups in a way which would enable then to suppurt each other. It is interesting to compare the Inteficr Perspective proposal with the RIBA Directory, which is its 'Official-! counterparts the latter is, in essence, a form of controlled adverertising for private practiceisn competition with each other, and for the profession as a-whole. As such it provide.sin formation of use unly to principleisn private practice and. their clients. It is of little or no use to the public at large, or architectural employees. Our future plang include an extension of this work on radical professional dccuments to include a new code of conduct and conditions of engegement, .based on ‘our growing ctitique of current ways of practice. 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Title A name given to the resource Brian Anson/ARC pre and post Harrogate Subject The topic of the resource Various documents describing ARC ideas and activities See below Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource ARC Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1975-1976 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Report Subject The topic of the resource ARC Report Argument for change (6pp). 2 copies Description An account of the resource ARCHITECTS, STUDENTS, TECHNICIANS & C MIiTwp oa GOs THE ARCHITECTS REVOLUTIONARY 11, PERCY STREET, LONDON W TEL. 011.636.0974 XT 27 ARC calls on all those architects and others involved in the built environment who believe that we should cease working only for the rich and powerful minority or the bureaucratic cietatorships of central and 15¢e21 government and offer our skills and services to the local communities which have little chance to work directly with architects ana architecture. ARC maintains that the profession 2s.it now stands is a luxury profession and that because of this the architect is caught in the narrow trap of economic viability and profit, ARC further maintains that the RLBA Qrspogates this narrow luxury characteristic and ig thus directly responsible for the malaise of architecture ant the state of our cities, ARC believes that their are thousands of architects who would welcome a new franework through which they could work directly for the local communities which would then become the renal clients with alk the power ana privilege of traditional clients, ARC believes that the problems of architecture are all around us, but that people who suffer from them cannot afford architects to solve then; neither can architects afford to tackle them. It is this trap we wish to break, ARC is well aware that to achieve a new framework for architecture there will have to be radical changes in our present political and econonic system. Nevertheless first architects and students must denonstrate that they are prepared to fight for a new system in their Own art. ARC specifically believes that the students in the schools of architecture ery out for a new educational systen to replace the existing one where they are trained as fodécr for the profit orientated professional systen existing now. ARC calls on all these people to join together to forn a new international movement ond through solidarity help bring about the architectural revolution, The Draft Manifesto, REMEMBER UNITY IS STRENGTH. ARCHITECTS UNITE FOR THE REVOLUTION. REJECT THE RIBA, VICTORY TO THE ARG. Sopa Seg Pn thghtasTe | PURTHER COPIES oF THE LAMPHLET(15p each) and | |POSTERS (20p each) ARE AVAILABLE FROM:— ,ARC, 1 PERCY STREET, LONDON W.1. SS What is ARC. It is a movement of architects, students and others, which believes that creative architecture should be available to all people in society, regardless of their economic circumstances. It is a movement committed to revolutionary changes within the architectural establishment and spec— ifically to the replacement of the RIBA by a new architectural systen. Why is ARC needed. The term 'crisis in architecture’ is common today and not only because of Malcolm MacEwans book; the press is constantly filled with statements of alarm, disgust and desperation over the state of architecture and the dilema in which architects find themselves. We in the movement would refer everyone to MacEwans book which soundly castigates the RIBA, for in general terms we agree with his analysis, BUT WE DO NOT AGREE WITH HIS SOLUTIONS OR CONCLUSIONS. His radical reformist policy, which accepts the continuance of the RIBA, is doomed to failure, in the context of our architectural system, because, as Afidre Gorz says!....reformism rejects those objectives and demands, however deep the need for them, which are incompatible with the preservation of the systen..". Architecture should be done in the service of society. Social ethics and justice should be pur criteria, We all know this is not so and that the architectural profession has far too frequently been motivated by anti-social values. The profession is full of the whining and wheedling of the RIBA at the moment over the disasterous slump in the professions work load. Delegations to the government, lobbying of MP's anc Pooleys recent plea to all architects to donate £10 to the RIBA; these are all signs of a panic rush to protect the status quo. The reasons for Pooleys begging are, in his own words,"....that a strong RIBA is neccessary to the survival of practices everywhere and the achievement of a stable building programme. Apart from the fact that this is not even true (greedy large practices are at least partially responsible for the dilema of the small enterprise), there is not a word about the quality of the environment, nor about the dramatie social changes trying to break through igi our society, and in which architecture must play a part if it is to’have any credibility at all. The common ownership of workplaces, the desire for local control, the semi slavery of the technicians in the profession; there is no evidence that the RIBA is stimulated by such ideals. The RIBA's yearning for a stable buildigg programme is a wistful reference to the boom years of the late sixties and early seventies, Those boon years tell the whole story and they are the prime reason why ARC maintains that only revolution will do. This graph showing the rise and fall of commissions in the world of architecture, shows clearer than any words, just where the profession and the RIBA have stood in relation to our society in recent years. This coincides exactly with the Office Boom. So we know who the friends of the RIBA were, and why the profession is bemoaning the rec:. a .. The years of 1969 to 1975 will be remembered for a long time to come. They are our generations architectural heritage. T 200 VALUE OF COMMISSIONS/LAST DECADE. aMILLION 64 ‘65 ‘68 *"7071727374 41200 4000 +1. 800 600 % 400 = & RLenene) In this period the price of building and of land,rocketed;the term ®the - unacceptable face of capitalism’ was coined; the speculator and the developer became the villains in our society and corruption in the saintly architectural profession began to break through the thin veneer of ‘creative professionalism! that the RIBA had fostered for so long.In the words of many comnentators,"it was only the tip of the iceberg". Yet during that time leading members of the profession (some now on the RIBA Council) were saying such things as; iT+ is ridiculous not to develop the site to its fullest potential.... there is no point in underdeveloping on valuable land.." Pritzroy 2tobinson. "The most successful architects are those who understand property values and the mechanics of property development". iYes we did work for the spivs(developers) and when we did we felt terrible hypocites,.... but what could we do". Anonymous architect Building Design 4/75. Of course the RIiBa did not officially endorse such views, but neither did it, during these years of physical and social rape, once cry out in protest. For those in the movement, these past years have been the final straw. Like many others we have waited to sce the profession::face up to it's social responsibility and we were willing to accept even gradual reform as long as wecould see a sign of social spirit. We now see that we could wait forever. In our view, the greatest and lest chance for the RIA came in the property boom. This is when the profession could have been the vanguard in environmental ethics and morality. Instead the RIBA showed its true character and sided with the criminals who exploited the inflation in land and construction costs. The RIBA is part of the free market system and that is why the institute is in such a turmoil now as that system is under such an attack. We all know whit that system has done to our physical and social environment. Since 1971 three times as much capital has gone into property develop- ment as into our industrial production. The RIBA cannot imagine itself outside this system, and nor has it the traditions to do so. It has, however, always had a mandate to do so, as it's charter specifically demands that it'advance civil architecture'. This can only br inter- preted as serving society, which it has never done though it takes £100,000 a year from the taxpayer in tax and rate reliefs for this purpose. Where other professions have made moves forward in terms of social service,(some tentative like Legal Aid Centres; some which embrace the whole society, like the NHS) whilst the RIB: has only become more associated with the rich and powerful. So the RIBA is not fit to govern the world of architecture, nor is it capable of any reform of lasting value to socicty. 'The institute is dead! says MacEwan, but then he goes on to say 'The institute on the other hand is alive and well', THE INSTITUE IS NOT DEAD! 80j of arch- itects belong to it and it is the mouthpiecs of architecture in our society. Owen Luder. Louis Hellman(Ad cartoonist) was certainly right when he said of the ” RIBA "... the people at the top of this keeping things the way they are..." place have a vested interest in Architecture, said Hans Meyer in the 1930's'is +imes been wielded by the ruling class in his book 'Wasteland' says 'Bhe history of those whe had the power to build. Rembrandt's accomplished in poverty and rejection. governments, churchmen, merchants and speculative would not exist....because they would not Architects have always allicd themselves No-one can deny this. But we can change a weapon that can be used for the good the cause of those who live in degrading a weapon that has as all of human society’. Stephen Kurtz of architecture is the history greatest work was But without kings, noblemen and builders, architecture otherwise have functioned. with the rich and powerful’. this, and turn architecture into of society and particularly in environments. WHY THE TIME IS RIGHT. The many critics of the RIBA call for reform,. We eall for REVOLUTION and say DO AWAY WITH THE RIBA; It is an enemy of enciety, and the dictator of the lives of the poor and underprivileged. It is in the path of progress and must be swept away, it has abused the trust of society and must now go,to allow a humane and just design profession to flourish. The ARCHITECTS REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL sees itself in the tradition of past revolutionary movements in architecture; the Constructivists, ARSE, Atelier Populaire. These movements did not succeed because the time was not right, but they planted fertile seeds. WE BELIEVE THAT THE TIME IS RIGHT and we in ARC want to play our full part in the creation of the new mass movement in architecture. But this can only come about with your aid. There are over twenty thousand registered architects in this country. Per head of population this is more than any country in Burope. Over 80% of these registered architects are members of the RIBA. 807% of all architects are salaried;IE.they work for other architects. This alone should be unacceptable to the society that pays for their training. It is the taxpayers money that provides the grants to train architects to deal with the environmental prepblems of society. Architects do not repay this debt in any way at present,they are unaccountable and irresponsible to that society. Trained people are foreed to work in and are exploited by a bosses orgamisation;the RIBA, A large proportion of the archit—- ectural work is handled by a small proportion of the membership who have built up large practices. The RIBA has always been run by such people and thus the status quo is maintained. The tendency has been to become big and powerful with the emphasis on streamlining and management techniques. The RIBA's ethic, if it can be said to have one, is that of narrow professionalism; a service to the client. These days the client cannot be identified with the society and frequently not even with the user. All this is in direct contrast to the moves going on in our society; the themes of local autonomy and preservation, the revival of craftsmanship and e more human approach to developing the environment. Over half our urban environment is economically impoverished and environmentally deprived.The communities within these areas have helped through taxation,to train the profession. This profession returns none of this aid and where it does not ignore these areas (commissions do not come from the poor areas)it helps in the rape of them through development or subtle gentrification. The RIBiA upholds a 19th century elitist position and deliderately keeps lay people out of its club. This is particularly true as regards the yawning gulf between the profession and the working classes. The RIBA has a code that seeks to cushion its members from adverse eritisism;it is more important to the RIBA that members should be loyal to each other and to the institute, than to the society that it is supposed to serve. It refuses openly to condemn aparthied and therefore has no regard for civil justice. If it cannot have such principles fron 4000 miles how can we expect justice from it on the home front. It has never developed even such esoteric concepts as the competmtion systen, because the ruling elite wish to keep the rewards for themselves. But the RIBA and its ruling establishment, has worked itself into a trap from which it cannot escape. It's greed, especially over the last decade, and its narrow objectives have put it in such bad repute, that i it is fighting a last ditch battle to try +o build an acceptable image. It will not succeed. The 3000 unattached architects have already co clained in a recent survey that the RIBA has done nothing for architec— ture. Members of Parliament attack it for its social sins. The public and especially those in the poorer areas, now See along with the local bureaucrats and speculators who have ruined their lives, environments and communities, the subtle villian of the piece is the RIBA. « The people living ig. these communities are particularly incensed because the professiom passed itself off as being socially conscious. * But the tables are turning because of the massive number of redund- ant architects who will soon condemn the RIB for not building a firm social working base for architecture. Over a thousand architects will be out of work by Christmas and more than 60% of graduates will not. find employment this sumuier. These unenployed architects can blame, with some justification, world inflation and recession for their plight, but the main problem is the Brcedy inflexible char-cter of the profession. And as the redundancies occur who will be hit first? Not the powerful principles who run the big practices and back up the elitism of the RIBA, It will be the salaricd architects and technicians, the people who do the real work in architects offices. 411 those soon to be redundant should know that there has never been a lack of work. A large part of our environment is a slum and getting worse. But the RIBA has never taken the trouble to-ferge the professicn into.an organiser capable of tackling these problems. The first prerequisite of such capability is thw desire to do sonething about it; this presupposes a social conscience,,. Sonething the RIBA has never had. For Teasons such as greed and aloof-— ness the RIBA is incapable of dirtying itself at the level of the problen. The RIBA has no meaning fbr our siciety; a society that requires connit-— ment to a cause. It has no meaning for architecture students iciomelat continues to control their destiny. It has meaning to many purely as an enticement to letters after ones name, as a path to commissions or jobs. Soon there will be no jobs left. THE PRESENT SITUATION IN aRc. : ? The movement began sone eighteen months ago, when two architects, one English and one dugoslavian, decided that an international movenent was needed to take the profession out of its elittst and capitalistic franewrk and make it responsible to society. There was particular need to deliberately align the profession with the poorer areas of our environment were connection with architecture is non-existant. eSLL__e a_ But useless as it is the RIBA will not relinquish. power voluntarily. The status quo will not easily abdicate in the face of reason said Harold Laski. He was right. A strong architectural revolutionary movenent must keep attacking the RIBA, until the power is rested from them an@ a new order established. Prior t5 this, hope only “iny with the few. architects and students deeply commited to an architecture for all people Now many more will comnait themselves, because they are left with no other option. The new systen of architecture will need to be based on & mass movement just as the RIBA is, otherwise there can be no progressive and creat— ive attack on the environmental problems of our society. That is why the ARCHITECTS REVOLUTIONARY COUNGTT, does not pretend to’ be the new movenent, nor indeed itts embryo. ARC has constantly seen itself as 2 stall commited hovement totally opposed to the present setup. It wpuld also oppose the new movenent should it show tendencies +o beconing a bureaucracy intent -oh precerving - itself’ to the deteriment of society. ARC sees itself as helping to bring the new movenmnt abou and ciets nessessary acting as its vanguard. To this end it is organising a national convention in the Autumn ,of all erchitects, technicians, students and others who wish to see revolutionary changes within the profession. Seperate literature will be published shortly concerning this convent- ion. As regards ARC itself there is still much to be done to build the group into an effective architectural guerilla force, What follows is a brief history of the trovenent so far and ways in which you maybe able to help if you feel yourself committed. For as Malcolm X once said "...if you're not part of the solution your part of the problen". - Sorts ane wokeEERE) instincts of the founders was that there already , isted many hundreds, if noy thousands, of architects who are a part of th a novel ent in spirit; what was needed was to forge them into a ; Llective and formidable force for revolutionary change in the profe- ion. Commonsense demanded that national move nents be constructed first, i this penDnlet refers only to the English group. However it is known at there are embryonic cells in eight other countries so far; USA, rentina, Italy, Jugoslavia, France, Norway, Ireland and Scotland. In > course, perhaps within two years, the first ARC INTERNATIONAL will sur. 2 main core of the English movement is in London, and contains, in lition to architects and students, eae eee and lawyers. All the core ibers have worked extenisively in conmunity action and believe that, lid though that method ae it will not achieve total freedom in the fironnental field on its own. The profession themselves neve to be 7olusionised to aid community action. During the ee year the movement 3 been building strength based on commitment (for exareple one or two ve left because they could not live up to the idea which denanés tting the cause of the revolution before conventional success in arch—- scture. Others have joined after long and serious thought.) 2 core members have lectured at colleges in England, Ireland and Scot-— id, In addition a small group recently travelled throughout jimerica aking at colleges in Boston, New York, Chaoe San Frensisceo, Los and many other cities. One of the founder members recently essed the conference of the ¥oung Liberals. (We do not align with this ty but we will proclaim ARC anywhere) . sause eventually we will need parliamentary backing, the niovement is the process of naking contact with appropriate IP's Our contazvts th the unions are also developing and at the right t e we expect full oport fron*then, > moverient is drafting ideas for a new system of educathon; for the new 1ancial structure. (how architects would be paid under the new soc-— lly orientated system) and for the other ideas. These will be put to > Autumn convention as ARC's contribution to the mass movement. July the main core of the English movement(in LOndon) will have split, produce at least three new cells om units, in the Provinces; on the st coast, in the North West and in Scotland. Because these cells will constructed by totally committed ARC members we will be certsin of ar healthy cells by summer. iT CAN YOU DO. thin in,your practice, college or locality you can try to build up a it that would strive for the establishment of a new system of architectu re, based on the draft manifesto. It is better to have four people 9 can trust each other than a loose unit of ten. Remember unity is rength, and you will not te alone. Contact the main movement to let us ow you are attempting to build a cell then keep us in contact and let know your views. have a fairly extensive network of people throughout Britain and we ybe able to put you in touch with others in your locality. Your help 11 be needec in setting up the Autumn convention and to th@s end the C main group will be calling a meeting of all the British members rly in Summer. nally always remember that the reason that the status quo is preserved because peopel think they are alone. The minute two people get sether and say ew can do something, then a movement is born. This is wha at we said and a movement has been born and we shall win, because the me is right. chitects unite for revolution TORY TO THE ARC. cS Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource ARC 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 undated https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/bdcb1e5fdef071a1b04041ff93d18d9c.pdf 960b920713f417388b2488233e51864e 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 Report on Meeting of group at Burnham Overy Staithe Subject The topic of the resource Report on Meeting of group at Burnham Overy Staithe (windmill) 22-24 Feb 1980 (4 pp) Description An account of the resource The RIG group convened at an unusual and outct:.noinc landmark from ßebruary 22nd — to dizcuco current and future icsueg concerning SLATE and I',RCUK. The venue was the Tower lilili , a dioused windmill at Burhara Overy Statthe on the Norfolk coast. lie were unfortunately not able to explore the beautiful surrounding countryside as time wag short and tho issues vere many • wag pointed out during the weakond that rnany people do not understand the tern "unattached", especially in relation to ARCUK councillorg. It was also noted that these"unattached" councillors were the only elected ones on ARCUK. decision wag therefore taken to refer to them ao "electodj• councillors ag opposed to RIBA or other constituent body "nominee" councillors. llhcther or not thic title will stick remains to Oe geen, but they bc referred to as such for the purpo=es of this article. During the weekend we decided to carry out an initial collation oxerciue of replies received so far frorn the elected ARCUK councillorc' questionnaire published recently in the AJ, of there were corae 500—600. At the of writ inc this article the full analysis is not available. ilowever two points uorthy o? note were: 'i'he vast raajority of RIBA members who replied were in i't•.vour of direct elect ion of council lorg to ARCUK; considerable nurauer of unattached architects had not received nomination or election papere for tho ARCUK elections thic year. information led to a lerurthy debate conccrnxnc the zp.,ortionrnunt of on tho Council toeether with general conduct and the obstruction of buginess 'tithin the council chamber. Tiu•oe discuccionz finally inanifested 'j 'iihe aurhata Charter" to head the "Clean up ARCIJK t • campaign, tho draft o? v;hici• in 1.uU1fuhed here. TO An approach to elected councillors by another non— architect ARCUK councillor, intending io mediate between our— selves and the ill IBA, vtao discuooed. It was cenerzlly felt however that ','iiile not uichinc to detract from l•ir. Lej%ütt'g intentions, jaore yooitive action and Uel•aviour in tho Council chamber could be brought about by procr.otion and of Durham Charier. Initial moves to establish cotamunicationu the Electoral "eforra Society concerning ARCUK elections have yet not aet with creat enthudiacrn, they apparently consider their province covers conduct of the election machinery ag it exists and not conctitutional arrancoracntg, even if these aero conzidered "faulty beyond tolerance" • another major of the weekend revolved around amendments to the Code of Conduct, particularly in relation to (ärectorshipg, advertising and I imitea Iiabiiity. A atrong argument wag put in favour of al 10%ing thegc on the grounds that in practica they ail but exist anyway, often to the disadvantage of unattached architects. Amendments "10 the Code allowing them would help to deotroy any misapprehensiong Lhe lay public may under about the professional integrity of many architect3, and this action could thus be considered to be in the public intcregt. Gtrong and preoaatic argument ' vor operating within the capit:.list '„'az, houovor, not adhered to unanimously and unfortuxat.tuly the opponents to the idea on fundamental idcolocicul etl'icai uere not to put forward their view::. uxnouni of t ivaov.•as openi outside funding for PIG, cuch ag charitable iruüts. Theca argumentu were reminiøcent of past Liaioon Group discussiono and no real conclusion wag reached. �Time wag set agide for diccugoion on the future of and SL,'ITE, bearint»• in rnind the decigion of the lact Congresg to holdu jpecial conference thio spring on the future stratecieg Tho concengun appeared to be that NAM wag ecoential ao a foe. I point in order to identify the icsuec for which it ctood. No discusoion took place regardinctho future form of except that the orcanigation of an Annual Congregg and AGI.L should definitely continue, providing an open forum for debate It appearo that local croupa continue on their own moraentum rogardlece of whether or not they come under the umbrella. In both Cardiff and Leedo regular local Ineetincc and action cont inue althouch larcely unreported nationally in miOit help tho communication network could bc Strengthened. TLC London croup is apparently about to obe rocurrocted from the crave due to the efforts of Ken Eierce among others. It io understood that thoy intend to organisc a ueriec of diocusciono on current isoueo during the comin ear, and it uag guc€ested at the FIG gatherin.% that thoue could be focuogod on oubjcc I—orientated forums discunsing •i.he effecto of the cuts and hou to co:nbat +vhern. 'i'he key to all theoe oucgegtionc appeavc to revolve aroun€i SLATE, %hicii it is understood ig in deeperate need of both obi 11ed 1 abour and material on groupe' activiticc, intcrcotg and opinions. ',liiile nothing particularly congtructive forth— corning on now to 001 ve the labour problem, it ougcocted tiw.t SLA'QI:; should at 1 cast ( or caoot) reduce i to publ icationz to per annum (auguaning i' inanco and labour are forthcojaing). •securdinu FIG resolved to nake more concerted effort to keep particularly SLR'iiE regularly informed of cll itg activitieo, provigionally uoinc Ian Cooper ao a collecting point for forwarding inforc•ation. ßnclooed are •Lected councillor nominationc for cormitteo repreeontation on ARCUK for 1980—81. The "Gentleman i s Agreement" guarantoeg thege nominationu being accepted. : ARCIX Regiotrar from : 'Unat tached t Councillors 20 February 1980 Re egentation on the Gentlemen' 6 Agreement The following are the under the Gentlemen's board of Architectural Education : *dui6Gion Committee Finance & General Parposes ComLIttee Professional Comui±t board and Committees of Council: •Unattached • Councillors' noni-nations for the year 1980/81:— David John wurney Robert maltz Peter John Cutmore Peter William. dove Norman Fränk Arnold Edward walker John Stewart Allan uavid Roebuck Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Prof Issues Group 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 Feb-80 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/d84c830d6cd0c0e3b6eaa8ccb0bfe4a7.pdf f476cb70d62f2c8a59d24fc14cab7039 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 Report on Professional Issues Group Meeting, Feb 1980 Description An account of the resource to *an Cooper. The PIG group convened at an unusual and outst.naing londmork Aron Sebruary 22nd — 24th to discuss current and future issues concerning NAM, SLATE and ARCUK. The venue was the Tower Mill, a disused windmill at Burham Overy Staithe on the Norfolk coast. ie were unfortunately not able to explore the be: utiful surrounding countryside as time was short and the issues were MANY e It was pointed out during the weekend that many people do not understand the term "unattached", especially in relation to ARCUK councillors. It was also noted that these"unatt«ched" councillors were the only elected ones on ARCUK. A decision was therefore taken to refer to them as "elected" councillors as opposed to RIBA or other constituent body "nominee" councillors. whether or not this title will stick remains to be seen, but they will be referred to as such for the purposes of this «rticle. During the weekend we decided to carry out an initial colletion exercise of replies received so far from the elected ARCUK councillors' questionnaire published recently in the AJ, or which there were some 500-600. At the time of writing this article the full analysis is not available. However two points worthy of note were: 1) The vast majority of RIBA members who replied were in favour of direct election of councillors to ARCUK; 2) A considerable number of unattached architects had not received nomination or election papers for the ARCUK elections this year. This information led to a lengthy debate concerning the apportionment of seats on the Council together with general conuuct and the obstruction of business within the council chamber. These discussions finally manifested "The Burham Charter" iteport_on Professional Issues Yroup (PIG) meeting 22nd—24th Mebruary. 11580) Nor forwarding to SLATH/NAM Lieison Group ifter omissions end udditions by PIG members. Vistribution to «11 PIG members, Please forward any amendments ate to head the "Clean up ARCUK" campaign, the draft of which is published here, TO BH INSERTED An upproach to the elected oounoillors ‘by, another non— architect ARCUK councillor, intending to mediate between our— selves and the RIVA, wis discussed. It was generally felt however that while not wishing to detract from Nr. Leggatt's worthy intentions, more positive action and democratic behaviour in the Council chamber could be brought about by promotion and Giscussion of the Burham Cherter. Initizl moves to establish communications with the Hlectoral ‘eform Society concerning ARCUK elections heve as yet not met with great enthusiasm, as they apparently consider their province covers the conduct of the election machinery as it exists and mot constitutional arrangements, even if these were considered "faulty beyond tolerance". Another major debate of the weekend revolved around amendments to the Code of Conduct, particularly in relation to directorships, advertising and limited liability. A strong argument was put in favour of allowing these on the grounds that in practice they all but exist enywey, often to the disadventage of unettached architects. Amendments to the Code allowing them would help to destroy ahy misapprehensions the lay public may be under about the professionwl integrity of many architects, and this action could thus be considered to be in the public interest. This strong and prepmatic argument for operating within the capitalist system was, however, not adhered to unanimously and uniortimetely the fain opponents to the idea on fundamental ideological and ethical grounds were not present to put forward their vicws. A small amount of timejas apent discussing outside funding for PIG, such as chariteble trusts. These arguments were reminiscent of past NAM Liaison Group discussions and no real conclusion was reached. ate Time was set aside for discussion on the future of NAM and SLATE, bearing in mind the decision of the last Congress to holda special conference this spring on the future strategies of NAM. The concensus appeared to be that NAM was essential as a focal point in order to identify the issues for which it stood. iio discussion took place regardingthe future form of NAM except that the orginisation of an Annual Congress end AGM should definitely continue, providing an open forum for debate. It appears that local groupe continue on their own momentum regardless of whether or not they come under the NAM umbrella. In both Cardiff and Leeds regular local meetings and action continue although largely unreported nationally in SLATE. It might help if the communication network could be strengthened. The London group is upparently about tovbe resurrected from the grave due to the efforts of Ken Pierce among others. It is understood that they intend to organise a series of discussions on current issues during the comingyear, and it was suggested at the Burham PIG gatheriny that these could be focussed on subject-orientated forums discussing the effects of the cuts and how to conbat them. The key to all these suggestions appears to revolve eround SLATE, which it is understood is in desperate need of both sHilled labour and material on NAN groups! activities, interests and opinions. While nothing particularly constructive was forth— coming on how to solve ‘the labour problem, it wes suggested that SLATE should at least ( or most) reduce its publications to 4 per annum (assuming finance and lahour are forthcoming). “evarding material, PIG resolved to make u more concerted effort to keep NAN and particularly SLATE regularly informed of ell its activities, provisionally using Ian Cooper as 4 collecting point for forwarding information. Enclosed are ehected councillor nominations for committee representation on ARCUK for 1980-81. The "Gentleman's Agreement" guarantees these nominations being accepted, to: ARCUK Registrar From; ‘'Unattached' Councillors Representation on the poard and Committees of the Council: Gentlemen's Agreement Board of Architectural Education ; David John surney Robert Maltz Admission Committee $ Peter John Cutmore Peter William Howe Finance & General Purposes Committee : Norman Frknk Arnold a ee Edward walker Professional Purposes Committee John Stewart Allan vavid Roebuck 20 February 1980 The following are the ‘Unattached’ Councillors! nominations under the Gentlemen's Agreement for the year 1980/81:- Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unknown 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 Feb 1980 Subject The topic of the resource Report on Professional Issues Group Meeting, Feb 1980 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/d6822909d5de523d9a8f0dd0a6b3857a.pdf e7011eb2caf48ce0b5f301d143fc2c48 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 Report on Professional Issues Group, Annual Meeting, Feb 1981 Description An account of the resource (i) PIG ANNUAL MEETING Feburary 14 1981, at Islington Bus Company, London N7. PRESENT: John Allan Bob Maltz Giles Pe body David Burney Mick Broad Ken Thorpe (part) Ian Cooper (part) David Roebuck APOLOGIES: Eddie Walker Norman Arnold ANNUAL REVIEW: Generally and ''Code': John Allan:- (11) That the work on thecode put the u/a firmly in the No. 2 seat and by our "intimate" incorporation in its drafting recognisedtheu/aasanumerouseae ens ((sisiat)) oo A need for our cooperation because we are/"unreliable" to be left out (viz monopolies) and the need for the RIBA not to push something through on the strength of an RIBA vote. (iv) The result was consensus policies and it was necessary to elucidate this and how it would shape further action. Bob Maltz:- (i) Too much time, resources and commitment was being devoted to ARCUK at the expense of NAM. NAM was weak as a result and therefore there was a need to re-orientate and re-direct resources back to NAM. Debate between mainly BM and JSA over whether the extensive commitment and detailed work within ARCUK was the most effective way to achieve NAM's aims, in summary these arguments were The current work particularly on the code was probably the climax of all the previous work done by NAM on Code and Monopolies and that we had primarily achieved our objective of driving a wedge between RIBA and ARCUK. (ii) The emphasis of working within ARCUK blinkered our overview. ((aislit)) (iv) It was restated that our primary aim was that "ARCUK is to be a public interest body and not a front for the RIBA". Board of Architectural Education: It was decided to direct more effort to the BAE this year. As the BAE had in theory a lay majority and that we should be re-orientating the BAE by exploiting and by suggesting possible well known lay contacts on to ARCUK visiting boards. PRAP was preparing a report for Council on Continuing Education and that the u/a should nominate a councillor in order to prepare a minority report. Further NAM nominees to be put up for visiting boards and criteria to be challenged. "Clean Up" Campaign: Finnieston Report : Government had decided not to implement the report and create a statutory registration standards to be formed instead. No further action. Changes in Building Regulations: David Burney had written to Heseltine putting forward u/a's views. It appeared that Heseltine was now backtracking on self—certification. lay representation body. A bodyon educational We should be pursuing our aims with respect to ARCUK outside, i.e. through press, Privy Council, Legal and by building alliances outside e.g. Unions, M.P.s. We should be using our ARCUK status for pursuing other aims rather than solely pursuing our aims within ARCUK. The debate was rather wide ranging and generally unresolved at present but as our work on the Code was shortly to end this would be an opportunity to change direction. It was agreed that the letter prepared for all the nominating authorities should be re-drafted and used in the press rather than risk upsetting those existing nominees who were sympathetic to our aims. No actions since solicitors letter. Work to be directed to considering proposals for re-scheduling schedule I of the Act rather than attempting some legal "nice ones". Monopolies: Keyte: Committee Representation: Bob Maltz as reserve. D.B. to contact B.A. PPC —- Edward Walker Norman Arnold GPC - Giles Peabody David Roebuck Admissions - Mick Broad ANO Free election BAE —- Alan Lipman and ANO PPC —- David Roebuck John Allan to see if interested. This work was now at an end in ARCUK's terms as all our criteria were being met by the proposed new code. It was decided that if ARCUK voted not to remove him from the register that we should ensure that there is adequate press coverage. Press to be pre-briefed. More importantly what is our general attitude to criminal convictions. After some debate it was agreed that there were three class of convictions that we considered merited removal from the register and that these were: (i) conviction of an offence in connection with the practice of architecture resulting in death - indefinite removal. (ii) convictions of an offence in connection with the practice of architecture with no death involved, e.g. corruption or tax frauds. (iii) Convictions of an offence not connected with the practice of architecture, removal from register for period of prison term. Where no prison term set, but fine instead, then no removal. It was provisionally agreed as follows. Gentlemen's agreement. BAE - David Burney, Brian Anson. GPC - 6 others to be decided. Discipline - Mick Broad Also D.R. to be nominated for Chairman of Council and J.S.A. as vice Chairman. Future Strategy: D.R. 20.2.80. It was agreed that new initiatives would evolve during the year and must be more NAM based. As 1981 was ARCUK's 50th anniversary a working group is to be formed to prepare "our" version of ARCUK's history and purpose and which could be used to launch a programme for ARCUK's reform and re-constitution. The group will start meeting at the end of March when the Code work is mainly out of the way. J.S.A. to approach Malcolm McEwan and D.R. to prepare list draft agenda and to anchor. J.S.A. christened group "Quinquagenary Quango" or QQQ for short. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource DR 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 1981 Subject The topic of the resource Report on Professional Issues Group, Annual Meeting, Feb 1981 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/c3f66a709f90d01d3f8dff8833667991.pdf 4e0c96e6fe35d20318880b37d664538d 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 Report on questionnaire to Unattached Architects, Nov 1977 Description An account of the resource —_~— ———— Report on questionnaire to unattached architects (November, 1977) (3. 1.00 The questionnaire was included in the annual circular to unattached architects, which contains nomination forms for unattached represen- tatives. This year approximately 4100’ were sent. 2.00 211 replies were received. A copy of the questionnaire and an analysis of each part are attached. ‘ 3,00 3.01 Summary 3.02 Size, type and position in office. 85% were employed, 15% partners in private practice of chief officers. Nearly 60% were employed in the public sector.. ; 3.03 Question 1. Nearly every respondent took this to mean = ‘why are you not a member of the R.I.BeA. ?" Most respondents gave more than one reason; the numbers and variety are summarised in the graph as % of the reasons given. 3.04 3,05 Question 2. Over ons half are members of a union; the vast ma jority of these belong to N.A.L.G.0. 4 3.06 Question 4. As with Question 14, most respondents gave more than 4 ome suggestions; numbers and variety are summarised in the graph.~ More than 4 gave no reply, some stating that they were not sufficiently© acquainted with the Code. 3.07 4,00 Question 5S. Remarks as Question 4, Two out of 3 gave no reply. 5.00 In view of the low returns, both in 1975 and this year, it is consid- ered that statistical advice should be sought before framing any future questionnaires. KT/ 7.6.78 foe and sex distribution. The oldest respondent was 74; over x were under 40; one in 4 were under 30; one in 40 were women; and 1417 stated that they were 'retired', Question 3. This question is in two parts. Two out of 3 replied "yes" to amending the Acts to require a cross section of the profession on the Council (3.(a)).- Respondents were equally divided on the question of increasing lay representation on the Council. One in 4 made no reply to either part of the question. The replies were very interesting dus to the range of subjects introduced and the extent to which some ware treated. A few respondents gave only their name and ege. Many wrote at length about their concerns viewpoints, and proposals. | @ Dear Unattached, The Architects Registration Acts lay down that each 500 unattached architects are to have one representative on ARCUK. The numbers of unattached have been steadily increasing over the last five years. We are writing to you as your elected unattached representatives on ARCUK for the year 1976-77. In attending ARCUK meetings over the past year we have attempted to stress the need for openness and accountability in the conduct of ARCUK's affairs with respect to both the public and the profession. Further, we have been concerned by the imbalance of representation on ARCUK. The vast majority of ARCUK are members of the RIBAs; and a large proportion of these are also principals in private practice. This state of affairs neither adequately reflects the structure of the profession itself, over 80% of whom is salaried, nor allows effective representation of the lay public who, after all, use the buildings which architects design. Although we are elected by you, we have practically no means of knowing which of the issues currently facing the profession are of concern to you. Once a year we have this opportunity of contacting you. As in 1975 we are attempting to gather some information about unattached architects. It would help us if we knew your opinions on subjects being discussed in ARCUK; for example, on advertising, on maintaining the minimum,fee scale, on citizens advice bureaux, on ‘architectural' consultancies, and on lay representation in the affairs of the profession. In addition we welcome suggestions on the issues which you feel should be raised for discussion in ARCUK during the coming year.~ Please let us have your answers to the questions below and any additional views and comments; all of which will be kept in confidence. Finally, please contact any of your ARCUK representatives matter of concern. Yours faithfully, 1 Why are you unattached ? 2 Are you a member of a trades union ? throughout the coming year on any Anne Delaney, Alan Lipman, Bob Maltz, Robin Phillips, Dave Roebuck, Ken Thorpe and Ian Tod If yes, which? Acts should be amended (a) to take 3 Do you consider that the Registration account of the actual constitution of the profession, and (b) to increase lay representation on ARCUK 7? 4 What reforms, if any, would you suggest should be made to ARCUK's Code ? 5 Can you suggest ways in which we can look after your interests on ARCUK? NAME AGE TYPE OF OFFICE (central government, local authority, private practice, industry, education, self employed, unemployed, other) SIZE OF OFFICE YOUR POSITION IN OFFICE Please reply to : Unattached Architects, c/o 109, CADOGAN TERRACE, LONDON E 9 Rs OTS ae CG ny Sesshap LISStas Why are you unattached 7? i 2 Are you a member of a trades union ? If yes, which? Neto WES {KS ALENT RCT«=NN-UNpN OTHER =H + Lipots Stfadgtppt dadefd $44-f4fit :ain Ehit 1 pth dae pat 4-4 sf e-f tt 4 AH | St: 3 0o you consider that the Registration Acts should be amended (a) to take account of the actual constitution of the profession, and (b) to increase lay representation on ARCUK ? 1i Ly Tt SEE Pti tNEHt Do you consider that the Registration Acts should be amended (a) to take account of the actual constitution of the profession, and (b) to increase lay representation on ARCUK ? 4 i uo a je “dj o e s) o e oO oH a oO - <= = ~ o vv oO o =x = oO c <= o ° wv oO me] Oo Ee oO oO = fe) aie 0 »~ co) oO oa a 2 2] =) o > uv os > o 3 a > c 0 - 4 What reforms, if any, would you suggest should be made to ARCUK's Code 7 ~ 2= » c od <= c o o » o oO is ® a J, °o ~ i} o » Cae 0 x ° o et Cc Q Can you suggest ways in which we c Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource KT 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 June 1978 Subject The topic of the resource Report on questionnaire to Unattached Architects, Nov 1977 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/103dc5807ba2f7928c88f9c8e713974e.pdf 1bc57b345d16fb44e0b00f22784e8f9f 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 Representation of Unattached Architects, 1979/80 Description An account of the resource Architects Registration Council of the United Kingdom ESTABLISHED UNDER THE ARCHITECTS INEGIBTRATION! ACTS Fes! TO 1830 73 Hallam Street London W1N 6EE Tel: 01-580 5851 Registrar: Kenneth J. Forder M.A. REPRESENTATION OF "UNATTACHED' ARCHITECTS election were as follows: John Duncan Murray 500 Robert Maltz 492 Thomas Adrian Woolley 489 Ian James Tod 478 John Stewart Allan 433 David Greensett Robson 391 Peter John Cutmore 356 Susan Mary Jackson 343 Marion Elizabeth Ruth Roberts 338 Edward Walker 337 Maxwell John Buckingham Jackson 333 Hugh Philip Massey 315 Ian Peter Cooper 299 The 35 disallowed were as follows: lb 9 February 1979 16 unsigned envelopes 6 wrong signatures 3 spoiled papers 10 had no inner envelopes ar H M Smith Y/ue Scrutineers Z WaneasKeeble Election of Members of the Council under sub-paragraph (vii) of paragraph 1 of the First Schedule to the principal Act for the year 1979/80 We, the undersigned scrutineers, report that the votes cast in this 772 voting papers were received, of which 737 were counted. Copies to Councillors Nominees ae phn, ( RE: -Unattached Election 1979 David Roebuck 25, St, Georges Avenue, LONDON N,7 OBB 01=607=4103 et Ol = 828 = 2323 (Office) lstDecember, 1978 5. John Allan 6. Ian Cooper 7.- Eddie Walker 8. Susan Jackson 9. #Marion Roberts >< 1, For those who are standing Existing Councillors Existing Committee Members (i) Constituent Body (ie. state "Unattached") (ii) Year on Register (iii) Age (iv) Present Employer/Professional post wih (v) 100 word statement of Committee ;experience (architectural or otherrwise) (State that you are a N.A.M member) Please send to me a letter to ARCUK saying that you accept nomination 2. For those not standing Anne Delaney, Alan Lipman Please write to ARCUK stating you decline nomination. You will now have received from ARCUK the nominations for the 1979 Election at the Cheltenham Congress the following list was agreed to fill the 9 places available : 1. Tom Woolley ) 2. John Murray 3. Bob Maltz 4. Ian Todd In addition, Alan Lipman is to be nominated to the B.A.E. and an out-of-towner is to be nominated to Admissions Committee. Unlessyouhavealreadydoneso,wouldyoupleaseensurethatyousendmeyour(a statement by return as follows := aK 3. Everybody Please note that you should send in the nomination list with the 9 names overleaf before Christmas, but after the next Council Meeting 13th December 1978. This is a tactical move so as not to show our hand before the crucial debates that may take place in that meeting. There is to be a pre-meeting on December 13, at top Floor of 10, Perey Street, London W.1, commencing at 11.00. Please ensure you attend. PK 4. 1978 Councillors Please note your contribution to this years' unattached letter is £3.38p payable to me. Please let me have your cheque by return, Yours sincerely, AyeONComingks(SDIraySSeS fen g«apecAn firs h CAmL ce Pro mahk bare Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource ARCUK/ Unattached Reps 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 Feb 1979 Subject The topic of the resource Representation of Unattached Architects, 1979/80 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/89d8c78c51182c032dada2c8b4a4ce3b.pdf f4e8f6a6c003e82eece100136eaf41c7 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 Representation of Unattached Architects, 1979/80 Description An account of the resource Architects Registration Council of the United Kingdom ESTABLISHED UNCER THE ARCHITECTS IMEGIBTRATION) ACTS #8! TO 1838 73 Hallam Street London W1N 6EE Tel; 01-580 5861 Registrar: Kenneth J. Forder M.A. REPRESENTATION OF 'UNATTACHED' ARCHITECTS John Duncan Murray 500 Robert Maltz Thomas Adrian Woolley 489 Ian James Tod 478 John Stewart Allan 433 David Greensett Robson 391 Peter John Cutmore 356 Susan Mary Jackson 343 Marion Elizabeth Ruth Roberts 338 Edward Walker 337 Maxwell John Buckingham Jackson 333 tb Hugh Philip Massey Ian Peter Cooper The 35 disallowed were as follows: 16 unsigned envelopes 6 wrong signatures 3 spoiled papers 10 had no inner envelopes 315 299 492 rie H M Smith James Keeble We, the undersigned scrutineers, report that the votes cast in this election were as follows: 772 voting papers were received, of which 737 were counted. Election of Members of the Council under sub-paragraph (vii) of paragraph 1 of the First Schedule to the principal Act for the year 1979/80 9 February 1979 Scrutineers Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource ARCUK 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 Feb. 1979 Subject The topic of the resource Representation of Unattached Architects, 1979/80