7 10 310 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/29d6977be771dbd38dc86f8f01532ba1.pdf c4693c18dca9faa20092c316fbc1e3c5 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 Notice encouraging unattached architects to vote for 10 NAM candidates Description An account of the resource ARCUR. é UNATTACHED! ELECTIDOS. INDEPEW D&T On ARCLEK. Pp SYMPATHETIC. RERRESERDTATIOAD VOTE Foe THE NINE NEW ACHITESTLLE MovVEMENST SMDIDATES Fore A STRELG ARevie. ‘UMATTACHED> EeLvecTIOUS PETER WILLIAM HOWE * Now serving Bob Make. ext 231 Duke Houce. (cos Reeere “xt 280 Grsvenst focse, gD As Hawrgey collea Serving om Aocue we tee tae sone a: a Came Yo htm a Ben bie pemnnd Abe nine New tretiiechure Motyed Candidalts Avrdiecalid belay). KKXKX< XKXXX JOHN STEWART ALLAN* NORMAN FRANK ARNOLD MICHAEL DAVID BROAD DAVID JOHN BURNEY PETER JOHN CUTMORE* JOHN DAVID MORGAN GAMMANS JOHN CHARLES PHILLIP GIBB DEREK GLAISTER MANNING HUGH PHILIP MASSEY JOHN DUNCAN MURRAY* MARION ELIZABETH RUTH ROBERTS: DAVID ROEBUCK DAVE SUTTON EDWARD WALKER* You Aan ret yet eearred a Batlet Form Aecvil w 7.Your awuldA Lhe ST es ae please Marg YAS “unettache ol“architects : Ge: AZOUK Elections lw the com! “unattached “ avehitects hes= Bir’ vi ballet ra wun the annvel elec lon of Al2CUK councillors. We hope that yor wml trke ee opportnitt +o rebrin a ston lneleperrclennT Te: and Sy theta re presente CN en APCUK. We recommend the ten Movement ”cavdidates John Allan Norman Avnolel Mick Broad Andy Brown Daar eee 4Now dveb itectre )s@d below. Feter-Cutmore Dovid Hay how Giles Febed David Seaver Eddie Walken Ifyouwoulalae Lirtheruntormation, wie (F AndasSroun (ext, 244) TJebhn Murra (2 @) .Qtepee See eedtsSernce Londo. Berens ofeel Ol-340-803|. Davia ae 7BY Bob Ma (tere 236 26 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource BM/JM 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 Unrecorded Subject The topic of the resource Notice encouraging unattached architects to vote for 10 NAM candidates https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/46461c4f7d6695dec040a18fea4e0eba.pdf fe5f661ce46ed8dce53d69324d3d4a76 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 Article for Building Design on ARCUK issues, Dec 1979 Description An account of the resource a boards AkCUK kKetention Fees help subsidize, 4+(2)bemoreopentothepressWUCteoersiae,be/ 64 more accessible to the public, and abandon its 8 | oiticial-secrets-style paranoia (even the papers BUIDINGIDESIGN page issue datell jan writefialtz&murray Catch unattached 6 | | | 4+directorships of firms dealing in property, construction :| or building materials. This while the KIBA Council (sane 6 people switching hats for a mu.ent) was deciding that 8 lye a director of such a firm, tar Lrom Heing disgrace; 0 ene really was quite protessionally Ea ES OG arter all. 5 During the past year, the unattached Councillors | 4+ have also pressed AhCUK to | fay. assert its independence 3 MNERBXXKXresponsibilitiesforSUL educa— oF tion so long abdicated to the KibA, whose Visiting 304 inviting nominations sent out to 4500 architects 24 are boldly erblazoned "Confidential"), | 34(3)aiamoreneedystudentsinsteadofeearchitects' a khetention Fees to fund pet E York Centre, 04 (4) stop tolerating advertising KIBA Feeeeie like the | by i1BA frembers which it goes not tolerate among unattached | architects and cevelop an approach to the | question of gavertising and reassune ate statutory | speed up the nailing of ballots in AKCUK" s elections to minimise disenfranchisement At the same time, the elected Couned llors have of unattached voters. ' redcepaeiene which treats all architects equally, ait ——t-—bt ae nm also become concerned by what appears to peldbereeard 4 ooQ)ae) “~~ ul a <csbyAKCUKfortheproperapportioningWNotre onthe 44Council, as called for by Schedule Une ot the hegistratiagn || = 6tact. Although widely reported figures indicate that the | || B{kina's U.K. architect menbership, even including all | | 124year or at best remained stable, AKCUK has hevertheless | || }deciaed that it has risen by just enough tolgive kIBA | ® i6-jan extra seat on AKCUK at the expense of elécted repre- sentation. While the elected Councillors have PELOnE accustomed Sood : |i . Se Near | shown by their constituents in past quests ones res o1L | assistance 23 cousiderable xxnkxexkxk and Support and thus hope that fotjthese in long-term arrears, either declined! further this| ] } to obstruction, harassment and abuse iron most of the | I ee members on AkCUK, they have found the interest how : | mY. i.. .i SO XNUSXNERK NS tiany more of them will take aavantage of | ad : ye : ; peene reply-paia iacility proviued by Bu and answer the | 8 344iive questions they are asking this year. They would xx }| = 35-at the same time be happy to hear the views|ot those . i i| ae aercaderswhoarenot"unattachedarchitects!|"andhope aa,Re: .,: ‘O-they too will fill in and post the questionnaire, which such as | }2-considers issues X#NXXxxXxXxkxENM directorships; kIBA contol || 4-jof AKCUK, enployee and lay representation oy the kegistra caAbite : | 6>tion Council, and AKCUK's suppression of the electeu i,::| “8-Counciliors' report and questionnaire, | 0 The Councillors welcome also —4 2j0r suggestions concerning any adai{ibnal connents issues which ought to be raised be kept in contiuerce. ‘the } 4-on AKCUK. All names will | | Y LONG HSEN page issue date 11 jan writermaltz&murray catchunattached 7 | | | ———— issue date]] jan writer naitz&murrayCatChynattached & | | elected Councillors can be reached on any matter of | } | concern by writing to John Murray, c/o AKCUK, 73 Hallam Street, London Wl. BUD INGIDESIGH 3/3 élp end | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ie ; | | Yes: No: Unaecided: 172 (650) 64 (2440) 29 I%»( 110) | f" | | | | option of not using | | | | | permit architects the Conditions ot Engagement?" the KIBA Yes: No: 170 (64%) 79 (30%) Undecided: 16 (6%) || Yes: 295 (96%) No: Undecided: 5 (2) 2 5 (2%) | | | |j | | | | | } | | | BUD INGIDESIGN ‘hesults of last questionvaire o “should AKCUK change its Code to permit architects to “Should AKCUK follow the recomuendations|oi the Monopélies Comiission by changing its Code to | “Should AKCUK take stronger measures to h discrimination in enploynent against arctriitects who page issue datell jan writer Maltz&murray catchunattached 9 practice as linited liability companies are not menbers of the kiBA?" mMoOQa=NM ‘r >?) N eeeones Sete eee tee Katee | | | 1j } ; © la. bo you think that control of ARCUK by wc RIBA Source is in the best interests of | 26 2 B. give employee architects representation on AKCUK in proportion to their present nuneri¢al streneth in the protession? Yes | 30-4 page issue date 11 jan writerMaltz&murray catchunattached 10 | | 24New questionnaire: QUESTIONS 4jn. bo you think AKCUK should continue to ice the 5 | 2 012. elected Councillors to insert a report ana question- naire in AkCUK's annual mailing to tnediiconertnentey Should AKCUK amend its Code to allow architects to be| 42 | owners or directors of firms dealing in property, 44- construction or building materials? | = 1645. Uo you think the Architects hegistration ict 1931 | —18- Should be retormed to 20-4 their A. allow all architects airectly to elect ,representa- 22 24 tives on AkCUK ? Yes | No | 24 No| || S| A. the public? Yes | io No| A Bb. the protession? Yes 4| No| 645. SNSNIMXAKEHRXARSNMALESANONEXLKD | Although the architects Kegistratiou Act 1901 allows 85 for anple lay representation on aAlCUX, those bodies 0 tree to appoint lay members invariably rétise to do So. bo you think that the act should be reformed to | UIUDINGIDESIGN require a lay presence on ARCUK? LiaVe SPACE ON FUKM FOR "COMMENTS & SUGGESTIONS"”........ ||| | 2 New_questionnaire: BACKGROUND INFO TO APPEAR ON FORM | ete Name 6/2. Address go. AKCUK status | | | 10+ a. "unattachea" architect | | | b. architect member ot 144 ¢. architect, not member a. under 5 b. 35-44 the KiBA | || of hIBA, but meiber of AA, | || |) (check one): | | 5 Cc. 45654 | } d. 55 or over ) sex (check one): | || a. tenale b. nale 38 a. employee, public | | sector | 04 b. employee, 421 c. employer private sector | ! | | | |: A | d. seli-enployed = e. unemployed 84 f. retired 94 g- other | 14 KIBA, does your with no employees enployer | | for == page issue date 11 jan writermaltz&murray catchunattached 11 g | FAS, LAAS or STAMP | |' 1 d. not on Kegister of Architects | 44. age group (check one): | ; roma GOT —— )6. employment status (check one): - It you are an employee architect and a metiber of the 2 A. require you to be a member Yes | | ot the KIBA? :| B. pay your RIBA suhscription? Yes | 12+ No| | 14-8. if you are an architect and do not consider yourself wn a 16 | a nenber in good standing of the hibaA, Ad, ITAAS, FAS or STAMP, Gid you recieve otiicial “nomination papers" 20+ fron AKCUK in November 1979? No | | SUD ESTER age issue date 1) jan writemaltz&murray CatChinnattacheda 12 Oo a eee ieeanpitanendornesiamsants Hugh Pearman Building vesign 5U Caluerwood Street London SE 18 6QH bear iiugh, 14 Holudale koad London Nw 6 19 december 1979 tHlere is the article (2000 words) on the elected Ai.CUK Councillors' report and questionnaire, tozether with the new questionuaire and initio. on the last one which your studio can vraw into bar graphs. Although the questiennaires aire a product o1 the repre- resentutives of the “unattached” architects acting as 2 sroup, the article itselt shoulu he creuited to John hurray and myself, who have written it on behalf ot the gnoup. He and I can be described in the byeline as "“nembers of ANCUK elected by unattached architects." Following our recent telephone conversations, I confirm our agreement as Ltollows, upon which terms the article and questionnaire is submitted: 1. BU to publish article with questionnaire in issue of 1] January ISt. 2. jWuestionnaire to be on reply-paid facility provided by GBD 3. Jobu Murray and myself, as authors, to be paid the standard Buy journelists rate for teatures plus £15 to help cover expenses incurred in article anda questionndire. 4. bv may open ana tally the auswers to the questionnaire but all questionnairs received by BLD will be turned over to john Murray and niyself (on behslt ot the elected Councillors) who will write any Lollow-up report in Bu on the results. Such a Lollow-up article @r articles) is to be cone on the sane terns as the present article. 5. All names anu addresses ol; guestionnairs to retain confidential to the elected Councillors. 6. ‘Ihe article and questionnaire are consioerea to be in the conmon interests of the elected Councillors, bu and the profession. 7. While aimed prinarily at “unattached" architects, all interested Hv readers wiil he invited to reply. A space will also be provided for conrents. &. As the article and questionnaire are on a “sensitive" subject and was written on behalf of and with the consent of the group of representatives, Bb wili clear with the authors any alterations or celetions tt night wish to make. (iif one of the Live questions needs to be aeletea, it should be no. 5.) AS I Shall be away trom 2U/12 to G/1, please contact John \.urray at O40-6651 (work) or 540-4055 (home) if such consultation is necessary. Yoursa2siHnpk‘ely cc;: John hiurray PA Y Hob Malt (4 BUIDINGIES|GN page issue date 11 jan writermaltz & murragatchunattached | | "Unattached" architects by now accustomed to recei :| the expense of their elected AkCUK Counciliors may have | been disappointed when they opened the envelope enclosing the official “nomination papers" sent to them by the : hegistration Council this past November. inia caretully— : i4- orchestrated nove ot unprecedented vindictiveness, and 1 in violation of even AKCUK's own Standing Orders, the | || kKiPA Council nominees who still control AkCUK pushed a 20-wotion through the kegistration Council's October meeting! >Jthanning further reports and questionnaires.| ;a3 | | vespite angspnxkxxuxxe unassailable majority on || e6441.CUK, the Portland Place delegation apparently seens : junable to cone to terms with the continuing |support which sO/the unattached electorate has shown tor those New archi- | 32-1ecture Movement members representing them and with | these Councillors forthright defenge both of the rights of unattached architects and of the public interest. .8ihe KlséA spokesmen said they believed the enone and o4questionnaixe drawn up by the elected Councillors were | 124no longer needed now that, in the event of ne election, _| ae ee Fecaeklae S-personai statenent with their election iniarmation. 84No rnatter that Councillors and candivgates might not be | ithe sume people, that such an electiog the folowing ‘year might not xxkexyinge be required, or tiat the t }“unattached representatives—--the only elected Councillors al s ; bail : 44candidates would have the opportunity oi iugluding a ! ee ores {-ing a brief report and questionnaire prepared by and at o page issue date 1) jan writemaltz & murrayatch unattached 2 | | on AKCUK---found such a report and questionnaire useful ‘ in carrying out their responsibilities on AKCUK. Iron- |}ically, it was a suggestion in response to jone of their :| previous questionnaires that Lea the unattached repre- | sentatives to press AhCUK to change its hegulatibns to aliow candidates to include such a personal statenent! | It was only at the recent December meeting of | the Council that the RIBA'S strategy of attlempting to silence the representatives of the unattached becane CU ceeast —S more obvious. ,ihey retused even to allow unattached Councillors to speak in opposition to majority policies, | to raise the question of the apportionment of seats on | ARCUK, to put relevant motions or to record! opposition ;| votes. | | The nine elected Councillors whohave| been repre- | ' senting unattached architects during the 1979-80 session |---John Allan, Freter Cutmore, sue Jackson, Marion koberts | || |}lan tod, Lddie walker, Tom woolley and the authors——-- i jare theretore gratetul tor the opportunity Building |Design is now ofiering to thank jreplied to last yeay’s questionnaire, to report back on | the results and on their activities } of the past year, ,.and their successors in the coning year. | | Last year, without the benefit of a r¢pily-paid -2.3|° 4-who 1eceived the questionnaire replied to three questions those architects who BUIDINGD ESIGN AS nN & TM ©© 5 and to present a new questionnaire to help buide them j{envelope, 265 ot the nearly 4500 unattached! architects ; age issue date 11 jan writemaltz & nurragatchinattached & |’ | concerning linited liability companies, AhCUK's support z| tor the kiBA fee scale and AkKCUK action (or lack thereof)) to aiscourage discrimination in enployment lagainst the || + growing number of architects---now acknowlédged by even| |i the kibA-controlled AKCUK to be over 22% of those on | the Kegister---who choose not to be members of the KkIBA. ! | The previous year's more open-ended survey had, as reported in BD (16 June 1978), concentrated on tinding 'i out who were the unattached (literally, those people on the Kkegister of Architects who are not members of one or more of the six organisations, including the RIBA, | ; 24- enshrinea in Schedule I of the Architects Hegistration 26-1 act 1951) 4nd -whoLare Mrs onlit Tea to pled represen | 284 xabix-ts Use » Why they were unattached, | >whether and how they would like AhCUK's Code of Protes- | San=~. ‘. e| sional Conduct retormed, and what further action they é 344 would like their representatives on AKCUK to take. It | 36+ also showea a six to one majority in Favout of amending | }' 35> the Kkgistration Acts to take account of the present | me composition of the protessionnx (by now 8% jemployees) i and an even split on the issue of increased lay repre- | 4 sentation on AnCUK. The RIBA Council, which is permitted | by the 1931 Act to appoint lay people to ARCUK neverthe- less appoints exclusively architect menbers o1 the hiBA. Last year, while the unattached electea Bury employees, the KitA Council was appointing management larchitects to fill 90% of its forty seats on ACUK. | HUROE OESIEL wal Nh ' ‘t rn rennarendriesennen cc c cw oO) hohm=k 4 is00oBbN Nm2 —D> c2@UO}aeN peereesmeaiearanaeanan jeleechaasmans o rece ed nce eOEEE OD | NM 2 BUIOINGIDESIGN page issue date 11 jan writemaltz & murrayatch unattached 4 | : This past year, unattached architects |responding 44 to the questionnaire came out solidly in favour, by 6 | a nearly three to one margin, of changing AKCUK'S Code g4 to permit architects to practice as limited| liability }| }°..=| 404 companies. As Johu Parris recently noteu 10 bv (7 vccenber (2-1 1979), Section 17 of the Kegistration Act would appear i} ne : : | 144 to allow linited companies and since AhCUKSs Code has no| 46-1 iorce in law architects are in tact alreauy free to ; |1 18+ practice as limited companies, though the presence ot | 29-4 the Code ban obviously serves to coiutuse and intimidate ’! | | 22 people. kven the Code, oi course, has never prohibited :| 244 architects irom practicing with linited lidbility in | 254 the form of a co-op under the Industrial and Provident .| Societies Act rather than the Companics Act. The elected Couucillors also took note ot the 30-4 324 364 ing to force architects to use the k1iBA Conditions ot | 384 ungagement, which incluaes the KiBbA Fee Scale. 64% were :;| 40-4 in iavour of changing the Code, SU were opposed and Aor 121 144 were undecided. | | | |' clear majority in iavour of AKCUK tollowing the reconmen-— dations ot the Nonopolies Comiission sressh no longer try—|} On the third guestion, whether AkCUK ,ought to take | 65 stronger measures to help end discrimination in employ—- j 8 rent against architects who choose not to be members of :C}. ! 04{ the KIBA, the elected Councillors received /a‘ near-unani- af nous response, with 96% in itavour ot stronger action, 44 2% opposed and 2) undecttiea. Although the Architects | :u} i) o Sieealateneresans UU Deol oage issue date 11 jan writermaltz&murray Catchunattached 5 | | registration ‘ses: ; lee the ofticially recognised quuliiication tor an archi- Sjtect, although KIbA membership represents nd bighber 8 /qualitication Gnkect, many corporate marvels of the RIBA i0Jare not even architects) and although Portland Place — 319 4 propaganda claims that the RIBA is a voluntary hody, 12 46 promotion to be menbers of the RIDA. kule 2's of the jAKCUK Code, enjoining each architect not to|"act in 20>disregard of the professional qualitications of those to <2\whon he gives authority, responsibility or employment" <47seems to be one of those parts of the Code Which the 26 7ik1BA-dominatea ALCUK preiters not to enLorce, ‘the unattached Councillors have becond increasingly concerned during the past year by AKCUK'S very selective 2 japproseh to enforcement of its Code and inté¢rpretation lot "Gissraceful conduct" for which it may strike an ji| sO4architect off the Kegister. The present rulérs of ARCUK || 384seen to concentrate on enforcing those manele ot the jwwode which establish a commercial cartel anOe private |khegistration Acts 19351 and 1958 established sone employers still require applicants tor!posts or 2architectural firms while ignoring those saydees nxwhich protect the public. For exaiiple, while AKcud has thus fe | i > | o>>Df ar taken no action against architects SO acd in joiticial enquiries into buiiuing disasters Led have j cee thelivesofwanypeople,ithasindiqatedits 2intention to strike off for "disgraceiul conauct" an sad : , | Syav ~ architect who intringed Rule 2.1 of the Code, forbidding Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bob Maltz 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 December 1979 Subject The topic of the resource Article for Building Design on ARCUK issues, Dec 1979 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/c72c1f2de394362452f511677ff5603a.pdf 70df5afd00e542a87919d44ae9f15dfa 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 Article for The Architects’ Journal re results of Elected Councillors Questionnaire, March 1980 Description An account of the resource Dan Cruikshank The architects' Journal 9 Queen Anne's Gate London SWIH SBY Dear Dan, 14 Holmdale Road London NW 6 31 march 1980 Yours sincerely, Yee rN Pm 72 1,N¢4 Vine C \ Bob Maltz Here is the 1000-word article on the etestem results of the elected AKCUK Councillors' questionnaire, together with the necessary information tor bar graphs which your studio can araw (see examples of Figures 1 and 2). Like the previous article, this one is written on behalf of the elected Councillors acting us a group, though the article should be credited to the authors, John Murray and myself. Following my letter of 16 January ana our telephone conversation of 18 Siarch, I coniirw our agreement as follows, upon wnich terms the article and intormation are submitted: 1. The AJ to publish article in issue of 9 April 1980. 2. John murray and tiyself, as authors, to be paid the fee of One Hundred Pounds. S. As the article is on a "sensitive" subject and has been written on hehalf of ane with the consent of the group oi elected representatives, the AJ will clear with the authors any alterations, aduitions or deletions it wight wish to make. (if such con- Sultation is neces~ary after 3 April, when i shall be away, please contact John Murray: work 34U-8U31, home 340-4559.) of the RIBA. 61 per cent of employee architects responding maltz & murray AJ 9 april results 1 End ARCUK's “ban” on directorships, end the RIBA Council's control of ARCUK and give all architects the right to elect their representatives on ARCUK, with employee architects given These are some of the conclusions to emerge from the over 500 responses to the recent questionnaire drawn up by the elected architect members of AhCUK and pub- lished in the AJ of January SO. Despite the seemingly controversiel seven tuents. Where marked differences of attitude did emerge, employee and self-employed these were more often between architects on the one hand other hand, rather than and architect members of the RIBA. Of the total of 524 cent came from people working, responses received, 94 per m@ or employers, in the protession. were employees, 18 per cent without employees. 70 per cent of these employers and 12 self-employed Among architects responding,y(again, the total), 32 per cent were 94 per cent of "unattached" and 67%,members their fair share of seats. nature of most of the, questions, the results on all but one were unequivocal. Only on the Architects Kegistration on ARCUK was the response other hand, a whopping 91% to allow the elected Councillors questionnaire in AKCUK's question of reforming the Acts to require a lay presence tairly evenly divided. On thought AKCUK should continue to insert a report and annual mailing to their consti- and employer architects between "unattached" architects the on the insert Fig. 1 insert Fig. 2 were RIBA members and 29 per cent of these said their employer required them (contrary to employment legisla- tion) to join the kKIBA. 99 per cent of employer architects responding were kIBA members. OL the self-employed, 70 per cent were RIBA members. Of all the respondents, 70% were under 45 years old. Only 5 per cent were women. These were the results, question by question: 1. "Do you think ARCUK should continue to allow the elected Councillors to insert a report and question- naire in ARCUK's annual mailing to their constituents?” (Last year, the RIBA Council's appointees who control ARCUK forced through a ban on further reports and ques— tionnaires.) Not only did $7 per cent ot "unattached" architects answer "yes," but even 87 per cent of KIBA members did. 2. "Should ARCUK amend its Code to allow architects to be owners or directors of firms dealing in property, construction or building materials?” 57 per cent answered "yes," with "unattached" archi- (65 per cent) tects more enthusiastically in favour of the change than RIBA members (53 per cent). On this issue there was little difference of opinion between employees, employers and self-employed. 3. "Do you think the Architects Kegistration Act 1931 should be reformed to: A: allow all architects directly to elect their represen- tfLAP PDOL2!OUPem maltz & murray AJ 9 april results 2 insert Fig. 3A tatives on ARCUK? B: give employee architects representation on AKCUK in proportion to their nunerical strength in the profession?" {At present, only those considered "unattached" may elect ARCUK Counciliors and “constituencies” are drawn on the basis of organisational membership rather than employment status.) 86 per cent favoured extending the franchise to all architects, with a strong vote of confidence in democracy coming from the "unattached": 99 per cent! 79% of all architect members of the RIBA who responded favoured elections. Among them, 85 per cent of employees, and even 64 per cent of employers, WEKEXxNX<HxXBUEX answered "yes." Likewise, 70 per cent said “yes" to giving employee architects their fair share of the profession's seats on ARCUK. Only the employers (36 per cent) opposed the idea. 80 per cent of employees were in tavour, as were 57 per cent of self-employed. 4. "Do you think that control of ARCUK by the PIBA Council is in the best interests of: A: the public? B. the profession?" (Ever since Parliament, refusing to give the RIBA a monopoly on the use of the term "architect" for its own members, set up ARCUK and kegistration, the RIBA Council has stopped at nothing to keep ARCUK a puppet of Portland Place. Through its control of ARCUK, the RIBA Council gave insert Fig. 3B maltz & murray AJ 9 april results 3 insert Fig. 4A itself nomination rights to 41 ot the 68 seats on ARCUK this year.) Not only did a massive 80 per cent reply that control of ARCUK by the RIBA Council was not in the public interest, but even 70 per cent of RIBA members agreed! Employees (87 per cent) and self-employed (84 per cent) were most strongly opposed to RIBA control of ARCUK; only the employers (49 per cent) had their doubts. Even more surprisingly, nearly as many respondents, 76 per cent, said that control of AkCUK by the R1BA Council was not even in the best interests of the profession, and this included 66 per cent ot responses from architect members oi the RIBA itself! Both employees (83 per cent) and selt-employed (78 per cent) favoured an independent AFKCUK. As many as 47 per cent of the employers responding thought control of ARCUK by "their" Council was not in the best interests of the profession. The views of “unattached” architects who responded were nearly unanimous on these issues. 9&8 per cent thought RIBA control of AkKCUK was not in the best interests of the public and 95 per cent, ot the profession. 5. "A?though the Architects Registration Act 1931 allows for ample lay representation on AKCUK, those bodies free to appoint lay members invariably refuse to do so. Do you think that the Act shoula be reformed to require a lay presence on AkCUK?" insert Fig. 4B maltz & murray AJ 9 april results 4 insert Fig. 4A itself nomination rights to 41 ot the 68 seats on ARCUK this year.) Not only did a massive 80 per cent reply that control of ARCUK by the RIBA Council was not in the public interest, but even 70 per cent of RIBA members agreed! Employees (87 per cent) and self-employed (84 per cent) were most strongly opposed to RIBA control of ARCUK; only the employers (49 per cent) had their doubts. Even more surprisingly, nearly as many respondents, 76 per cent, said that control of AkKCUK by the R1BA Council was not even in the best interests of the profession, and this included 66 per cent of responses from architect members oi the RIBA itself! Both employees (83 per cent) and selt-employed (78 per cent) favoured an independent AKCUK. As many as 47 per cent of the employers responding thought control of ARCUK by "their" Council was not in the best interests of the profession. The views of “unattached” architects who responded were nearly unanimous on these issues. 98 per cent thought RIBA control of AkCUK was not in the best interests of the public and 95 per cent, ot the profession. 5. "A?though the Architects Registration Act 1931 allows for ample lay representation on AKRCUK, those bodies free to appoint lay members invariably refuse to do so. Do you think that the Act should be reformed to require a lay presence on AkCUK?" insert Fig. 4B maltz & murray AJ 9 april results 4 insert Fig. 5 52 per cent of those responding said "yes," but there was a clear difierence of opinion between the "unattached," strongly in fuvour (64 per cent), and RIBA members (44 per cent), as well as between the employers who were opposed (43 per cent) and employees (v3 per cent) and self-employed (55 per cent) in favour. Ihe questionnaire also asked those architects who did not consider thenselves members in good standing ot the RIBA, AA, IAAS, FAS or STAMP whether they received official nomination papers trom ARCUK in November 1979, as all “unattached" architects, theoretically, should. Inexplicably, only 57 per cent replied that they had; 43 per cent said they had not. Many people who responded also took the trouble to include comments and suggestions. For example, although not a subject covered by the questionnaire, quite a few respondenots, many of whom were RIBA members, wished to see control of architectural education and entry into the protessioen taken out of the RIBA's hands. The following comments give some idea ot the very broad range of those received. maltz & murray AJ 9 april results 5 y maltz & murray AJ 9 april results 6 HOARE ---a non-architect, under S5 years old, public sector "The N.A.M. cannot be considered representative of the "unattached." ---an architect member of the RIBA, over 54 years old, private sector &-nIn theory AXCUK should have been the body which not only democratised British architecture, out also reformed professionalism in Britain across a bveaad front. In practice the RIBA"sS control and domination was an act of hypocritical compromise which denied both the publics’ interest in Scrutinising the affairs: of the profession, and the Deofession’s own interests in organising its own affairs representatively. Fifty years after the Rezistration Acts ve still have the same problems and the same legal structure. It works for no ones fre Registration Acts should be reformed to constitute ARCUK as it was originally intended. The problem is, thouzh, tecl(ororession is in too much. disarray to even consider that its public responsibilities are not being © Met, and the pudlic has no r2al notion of how its professions Should be brought to heel." 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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 Letter Subject The topic of the resource Covering letter for report "Architectural Workers & Trade Unionism" Description An account of the resource —_—_ bear J)i ‘ T nionisation Working Group thought you might be inter- ed in their draft report, “Architectural Trace Unionisn," prepared for the forthcoming New Architec~ ture siovement conference. We enclose report and hope you will read being held at the Winter Gardens pool, November 26 (7pm) through November 28 (lpm), and take an active part there in the "unionisation" urday. if you wili not be attending the above-mentioned conference, we would greatiy appretiate if you woulda send me your com- ments, as detailed as possible (or even return the enclosed copy warked up with them). Ii this conference, so much the better. In any case, we shali be very grateful for your assistance. Yours sincerely, Bob Maltz for the Unionisation Working Group of Centrai London NAM 14 Holmdale Road London Nw6 18 november 1976 a copy of the draft it, attend the conference Workers and Conference Centre, Black- workshop on Sat- can be done before the 30 YW) pe ct! et Gy b we hope that this dratt report will form a suitable and provocative springboard for a lively and action-oriented discussion on the subject. We are, in any case, eager to have your comments ana criticisms of this draft and should appreciate very much any corrections of fact, enphasis, omission, judgment or style you can make in it. fay L emphasize again that this is a first drait, for dis-~ cussion oniy, and is obviously not for release at this time. Ii you wish to reach me by telephone, my number is 01-794-6437. 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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 From Radical to Revolutionary Subject The topic of the resource 6 page essay (2 copies) Description An account of the resource FROM RADICAL TO REVOLUTION,,aY Brian Anson The new breed of'Conceptualist'architects seem blind to the fact that in Britain thousands are still forced to live in ugly and poverty stricken environments. The architects of the authoritarian Left frequently act as though such people'live by bread alone'and have no capacity for dreaming of beautiful things outside the sphere of their existence, The radical architect who is searching for a new vision is labelled ultra political by the Conceptualists because he ignores ‘art for art's sake',Because he has the courage to'dream from -the earth up! ,the doctrinaire Left wieuere “"bourgeoise’ behind his bask. Well to hell with both factions, For me he.is the truly revolutionery architect and it is the purpose of this short essay to describe him and how he came about. Until recently we had to go back toMorris to hear an architect speak of his work in sovial terms:'...what architecture unless all can share it.We must not preduce it only for the swinish luxury of the rich.'This great gap of a hundred years;it is this lack of concern for the social side of architecture that is so largely responsible for the dilemma in which we as architects find ourselvesswhy is this so?Pevsner gives us a clue: "Ingland's activity in the preparation of the Modern Movement came to an end immediately after Morris'death,...English writers have not failed to acknowledge this,but hardly anyone has tried to explain it.One reason may be this:so been a matter which in practice concerned class England could foot the bill.As soon as the problem began to embrace the people as a whole other nations that cid not accept or did not know Ingland's EDUCATION AND SOCIAL CONTRASTS BETWSEN THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES AND THOSE IN THE SUBURBS ANS THE SLUMS. ‘(my emphasis). So the Beveridge Report of 1919 to combat the five evils of ‘Want,Disease,IgnoraSQnUAcLOeR,,andIDLENESS'(myemphasis) was acted upon.Slum clearance got under way;British Town Planning busimess have we with: long as the new style had only the wealthier nations took the lead, British architecture, for all its apologists and theorists has always been Secenmia ie, in the control of the privileged and powerful,and has had no relationship with the mass of common people except as an oppressive force to crush them in the path of grandiose civic projects.The recent property toom with its resulting physical destruction and rape of poor communities, proves that nothing has really changed since Morris's death, While the Modern Movement was blossoming on the Continent the UK had nothing to compare with the pamphlet‘ Arbeitsrat flr Kunst' of 1919:'...architecture shall no longer be the luxury ofthefew...'ThesignatBrounro’iTaeut,sA,dolfBehre,andothers, all of them in the spitbit of the age,declaring that architecture must spring from the people and be of them.But not Britain- past master at containing revobutionary ideals and expert at chanelling them into innocuous reforms,she could afford to look smugly upon such wild calls for architectural revolution.The myth of British Supremacy was not yet to-be dislodged,Britain's attempts to ° democratise the environmental process were well timed,subtle,| and above all paternalistiacs befitted an imperial power, ean tin Hogg summed it up when he told Parliament in 1918: '..eif you don't give the people social reform they are going to give you social revolution,..' 2. became'the bast in the world'.But behind all the social activity was the age old imperialistic ideaskeep the workers healthy and occupied and they will have no wish to rock the boat and alter the power structure.British architecture torfowed the forms of the Modern Movement; but ignored the'communistic'ideals of the modernists.It was cleverly worked out and beautifully simple, so much so that,as late as 1961,Kidder Smith,in his'The New Architecture of Europe',while admitting that'...for almost half a century Great Britain saw little of architectural significance ee+'could also declare that'...now intellectually the contemporary architectural situation in Britain is on one of the highest planes in Europe...'and go on to eulogise about the high rise housing and slum clearance projects which were so much a feature of architectural journals in the early 60's.The incestuous back slapping amongst architects and politicians over the'successes? of post war British architecture (the work of the LCC, the schools programmet,he new towms) may well have led Kidder Smith to proclaim of Britain Modern architecture has arrived, True to form the architectural profession was blind to what was happening around it,yet during the 50's warnings had been coming through from other sectors of society. Just as the artists and poets cleared the way for Morris and the. first modern movement,so the novelists, playwrights and thinkers of the'Angry Decade'punctured the upper class,paternalistic membrane engulfing cosy Britain and,in my view,paved the way for the post- modern movement in architecture;a movement with which we are still trying to come to grips. Yet it was to be a mere handful of years later that the British public especially those poorer communities forced to inhabit the new'visions'were to proclaim with great ferocity 'We don't like it and what's more you never asked our opinion. '! Osborne, Sillitoe,Wesker, Barstow, Shelagh Delaney, Alan Owen; the ‘Angry Young Men'(and women) of the 50's,who through their novels and plays,showed that Britain, beneath its paternalistic welfare statism and slum clearance philosophy,was still riddled by class consciousness and ruled by privilege. Parallel with the'kitchen sink'dramatists,a number of important Sociological studies emergRe“cdha.rd Hogarth's massive study of the northern working class in'Uses of Literacy'; Townsend's ‘Family Life of Old People';and Wilmott and Young's classic study of the disastrous effects of urban renewal on East End communities.All these works spelt out clearly the immense danger of architects and planners ignoring the age old community linkages, now so fragile after the destruction of war and the pulverising effects of a consumer growth economy.Yet architecture was deaf to the warnings and the hizh rise housing went up in Bethnal Green, Golden Lane,Pimlico,Park Hill,and throughout alll the local authority areas in the Britisn Isles,And the philistine architects had a field day;the Shell empire began to sprawl like a cancer over London's South Bank;the Pivadilly Circus farce began, and city centres throughout the country were being restructured in all their awful sameness. The severe problems we now face in architecture,of people's elementary right to participate in environmental decisions, were all vividly outlined by the writers of the 50's and ARCHITECTURE IGNORED THEM, 36 * In the few short years of the mad 60's British architecture laid the foundations of the hate which is now directed at it by the public and it is diffi-«lt to summ - up sympathy for the profession, Then in 1968 Community Action arrived on the scene and for the next few years appearce to offer a way forward to the radical architect, The movement was just one element in a mac larger process for change which suddenly erusted in the western world, Empires’were <: . suddenly seen to be fragmenting: students in America, France, Germany and eventually Britain,were rioting over civil liberties and the protests were put dom with police brutality (with the significant exception of Britain where the establishment was far too clever to do that}.Workers in Prance joined the popular struggle for human rights.Tho foundations for a new'Gestalt! were laid.0n the environmental front the commimities of North Kensington blocked Westway and their banners read 'Get us out of this hell'ssquatters in iclington barricaded a street and proclaimed it a ‘NO Go Area',echoing the struggle building up in Ireland.The people in Covent Garden rose up against a multi million pound plan being forced on them by the unholy alliance of an-impersonal GLC and the tycoons of the property world (with their erchitects in tow.) By 1972 the community movement had spread throughout the country 3Glasgow, Leeds, Sunderland, Liverpool, Cardiff, until virtually every hamlet in Britain had its protest group. The term'the unacceptable face of capitalism'was coined, and speculators, bureaucrats,and planners became the villains of society.Finally,as evidence of wholesale corruption was exposed in the architectural field,architecture was seen as just another link in the chain of power which viewed the environment as merely a commercial commodity to he exploited at will. The'Angry Young Men'were burnt out cases by the early 60's, Macmillan told us'we had never had it so good'; the'war Babies! had grown up with money in their pockets.A cultural vacuum was created.To those sensitive enough to discern it we were at the 'wake'of the British Empire,and like all’ good wakes it was a feast,The Pop revolution was upon us and,as one commentator put it:!...suddenly the North moved South grinning broadly~~ and cocking a snoop at every form of discrimination it Saweee! Had it been ten years earlier it could have been dramatiz, but society had had enouch of social realism for a while, In architecture the more! imaginative! (or opportunist)went into fantasy (plug-in walk-in cities) consumer graphics and the King's Road, Carnaby Street culture,while perhaps the more astute one climbed aboard the proper<y world bandwaggon which was just getting wreder way.Almost alone in the 60's Cedric Price stood out in trying to link his imagination to the realities in provincial social life (Potteries Thinkbelt). Small groups of disaffected professional archatects and students joined the movement “n preparing alternative schemes and setting up workshoptso educate the communities in the power of architecture and planning.The concept of!guerilla'architects was born and those worked within the system (until discovered and sacked ) filching confidential documents and plans to be used as weapons by the communities in their struggle against the system.Perhaps most important of all, the community profassionals came to reject their own institutions (RIBA) as not only had it rerused to come out 4e publicly on the side of the communities but on the contrary had aidcdand abetted the developers by doing their design work, During these years three times as much investment went into property development as into British industry,and the architectural profession made a bonanza,proving where its allegiance lay. Yet as a revolutionary force the community movement fizzled out’ by 1973.True most of the large destructive plans had been defeated, but this was due as much to gathering inflation and the excessive greed of the speculators (killing the goose that lays the o golden egz) as to the'power to the people , In any case,in time honoured fashion, the establishment had - effectively defused an explosive situation by establishing complicated frameworks for nominal participatiotnh,us disarming the communiti¢s which could never hope to compete with it in terms of time,money,and expertise, But the real problem,and the most radical of the community architects realised it socn after the’ movement began,was spelled out by an American advocacy architect,Robert Goodman:'...You cannot graft pluralist mechanisms, such as advocacy planning, onto existing relationships to colve problems of democratic control if the existing re. vionships are so unbalanced as to discount the. effects of the proposed reform.In order to gain acceptan”.e any reform is made to fit the status quo. and’ as a- result is disarmed as an effective mechanism for chenge...! The projects and plans against which the radical architect had fought alongcide the communities were only a manifestation of a far deeper malaise;the political and’ economc system which had spammed tne project in’the first place,It was the system which needed changing (Land, Money, Privilege) and ironically while working within the powerless’ communities might prove rewarding for the radical professional,it effectively mimimised the nesessi*y for the rules of the game to be changed to include the communities themselves, Perhaps Beatle John Lennon. summed up the tragedy when hn said in ; 1972:'.,.we all dressed up and went’ onto the streets shouting "Power to the People!.We had a ball,;but nothing changed, the same bastards are still in control.,.! So having,at least temporarily,abandoned community action,where dor does the radical architect go? Back into the system? Would it have him. back? : Into the fantasy world of the unreadable Conceptualists (Venturi, Kisenmann and latter day Cook)? Fantasy soon degenerates into total boredom, Reject architecture sltogether?Put Why should he? There is another way- Through the work which he knows best,he can join the struggle to ouild a decent architecture committed to neither Corporate Statism nor State Socialismb,ut which is part of the decentralised, community based society that many are straggling to bring about.A society in which architecture will no longer be controlled by the rith and powerful,nor out of the economic reach of most people,but which is gehorally carried out on a small scale local basis with lay people cooperating fully with the architect.Such a Society could have a locally controlled National Design Service on the lines of the NHS, oy learning from its successes and failures,Ways would need to be found to prevent the growth of architectural monopolies, but: there is no reason why this could not’ be controlledby law, as it is ih Yugoslavia where private officed cannot employ more’ than five people.Larger schemes could be handled by the amalgamation of small enterprises. solely for the duration of the project. (Evidence shows that, under our present system,as practices become more successfuli,n monetary terms,and therefore larger, the standard of design-drops as management techniques override sensitivity).In such a society all practices would be on a self-managemént basis with:all members of the firm sharing both in responsibility and decision making.Most important the - schools of architecture would become major resource centres for the local communitiesi’n which they are situated.The present system,where students work to hypothetical and increasingly «°° esoteric briefs and merely provide'fodder'for the status quo, is ‘ludicroaunsd very wasteful of resources.There are problems enough on the very doorstep of the schools to tax both the knowledge and creativity of the studonts.If the local people were éncouraged to become part of the school;and even in some cases, take. up teaching posts, then eventually, the entire architectural training system could become the major link between society and the profession, oO og : a pat How that job is to be done is outside the scope of this essay, but in the process the radical architect becomes the REVOLUTIONARY architect. Apart from the National Design Service,none of the ideas mentioned are new;they have all happened in one form or another during the past twenty years.But they are the exception not the rule.Our first job as radical architects,is to get our own’ profession to pledge itself to this new society.If,as I believe, the RIBA has too much a vested interest in th status quo to make any such pledg. chen our task is to overthrow the Institute and build a new profession dedicated to a socially responsible architecture, Some will. :rgue that before such a community architecture can be establishedth,e necessary fundamental changes will need to occur in our political system,.Taken to its logical conclusion this arguhent says that nothing can ever be done;by workers, by nurses,by miners.We might ask,how did the'revolution'in medicine ever occur if a small group of idealistic doctors didn't agitate for it first?The revolutionary architect will acknowledge that fundamental changes will be necessary to make community architecture the norm in our society,but we can at least work to START the process. There is ample evidence that the general public and many polit? ans would support such an ain. And finally,we can all work as individuals3;as teachers we can make sure we instruct our students in the social responsibility of architecturesas assistants in offices we can condem projects which are socially harmful and refuse to work on themsand in local authority offices we can tell our bureaucratic masters that we are paid as'Public Servants',and not merely there to do their bidding and that of monopoly capital, And the end result of all this could well be unemployment and a great sense of tragedy.But the struggle to build a decent architecture hav always been a tragic one.As Stephen Kurtz says ie in his beautifully poetic'WastelandTh.e Buildinogf the American Dream':'Ontlhye revolutionary transcends and escapes the tragic dilemma. In a’ terrifying even to himself and ultimate defiance of authority,he gives up hope of someday recieving what he has always been denied: and decides, cither alone or with others, to provide for himself.In this way then, revolutionaries are thé world's only adults.As Long as the primary form’ of getting what one needs is begging, cajoling, or persuadingf,or so long is the childish status preserved.Against this final impoverishment a battle is being waged, spearheaded by those who are tired of being denied and joined by those who are tired of being given. It is a’battle in which the members of the race will perhaps forever,decide whether or not they shall be called men, Can it be then, that the greatest architects of’ our age are hot those selebrated in the histories - Le Corbusier, Mies, Gropius, those oftheBauhthaeuCIAsM,theengineersandtheformgivers-but rather the architects of Algiers,who created holes where buildings had been and terror in the heart of complacency?! ns In the same spirit I draw my conclusions.I don't do so with an sense of frivolity.There jusy seems no other way. _ In my search for @ community architecture I stood one day in 1972 in the middle of free Derry.The streets all around were barricaded,some with great sophistication and ingenuity.Down the road was a machine gun post guarded with sandbags stolen from the British Army.Qutside the post stood a placard saying "You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill the revolution'. Into this area came no specul tors,no bureaucrats;no silver tongued professionals ,nor forked tongued community activists.One of the people from the area showed me a dirty scrap of paper on which a local woman had drawn a crude plan for a community centre and some houses with gardens.'How do we build this! he said in desparation.'We've taken the land but we've no money nor materials',I couldn't answer him,but I knew my vision of the new architesture began there, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Brian Anson Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Allan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Undated https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/c330f007457c4f3b19dd75d70b4ee612.pdf 051d6557eccb7084072855ce73d99cf4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Introduction and Origins Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource ARC/NAM Meeting Subject The topic of the resource Report of ARC/NAM meeting 29 July 1976 Description An account of the resource ARC/NAM meeting. Thursday 29th, July 1976. John Murray, John Allen and David Roebuck met with the full ARC sroup to discuss in a general way the present position of the two srouns and their plans for the future. ARC began by outlining a three point programme; The build-up of REDHOUSE as a propoganda weapon. Development of the large Colne Valley community vroject. A Summer School for 1977 probably preceded by a large congress early in the year. NAM is organising a November Congress and is awaiting the repercussions of it's submission to the Monopolies Commission; NAM's report had been well recieved. It is now clear that the strategic objectives of the two grouyxs are guite different; this also affects their style. ARC will logically continue it's ‘guerilla’ campaign and aim to be a continual thorn in the side of the establishment. Complimenting this it will develone it's community design work. NAN, on the other hand is in the 'numbers game', that is building a mass movement. Logically the organisational structure of the two groups is also totally different, ARC being tightly knit with it's members taking specific roles, eg. Director of Policy, Pronoganda, National Organisor etc. NAM is developing quickly as a decentralised organisation. Given these facts the conclusions drawn at the meeting were; Co-operation is possible providing each group recognises and respects the 'differing' role of the other in the common struggle. ie. A community architecture in our society. The groups should support at every opportunity the actions of each other. Using the media for such support. The grooups can aid each other in the organisation of their respective congresses. NAM can use REDHCUSE for it's own vropoganda purvoses and may consider a major spread. Both groups would keep very strong contact to develope other forms of co-operation. Brian Anson. Director of Policy for AR 30th. July 1976. NAM would logically play a major role in the ARC Summer School of 1977. 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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 Untitled Subject The topic of the resource 8 page paper including analysis of profession and 'Rules for Radicals' Description An account of the resource This is a rough draft of a peper which I'd like to have circulated generally. INTRODUCTION My whole approach, both analysis of problems and outline of tactics, is based upon the following: The profession of architecture is an integral part of our social and political system and thus any real change to the profession must make some alteration in the social and political system. There are two basic ways to look at the problem; either we can wait for the political Changes to occur that will have the desired effect on the profession, in which case we can'do our best' within the existing profession and put most of our energy into conventional politics, playing our part in speeding up the change. Or we can, as it were, look at the problem "the other way round': by seeing that the profession, like other group- ings, influence the society. In a strict philosophical sense you cannot have one without the other, its a type of ‘chicken and egg’ situation. I rejcct the first approach because taken to its logical conclusion, it’ says that no group, no individual can ever redg¢grect society and that instead we must all wait until the political system (whatever that mysterious force is) directs us. This is absurd, and history is our evidence. I came to the decision some time ago, that I would take the second approach, and the ramifications to me as an architect, were momentous; at once the problem was clarified and the solution, though difficult, at least presented itself, and I could build a reasonably solid foundation for my beliefs. My struggle as an erchitect was thereby much simplified. First of all I was able to be quite precise about my aim. I could consider a segment in society (my own profession) through the eyes of an expert; thus, to repeat, I could be more precise: did I want bits ef reform in this seqment? Did I want very radical change? or did I consider more was necessary? One of the natural aims in life is to get closer and closer to the truth of things. As regards society, unless you are a mature political theoretician, this can be very confusing especially in a society as comolex and subtle as ours. This has always been the dilemma of the citizen (and possibly explains why democraciys more often a word than a reality: "Suffrage gives you the right to vote but not the power". Lenin). But the citizen has another personality he is an ‘expert in his work. He spends most of his life at doing his work, and as he gets more and more experience he can become quite precise about what should, or should not, be done to improve the situation. And, taking this position, another opportunity presents itself: he can view his work role as being part of a society within a society. His profession, his trade, his job is like a miniature society reflecting in many ways the larger socicty of which he is a citizen. This is exactly the way I have come to view the profession of architect~- ure, while at all times realising that it is an analogy. Having done that, the similarities are striking: we have a government (RIBA). We have a community (20.000 registered architects and 8000 students) We have an educational system (38 schools of architecture) we have a system of laws and codes (registration and the code of conduct) we have a tradition and a history. So we have the striking similarities with our larger society, with one major difference which I shall come to shortly. But the analogy is with the worst aspects of our larger system: the ultra capitalism of the Tories and the extreme bureaucracy of Labour. Our educational system (with a single exception is state (RIBA) controlled. 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The monopoly blacklists not based upon the right to work but devised to perpetuate the government (RIBA) The general principle of our government is excessive free enterprise. Our privilege. The one major difference in the analogy is that our larger society, with all its imperfections, at least has an organised OPPOSITION. In our architectural society we do not and that is why at Harrogate, I described our profession as a one-party, Migtalitarian” State. The description is not inaccurate. The RIBA Nas Virtually supreme power over British architecture and it controls the most history is based solely upon important element of all, the schools. If it did not many of the schools would question its moral right to assess them. As it is they meekly submit to its decisions. Having taken the analogy this far, I can now look at change in the same manner. What have people done throughout history when faced with totalitarian regimes? I begin to suggest answers to this question in the section on tactics, but brief- ly the historic answer has been to form a tight-knit guerrilla group Then eventually initiate a mass movement, then the revolution is begun. This is exactly what ARC has done so far. We have the situation where all the outward statements concerning intention and the general aims of education point to a ‘creative’ art - in fact to THE creative art, but where the reality is a jungle which is controlled by a monopoly. We, like the rest of society, are forced to live within the physical environment which (1) we often detest, (11) which we have been trained to look at differently, (111) but which we are powerless to alter, even though we are the holders of a ‘certificate’, given to us by the public, which proclaims us an expert in the matter. It is this'monopolistic' situation which is at the root of our dilemma, and to which we should give our attention. It is as if, being trained as doctors we are then let loose in society to be driven mad by the sight of people being neglected and left to die, or being butchered by our own professional colleagues (the few who gained the power to practice) who quite frequently perform such butchery for money alone. There we stand, with knowledge of the disease and sound idea of how to treat it but everything prevents us acting. Yet some of us can't stand idly by and though lacking equipment and money we try to act: out of our efforts come some new answers and again we are beaten as our privileged colleagues take the fruits of our labour and use them to further strengthen their monopolistic position. There are many examples ©f this situation in our field. An experienced architect planner helps to design a project which out- wardly is progressive and for the social exterior it is the usual butchery. good. 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Things are worse,not better. will-thia bring into the organisation? Still he continues and a great people's movement emerges to struggle against the political and professional power base. This power base fights savagely for several years against the people's movement until it has to admit defeat. The power-base submits to this defeat and uses all it's iniative to find ways to still keep essential control. The architect is by now worn out with the struggle and forgotten. Both the political and professicnal power-base now useS, 45 a foundation for their respective philosophies, the very concepts for which the architect was pilloried in the first place. The end result is threefold: The people's movement has been given a ‘sedative’ a sleeping-pill to calm it down. The powerbase is still there, much strengthened and with it's individuals holding higher office. The avehitect is still blacklisted, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ARC AND NAM SHOULD BE BASICALLY IN NAME ONLY - AND IN CERTAIN MINOR VARIATIONS IN TERMINOLOGY. Bs The aim is to build a mass power base ~- to provide an alternative | to the status quo - at this stage there can be no other aim and everything must be subordinated to that end. Until we have developed that base we can confront no major issues in architecture we have nothing with which to confront anything. Until we have constructed that base our tactics will be quite different tc power 2 tactics . Thus every decision at this stage must be subcrdinated 3 to one point: how may recruits from the offices, the schools, etc., We are not spending our time here, in order to create an escteric ‘club' to discuss the malaise of architecture. We will not produce change in that manner: No, I repeat, we are here to build an ALTERNATIVE POWER BASE in architecture. Zs What prevents us having that base? Of course the RIBA - The only effective power base - (though we should pay attention to the fact that the ACA is moving up pretty fast - it was surely a master tactic on ACA's part to get one of it's past presidents elected "Chief-of-Staff" at Portland Place) We have a far greater need to 'capture’ the minds and hearts of the architectural body than have RIBA or ACA. Both these bodies have need of the mass support, but both also have tremendous (to us at this moment seemingly unshakeable) backing from the establish- ment, from historical precedent and from those who control the schools. SO WE ARE NOT HERE TO PLAY GAMES. The task is massive - but difficulty of task can, ironically, force us to think ef our strategy in the right manner. Remember that a handful cf people (ARC) faced this task - and the results are us here now. 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To take the political analogy further: if the RIBA actually did represent the totalitarian government of a complete state (and in the narrow confines cf cur 'professional' society - that is exactly what it is). Then all ARC members would be arrested and incarcerated; some NAM members would be treated in a similar fashion and the rest would be watched. Both ARC and NAM would be proscribed organisations. The logic is that we have the freedom to create an architectural opposition - yet there has been no Overt reaction from the establishment (RIBA) because it realises that NAM has not yet devised the MEANS to elicit such a REACTION - In short we only TALK about our alternative =< «se do nothing. I have always accepted the fact, (though it worries me, as it implies a fear of our own language) That ARC's title and openly declared aims, might prove a stumbling block to the building cf a MASS movement. That is why ARC initiated NAM (which incidentally is not the same as controliing it or manipulating 1) but, to repeat, . ARC and NAM should be different in name only - the FUTURE VISION of the two movements may well be quite different, but their IMMEDIATE aims must be identical - otherwise why collaborate. It is my considered opinion that ARC has the right approach and further that the RIBA is more concerned about the Revolutionary Council than about The New Movement. This brings me to a final point before laying out some tactics for achieving AIMS: I would be frankly dead against our next Congress becoming a platform for discussing the actual work we do - What I mean by this is that I don't want to waste my time (nor, I believe, the Congress's) by relating what I have learnt from my community work in Donegal, Covent Garden, Bootle, Ealing or the Yorkshire Mill Valleys, nor the work any group has done on Scottish Olt, On Community Health, or the nation-wide research study on Local Authorities Power in Planning (LAPP) I DO NOT RELATE THIS GREAT VOLUME OF WORK TO IMPRESS YOU BUT TO HAMMER HOME at this stage that what we have done is NOT TEE POINT For neither do I wish to hear at the Congress (except of course in passing) what Rob Shelton has done in Leicester, what ASSIST has done in GOVAN or indeed what any of our community architect colleagues has done. Of course I wish to hear what they have leernt and to exchange notes with them but in a different context : perhaps reading their books or papers or over a drink with them. To organise the next Congress on these lines would turn it into a conference on Professional Community Activism. And that is not the problem - nor would we be anywhere near the first to organise Such an event. That is why I am also against inviting speakers, except from our own ranks or from those on our own contact list. t re-emphasise; at the next Congress I see myself as pert of 4 group trying to organise an ARMY to WAGE a STRUGGLE against an ENEMY. So I want to see us combining our vast joint experiences - x.. vnpia.-z i 7.* r ieee apes Bay .= ‘:.ag , .re¥2*.:s : 3as s> we; 5 “i é “ © . f or Gate ’ 3 etsy2 ; oe ot - . , f: sh -4. e,~.-“se2 ts oe < vs2r:é:fy,te3 ¥ qed ‘ a * eyaeee «; iito ‘.i ’ , 3 e s :=i2 <ie aoe> t f. = . sapbik :a irT:&. a:SchOMG, _wedgsm on rawMESS:yA 4f‘2: .; *< met bas. Solita o ee ea cWAR,By: i '. {eg : Roni ia 3 i273 . 4 &a, 5 - + =ae3 31 . P: peal f4 ‘je.,z- : e ialal ' j‘i: ce 2.7 ems odw' a2 Voge’ asdit~2patiscomta,spend0128235 :‘ xa "39f 3 ‘ i; a a od du = »x&t* eS * i <: 5 s‘ * - . si Frets ve ie as 2 cooy: a ‘ ye yak. £ . <<. ome <5: P voae ;=¢ . ‘9 2 : L * e " m8 : a c& : 4 ‘ os :x5a5 . f t as . 3 3;: ec eer oe asoe «= , -e =~ 5 « I have studied the nature cf struggle and been involved in community struggle for toc long, not to realise the far, far greater value of these qualities than something called ‘expertise’. Rule 2 ‘Power is not what you have, but what the enemy thinks you_have' When I was a war-time child in Boctle, we had one anti-aircraft gun in the town. This was mounted on a lorry, which was then @riven at high speed up and down the main road, giving = greater image of strength. Alinksy says, take the gyes, ears and nose. If you have a lot of people parade them before the enemy: if not, work on the and make a lot of noise: if you have neither then ‘stink the place up’. In the early ARC campaigns, though we weren't brilliant, we did have a certain boastful verve and the RIBA certainly thought we were much stronger than we were: it was this, I feel, that made Eric Lyons whom I had never met before, literally rush across a room at a functicn to speak (in most friendly terms) to me. I can think of no: other reason than that I was a member of ARC. We must devise ways to make our voice heard and to publicly to discuss TACTICS and STRATEGY. Now this would be a unique gathering. A body of professionals (and others) joining together; some with experience in the field, some without but wanting to act in the community fashicn. I feel a greater respect for and confidence in, 211 those who came to Harrogate and who I have met at the subsequent meetings, than for any ‘expert’ community activist, no matter how publicised they have been. And this is because the former hav e SINCERITY? DEDICATION & COMMITMENT, and it was these qualities that brought them to Harrogate, and which brings them still tc London £or the Committee meetings. I assure you that these are not emotive sentiments of mine, but highly rational. Just think for a while when it is that a struggle really is alive: when the 'people' begin to move. In this revolutionary struggle for a new architecture WE ARE TRE PEOPLE. SOME NOTES ON SAUL ALINE R¥Y'S 13 RULES FOR RADICALS WITH REFERENCE TO OUR OWN STRUGGLE Rute 1 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it’. I have outlined that, at this stage, our target must be the profession and specifically the RIBA. Doing this we will escape any woolly thinking regarding the political system of our society at large, though make reference to that society, Quite rightly we will not avoid this issue as cur overriding community architecture’. But moment is our detestation of places obstacles in cur way Again, as I have stressed, aim is to conceive a system what holds us together at the can collaborate in mcre expert we terms, and thus be far more precise about our struggle political system. This will, ‘professional’, in contrast waged in the larger political to the many ‘amateur’ campaigns arena. certainly we will continually the fact that our own profession to achieving community architecture. choosing to fight the RIBA, than if we were discussing literally make our struggle of an overall :o ‘”ay e oS: fwh76 JE : 1: ja,; .;- - ; 5 bei gen f pa ( ‘ io:. '; i " F ss oe~ es .ce 4 aig 3 _ ‘wi43 x:ce 3 }io : : : : -& ‘ i‘1‘4;f es ; 7 oe i:;F;eae. + :ne+: : ‘ bie2 F 5s a7oe } ae : 2) tow is ce ; et “ } wid . . : - . ’ a a id <:‘: hiss : ‘ +n i°a :aie : : tO oeee3 — ‘ aad : ‘ 33 | :4oe ‘ef ,- :. or Rule 3 Rule 4 Rule 5 Rule 6 -§= professional establishment. John Allen's reply to Clive Fleury's article in BD was partly right and partly disastrous. Right because it was to the point and humourous, disastrous because a letter containing over a dozen signature was slipped in at the bottom of a page and, I'm sure, hardly read by anyone. At this stage (our infancy) we must ba brash, bold, vulgar, petulant and angry. We must also be defiant, destructive and anarchistic. We know that many of these things we are not: on the contrary we are unified and rational. Don't be worried that this approach will be counter-productive: at this stage, and so long as the outsider thinks we are many, then on the contrary it will be a most productive strategy. One of the truths about our architectural community is that many of them yearn for something to brighten their dull lives....I can see that I am now leading into the third rule. I have already stated that our people (at this stage anyway: should we ever get close to a community architecture - our people would then include the public) and the architects and students who make up the profession. We must. not force our major political views on our fellows - though we should in no way deny them. If our aim is to get the salaried architects On our side then we should at all times, appeal to them through their position as assistants in offices: we must talk about things which they will recognise in their everyday work. Similarly, with students, we must spell cut their future, or lack cf it, under the present system. We can bring individuals to our side by appealing to-a sense of idealism, but we would be foolish to try to build a mass movement on that basis. "Never go outside the experience of your people’ sAlways_ try to go outside the experience of your enemy ' ‘Make the enemy live up to it's own book of rules! In every way this rule is the opposite of rule 3. Here we must use the principle of idealism at all times. It is some- thing which the power holders cannot handle. We know that, aS a generality. to have become a successful architect context of the monopclistic RIBR, means that idoalism (if they ever had any) has been ‘ditched! along the way by the Simply because it has been an obstacle to success. trying to do is mobilise the latent potential idealism existing even within the power-hase of the RIBA. In fact tc confuse the establishment, which knows only too well that we who oppose them always have the pessibility of exploiting the idealism existing within the general society. This rule is connected with the next. The RIBA can no more live up to it's own public statements (no matter how bland they are) than the christian church can live up to the inessage of Christianity - or, if you wish, the general run of British Marxists can live up to the message of Karl Marx. Alinksy states that ‘you can crucify tge enemy with this fuie', Ridicule is man's most potent weapon’ The enemy cannot stand ridicule especially if its developed to a high standard (The British Government's curtaig£ing of the early satirical TV shows is an example cf this). This in the successful, What we are - JT- rule has ‘spun-off' advantages - in that it also makes the struggle a little easier through laughter and convinces the public that we revolutionaries are ‘human’ and see the lighter “Side of lite, . Rule 7 "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag‘ This is pure common sense - Our struggle against a powerful historically based professional monopely is really so massive, that unless we keep our senses ‘alive’ we will be worn out in no time at all. Any psychologist will tell us that we need such variety in our strategy. Furthermore an added advantage of a variety cf tactics, is that we will have a kind cf 'thermometer' to test our ‘health' from time to time. We cannot accept degrees of success and failure in our operations, and say.... all right we did that wrong; now on this next job we'll operate differently’, Rule & ‘A Good tactic is one that your people enjoy' This is a common sense rule again. Rule 9 "Keep the pressure on’ This rule relates to rule 7. We must create a situation where the RIBA just doesn't know what were going to do next - (or where we're going to do it). Keep them guessing and, most important of all, keep them ‘stretched’ in reacting to events. A basic tenet of radicalism is that action springs from re-action weees and SO -On;, Rule 10 The threat is usually more errifying than the action itself’ Alinsky gives many (some very humourous) examples of this rule. I'm sure there's a lot of potential in it for owr campaign. I recall writing and getting published in BD, a long and violent letter just prior to the RIBA celebrations for Architectural Heritage Year centred around The Festival Hell (Prince Philip and all that). I said I had some plans to do something at the event: several people, some rather urgently, tried to find out my. intentions though in fact, I had no plans. Another time in an article in BD, I stated quite clearly that by the end of the year ARC would have a cell in every school of architecture in this country. That provoked quite a’lot of reaction especially from ‘ex-colonel' type architects accusing me of being an urban guerrilla, and suggesting that mothers who paid fees to have their children taught by me at the AA, should look into my backgreund. If we put our heads together, we could really think up some threats to help our struggle. 2 Rule 11 'The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressSsure upon the opposition’ This seems just a repeat of rule 7, yet its worth repeating over and over again, as, in some ways, it's the most crucial rule. So long as there is pressure, there is action, so long as action, reaction, then more action and thus a sense of 'Life'. Without this our struggle is doomed. We will collapse through boredom furstration and apathy. On the other hand the enemy (RIBA) will continue to flourish on boredom and apathy. ea ah Lats Scaltilancerict ae? “3+ e e Bhasin 3;é = we ti« Sy rs a . Se : A et etae . Be ae a mud x etal coo bpd Pow SON. +s * Rule 12 Rule 13 Alinksy gives an an example Ghandi' technique of passive rrsistance, but I can't see how thi rule relates to our problem (Any suggestions?) 'The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative’ « what would you do?" >03 'If you push a negative hard enough, it will break through into e's counternart” This rule is crucial. Having got the establishment to concede something - we must then have some answers when they say "Now ohms A” sy ge ee Oa¢ ha wate Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Brian Anson Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Allan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c Nov 1975 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/30fc6eb4f053fce58877841f6edb5fb4.pdf 3dc62fbb1209cce5ab0c110de3b2a69a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brian Anson/ARC pre and post Harrogate Subject The topic of the resource Various documents describing ARC ideas and activities See below Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource ARC Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1975-1976 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SAC Conference 1979 Subject The topic of the resource Schools of Architecture Council (SAC) Festival of Education, Sheffield (file) Description An account of the resource ARCHITECTURAL Alvin Boyarsky, B Arch (McGill).MRAP (Comell) MRAIC Square London WCIB 3ES 01-676 0974 3. Se<ptember 1979. To: Ted Cullinan. Cedric Price, Louis Hellman. John Toomey (Covent Garden) Richard Rogers. Colin Ward, John Murray. (NAM) Rob Thompson. (ARC) Geoffrey Markham. (RIBA Student) John Maule McKean. (SAC) ARCHITECTURE Best wishes, Brian Anson. I would be most grateful, and it would help a lot, if we could all meet to have a drink to discuss the Festival in some detail. I would like to suggest any evening of the week beginning 23 September, and could I begin by suggesting Monday 24 in the basement of Percy Street at 6-30? SCHOOLS OF ARCHITECTURE COUNCIL. I feel I owe some explanation as to wh y i have taken the planning so far with- out your full involvement, and I'd like to do that when we meet. Would you let me know if $5 can make this date? I can be reached either at the AA or at home - 3903280. + ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF Festival of Education - Sheffield, I enclose the information presently being printed in Liverpool; the actual pamphlet will be ready by the 14 September and certainly by the time we meet. The Schoo! is run by the Architectural Association Incorporated, a com, No.171402. Its registered office address is as above. The AA {Inc} is also pany limited by guarantee and registered in England under @ registered charity under Section 4 ofthe Charities Act 1960, / /: WHOSE EDUCATION IS IT AN) ’ \o hifectural Education. NAY Festival o PEACH DATE iiME The School of Architecture, Arts J Wednesday 28 November to Friday 30 Welcoming ceremony of 45 mins. - | Prof, Gosling and student: welc: 1 hefficld school. ChairomfaSnAC: welcore tothe movement Ted Cullinan: RIBA Education Commiutice NAM spiyhesman. Richard Rogers, Hellman: welcome with adrawing. Cedric Price. Rob Thompson. Percy Sircet Atelier and ARC. Picgramine p PROGRAMME: Programme presented on arrival. The aim is flexibility and participation. Formal structure will be minimal. The concept is a market place of ideas in education. The opportunity is to tear down barriers, dissolve prejudice and expose worn out el ‘big names’ have been invited, but as participants, to be student rt whichever is appropriate at the time. Always the theme will be archi- ural education. Listen to the famous on the subject, Do idols have fect of clay? Hear the unknown. Whose education is it anyway? Events will occur simultaneously Fixed events will be few (if any). Move from one to the other. Take your pick or just float. Time will not rule this festival, it will rol] on. “.. . some of us get our second wind at midnight . ..” Cedric Price PARTICIPATION The skeletal structure of the Festival exists; it is very strong. Now we want your participation. We want you to bring the market place ideas. Have you anexperiment a presentation; a slide show; 2 play. Fill in the box below and send us details by 3 November (nothing considered after that date). COST Students £5. All others £10. OAP’s and children under 14, free Sheffield architectural students. Free. ACCOMMODATION: Through the generosity of the Sheffield students and others, we will have aschedule of ‘put you up’ accommodation, but this will be limited and you are urgently advised to make your own arrangements in the first instance. Please respond quickly if you wish to be put on the accommodation list. Festival fee must be enclosed before you are considered, For accommodation contact: Mark Parsons 112 Denison Street Beeston Nottingham Tel: 0602 222494 : FOOD: There will be no official catering, but it is expected that students will set up ‘food tables’ with cheap food for sale. Other arrangements may be made with the Sheffield Students Union. SALE OF LITERATURE: The Festival is a perfect opportunity for students and others to publicise the vast array of pamphlets, magazines, posters and manifestos on architectural matters that exist throughout the country. So set up a stall and sell your writings. INVITED PARTICIPANTS: Jim Stirling, Norman Foster, David Green (former Archigram), John Murray (NAM), Prof. Alan Lipman (NAM), Hans Harm (Einthoyen), Conrad Jamieson (scourge of the architects), Derek Walker, Walter Segal, Tom Wooley (Support), Anne Delaney, Alison Smithson, David Wilde (Big Red Diary), David Brock, Ron Weiner (‘Rape and plunder of Shankill’), Rod Hackney, Jane McDonald, Ian Todd, Dr. Roland Gunter (Eisenheim), Hubert Puig (la Canard Suavage), Jim Johnson (Assist), Anatole Kopp (Vincennes), Gordon Graham (ex President RIBA). m Wednesday, University i| | ‘ | ; Ce ue / tnAprilthisye1awraselectedfotheCi pe hoolsofA Council, the student delegates, with a fi 1 fi if and a few h ads, sade this possible. Thus an unbroken «! { 1. ds chairing SAC was swvered, 1aminofficefortwoyearsmd y¥ «) 1student SAC, the joint body of al 38 school he UK and Ireland, hasbeen deseribed by Proof, Dayid Gosling of the Sheffield schoo! “| The only democratic body inarchit. as . etural education — more demo- with the vast majonty being students. Comn or else they become servile. es can only govern themselves, But something went wrong with SAC. It became moribund, the majority of the community (students and staff) became bored, then indifferent, finally they forgot it. It was not difficult to sce why. Each school has three delegates at the annual conference — the head, a staff member and a student. 38 students represent &,000 students in the community; 38 heads represent themselves. It is ibsurd! And what for — what can SAC do? Brian Anson cratic than the RIBA and ARCUK cominittecs concerned with «ducation heads of schools, staff members and students. ..” Phe movement isbarely eight years old — an infant compared to its SO yearsold American counterpart, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (sith which SAC now has strong links). It grew out of the former “Heads of Schuols Group’, an adjunct of the RIBA. Its foundation was radical and its objective \ +s independence, for many of its creators its ultimate goal was the contro! of archi tectural education out of the hands of the RIBA and ARCUK. Their aspirati were right, SAC is a nafionwide ‘conin ity, a hering of nearly 10,000 people My election platform was quite specific. I emphasised the potential of the student body; experience in various forms of action and organisation, Tam not cynical about the student body. On the contrary, I belicve they represent a vitality and idealism which no one has ever tried to tap. Iwould have a similar optimism in the staff and heads, but let us start first with the students.” Let us tap this enormous fount of energy. Iwould make aconcerted diive to reach the mass body of students. Despite long and bitter My first job as Chairman was to present proposals for radical change in the repre- sentative structure — each school electing 1 head, 2 staff and 3 students, an equal power structure of learning and teaching. It was greeted with violent antagonism from some quarters, strong approval from others (including some heads) and other radical proposils to democratise the movement (again from some heads). The issue is alive, and its debate can bring SAC alive. Ultimately that is for us to decide as a community“and before we do that we must organise, as democratically as possible. 1 believe we must organise our own education — to break the influence of the profession which presently controls us; whose education is it anyway? This we can do from the strength of our 10,000 strong community of brilliant teachers and brilliant students, but it will take organisation and long-term strategy. If we tap the potential of our own community, the ideas for SAC are legion, in this letter Ioffer but a few. The SAC Executive has already started to organise the sponsorship of an international lecturer to travel the UK. SAC could sponsor students and staff to take time off to operate in other schools, thus disseminating the knowledge we have in our community. We urgently need a body capable of experimenting with ideas not yet readily acceptable in society; SAC could fulfil that role. Whatever else SAC could become an ‘ideas bank’ for architectural education. The ideas are there in their thousands — you have them! Our principal role as a community is to unearth them, disseminate them and use them forachange. There is now a permanent SAC office at 10 Percy Street, London WC1. But the postal address and tel. no. is the Architectural Association. I hope you will consider this office your own and Iwould welcome communication from any of you, particularly your ideas for SAC. Remember, in the last week of November, al roads lead to Sheffield — I hope to see you there! programme, see details enclosed. (Please give as ful details as possible on separate sheet, space required, Address/ Tel. No SAC FESTIVAL OF EDUCATION. NOVEMBER 1979 All enquiries to Architectural Association, 34/36 Bedford Square, London WC]. Telephone: 01 636 0974 TED CULLINAN ‘Draw it please’ Participate in continuous drawit with overhead projector. Richard Co Cedric... ROGERS WARD PRICE ‘Whatever happened to Polyark, What IS a schoo! of architecture?’ IOUN TOOMEY/AUTHUR DOOLEY. ‘Workerass Peachers!’ I/We wish to participate in the cre tion of the Festiv t, special effects, duration of ev STUDENT/STAFF GROUPS — NATIONWIDE. Ixperimental concepts HELLMAN *Let’s make education laugh’. Cartooning on the spot. ) SAC FESTIVAL OF EDUCATION, NOVEMBER 1979 il enquiries to Architectural Association, 34/36 Bedford Square, London WC1. Tek phone: 01 636 0974 /We wish to register as a participant at The Sheffield Festival and encl the ppropriate fee of... 2... (Students £5, others £10) cheques to*SAC Festival Account’. 1/We wish to be put on the accommodation list Name:. et School/Year ertesusns@emehowesaescsccseansspvanheosaau SAC Exccutive Committee 1979-80 Addr Chaisman: Vie Treasurer/Sec Reserve . Coopted Coopted Co-opted Covpted Co-opted Coopted Tcl. No:. ian Brian Anson(st.) JainT 1s (s) John McKean (st.) Henry Booton (st.) David Breakell (s) Wilson Briscoe (h) Geoffrey Broadbent th) Dennis Berry (h) George Cameron (s) Andrew Cunningham (s) Michael Darke (h) Mike Duriez (st.) David Gosling (h) Ted Happold (h) Geoffrey Hast Pedro Gt James Kackinnon (st.) Geoffrey Markham (s) Tom Markus (h) Ken Martin (h) Cho Padamsce (h) Mark Parsons (s) Alison Poulter (s) Alan Smith (st.) David Walters (st) Architectural Ass jon Canterbury N.E.LP Leeds Liverpool U. PNL Portsmouth Kingston Liverpoo) Poly ham Manchestez Poly Edinburgh Univ Shefficld Bath Hull AA Dundce RIBA Strathclyde Liverpool Poly. Hull Nottingham Manchester Univ. Oxford Plymouth One student vacancy due to resignation of Janet Kicboe, Heyiot Watt - (h)he(sat)sdtaff,,(st)student a festival of architectura Richard Colin Cedric... ROGERS WARD PRICE ‘Whatever happened to Polyark. What IS a school of architecture?’ Chairman: V. Chairman Treasurer/Sec: Brian Anson (st.) lain Douglas (s) John McKean (st.) Henry Booton (st.) David Breakell (s) Wilson Briscoe (h) Geoffrey Broadbent (h) Dennis Berry (h) George Cameron (s) Andrew Cunningham (s) Michael Darke (h) Architectural Association Canterbury N.E.LP Leeds Reserve Co-opted Liverpool U PNL Portsmouth K Co-opted Liverpool Poly. Birmingham Manchester Poly Edinbu Co-opted Mike Duriez (st.) David Gosling (h) Ted Happold Geoffrey Hasl. Pedro Guedes (st.) James Kackinnon (st.) Geoffrey Markham (s) Tom Markus (h) Shefficld Bath Hull AA Dundee RIBA Strathclyde Co-opted Co-opted SAC Executive Committee 1979-80 One student vacancy due to resignation of Janet Kieboc, Heriot Watt HELLMAN ‘Let’s make education laugh’. Cartooning on the spot. Ken Martin (h) Cho Padamsce (h) Mark Parsons (s) Liverpool Poly Hull Nottingham Manchester Univ. Oxford Plymouth (h) head, (st) staff, (st) student TED CULLINAY: ‘Draw it please’ Participate in continuous drawing with overhead projector. STUDENT/STAFF GROUPS — NATIONWIDE. Experimental concepts JOHN TOOMEY/AUTHUR DOOLEY. ‘Workers as Teachers!’ ducation at-:++--» Co-pted Alison Poulter (s) ’ =_ = mea eeaaa aeeewwrrare SAC FESTIVALOF EDUCATION. NOVEMBER 1979 All enquiries to Architectural Association, 34/36 Bedford London WC1. Telephone; 01 636 0974 PLACE: DATE: TIME: The School of Architecture, Arts Tower, Sheffield University. | Wednesday 28 November to Friday 30. i Welcoming ceremony of 45 mins. — 12 noon Wednesday. Prof. Gosling and student: welcome to the Sheffield school. Chairman of SAC: welcome to the movement. Ted Cullinan: RIBA Education Committee. NAM spokesman. Richard Rogers. Hellman: welcome with adrawing. LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN My election platform was quite specific. | emphasised the potential of the student body; My first job as Chairman was to present proposals for radical change in the repre- sentative structure — each school electing 1 head, 2 staff and 3 students; an equal power structure of learning and teaching. It was greeted with violent antagonism from some quarters, strong approval from others (including some heads) and other radical proposals to democratise the movement (again from some heads). The issue isalive, and itsdebate can bring SAC alive. SAC, the joint body of al 38 schools in the UK and Ireland, has been described by Prof. David Gosling of the Sheffield school, as cratic than the RIBA and ARCUK committees concerned with education — heads of schools, staff members and students. ..” The movement is barely eight years old — an infant compared to its 50 years old Ameri T the Asociation of Collegiate Schols of Archi (with which SAC now has strong links). It grew out of the former ‘Heads of Schools Group’, an adjunct of the RIBA. Its foundation was radical and its objective was independence; for many of its creators its ultimate goal was the control of archi- tectural education out of the hands of the RIBA and ARCUK, Their aspirations were right. SAC is a nationwile ‘community’, a gathering of nearly 10,000 people with the vast majority being students. Communities can only govern themselves, or else they become servile. But something went wrong with SAC. It became moribund, the majority of the community (students and staff) became bored, then indifferent, finally they forgot it. It was not difficult to see why. Each school has three delegates at the annual conference — the head, a staff member and a student. 38 students represent 8,000 students in the community; 38 heads represent themselves. It is absurd! “Let ustapthisenormousfountofenergy.|wouldmakeaconcerted drive to reach the mass body of students. Despite long and bitter experience in various forms of action and organisation, I am not cynical about the student body. On the contrary, I believe they represent a vitality and idealism which no one has ever tried to tap. Iwould have a similar optimism in the staff and heads, but let us start first with the students.” Ww a permanent SAC office at 10 Percy Street, London WC1. But the is the I hope you will ay of ACCOMMODATION: Through the generosity of the § of ‘put you up’ accom to make your own ments in the first instance, Please respond quickly if you odation list. Festival fee must be enclosed before you are considered. For accommodation contact: shefficld Students Union. Mark Parsons 112 Denison Street Beeston ottingham Tel: 0602 222494 FOOD: There will be no oficial catering, but it is expected that students wil set ‘food tables’ with cheap food for sale, Other arrangements may be made with ents and others, we be limited and you are urgently advised have a schedule And what for — what can SAC do? shetfield nov:28-30. 1979 PROGRAMME: Programme presented on arrival. The aim is flexibility and participation. Formal structure will be minimal. The concept is a market place of ideas in education. The opportunity is to tear down barriers, dissolve prejudice and expose worn- out cliches. Many ‘big names’ have been invited, but as participants, to be student or teacher whichever is appropriate at the time. Always the theme will be archi- tectural education. Listen to the famous on the subject. Do idols have feet of clay? Hear the unknown, Whose education is it anyway? Events will occur simultancously. | Fixed events will be few (if any). Move from one to the other. Take your pick or | just float. Time will not rule this festival, it will roll on. .some of us get our | second wind at midnight ...”Cedric Price. PARTICIPATION: The skeletal structure of the Festival exists; it is very strong. Now we want your participation. We want you to bring the market place ideas. Have you anexperiment, a presentation; a slide show; a play. Fill in the box below and send us details by 3 November (nothing considered after thatdate). Ultimately that is for us to decide as a community and before we do that we must organise, as democratically as possible. I believe we must organise our own education — to break the influence of the profession which presently controls us; whose education is it anyway? This we can do from the strength of our 10,000 strong community of brilliant teachers and brilliant students, but it will take organisation and long-term strategy. If we tap the potential of our own commu the ideas for SAC are legion, in this letter I offer but a few, The SAC Executive h already started to organise the sponsorship of an international lecturer to travel tie UK. SAC could sponsor students and staff to take time off to operate thus disseminating the knowledge we have in our community, We urgently body capable of experimenting with ideas not yet readily acceptable in soc SAC could fulfil that role. Whatever else SAC could become an ‘ideas INVITED PARTICIPANTS » Norman Foster, David Green (former Archigram), John Murray (NAM), architectural education. The ideas are you have them! ise! ate them and use Our principal role as a coi them for change ty is to u nan (NAM), Hans Harm (Einthoyen), Conrad Jamieson (scourge of s), Derek Walker, Walter Segal, Tom Wooley (Support), Anne Delaney, Alison Smithson, David Wilde (Big Red Diary), David Brock, Ron Weiner (‘Rape and plunder of Shankill’), Rod Hackney, Jane McDonald, lan Todd, Dr. Roland Gunter (Eisenheim), Hubert Puig (la Canard Suavage), Jim Johnson (Assist), Anatole COST: Students £5. All others £10. OAP’s and children under 14, free. Sheffield architectural students. Free. ies), Gordon Graham (ex President RIBA). There is postal address consider this office your ow particularly your ideas for SAC SAC FESTIVAL OF EDUCATION. NOVEMBER 1979 enquiries to Architectural Association, 34/36 Bedford Square, London WC1. Telephone; 01 636 0974 Festival and enclose the ers £10) cheques to’ SAC Dear Colleague, In April this year I was elected to the Chairmanship of the Schools of Architecture Council, the student delegates, with a little help from some staff and a few heads, made this possible. Thus an unbroken chain of heads chairing SAC was severed. 1am in office for two years and my Vice-Chairman isa student. come together! I/We wish to register Associa communication from Ihope to We wish to thank the RIBA student section for the financing and printing of thispamphlet. y, other schools, SALE OF LITERATURE perfect opportunity for students and others to publicise the ets, Magazines, posters and manifestos on architectural matters tthecountry. Sosetupastallandsellyourwritings tel, no, WHOSE EDUCATION IS IT ANYWAY? — A 3-DAY Festival of Architectural Education. Cedric Price. Rob Thompson. Percy Street Atelier and ARC. Id | |j } j | any tellman Thanks for? coming to the meeting om Monday night. I believe it was a further Success and produced additional ideas for the Festival. I know you appreciate the way I'm trying to develope the whole idea - to create participation amongst ourselves at each stage. This is already happening. Initially we brought in Cedric, Ted and John Toomey; from last Monday night we had added NAM and ARCYand, through Geoff Markham, the RIBA. I was only disappointed that Richard Rogers and Colin Ward didn't arrive. Hopefully there's normal reasons for their absence, but if not, I'd appreciate any help you can give in persuading them to get seriously involved. ¥¥¢ Schools of Architecture Council. Sheffield Festival. 1979. John Murray (NAN) Louis Hellman. Rob Thompson. (ARC) John MCKean (SAC) Geoffrey Markham (RIBA) copyte blerotry ad Pee Buda, ee tb I've already had positive response from some of the ‘invited participants’. Walter Segal is grateful to be included and, if back from Canada in November, Gane Will certainly be at Sheffield. David Green is enthusiastic and Gordon Graham told me personally that he'll definately be there. I'm confident that the majority of those on the list will be enthusiastic especially as we build up the atmosphere to the event. You know, of course, that that list is distinctly ad-hoc; any further 'names' you can persuade to attend (and pre-publicise their intentions) would be very welcome. Through Cedric, Ellis Hillman has already shown enthusiasm. I really am glad the press came. Feter Buchanan of AJ seemed particularly enthusiastic and I think it's vital that we keep him interested. Somehow or other between now and mid-November, the festival has to grow into an exciting possibility expanded from SAC. We need to get into published ideas, personal statements and quotations, letters to the press etc. Lou, could you think of a cartoon (or better still, a series of - like you did on CG) for AJ at the appropriate time? Can I confirm that you all agreed to produce your own bit of the programme and can we agree it should be designed to go into the ‘usual plastréc bag' or information pack. —7 “oriseadly, A4. Now that the academic year is about to start I shall begin to concentrate on the Sheffield end of things - the spaces (which I've already studied once in detail) the hardware, the participation of the Sheffield community etc. In addition I'll concentrate on the overall programme into which your details fit. I'll keep you informed. I trust we all agree that there must be a ...thing, cencept or question ... which holds the assembly together. Everyone I've spoken to says that the guestion already posed ‘WHOSE EDUCATION IS IT ANYWAY?", is that ‘anchor’. But firmed up - Cedric's comment ‘or was it just a question of style?" Then, of course, the formality (and the more I think of it, I see it must be very formal) of the SAC session, will direct the assembled energy to one or two fundamental questions. Thus the press can afterwards say that, not only was an incredible energy released in Sheffield, that now has to be converted into a power, but also that the Sheffield crowd made their views quite clear on a few basic issues. eee teSecuitinen Doane Gos Shafeld)- Kew Mowtur - There is the auestion of what further national publicity is needed. We could (with some confidence) leave it at that. Two things to finish off this brief note: A million thanks again for all your help. We have the pamphlet (10,000) which has SOME vagueness but which is not all that vague. Further pore it's vagueness is somewhat covered by the fact that it is deliberately stated thet the programme will be presented on arrival. Then there is the press which will add information to the pamphlet but still leaving a slight air of mystery. Finally there is the damned question itself - it couldn't be more blunt ‘Whose education etc'. With such interesting people already on the pamphlet I know I'd make it up to Sheffield if I was a student. PersonallyIdonotlikecompetitiontoomuch,butusedwitheee as help. Why don't we set up a schools (and others) poster competition for the Festival. The individual posters can be used in the schools and the whole 38 plus designs can be judged at the Festival. This is a minor example of partic- ipation working as it's happening. The press could advertise the competition. You will understand of course that a host of other ideas have already been S discussed and are ready to be put in hand - tours of Sheffield; the local Yorkshire media, the community groups and general public.....do we see any reason why we shouldn't invite the appropriate government departments? But some more,could be issued. The SAC Executive agreed that we should try to get each schod1 designing it's own poster, maybe pushing a bit more data or adding to the publicity by varied, unusual and high class graphics. During my lengthy tel. conversation with Walter Segal he made the point that I need to gather together people whd{ebmmitted to this Festival and who will be seen to be helping each other - from that our strength will come. i like to think that we are on the way to creating The second point is even more important. For me the key idea is participation from the community of architectural education. We can plan and organise to create variety and avoid chaos, but we will fail unless we remember that something has got to happen at Sheffield about which we will not know until it happens, For me that's what the first stage of participation is all about; if we miss out that stage then it's all phoney. that unity. Crp PRESS | Prop. Man Lippia (Conaip) gue I rt ‘WAiped pevyujpantt bas reSperfed $ Lrg Foal be Aelighfect to 60! 4 bd LLD-UPovis 0D FAR. LAY oF: HO |row bORM ae Ad a et gess 1 eR tact - MID-NOV _ Z Cote:| ag eve | eee CostesRUM BEScHADLS Zon . = j Cent By We.28:Ove: ieohes ——ad pve VIO | Cord | pits €45 Su Onef ae es t Coy $ AS | go" ee etieaee) Ea Vena’ wey @ =<eh«/ NW\ V ‘By Novi 3)5T Shock2 ink g Bod ' oraie, Tay Cur / Ceofer —_eee & To: Ted Cullinan Cedric Price bousis Hellman Yohn Toomey Richard Rogers Colin Ward John Murray Rob Thompson Geoffrey Markham John Maule McKean. ® Sincerely, : 34-36 Bedford Square London WCIB 3ES 01-636 0974 17 Sept: 79. SCHOOLS OF ARCHITECTURE COUNCIL. Festival of architectural education. ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Chairman: Alvin Boyarsky. B.Arch (McGill).. M.R.P. (Cornell), MR ALC The School is run by the Architectural Association Incorporated, a company limited by guarantee and registered in England under No.171402. Its registered office address is as above. The AA (Inc) is also a registered charity under Section4 of the Charities Act 1960. I enclose the pamphlet - 10,000 of which will shortly be distributed throughout Britain and ireland. I look forward to seeing you at 6.Opm (not 6-30 as I originally stated) in Percy Street basement on Monday 24 Sept. for a wee drink and a talk. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Brian Anson 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 03 September 1979 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/39f58996006b6ab7c352d6134d6a4dee.pdf d9cf2f62158799c8aec9fd3a4feac94b 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 NAM National Design Service Subject The topic of the resource NAM goes for public sector... report of third annual congress, held in Hull. 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A ches Ws naku An More OW bation Nake preeenaleara oe a !goreGly dionAe ee Ro pena, eget ger eet eT Levdspinsh ie ieans wi beprin tl tenn, locabioankottoheebeetse Greater Lcendon Council \ Historic Buildings Board keport (27,9.72) by oe Cer CC col Lec va Gic Wie oe THE SCHOOLS OF THE LONDON SCHOOL A =£ ~“S : EP 523 sup. ie \or BOARD (1872-1904) AND THE LONDON _2-/ | COUNTY COUNCIL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT ? Vine > pe Ee | <2 “1904-1910—INVESTIGATIONFOR ae ~ / ,{ PRESERVATION : ee | The Board will recall that some time &@g0 a request was made that a detailed report on Board Schools of London snould be submitted for information and consideration. It will be appreciated that a very considerable amount of research was involved in the preparation of the report which is now presented for the Board's consideration. 1 The remarkeble architectural phenomenon of the Bozrd Schools of London was conceived iin that section of the Hlementary Education Act of 1870 concerned with the special provisions to have effect in the 'metropolis'. Requiring that the name of the school board 'shall be the School Board for London!’ the Act stated that the board 'shall proceed at once to supply their district with sufficient public school accommodation’. london was thus required to lead the way with a vast programme of school building, and, dividing the district into ten areas ~ Marylebone, Finsbury, Lambeth (East and West) Tower Hanilets, Hackney, Westminster, Southwark, City, Chelsea and Greenwich, the Board set immediately about its orgenisation. Ata meeting of the Works and General Purposes Committee in May 1871 it was decided that the duties should be divided under three headings: the Acquisition of sites, the selection 'from time to time', of an architect to erect buildings, and the appointment of a consulting architect end surveyor, with reference to talcing over schools and ‘the general business likely to arise’, The importance of getting the best possible designs for all ney buildings was stressed even et this early stage_ and the method favoured was to hold limited competitions of known school architects. The intention of the Boord-had first been to research the Situation fully, but 'at the instence of Lord Sandon it was determined to build a first batch of twenty schools in the most destitute districts without waiting the result of the laborious Statistical investigations'. Eighty-four architects applied for the post of consultant architect to the Board and from these six were shortlisted: Joseph Janes, J.i, Morris, Thomas Porter, John S. Quilter, E.R. Rodson and Yiliian Wigginton, E.R, Robson was appointed to the post with an overwhelming majority at a Board meeting early in July 1871. Born in Durhan iin 1835, Robson had been erticled to John Dobson of Newcastle— on-Tyne.e In 1857 he came to London whore ne worked for three years ‘in the office of George Gilbert Scott, and met there in 1858 as a fellow pupil the young Scotsman, John James Stevenson. Setting up in practice, Robson was Appointed Architect to Durham Cathedral and in 1864 became «chitect and surveyor to Liverpool City Corporation, a post he held for nearly five years. During this time he was responsible for the new ilunicipal offices end riany other public Works and improvements in the city. It was the prospect of the massive School Board commission that brought Robson finally to London: he resigned from the Liverpool post in 1859. Fhilip Robson wrote in a Memoir of his father that, seeeees ON the 2 75ing of the Forster Fducation Act my father determined 4f he cowl te Lead the way with regard to Educational Buildings'. Shortly after his aprointment in 1871 Robson took J.J. Stevenson into a partnership that lasted into 1875 and there can be no doubt that this action was decisive in the development of the Board School Style, as it came to be known. i However, for the first two years of the Board's existence, Robson and his partner had little or no influence upon the designs of the schools, for the competition system was pursued with the somewhat panic-stricken zeal of the. early Board until its unwieldy and expensive administration and by no means alvays satisfactory results led to its rejection in 1873. A characteristic example of these first competition schools was that at Johnson Street, Stepney, by T.R. Smith, opened in 1872 and now destroyed. In the Gothic manner, with little to distinguish it from the numbers of parochial and national schools that had gone before, Smith's design represented all that was to be rejected so dramatically within a year of its completion. Robson himself wrote in 1874, Pe e Johnson Street School cannot, when critically considered, be regarded the light of a success which invites general imitation.' One school emerged from the competition system to foreshadow the elements of the Board School Style: that at Harwood Road, Fulham, designed by Basil Champneys and opened in October 1873 (now demolished). The distinguishing features of this building - the red brick walls articulated with slender brick pilasters, gable ended roofs, tall chimneys, tell white-painted sash windows and mild Renaissance details - were those of the 'Qucen Anne’ manncr, about to become one of the stormiest controversies in art and architectural circles of the 19th century. Robson's ovm comments on Champney's school in his book School Architecture of 1874, were restrained in their approval, but reflect the crucial influence that Harwood Road must have exerted upon hin: 'The style in which the building has been thought out", he wrote, ‘is a quaint and able adaptation of old English brick architecture to modern school purposes. Apart irom the opinion, which may be termed that of fashion, because of its temporary nature, but which runs for the moment headlong after e favourite style, even when carried out in the most tasteless and unmean— é: manner, this building must be regarded as possessing decided architect-— ural character. The war between the rival styles has raged so long that we are in some danger of forgetting the existence of certain broad first principles common to the great architecture of all times and countries, and whicn are certainly never absent from the more conspicuous and representative examples. Among these first conditions of architecture must be ranked a regard tox good form, geod proportion, good grouping and, above all, good architectural character and good colour .....- .. The design in question must rank as thoughtful and artistic work, whatever may be our individual preference as to style.' . : With these words Robson was justifying his own decision, when in 1873 with Stevenson in unofficial partnership with him, he took over the designing of all Board Schools and chose to express the new age of education with the new style of architecture. : | The division of responsibility for the 'School Board style’ is by no means a straightforward matter, and was, it seems, already a subject tor arguaent in 1874, Stevenson was undoubtedly one of the principal spokesmen and apologists for 'Queen Anne' and among the first actually to have built in the new style. In 1870-1 he designed Red House, Bayswater Road for himself, in red brick with pedimented gables, tall chimneys and flat arched sash windows, at a date when Norman Shaw, later to be the arch—protagonist of the style, had not yct abandoned the picturesque Tudor of his work of the '60's. In 1874 when the programme of the Board Schools had already been formulated with Robson, and Shaw's Lowther Lodge Kensington, a classic example of 'Queen Anne’ was only in course of building, Stevenson read before the General Conference of Architects at the R.I.B.A. a paper entitled 'On the Recent Reaction of Taste in English Architecture’, a key document in the history of the Queen Anne revival. Emphasising the close affinities of Queen Anne with classical architecture - in the search for an appropriate label for-the style the term Free Classic was often recommended — Stevenson depended heavily for his justification on the practical ari economic advantages of the new manner, 2 reflection, no doubt, of the discussions he and Robson must have had when establishing a coherent and viable house style at the School Board. The central argument of his paper, quoted below, is immediately applicable to the Board's work: “(The Style) has much to be said for it on practical grounds. Take the ordinary conditions of London building - stock bricks and sliding sash windows. A flat arch of red cut bricks is the cheapest mode of forming a window-head: the red colour is naturally carried down the sides of the window, forming a frame; and is used also to emphasise the angles of the building. As the gables rise above the roofs, it costs nothing, and gives interest and character ........ to mould them into curves and sweeps. ~The appearance of wall-surface carried over the openings, which, in Gothic, the tracery and iron bars and reflecting surface of thick stained glass had taught us to appreciate, is obtained by massive wooden frames and sash bars set, where the silly interference of the Building Act does not prevent, almost flush with the walls, while to the rooms inSide these thick sash bars give a fecling of enclosure and comfort. . : : With these simple elements the style is complete, without any expenditure whatever on ornament ........ There is nothing but harmony and proportion to depend on for effect. We may, if we have money to spare, get horizontal division of the facade, in this style, as in Gothic, by string courses and cornices, and we have the advantages over Gothic that we can obtain vertical division by pilasters, which, though not constructive any more than string courses as used in modern Gothic, have at least as much meaning in a London house as pointed window arches ..... The style in all its forms has the merit of truthfulness; it is the outcome of our common modern wants picturesquely expressed. In its mode of working and details it is the common vernaculer style in which the British workman has been apprenticed, with some new life from Gothic added ....." 3 Later, in his book House Architecture, published in 1880, Stcvensor referred Specifically to the Boarda Sc Schools in this Context: "Within the last year or two there has been a revival of the ‘Queen Anne! - style for town houses and even for streets. The fashion scems to be spreading. It has received some accession of force from the schools of the London School Board, planted in every district of London, having been mostly built in that style. For the architecture of a few of the earliest of these I am responsible, having found by the practical expericnce of a house I built for myself in this manner, that the style adapts itself to every modern necessity and convenience. In that case I made no attempt to follow any particular style, the style grow naturally from using ordinary materials and modes of work, and trying to give them character and interest ........" eee nnd a - _—- - ote So * 1874 was the year in which Robson too published his important document School Architecture, already referred to above, in which, together with examples upon which he comments, he sets out to justify the adoption of the Queen Anne Style. More ideological in approach than Stevenson and less passionate, perhaps in his advocacy of the new style per se, Robson was nonetheless well aware of the great opportunity for changing the face of ‘London and the course of architectural development that his post as Board Architect was offering: "Among so large a number of new school houses," he wrote, "some are “4 fortunate in being placed in positions where they can be easily seen and it becomes of some importance to consider what style is most suitable ......! His rejection of Gothic - in theory, at least - seems characteristic now of the evangelistic fervour that the Act had inspired in the Victorian reformers in Education: "A building in which the teaching of dogma is strictly forbidden, can have no pretence for using with any point or meaning that symbolism which is so interwoven with every feature of church architecture as to be regarded as € its very life and soul. In its aim and object it should strive to express civil rather than ecclesiastical character." Thus, he reasoned, the idiom previously employed for National Schools in England (Gothic, that is) would be entirely inappropriate, and for the added reason that it would lack "anything to mark the great change which is coming over the education of the country." But a precedent had to be found somewhere - these were, after all, the 1870's ~ and it was observed that "iin London the plainer and less expensive buildings forming by far the most numerous class, must always be constructed of brick." Moreover, "specimens of good and thoughtful brickwork in sufficient numbers still remain scattered among the old architecture of the city and its suburbs to form the basis of a good style suited to modern requirements — Hackney and Putney, Chelsea and Deptford all furnish old examples." With a final flourish of logic Robson concluded, "The only really simple brick style available as a foundation is. that of the time of the Jameses, Queen Anne and the early Georges, whatever some enthusiasts may think of its value in point of art. The buildings ...... are invariably true in point of i@ construction and workmanlike feeling. Varying much in architectural merit, they form the nucleus of a good modern style." ‘Robson seems to have been unwilling to acknowledge Stevenenson's contribution fully. Philip Robson recorded that his father had observed how he "was occupied often in the afternoons rubbing out what John had done in the morning," and in School Architecture Robson did no more than mention in passing that "severai of the designs selected for illustration are from the pencil of my partner tir J.J. Stevenson, who, althoush haying no connection with the School Board, has rendered much valuable assistance in their work." Together with schools that are a clear expression of 'Queen Anne’ there are illustrated, in Robson's book, others that reflect a more conservative attitude to Gothic, as for example those at Winstanley Road, Battersea (demolished) and Mansfield Place, Kentish Tow (demolished); it is likely that these examples reveal Robson's individual hand, while the first group was predominately Stevenson's responsibility. Vith its immediate roots in the work of Philip Webb and W.E. Nesfield in the 1860's, the Queen Anne style was developed mainly in the field of domestic architecture, and it is reasonable to suppose that Stevenson, having "With the most basic means availeble for buildings regarded as nothing more than utilitarian, they si.ccessfully combined architectural distinction with good, honest construction. ‘Thoir essential charm is in the grouping of their building masses which is always interesting without boing contrived". In the informality of Robson's schools lies the central difference between them and the schools designed by the second Architect to the Board after 1884. Designing for smaller numbers of pupils than his successor, Rooson was able to Maintain the domestic scale and assymetrical plan which were crucial to the idea of the Board Schools as part of an Enplish vernacular revival. E.R. Robson resigned from his post in 1884 and returned to private practice. His later independent works included the People's Palace, Mile End Road and € these poor persons brighter, more interesting, nobler, by so treating the necessary Board Schools planted in their midst as to make each building undertake a sort of leavening influence, we have set on foot a permanent and ever active good - this is no mere theory - it is already proved by the manner in which builders of ordinary houses are imitating the Board Schools in every direction.'! ea applied its forms at an early date to his own house in Bayswater, provided the impetus for Robson's adoption of the style. Certainly little that fore- shadows the Board Schools of 1874 is to be found in the ponderous semi- classical formality of Liverpool Municipal offices. Whatever the truth of the matter, the influence of the Board Schools of London upon both the school and domestic architecture of England during the last decades of the 19th century was profound. It was Robson himself wno, in two articles published in the Art Journal in 1881 related the schools to the Aesthetic Movement as a whole, and he who should be allowed the last word: - "It must always be among the high purposes for which the Act exists to make any home brighter and more interesting, nobler if you will. We have seen how abject are the homes of countless thousands. If we can make the homes of Little remains of the schools with which Robson illustrated School Architecture, and where they have survived, as at the Charles Lamb School, Islington, they have often been enlarged almost beyond recognition. Indeed, examples of Schools from the whole period 1873-84 that have not been subjected to over~ whelming alterations ze now rare. € necessities of planning to introduce variety and intcrest into what might have becn a bleakly functional structure. Thus the decorative possibilities of the white sash windows and their repeating rhythms, the soaring chimneys and spirelets and the colour contrasts of yellow bricks with red briok dressings, white stone plaques, copings and cornices, were all exploited. So, too, were the opportunities for interesting formal compositions that the flexible plan afforded, with its simple units of hall, classrooms and cloakrooms on each storey. Hermann Nuthesius, the eminent critic of English architecture at the turn of the 19th century, wrote of the early Board schools in 1900: Usually, like Park Walk, Chelsea, they are of three lofty storeys, their height emphasised by the thin brick pilaster strips that frame the tall white painted Sash windows. The steeply pitched red—-tiled roofs are enlivened by delicate lanterns and pretty stonecoped gables carrying one of Robson's rare concessions to pure decoration —- the stone plaques with their flower reliefs that became one of the hallmarks of the early schools. Other small enrichments were the familiar title plaques and, occasionally, a wall panel in bas-relief of Knowledge strangling Ignorance, from a model designed by Spencer Stanhope. Robson was otherwise dependent solely on his materials and the bare Me Royal Institute Galleries in Piccadilly - both buildings of distinction. Eis successor as Board Architect was Thomas Jerram Bailey, who had been : Appointed chief draughtsman to Robson in 1873. Bailey had served his : apprenticeship with R.J. Withers and worked as an assistant to Ewan Christian before entering the School Board's Architect's offices in 1872 at the age of 28. In 1881 he became an Associate of Royal Institute of British Architects and a Fellow in 1893. In 1904 when the London County Council took over the School building programme of the London School Board, he was appointed Architect to the Education Department and, exempted from retirement in 1908, he continued to hold office for two more years and died only six months after he finally retired early in 1910. The R.I.B.A. dournal's obituary notice began: "By the death of Mr T.J. Bailey we have lost a member whose influence on the evolution of school planning during the last 25 years can hardly be exagserated." Drawing attention to the "enormous numbers' of schools built to his designs Since 1884, the report concluded: . "There is probably no type of modern building which more nearly combines the werits of carefully thought out planning with an xchitectural treatment so thoroughly expressive of its purpose, as a typical London Board School." Having observed the building of the Schools for more than ten years and contributed, no doubt, to details of their design, it is not surprising that Bailey's own work after 1884 was essentially a development of Robson's proto- types. But the assymetrical plan and the vocabulary of architectural rooms which had been evolved for the small schools of the '70's - and were essentially domestic in character - now had to be adapted to the demand for much larger buildings. Wherever possible, as Bailey himself explained in his paper quoted below, the domestic scale was maintained, but it is in the massive schools for up to 1500 pupils that the development of his individual style can best be appreciated. His first response to the problem of the long clevation was to multiply the familiar units of the original small schools: the Munster school and its twin the Sir John Lillie in Hammersmith are of this type, but in their plans that uncompromising rectangular symmetry which became the characteristic of Bailey's large schools, is already firmly established. The Hall forms the entral core and, unfolding on either side f it, are, in sequence, the staircases, the cloakroom blocks and classroom wings. Behind the hall, and completing the rectangle, are ranged in line the principe] classrooms. In his paper The Planning and Construction of Board “Schools, read before the R.I.B.A. in 1899, Bailey revealed the extent to which the problem of restricted and awkward sites had dictated the devclepment of his monumental school tyne: "WInere sites are sufficiently large and level, schools of all one storey aro usually built - as a rulc, a senior mixed school, consisting of classrooms grouped round a central hall, with an infants' department as a separate & pbuilding. Another type is to put the boys' and girls' as a two-storcy pbuilding; again with separate infants' school. This type is suitable for a large site where the levels are inconvenient for a one-storey school. The majority of sites will only allow for three-storey schools ...--." Proceeding to describe this type as being the most usual he explained: "The infants are naturally on the ground floor, on a level with their play- -ground, the girls on the first floor, the boys above. The London School | Board consider a hall indispensable to every department of a school. 7 \ Experience has shown that nearly every school built in London has required enlargement. There must naturally, however, be a limit to the Size of a School, so that the departments do not become unwieldy. The maximum size or accommodation of a group should not exceed 1,548 ...... and if further accommodation is required, it should be provided by a separate mixed department ...... On the other hand, if a smaller school is needed to begin with, it is convenient to take the figures named as a maximum, and built a portion first, leaving it to be added to as needs arise ....!" "The main line of classrooms should, if possible, face the playgrounds rather than a noisy road, and draw their light from the east, as that aspect suns up the rooms in the early morning and does not disturb them for the day. TI never build to the cheerless north if I can avoid it .....; the classrooms in the Wings cannot be so considered, but it would be impracticable and unworkable to place them all in one line. The hall, facing west, provides a good reservoir of sun-lighted air to help the classrooms, and, not being seated or reckoned in the accommodation, is a cheerful place into which to march the classes for recreation or collective purposes. Architecturally also, this elevation, being the more broken up (comprising, as it does, the main lighting of the hall, the Staircases, cloak and teachers! rooms and blocks, and gable end of wings) is more desirzble for a street front than the long unbroken lines of classrooms, though the aspects of the site do not always allow for this." Thus, for example, the Munster Road school Successfully presents its hall elevation s the principal front, while the Sir John Lillie has its classroom range fronting onto the main Lillie Road. By the late '90's Bailey had evolved for the large schools that bold ana monumental front which, though differing widely from Robson's prototype, is often held to be Synonymous with Board School architecture ana appears, with only minor variations, throughout London. Good examples are Vauxhall. Manor, Lambeth, Montem, Islington and Rhyl, Camden. The Slender central lantern and delicate gables of the earlier schools have given way to elaborate twin cupolas over the staircase blocks, to flank the plain central mass of the hall, and heavy pediments Surmount the wings. In this school type each part of the plan was expressed as a Separate architectural unit, linked primarily by the majestic Symmetry of their arrangement in 4 B C DC B A rhythm. The later development of Bailey's work - for the School Board and then for the L.C.C. - shows a general tendency towards a more Sculptural style and a more richly decorative use of materials, as shown for example in the magnificent South Hackney School Cassland Road or Torriano School in Camden. The plan, however, remained basically unchange@, and the variations in architectural treatment, although astonishingly inventive, were little more than superficial, Bailey was essentially an eclectic architect: reflections of current architectural fashion ~ the Ndwardian onilence of Ei. Mountford or Ernest George in the South Hackney Upper School, Hackney and the Harion Richardson School, Tower Hamlets, or the eccentricities of Art Nouveau in the Torriano and Kingsgate Schools, Camden - are constantly to be found, although his own feeling for sombre Baroque symmetry and mass is never absent. In the area office at St John's Hill, Wandsworth, Bailey achieved a final refinement of Edwardian "Wrenaissance" brick architecture and brought to a close the vernacular revival in which the carly Board Schools had played so important apart. That Riley had retained a firm influence on the designs produced in his office is indicetea by the fact that architectural standards abruptly declined after his retirement despite the continuing presence under his Successor R. Robertson, of his principal assistants, H.R. Perry and G.L. Wade. The contribution of Robson and Bailey to school architecture and to London erchitecture in general has been all but ignored for sixty years, although the — 8 o The School Board's real concern, fom the beginning, for architectural values, "The policy of the School Board has almost always been to Give these a buildings, as public buildings, some dignity of &ppearance, and make them ornaments rather than disfigurements to the neighbourhoods in which they are erected .... It was found that the difference of cost between bare utilitarianism and buildings designed in some sort of Style and with regard for matcrials and colour, was rather less then 5 per cent. At the same time, this ornamental appearance may be scured either by richness of detail, or by a dignified Grouping of masses; it is the policy of the Board, while studying, in the first instance, suitable arransements for teaching, not to Set aside the dignity and attractiveness of buildings, which the Board have e* feltshouldbeacontrasttotheirpoorSurroundings,!! 7A a . : - = One valuable assessment of the merit of the Schools was published in the Architectural Review in 1958 where it was stated, with reference to the early schools but with equal truth in the context of the 1884-1910 period. “Robson's achievement eesee lay firstly in his incisive analysis of his objectives, his ready understanding of the challenge which new social demands had placed before him; Secondly, in his prompt understanding that designers Such as Champneys and Stevenson had hit upon a stylistic approach that might be developed in answer to this challenge; thirdly, in the Superb confidence and virility with which he and his staff carried through the development of the style, Giving power and sometimes Grandeur where its originators could only achieve charm; anc, lastly, in the truly Victorian drive with which he pushed a vast programme of work to completion with architectural standards of the very highest order maintained throughout ......!! _/ *wirtuosity of their schools is everywhere apparant. The pleasant Spreading buildings of the Single storey schools Give a village air to arid suburban streets, while the larger Schools, their beautiful detailing expressly concentrated in their upper storeys, were built to S02r above the -crowded streets, often the only concession to dignity among the Victorian slums. Was emphasised in the Final Report of the Board, published in’1904: Z eley Principal sources School Board Chronicle “inutes of the London School Board rinal Report of the School Board for London 1870-1904. 1904 *loor Plans of L.C.cC. Blomentary Scnools, 1,.C.C. 1931 V9. Architacture U.R. Robson, 1874 "By sheer Victorian ruthlessness the L.S.B. achieved a far higher degree of standardisation than most education authorities have achieved since the last + Although the L.S.B, Schools vary from very plain building to the Greatest elaboration according to the openness of their sites, it cannot be Said that, in practice, Robson was over—anxious about tailoring each shool to suit its locality. The positive result of this is that these buildings, strong in personality, do a very great deal to set a stamp of unified character on the hodge-podge of Victorian London ....,." : (UOic of E.R. Robson, P.A, Robson, 2.1.B.A. Journal, February 1917 2 : renee COUR F On $ne Recent Reaction of Taste in English Architecture, J.J. Stevenson, 187} (i) Early Robson (ii) Classic Robson (iii) Late Robson (iv) Early Bailey (v) Classic Bailey (vi) Late Bailey (i) EARLY ROBSON (3) Camden Institute, Holmes Road, Caniden. (liolmes Road School, opened April 1874) S: 3-storeys, assymetrical plan, plain coped gables; square-headed windows on first floor and end bays of second floor are recessed in Gothic relieving arches. Brick buttress piers divide the bays. Elegant lantern spire. (fhe Victoria, opened January 1876, date plaque 1875, additional Junior Mixed School by Bailey, 18S) Two storeys, assymotrical plan. Single-storcy hall block on Becklow Road has square stone flower plagues in gables. Two storey end bays contain a large Gothic wincow with glazing bars in ogee-form and figured rclicf panel and titles tadlot in elnvorate Gethic frame with crockets and angel corbels. House Architecture, J.J. Stevenson, 1880 Das Englische Baukunstder Gegenwart, Hermann Vuthesius, 1900 Das Englische Haus, Hermann Muthesius, 1904 Ovituary of E.R. Robson, The Builder, 2nd February 1917 Obituary of T.J. Bailey, The Builder, 25 June 1910 R.I.B.A. Journal, 24 September 1910 Towers of Learning, David Gregory—Jones, Architectural Revicw, June 1958 In the following descriptive list, principal features only are noted. The Original names are given in brackets with the date and indication of type. Asterisks and letters indicate schools of closely similar typee The list is divided into the following groups: Of more than 550 schools built or projected during the period 1871-1910, 351 have been considered as possessing architectural and historic interest, while the remainder have been demolished or altered too extensively to merit consideration. The selection of the 37 buildings listed below has been dictated not only by individual architectural merit, but by the degree to which the schools illustrate the characteristic qualities of Board or early L.C.C. school architecture, and by the need to represent the principal stages of development. The architectural importance of each school within its _immediate neighbourhood has been taken into account, and wherever possible, a balanced distribution of selected schocls among the I.L.B.A. areas has been attempted. Minor external alterations and additions have not necessarily ruled out inclusion. The process of modification according to changing needs began almost immediately after the completion of the first Board Schools and has continuec ever since, though with declining respect for the character of the original buildings. Victoria Junior School - Becklow Road, Hammersmith. 4 f Hackney end Stoke Newington College for Further Education, Oldfield Road, Hackney. : » 10 (ii) CLASSIC ROBSON (5) aie Colville School, Lonsdale Road, Kensington. (Buckingham Terrace School, opened June 1879, Classic Robson) 5 storeys, assymetrical plan, with flat range of classrooms as principal front, hall and staircases at rear. Date and title plaques on ground floor, end bays. First floor windows recessed in blind arcade. Stone coped gables with ball finials and decorative plaques. Thomas Jones Primary School ~ Freston Road (ex. Latimer Road,) Hammersmith. (Latimer Road School, opened January 1880, date plaque 1879) 3 storeys, symmetrical plan with hall at centre of main facade, flanked by staircase blocks and recessed classroom Wings. Small shaped stone-coped gables with ball finials, flower plaques and semicircular pediment caps. Cut brick scroll decoration surmounts the title and date plaques on the. staircase blocks. s : J Sucen's Park School, Droop Street, Westminster. A Pinar (Droop Strect School, opened November 1877, early Robson, with much later alterations) Kingswood School, Gipsy Road, Lambeth. 2 storeys, assymetrical plan; fine corner sitc. Triangular gables, some Stone-coped. Elegant louvred ogce-roofed lantern with fleche. Ono of the two good stone gates to playground is intact. (Salters Hill School, opened April 1880, alterations 1905) - 3 storeys, assymetrical plan, halk at rear; the five stone-coped gables of the main front each have stone plaques in the apex with scrolls, pediment and finial. Buttress piers and pilaster strips. Tiny lantern tower. Park Welk Primary School, Park Welk, Kensington and Chelsea. (Park Walk School, opened January 1881, dated 1880) zee ve 5 storeys, assymetrical plan, flat classroom ranse to Park Wall’ and hall and staircases at rear. Shaped and pedimented brick gables, some with stone flower plaqyes. Date and title plaques on end elevation. (Oldfield Ro2d School, opened January 1882, additions 1899, dated 1881) 3 storeys, hall enclosed by classrooms in assymetrical plan. Brick gecbles with stone flower plaques alternate with paired circular windows in upper storey. First floor rectangular openings with brick corbelled stone cills, and fromee by pilaster strips. ,7 4 the (iii) LATS Rosson (5) “Weavers Fields School, Mane Street, Tower Hamlets. z ——— ergs school (Hague Strect School, opened October 1883) 5 storeys, assymetrical plan. Gables only at ends of classroom range, the other units finished by crenellated Stone-coped pzrapets. Cloakroom block expressed externally as hexagonal turret with Spire and lantern. ‘First floor openings recessed in pairs in relieving arches. *Kenmont Primary School, Valliere Road, Hammersmith. ——— mary school (Kenmont Gardens School, opened February 1884, date and title plaques 1883) As last. Primrose Hill School, Princess Rozd, Camden. Eltringham Primary School (Single storey infants block only) Eltringham Street, Wandsworth. (Princess Road School, opened Februsry 1885) 3 storeys, assymetrical plan, the principal bays surmounted by a variety of extravagant Stone-coped Dutch gables. (Eltringhem Road School, opened January 1886, dated 1885) Single storey, assymetrical plan, long classroom range to York Road, 2 dormer gables and broad ond gebles with flower, monogram and date plaques énd finials at base and apex. Stone coping. Daubeney Junior School and Daubeney Infants School, Daubeney Road, Hackney (Daubeney Road School, opened May 1886, dated 1884) Junior School: 2 storeys, symmetrical, classroom range as principal front, triangular gables with shaped stone coping. Date cnd title plaques. Good wrought-iron railings. Infants School: Single storey, assymetrical plan, classroom range as principal front, trianguler gables with shaped copings, the large end -gables carrying elaborate stone finials at base and capex and stone plaques. Good railings. (iv) EARLY BAILEY (6) Copenhagen School, Boadices Street, Islington. eeLeeROO (Bondicca Street School, opened February 1887, dated 1885) 3 storcys, assymetrical plan, with architectural features th-t emphasise this. H22i enclosed by classrooms and cloakrooris. Roof playground with picrced p2rapet. One staircase block boldly treated as ansle turret with Surmounting lantern. Gable end of one classroom wing has pediment with floral relief decoration and large shell motif below. r ——— “* Laneford School, Marineficld Road, Hammersmith. } Sa : =e <i = X eee 12 a Riversdale Primary, School, Merton Road, Wondsworth. 3 storeys, assymetrical plan; unusual use of Board School decorative features. Projecting turret with copper ogee roof and Spire on side elevation; main front with two smal] Stone-coped shaped @2bles and one large gable with corbelicd lantern at “pex and finials at base. Ivydeale School, Ivydale Rond, Southwark —chool (Ivydale Road School, openod August 1892) **Munster Primary School — Filmer Road, Hammersmith. S ey school (Munster Road School, opened June 1893, drawings dated October 1890) Fine island site. 3 storeys, symmetrical plan, principal front of 7 bays with central hall, staircase blocks, cloakroom bays and gable ends of classroom wings. The hall block With sm211 centrally placed 2-tier lantern, has crenellated parapet and giant brick picrs surmounted by stone corbels, Scrolled gables Over classroom wings, return elevations and six main bays of the rear elevation, where rear staircases are pressed as round arched recesses, : **Sir John Lillie, Lillie Road, Hammersmith. —_—_—_— _(Merton Road School, opencd May 1891, dated 1890) (Lillie Roza School, opened September 1893) Similar to Munster Ps. (Longford Road School, opened June 1890, enlarged 1893) Similar to Munster PS (below) 2 (v) CLAssic BAILEY (8) — et B Hungerford School, Hungerford Road, Islington. (Hungerford Road School, opened April 1896, enlerged 1904) -3 storeys, symmetrical plan, facade of 7 units; stairense towers with leaded Ogee roofs surmounted by tiny wooden balustrades ond lentern spires. Cloakroom blocks with Shaped coped parapets and trianguler pedimented classroon Wing bays. This school is of the type repeated, with minor variations of detail and different tower form in Rhyl School, Camden. B WNontom Primary School, Islington. —eeeeeee——— (Montem Strect School, dated 1897) Similar type to last. -: : B Vauxhall Manor School (annexe) Kennington Road, Lambeth. nor school Similar type to Hungerford School. 353 Richard Atkins School, Kingwood Road, Lanbeth. =e ensschool (Beixton Hill School, onened fugust 1897). Similar to Kennington School (below) but the towers lack 2 contral lantern. BB Kennington School, Cormont Road, Lambcth. ———— (Cormont Road School, cpened January 1898) 5 5 storeys, symactrical plan; 7 unit hall facade to Cormont Road; a variation on Hungerford ang Rhyl Schools type, with different These ench have 4 corbelled angle turrets and a centrel lantern Spire, while the gables of the classroom wings arc shaped, with Single circular openings. form of staircase towers. (vi) LATE BAILEY (10) ALLEL C Rosendale School, Turney Road, Lambeth. EEechool Rhyl School, Malden Road, Camden ve School (Rhyl Street School, ovencd August 1898) 5 storeys, symmetrical plan, principal front of 7bays, central hall 5 windows Wide, the first Storey arcuated with Stone~banded pilaster Picrs; flanking Staircase towers with spires of intricate snd fanciful form; cloakroom bays with date tablets end railed playgrounds Over; classroom wing bays with Giant Ionic brick pilasters and triangular stone pedinents, BB Henry Compton School, Kingwood Road, Hammersmith (Kingwood Roaa School, opened March 1898) Similar to Kennington School (above). B Smallwood School, Smallwood Road, Wandsworth. _ oe =Kood School 2 (Smallwood Road School, opened February 1898) Similar to Hungerford School (above) C Sunnynill School, Sunnyrill Road, Lambeth. FonS REsensigroemaoe i= schoo) (Rosendale Road School, Junior block opened January 1900, Infants School added 1908, domestic, for School Board) j Single Storey, both blocks with symmetrical plan and elevation. Low red- tiled roofs broken by broad gables with pebble dash finish, deeply moulded "cornice! Surrounds and small tablets with date and LSB monogram. End gables of Junior school contain vestigial shaped 'gabdles' in facing bricks. Delicate lantern with spire and weather-vane. A school with closely Similar characteristics to those of Rosendale is South Hackney (Upper) Scnool, Casslana Road, Hackney. (Cassland Road School, opened August 1902, for School Board) (Sunnyhill Roza School, opened January 1901, datea 1900) Similar to last. 2 storeys, Symmetrical, all req bricks with terracotta dressings. Main facade with central 4—bay hell flanked by Staircase blocks and classroom Wing bays. Outstanding Yor the exuberant uSec of terracotta decoration: cudins, cnannelied pilasters, modillion cornice, window arcoitraves, friezes and pediments, the Staircase towers terminating in deep frieze, cornice and balustrated parapets with elaborate angle urns, all in terracotta. Good wrought iron reilings and gates and low enclosing wall with Stone copins and pedinented piers, nh 1h Millbank Primary School, Erasmus Strect, Westminster. ° x —— ime ny school Kingsgate School, Messina Avenue, Camden. aware school (Kingsgate Road School, opened November 1903, for School Board) (The Nillbank, opened January 1902, domestic) Ei Scparate single storey and 2 storey buildings, assymetrical plans, excellent Stone date and title plaques. The Single storey (infants') school has gable ends with rough cast finish characteristic of Bailey's small shools. The two- Storey block has eccentric Spire and gables with pilaster strip motif. +Charlies Lamb Junior School, Dibden Strect, Islington. (Popham Road School, 1875, 1903, mostly Bailey for School Board) Bailey's work of 1903 was to attach a School of his classic symmetrical type to Robson's early building, illustrated in his 1874 book on School Architecture. Parts of this are still visible. Bailey's principal front hes the central halj block expressed as a projecting splayed bay on 3 Storeys, with buttress piers at angles. The staircase blocks are without towers but numerous tall chimneys enliven the roof. The classroom wing bays have triangular gables with pairs of round Windows. The school exhibits the Q@rmre Sculptural tendencies of Bailey's late work. 2 storeys, assymetrical plan; extravagant use of highly mannered stone details — bands, parapets, date vlaque and gable copings, eccentric circular louvred lantern. Gordon Primary School, Craigton Road, Greenwich. (The Gordon, opened August 1904, for School Board) (Senrab Street School, opened April 1907, for L.C.C.) > Pane 1 2 ct o borcys, symuotrical plan, a variation on the familier classic Bailey type ange rraicen ron facade; heavy classical details in stone. Hell front has trircase blocks with Squat copper turrets; closkroom blocks terminated by tone arches Springing from Giant pilasters. Trianguler stone pediments with date and L.C.c. monogram surmount the rear and return clevations. Stone- banded chimney stacks. i 3 storeys, symmetrical plan; terracotta dressings and date plaques; a variation on Bailey's late '90's type with 7 unit hall facade, the classroom range facing Craigton Road. Staircase blocks flanking 5 bay hall torminate in terracotta balustrades and are linked to hall by the cornice which is @oontinvea round the triangular gable ofthe classroom wings. Marion Richardson School, Senrab Street, Tower Hamlets. I.L.5.4. Division Office, 92 St. John's Hill, Wandsworth. (Dated 1909, for L.c.c.) ALtHOuEN not built as 2 School, the offices were designed for the Education Depsrtmcent under Bailey's Supervision: it scoms appropriate thet one example of this branch of his work should be represented here. The office is conceived as an elegant "Wrenaissance! town house. Built of brick, it is of two storeys, with dormers ond is 9 bays wide with plain sash windows and 15 modillion cornice, Stone pilasters énd a bold Segmental pediment with high relicf decoration and date inscription emphasise the entral entrance, The dominant feature of the steeply pitchca tiled roof is the central dormor with its Surmounting wooden balustrade framed between two delicately detailed tall chimneys, Torriano School, Torriano Avenue, Camden. school (Torriano Avenue School, opened November, 1910, for L.C.C.) 2 storeys, Symmetrical plan, principal facade 5 units wide, the stcircases placed in the wings. Central hall of five windows with three miniature dormer &ables; flanking classroom bays with belled g2ble ends finished with white painted rough-cast; cloakroom blocks at the ends of the facade aro of unusual cubic form; the Separate units of this School are much more closely inter-related on the facade than in the Symmetrical schools of the 1890's. RECOMMENDING — (a) That the Boora adopts the attached list of School buildings Set out in the foregoing report as representing the best remaining examples of the work of E.R. Robson and PJ. Bailey in the remarkable sequence of designs produced for the London School Board and the London County Council between 1873 and 1910. (b) That the officers be euthorised to investigate any means by which preservation might be achieved. (c) That a furthor report be Submitted in duo course, AR/HB/NME/5869 > OF SPRCLAL ADCEITECTURAL INTEREST. SHAS GOO e! Se5)) Salat CAuty GRESNVICH 172 Euston 2ozd Lancaster Grove 30-2 Cannon Street *Bishopsgate (ambulance station) “Carmelite Street “121 Charlton Road Eltham High Street Eaglesfield Rd., Shooters Hill 1912-3 Lakedale Rozd, Plunstead Tunnel Avenue, ©=.Greenwich Eltham Road, Lee Green Sunbury St., Woolwich EACKNSY HAMMERSEITH TSLINGTON Ta Homerton High Street Shepherd's Bush Road 685 Fulham Road Mayton Street, Holloway *Calverley eae *217 Blackstock Road Old Court Place, Kensington ‘ Basil Street *Herne Hill ' 41,5 Norwool Road Gresham Rozd, Brixton *aterloo Roid (ambulance stn) *Renfrew RNoud, Kennington 19071 1913-4. 1896 1908 1906-7 1902-3 High Street, 1902 191),-15 1$06 : 1885 1896 1907-5 1901, 1905-6 1887 (Tose I know to be in other use marked with * but others may now have joined 4 LVTSIAM “Lewisham High Stre.4 1899 1903, 1902 Evelyn Street, Yoolstone Road, Perry Vale Deptforat SOUTHWARK 306-8 01d Kent Road 1903 *59-61 Chatham Rd, Bettersea 1906 TOVSR HAMLETS eae eee west Ferry Road, Millwall Brunswick Road, Bow 1904, 1910 WANDS YORTH Trinity Road, Tooting 1907 WOSTUINS TSS Chiltern Street Greycoat Place, 1888-90 1505-6 The Euston Fire Brigade Station was designed in the Fire Brigade Branch of the L.C.C. Architect's Department's Constructional Division in 1901 and was opened the following year. ‘The Assistant Architect in charge of the fire Brigade Branch at this time was Owen Fleming, with Charles Canning Winmill] as his second—in-command. Suston Firs 3ricade Station, 172 Suston Road, Camden. The authorship of the design of the Zuston station has been much dsiputed. When photographs of the building were published in the years imnediately after completion it was described as the work of W-E.Riley, the then chief architect to the Council. Even Riley's obituariyn the R.1I.8.A. Journal (December 20, 1937) wrongly cites the station as one of the principal works for which he was personally responsible, It was then described as 'so logical in its outwardly visible form that it would be almost possible to draw the plans from externa] examination only. It is a genuine firerunner of the modern movement towards a franker method of design and if its details were translated into concrete would immediately be recognised as such'. David Gregory Jones in his excellent essay on Some Garly Works of the L.C.c. Architect's Department (A.A. Journal, November 1954) wrote: 'I have not discover the names of the designer who deserves to be known to posterity‘;it was certain]; not designed by Owen Fleming to whom I have heard it ascribed". That Gregory Jones had consulted Fleming before writing his essay gives considerable weight to this statement. John Brandon-Jones, in the correspondence that followed the publication of the article, sugzested that Matthew Dawson, a disciple of Lethaby, and closely involved at the Council with the designer of the Central School of Arts and Crafts, may have designed the station. It seems highly unlikely, however, that an assistant outside the Fire Brigade Branch would have been given any hand in its work. There is little doubt that the man responsible for Huston Fire Brigade:Station was Charles Winmill, an architect, on the evidence of the later Swiss Cottage Station and many other stations in London, of unusual originality, and the friend and admirer of Philip Webb. As in all the best examples of L.C.C. stations built before the First World War and under his direction there are clos links in the Suston design with the Arts and Crafts movement, reflecting the association of Winmill with Webb, Lethaby, Thackeray Turner, C. R. Ashbee and others. Gregory Jones describes the station as ‘an eminently serious essay in the romant its multitudinous forms seem drawn together by the concentrating force of its own personality...... Certain details such as the entrance porch to the flats which the station contains are eccentric and mannered in the style of Mackintosh while the whole building is perhaps over—picturesjue for a city site. But it extracts undeniable power from its corner position and is extravagantly fertile in ideas —- note the treatment of the lintels over the garage doors.....' The Suston Fire 3rigade Station, with the Swiss Cottage Station at the junction of Ston Avenue and Lancaster Grove, is not only among the best examples in London of this building type, but must be considered as one of the most outstanding achievements of early L.C.C. architecture. Marke) Como Csndio- Wehaidi 5-50 IZ) Gwe —PYO Mb.gasora>efel.ubetz lo | (OyMoye) eS ees Ligaen Felumli hel tIoigrs (8 PS Pore totatrcl«ferepyOgle ® Sop pec aeae “Shylet Sook ©fv h +sCraps Giuk =) Peer IST So Scleels wag of A jldeg g 1 The penultimate design by Inigo Jones for the Banqueting Hall 2 A working drawing for Somerset House. 3 Barry and Pugin's Houses of Parliament. 4 The Great Hall at Westminster, just before its mid-nineteenth century restoration; itwas designed by the Board's master-carpenter Hugh Herland during the 1370s. (Print: Mansell Collection.) 5 Somerset House, designed by William Chambers in 1776, was the first purpose-built government office. Inigo Jones, Christopher Wren, Robert Adam, John Soane, even Geoffrey Chaucer are among the famous figures who have been employed by what could be called the most distinguished, and certainly the most ancient, architect's office in the land. The Office of Works (as the Property Services Agency was then known) was formed 600 years ago this year—an event which is being celebrated this month with an exhibition in London's Banqueting House.* Bur, of course, the Office of Works was (as is the PSA today) much more than just a design office. Under a clerk of works (a post held by Geoffrey Chaucer from 1389-1391) were gathered masterbuilders and craftsmen capable of maintaining and constructing major state buildings and royal residences. In 1615, when Inigo Jones became surveyor-general, an office structure was sect up which lasted for the next 100 years Under the chairmanship of the surveyor-general was a Board which consisted of master- masons, master-carpenters and acomptroller (who watched the money). During the period when Wren was surveyor-gencral (1669- 1718) the office reached its golden age with virtually all the country’s leading designers and craftsmen being employed by it Grindling Gibbons was master sculptor and carver in wood. John Vanburgh was comptroller between 1702-1726 and Hawks- moor was secretary to the Board from 1713-1718. After 1718, when Wren was replaced, the Board was reorganised with the various posts generally being held as sinecures by relative nonentities until William Chambers and Robert Adam became joint architects of the Works in 1761 (this was the first time in official history that the term ‘architect’ was used). Thereafter other distinguished architects again became involved with the Board—James Wyatt was surveyor-general from 1796- 1813, John Soane was an attached architect from 1814-1832. However, by the mid-nineteenth century the Board's responsibility had grown to such an extent that it became bogged down in what one can only suppose to have been a stifling bureaucracy. After about 1850 we find very few of the country’s leading architects employed directly by the Office, with most of its major building operations being undertaken (usually following competition) by leading architects in private practice, such as Gilbert Scott at the Foreign Office or Edmund Street at the Law Courts. This state of affairs continued well into this century. In 1940— *25 April-7 May, admission free. The Architects’ Journal 19 April 1978 PSA 600 J \ The Architects’ Journal 19 April 1978 Number 16 Volume 167 726 PSA 600 730 The editors 730 Notes and topics 732 Letters 734 RIBA Council 737 The week 740 743 745 761 775 See "Theroos thewhole Roof -and nothing but Contents NEWS AND COMMENT 600th anniversary of the Property Services Agency Small change from Healey Astragal on: GLC architects; RIBA future presidents; The army museum Defending the Anti Nazi League A national architectural service; SA schools get the chop; Salaried architects sat upon All-party support for Savidge; Budget brings little cheer; Workload up but jobs fall Hellman and Diary AJ INFORMATION LIBRARY Manufacturers’ catalogues helpful to the architect Coed Glas Assessment and Observation Centre Handbook of Sports and Recreational Design Glass reinforced cement 4 APPOINTMENTS Vacant posts and partnerships Registered as a newspaper Copyright © 1978 The Architectural Press Ltd 9 Queen Anne's Gate London, SW1H 9BY (01-930 0611) ISSN 0003-8466 Each feature of the AJ Information Library is CI/S{B classified and punck marks are provided. 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Your half-yearly volumes can be bound complere with index in cloth case for £11; carriage £1-20 extra. os tz (alea(|FRGaP)sje The Architects’ Journal 19 April 1978 The Architects’ Journal 19 April 19/% fae a 58 iT NTxa aDiy OANad get i l i 6 Institute of Geology, Edinburgh, 7 British Embassy, Rome, Sir Basil Spence & Partners for PSA. 8 Leicester Crown courts, Perspective designed by Midland Region PSA. pacemaker for high quality work across the range of PSA projects. Leading by example as Lacey puts it. The design panel was set up at the same time to review and discuss sensitive jobs. The pancl, made up of PSA board members including two architects from privatepractice, has a monthly programme of visits. Lacey reports considerable success with this system, but the object is not to achieve a PSA house style: "You can unify objectives not approach’ The design office on the other hand does seem to be producing 4 recognisable style. ‘We are after the logical and unpreten- tious,’ says Lacey. He sees the essentially domestic feeling of much contemporary PSA work aS springing naturally from the type of work being undertaken ‘T’'ve been keen to make sure that the design office doesn’t get all the plum jobs,’ says Lacey. As far as the future is concerned Lacey isrelatively confident. Workload is stabilising after a period of Government cut-backs, though its nature is changing. Most of the big defence projects are giving way to the programme of dispersing civil servants. The other mainstay is the Crown courts’ programme. Expansion in graduate recruitment is being sought by the agency and Lacey speaks glowingly of the committed and talented new recruits now coming to the PSA. As far as the PSA’s next 600th anniversary is concerned, Lacey hopes to see his years remembered for laying the foundations of an architecture which made ‘buildings humane, good places in which to work and for people to derive pleasure from’ 9 Worthing Crown Building, designed by Doman Hatton and PSA 10 Civil service block Liverpool, sketch axonometric, 11 Harlow telephone exchange. ‘The Architects’ Journal 19 April 1978 when the board was renamed the Ministry of Works—it had 6000 employees, which increased to 20 000 by 1946 and steadily gtew thereafter. Indeed, itwas to reverse the trend towards mediocrity that the Matthew Skillington report on ways of upgrading official architecture was produced in 1974. The report criticised the PSA for its ‘unsatisfactory and even daunting image’ and its con- clusion, accepted by the Government, asked for higher standards from the PSA ‘to influence for the better the environment as a whole’ As a result of this report Dan Lacey was appointed, in 1975, to a newly created top post with a brief to stimulate design awareness, At 55, Lacey is an architect who has spent his whole carcer in the public sector, rising to Notts county architect in 1958 and DES chief architect in 1964. From his 13th floor office at the DOE Marsham Street headquarters, Lacey, whose official title is director-general of design services, has care of more than 500 architects working on a £417 million annual programme. Apart from them, the PSA, which now employs almost 50 000 people, has civil and mechanical engineers, surveyors and estate managers among its professional ranks Talking to the AJ last week, Lacey looked back on his first three years as the most senior architect working for the Government. With his architects Scattered through 15 offices round the country, his approach has been at various levels, but Lacey sees his major function as being to introduce ‘values’. A first step was the establish- ment of a multi-disciplinary design office acting as a The Architects’ Journal 19 April 1978 Chopping Cutler The destruction of the GLC architecture department iscontinuing with accelerating speed. The latest butchery being considered by the cash-register-obsessed Tory administration is the abolition of the ILEA. If the Inner London boroughs produce a Conservative majority at the elections next month, the plan seems to be to push school building responsibilities back onto impoverished and ill-equipped boroughs. With housing already badly mauled, the total disappearance of school building would make the final rundown of the architecture department so much easier. Especially if, as is strongly rumoured in County Hall, the job of architect to the council goes to Fred Pooley, currently head of planning. Tory thinking seems to be that allowing Pooley to hold both jobs would leave both departments ripe for culling when Pooley retires in a couple of years time. 730 The Architects’ Journal 19 April 1978 —_— The architectural shop floor is coming in for attack too. “The productivity (in value terms) of GLC architects on construction work is about half the standard adopted by RIBA in the private sector’ wrote Tory GLC leader Horace Cutler in the March issue of the council’s staff gazette London Town. Horrific one might think. Get rid of the lot of them. And indeed this is what Cutler seems to be trying to do. ouwatw Ses i, SMALL CHANGE FROM HEALEY If you say it loud enough, they’ll all believe you. This seems to be the Government’s technique for dealing with the building industry. After the budget, Housing and Construction minister Reg Freeson claimed that £100 million had been injected into construction. Yet most of this bonus goes in equipping hospitals, paying for increases in the costs of school buildings already being built, and in help to householders to insulate their own roofs. Precious little new building or rehabilitation will result. The chancellor has apparently decided that he can buy off the industry by making sympathetic noises and by offering a few tax concessions to private partners. Environment secretary Peter Shore must be as disappointed as the building industry that Healey has not accepted the vital role the industry has to play in underpinning the industrial strategy. There were no tax concessions to spur factory building. And despite pleas from the industry’s representatives and from Shore, Healey has not seen fit to raise the level of public spending on building from its pitifully low level. In fact, including the £400 million which he gave the industry last autumn, he has only restored half the cuts in public spending he made in 1976 alone. No one wants to return to the overheated days of the early 1970s boom. But the quarter of a million unemployed building workers have a right to a higher level of investment in the industry. The industry’s pressure on Healey must not be relaxed. It must find MPs to fight for it in the Finance Bill battles when, in this Parliament, quite radical revisions of the chancellor’s budget policies are possible. But the productivity of GLC architects can be precisely measured by an ingenious Cost of Production Scheme which has stood up to the closest scrutiny by an all party members’ Steering group and an especially appointed assistant director general. All staff costs (including productive architects and non-productive staff) are measured on time sheets. To this is added departmental overheads and another 32-5 per cent as central ‘on costs’. If this is compared with costs of each project by the standard adopted by the RIBA in the private sector, then the productivity (in value terms) of GLC architects engaged in housing construction has worked out to be 30 to 45 per cent more than their private sector counter- parts in every year for the last 15 years. public who sources of <oanna - 22! 584") : A he U fs y buildings. arranged on The public \ Telephone 24017 k RE 31 March 1978 besa | MODERN REC ORDS GENT RE Ee i University of Warwick Library Coventry GV4 7AL Ext. 2014 Our Ref. R/RAS Dear Mr. Murray, My former colleague, Janet Druker, who is now engaged in full-time research, has passed me your enquiry of the 27th about the ABT records heres I enclose a check-list of these and information on the Centre. We should be pleased to make the papers available to you to study here; it is helpful if we could be given a few days' prior notice of your intention to visit. We look forward to your visit. Apart from the late summer bank holiday and the day » following, we expect to remain open throughout the led services on adjacent to or. University's summer vacation. peeronithe igtonSpa to On the architectural side of the question, you are probably aware of Alastair Service's Edwardian architecture (Thames & Hudson, 4977) and his collection of essays Edwardian architecture and its origins (1975), ir. both of which Gnclude material on the LCC's Architect's Dept. yetween the | Road Yours sincerely, R. A. Storey ® irs are 9.00 ns Encs- id9.00 a.m. and jar's Mr. J. Murray, 5 Milton Avenue, London N6- A rewrey wernerat euveney Buu Wie Walang med sd We West Midland No. 28A and No. 29A bus services start from Pool Meadow in the city centre. The 28A and 294A call at the Main Site of the University. vetanea inrormation about courses at the University is contained in the Guide to First Degree Courses and the graduate prospectuses, copies of which are on, obtainable on request from the Academic Registrar. s April 1977 De is ie Archivist University t yhich has a rom see ares eae ee Centre is part of a national network of repositories, Sa yocoupeuniversityandotherspecialisedarchives.The eee a enrecangivesomeadviceaboutotherpossible ical information and the principal guides to these. A selective guideOtNotheeerecentteeacrceesssions0fotherWesstMiMidlandsreposiitorieisis {| L | I COVENTRY, VVarwic = of . . University . 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From Central Coventry Both the Midland Red and the West Midland No. 28A and No. 29A bus services Start from Pool Meadow in the city centre. The 28A and 29A call at the Main Site of the University. April 1977 De to 4.20 Detailed information about courses at the Universityandis contained in the Guide to First DegreeofCowuhriscehs are Registrar. on, 5 is copies obtainable on request from the Academic the graduate prospectuses, Spa to A ‘the Modern Records Centre is part of a national network of repositories, including city, county, university and other specialised archives. The staff of the Centre can give some advice about other possible sources of historical information and the principal guides to these. A selective guide to the recent accessions of other West Midlands repositories is maintained in the Centre. Je 2e 3e 4, De Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Library, Coventry, CV4 7AL. RULES FOR RESEARCHERS WORKING IN THE MODERN RECORDS CENTRE 4. A Research Record form is to be completed on a researcher's first visit. 2. <A Deoument Requisition form is to be filled in for each request for material. 3. No smoking. 4, Pencil only to be used : no ink or ballpoint pens. 5. No documents may be marked. 6. Documents are not to be leaned on or have writing materials or other items laid on then. 7- Documents are to be returned to staff in the condition and order in which they are received by the researcher. August 1974. Q@re HULU UnUuGc. CU vei Ve 2we ewww ewwwnne How to find out about the Centre's holdings A Guide, describing principal accessions to June 1977, is available from the Centre, price £1.50 (inclusive of inland postage). New accessions are described in a quarterly Information Bulletin (No. 1, April 1974) and the appendices to the Centre's annual Reports give details of each year's accessions. Each accession receives a number in a running sequence (MSS.1, etc.). A numerically arranged Accessions Register with alphabetical index is maintained in the Centre. In due course check-lists or catalogues are compiled for each accession, and a set of these is held in the Centre. (Copies of most catalogues are also held in the National Register of Archives in London.) A Selective Index of names and subjects appearing in these catalogues is maintained on cards in the Centre. The Modern Records Centre is part of a national network of repositories, including city, county, university and other specialised archives. The staff of the Centre can give some advice about other possible sources of historical information and the principal guides to these. A selective guide to the recent accessions of other West Midlands repositories is maintained in the Centre. UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK LIBRARY THE MODERN RECORDS CENTRE Normal opening hours: 9 aeme - 5 Pee Monday - Thursday, 9 am. — 4 pem. Friday. Other times by arrangement. Address & Telephone no.: Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Library, Coventry, CV4 7AL. Coventry 24011 ext. 2014 The object of the Centre is to collect and make available for research original sources for British political, social and economic history, with particular reference to labour history and industrial relations. How to find out about the Centre's holdings 4k. A Selective Index of names and subjects appearing in these catalogues is maintained on cards in the Centre. 5. The Modern Records Centre is part of a national network of repositories, including city, county, university and other specialised archives. The staff of the Centre can give some advice about other possible sources of historical information and the principal guides to these. A selective guide to the recent accessions of other West Midlands repositories is maintained in the Centre. The type of material held by the Centre includes signed minutes, correspondence files, runs of printed journals and ephemera of trade unions and other organisations and individuals, including some local political parties in the West Midlands. All material is kept in closed-access secure accommodation and may only be worked on in the Centre, under the supervision of its staff. Some deposits are held under conditions of restricted accesSe 16 A Guide, describing principal accessions to June 1977, is available from the Centre, price £1.50 (inclusive of inland postage). New accessions are described in a quarterly Information Bulletin (No. 1, April 1974) and the appendices to the Centre's annual Reports give details of each year's accessionSe 2. Each accession receives a number in a running sequence (MSS.1, etc.) open numerically arranged Accessions Register with alphabetical index is maintained in the Centre. 3e In due course check-lists or catalogues are compiled for each accession, and a set of these is held in the Centre. (Copies of most catalogues are also held in the National Register of Archives in London.) Classification of records held in the Centre As far as possible, a uniform scheme of arrangement and classification is applied to all accessions. The main classes are: /\ minutes (and related papers, such as 2xendas and reports) f2 financial records (e.g. account books, balance sheets) /3 correspondence (including subject files) /4 publications of the institution or individual creating the archive o /5 other publications /7 miscellaneous (this category may be subdivided in a number of ways, @efe by alphabetical suffixes: /7/LE legal papers (other than agreements: see 9 below); /7/ST staff records) [8 diaries /9 +agreements /10 press-cuttings {11 reports Examples: MSS.5/1/4 3 Accession 5, minutes series, volume 4 NSS.9/3/24 ote Accession 9, correspondence, file 24 ras 1/78 /6 sub-groups within a deposit (e.g. the personal papers of a member of an organisation handed over to it for safekeeping on retirement) MSS.78 ARCHITLOT ASSOCIATICN 1942 the AS! TANTS, PROFESSIONAL UNION later the VEYORS AND TLCHNICAL ASSISTANTS, from IG TECHNICIANS EC minutes 1919-29 (includes GC mins. 1919) & 1948-69. Council mins, 1943=42. With Kmergency ixece mins. 1938-9. Ceneral Council winse, 1942-69 AGM mins. 1919-69 with mins. of National Conventions 1919-26. Accounts bks., 1940's-60's. re sir-raid shelters & war-time building. Check-list by J. Druker, May 1977 e journal of the ABT, Mar 19/9-Nov 1968 (incomplete). tame j =C ubs. of the University of Warwick Library GUIDE TO THE MODERN RECORDS CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK LIBRARY compiled by Richard Storey & Janet Druker The Modern Records Centre was established within the University of Warwick Library in October 1973 with the aid of a grant from the Leverhulme Trust. Its object is to collect and make available for research primary sources for British political, social and economic history with particular reference to labour history and industrial relations. Since its foundation it has received records from several dozen trade unions, including numerous defunct or absorbed unions, and from a number of other organisations in the field of indus- trial relations. It also holds records from some pressure groups and special purpose organisations in other fields, as well as some West Midlands political records, business records and some important groups of personal papers. All except the smallest accessions received between October 1973 and May 1977 are described in the Guide temee published shertty. As well as a description of the records, each entry includes, where appropriate, background notes and bibliographical references. Entries are arranged in a classified sequence and a full index is provided. Occasional Publications No. 2 AS format, card covers. 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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 ARCUK snubs RIBA over Council Subject The topic of the resource Article by Alan Thompson Description An account of the resource 4 BUILDING DESIGN. April 3. 1987 Drury Lane warehouse gets the go-ahead PLANNING consent has been 39. Sq. m of residential accompt for the EPR Partnerships mediation complete with redevelopment scheme for a at num. warehouse/office building at Meanwhile. an EPR scheme 54-57 Drury Lane, London a residential redevelopment WC2. at 44-46 Drury Lane has been but work will not he abstract submitted to Westminster City until vacant possession is ob.• Council for approval. EPR's trained in 1990. clients, the Limco Groups arc JR P Investments Will develop proposing 17 flats for the mixed scheme. which Will conservation arca Site. which is comprise 3.900sq m of offices. currently occupied by a vacant 20fisq m of studio space and social club budding. Biffen hopes Victoria Tower TIIE Palace of Victoria Toner may not be refurbished along with the rest of the Parliamentary buildings, In response to Parliamentary question from Harry Greenuay MP. the Rt non John Bitren. leader of the 'louse of Commons, said "I hope that in due course the Victoria 'Isomer can be. restored". A PSA spokesman told BI) that • 'it is likely the tower will be for a fresh plan restored but it will be several years before work starts. as funds have to be allocated before planning and consultation can begin." Architect SIP Sydney Chap• man asked whether there were any plans to improve some of the palace's internal courtyards "which are very untidy and a disgrace to the splendid architectural heritage that has been passed on to us". Docklands young at Easter IIS year's RIBA workshops tor young people will be held during the Easter break, Qualified architects will accompany 14-17 year olds on a study trip to London's Docklands on April 23 while on April groups of8-13 year olds will take part In the Makerspace project (designing a lifesize space for a person. mammal or object). For the Docklands trip the teenagers will be asked to workshop for prepare a brief and drawings for a new Docklands building. right be lacking and various design criteria. Places at the workshops are limited and applications should be made to the RIBA as soon as possible. It costs €2 per head. Practising architects or students who would like to lead groups should contact Sheena Parsons at the RIBA, Building contracts warning WARNING about using the appropriate form of contract been Issued by two national building bodies. 'l hey claim using the wrong contract leads to Increased costs a less satisfactory building process. 110th the Joint Contracts Tribunat for the Standard Form Building Contract OCT) and National Joint Consulta- Committee for Building (NJCC) are urging clients and professional advisers to study the JCT practice note 20, two bodies also warn that outdated 1963 standard vs still being used in some cases. This has been superseded JCI'S(). which was amended January to require works to insured on an all risks basis, The advantages of JCT 80 explained in practice note 21. Practice notes 20 (€2.50) and practice 21 (f t. 3()) are available RIBA Publications. FinsMission. Moreland Street. London ECI. Arcuk ARC UK has delivered a massive public snub to the RIBA by turning down institute nomination Gordon Graham for the post of council Vice-chairman. Members voted by 24 votes to 21 to appoint Ken Taylor of the Abbey Hanson Rowe Partnership. Unattached Arcuk members refused to field a candidate as they feared it might split the Arcuk vote and let Graham in. This is the first time in 55 years the RIBA nomination has not been elected despite the RIBA snubs RIBA over council Arcuk should keep some inde- education but the RIBA is battle loomed and nominated role under the EEC directive. pence and not be overwhelmed having none of it. loyal RIBA establishment fig- But both members are now on by the influence of the RIBA. President lorry Rolland has rues and seasoned campaigners Arcuk's Board of Education. "Arcuk will no longer be a said Arcuk's increasing interest for Arcuk Council this year. nominated by Portsmouth and rubber stamp," he said. in educational matters was "not He dropped council chairman Huddersfield schools. Pundits main area of contention in the best interests of archi- Bob Adams and education arc predicting that the board is between the two bodies is edu- tecture. the public, or future chairman Denys Hinton from where the education battle will cation. Arcuk has said It wants a student tntakc••. council after they refused to be fought and that it will be a greater say in architectural Rolland knew a difficult overturn Arcuk's strengthened hard fight for the RIRA. By Alan Thompson appointing 42 of the6.Srncmbers sitting on Arcuk Council. Taylor poured oil on the RIBA Arcuk troubled waters and called for a "harmomsation of interests and not a fragmentation" Unattached member Norman Arnold told B": *'Taylor •s appointment should bring opencss and umty to the education debate". Arnold is keen that Scottish multi-millionaire Murray this week unveiled an ESO million reconstruction scheme for Edinburgh's historic Port Hamilton district. The mixed commercial and residential dcsclooment on a 2.Sha site jtzst half a from Prances Street will be the largest privately funded scheme since war. It is the most ambitious planner launched by MI M. the property arm of Murray International Loadings MI.M's consultant architect Gareth Hutchison said the project based on original canal-basin buildings demolished SO years ago and at}deed that they already applied roar planning permission. scheme provides for a waterfront development in the highly successful popular style or London's St Katharine's Dock." he said. Plans for the site include 34.000sq m offices; 10.000sq m private bousing• m retail space complete smith a glazed mall. and 6.500sq m hotel accommodation with a m function suite. "'Il also beundcrgrouncl parking OSO cars. Murray said the mixed developments soot only complemented commercial viability. but also helped to ensure activity all day and all year round&'. r the scheme is given the go-ahead by city and regional planners work should on site this year "its completion set 1990. Up to 1.200 jobs 9ilI be created. WATERPROOFING DESIGN REGISTER TECHNICAL ADVISORY SERVICE Professional and free service to specifiers for all STRUCTURAL WATERPROOFING problems. Over seventy years of experience. full technical back up. Contact technical Dooanment. RIW Protective Products Co. Ltd 792966 Telex. Broadway House. Shute End. WoA•nqhatn. Berkshire RGtt IBH Telephone. 647930 RIW — Brush, Sprayed and Sheet Applied Waterproofing products for surfaces subject to damp and corrosion. the A has and of the live their the form by in be are Enter ON EXPRESS ENQUIRY CARO from bury mile tbc the had and I start C' A Sal refi exo tec BUILDING DESIGN. April 3. 1987 3 News Construction Adopt a homeless Scottish industry pulls family, says Hackney ROD 'lacuney has urged archi- bad or non-existent housing". teetS to adopt homeless families The latest figures from Shelter council cuts jobs to sol•c Britain's housing prob• say there are at least 100.000 lern. homeless people in Britain, STRATHCLYDE Regional Council's architectures depart- Speaking at the Family Forum Hackney said: "If every RIBA mcnt. the biggest in the country, conference as part or National member adopts a homeless family has axed 177 jobs ina restructure together for 'lousing Week. Hackney re- and finds a solution to their vealed his plan to put architects housing problem, the problem of masterminded by department director Jack McDougall. and the RIBA at the forefront of homelessness in Britain could be With the agreement of Nalgo the fight against homelessness. ended Hithin five years. and his staff. McDougall has so "Where architects see a prob. "Architects are uniquely lem they should not wait to be placed in the housing market to far managed to reduce his computer link asked for help. They have a duty see opportunities whether they be department by 140 people over the last year. to initiate action. Who else is building a self-aid scheme or He has also reorganised the there who knows more about directing a temporarily housed department to give It a greater A COMPUTERISED infor- IS days are possible — but so far environmental and housing prob- family to a more permanent and lems other than the very victirnsof better home." "community architecture" slant. Instead of running it through mation exchange to make the construction industry more the only savings achieved have been marginally tn excess of two New South Bank move three main groups. there are now six, efficient is planned by major days. The cuts have been made to product manufacturers, build- Edicon points out that many LAMBETH council was de. Hall — part of his more ambi- try and prevent a S2.S million ing contractors and public individual organisattons in the industry have in ciding this week 9hetlter to allow the tious scheme to glaze over the shortfall between the depart- bodies, Invested heavily computer systems for internal second phase of 'I'erry Ear. rel's scheme to brighten up space between the buildings to allow room for new foyers. cafes. ment•s earnings and what it costs to run. McDougall told BD Trafalgar House. IBM. Red- communications. but the necdis London's South Bank. shops and restaurants. his cuts would save €3 million. land. John Laing. Boulton & for a system of communica- Farrell wants to demolish the Farrell has been re-elected Job cuts have been achieved Paul, Redland. the Property tion between the different high-level walkway in front of the president of the Urban Design through early retirement and Services Agency and others have launched a company to promote the concept. Edicon — electronic data exchange in the construction industry — will be invitingothet members of the construction industry to join the company. Other industries such as elements of the industry. south side of the Royal Festival Group for a further two years. holding vacancies. retailing. pharamceuticals, automotive. and more recently Probabtvthe best shipping arc using electronic data By Lee Mallett the the pr incipie is well-established in Atnerica. "Devclopment Of an EDI system would not only bc feasible, but is essential for thc future health of the industry". Edicon clams. A launch meeting will be held soon to invite membership and to receive nominations for executive posts in the orgamsation. Three main areas of the industry that EDI would improve are financtal management, inventory control and customer service, according to Edicon. If EDI systems were adopted internationally savings of up to €10 billion for businesses could be made. says the company. Where EDI has been used in Bntain, in the invoicing and payments cycle. savings of up to Joining the board ARCHITECT lets councillor Jonathan Mathews has been appointed to the London Docklands De. velopment Corporation board. Mathews. a tutor at the house floor in the Architectural Association. is a founder member of the Social Democratic Party and lives highly insulated domestic flooring system ever. north of the Isle of Dogs on Jetfloor Plus is the only flooring The system gives unrivalled With a •tr value in the order of Tower Hamlets' Docklands. He system to have been designed advantages to the architect for 0.2 W/m 20 C it will easily meet the is the second architect to specifically for housew It has been design, to the builder for ease of proposed new building tv•gulations be appointed to the board alongs;dc Sir Andrew Derby- successfully used in thousands of construction. to the homeowner for for energy conservation. shire. homes throughout the country. as economy and that's why more and Mathews says his key concern well as in many of the most highly mote people are beginning to realise Write now for details and literature. to secure jobs for local people. regarded house designs for the future that every home should have one. In brief Wycombe shortlist WYCOME council has selected nine practices from more than 70 applications to go forward tn an architectural competition for a new arts centre, They are Aldington Craig & Collingc•. Derek Walker Asso• ciates; Eldred Evans & David Shalcv: Howell, Killick. Partridge & Amis. McCormack Jamieson & Pritchard; Ncylan & tJnglcss•. Paul Makcrow•. Roderick Ham & Partners; and Trevor Dannatt Partners. The centre. which will include a 400.seat theatre, hall and multi•storcy car park, will be developed on a conservation infill site in central High Wycomc. Inplan win FIRST-YEAR architecture student at Bath University Julian Brown has won the 1987 Inplan Award Trophy and a cash prize of €2,000. Sponsored by BRUFMA. the British Rigid Urethane Foam Manufacturers' Association, and Building Design. the award is intended to promote energy conscrrvation planning in buildingSecond prize of El ,000 was won by Chris Gregory of Not. tingharn University and other awards went to Sinclair Thomson, Martin Hughes, Stephen Meeney and Susan Cornish. Flat grant COVENTRY's Wood End Estate is to have a E92S.000 urban development grant as part of a E-S million improvement package. Developer Bellways Urban Renewal will replace 76 flats and maisonettes with 95 houses designed by Geden ofCoventry. Island talks THE scheme for the Jacobs Island Company has not been refused planning permission by the London Docklands Development Corporation as stated in our report last week. Discussions are taking place over some of the design details. We apologise for any embarrassment caused. Bath show BATH Arts Association will show a film on Frank Lloyd Wright at the Huntingdon Centre in Bath on April 15. Details: (0225) 69874. Sugden goes DEREK Sugden, one of the founder engineering partners of Arup Associates. retired from the practice at the end of last month. He intends to concentrate more in the field of acoustics and will remain a consultant to Arup Acoustics. Enter 3 ON ENQUIRY EXPRESSCARD 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 3 April 1987