8 10 310 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/61489f74b2c7cd007f153120f0076e15.pdf 8a0aabc47fba84206594cf3281dee941 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Education Description An account of the resource Many NAM members were engaged in the field of architectural education, either as staff or students, and pursued new ideas for course content and pedagogy, reassessing existing course structures and priorities in conventional architectural training. The concern to focus on socially necessary buildings and to find new and meaningful ways of engaging with building users and the wider community- both central NAM themes - illuminated much of the discussion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chaos hits RIBA dispute with ARCUK' Subject The topic of the resource Article by J Wood Description An account of the resource No 828 - ..vgvopaper lor me design team Privy Council drawn into controversy AN astonishing RIBA Denys Hinton told BD that the resubmit its candidates, but it bungle in its battle with agm scheduled •for Wednesday had been cancelled until should also go through the usual canvassing procedures before its the Architects Registra- Monday. March 30 on the list is drawn up. and this is tion Council (Arcuk) has advice of the Privy Council. clearly impossible in a week." led to the Privy Council would allow the RIRA Council meeting next Wednes- list has been put at risk by an attempt at "conciliation" being called in to adjudi- day to endorse its candidates from the Kingston school's cate. and is sure to fuel the row which deputy head, Peter Jacob. who is erupted when the institute member of the RIBA Council On its advice. the Arcuk announced them in February. and Arcuk's education com- annual general meeting was 42 nominations to the 65- mittee. postponed this week because strong body omitted many has tabled a motion for the RIBA Council had not next week's RIBA Council endorsed the institute's list of nominees for Arcuk By John Wood meeting condemning the omission of Hinton and Adams from Council. existing members including the list. and calling for concilia• tion between the two bodies. •that lisé is in jeopardy — a motion opposing it has been Hinton and Bob Adams. chair. men of the council. Jacob. who has served on tabled for the RIBA Council institute claimed that the Arcuk's education board for meeting next week. new blood on the council would several years. has been dropped Arcuk's education chairman strengthen its presence. but from the institute's nominations for that body without a word of How the others saw it asa cynical attempt to rein in Arcuk after itopposed explanation. The RIBA has put forward 16 the institute's education policy. Commenting on the cancella- practitioners. in response. it argument lion. Arcuk Council member Norman Arnold (who is not an claims, to extra places being created on the board for heads of RIBA member) complained schools. started that he had only been given one day's notice of a meeting that is usually arranged one year in PSA jobs Eating out A TOP-LEVEL meeting be- advance. BRYAN Jefferson, director- PLANS to turn a disused tween the RIBA and Arcuk led He said that with such short general of design services at the London church into an Ameri- to the current cold war, Arcuk notice some council members PSA. is to stay in his job until can-style restaurant have been Council was told on Wednes- would be unavailable for the June 1989 at the DoE's request. rejected on appeal. Westminster day by chairman Robert Adams. rearranged meeting and there But Kenneth Jeavons, 47, will council. supported by Save, ile said that at a meeting on could be pressure for a further succeed Fred Levy as director of opposed development of St February 3 president Larry delay. architectural services on April I. Marks, North Audley Street, Rolland and vice-president On the reason for the cancel- Levy is retiring. Jeavons joined because of its fine Victorian Peter Melvin asked Adams and lation he commented: "The the DOE Property Services interior. The inspectorcalled for Denys Hinton to overturn Arc uk's strengthened role under the EEC directive. RIBA should be allowed to Agency in 1970. "more appropriate uses" This would increase Arcuk's for architectural Modest Budget boost responsibility education at the expense of the RIBA. Hinton and Adams refused to comply. They were Informed that they would not be nominated for Arcuk Council. At a later meeting they were told the RIBA would reverse all education decisions made by Arcuk in the last year. Arcuk Council member John Allan said this appeared to constitute a pnma tacic case of "disgraceful conduct" by the RIBA representatives involved. CHAOS HITS RIBA DISPUTE wlTH ARCUK DDEX ROSTRUM 2, FRIDAY MARCH 201987 Fire swept throegb Glasgo•'s Ca d•Oro building last Friday. causing extensive damage to the e interior and destroying mtxb or original irongork. in 1812 by John as a furniture tbe building is un&rcoing IS million comersion to offices and shops by Scott Brownrieg & Turner. Along With John Bair&s Gardeners Building in J•miea Street. Ca d'Oro. on tbe corner of Unif*l Street and Gordon Street. is the most u.histicated exercise in c. framed •rchit«tore in Scotland. Only tse day before. council finally gave to Sir Leslie ih 120 million concert hall the St Andrew's Halls, 25 years ago, *design page S +13 "dud/ THIS year's budget goes only contractors and consultants. VAT — this will only apply on a marginal benefits to the con- "Although there is no specific "cash received basis" for com• struction industry. But cuts in the help for the construction and patties with a turnover ofless than PSBR. loner interest rates and property industries. the modest €250,000. This will improve cash changes in VAT payments will overall stimulus to the economic flow and avoid up-front payment reduce business costs and make environment will bring more of VAT on bad debts. 56, Infill 9, Comment 9, PerspectiVe 10, Scorpio 11, SAGs 11. Letters 12-13. Features 14-28, New products 38-39, Products in practice 41, Easiebeek 42, Dateline 43, Free classified 44, Corbusier considered A weeks later became part of F*'tel extension in Deg on. or shopptng mall tn Long Island. an complex in Nice. pool pavilion in Honolulu, out glaung system and fully documented iot 21 rwp.w winds and it. oi snow; spanning from to and Fot yout next curves. we insite yoo to Appointments 4S-SS. Our learning. MACHIN DESIGNS u,qrry-l) Ransotne•s Patkgate Road, Loadoe SWI t 01 223 040 11 investment in construction more business to the industry and to its Business expansion schemes — I. profitable, according to the customers." investment made in these in the RIRA. Corporation tax — basic rates first six months of the year can A team of financial experts and for businesses with less than now be offset against the previous architects headed by Max Hutch• EIOO.OOO profit each year have year's tax. 'Illis bill make more inson said: "It's a small business been reduced from 29 to 27 per investment capital available for On September 3 1986 we be-or our budget benefiting small sub- cent. continued pago 3 21 ,000th bat. pages 14-21 Enter 1 ON ENOUIRY EXPRESSCARO 2 BUILDING DESIGN. March 20, 1987 FRIENDLY greetings were be anything as simple as a single Thom Gorst on David Wild at the RIBA. hero was Mies van der Rohe. the Lenin tribune etc) onto the shouted across the packed reasoned argument. or an epi- Three years at the AA were grid. The diarist who bought the foyer. David Wild's reputa- sode by episode history. It was part dialectic, part life story, not dwelt upon. and he wassoon thing then laid a personal life on tion has spread well. There were students and ex-students part slide-show and part jazz/ blues session. It was. by and call of back in the States again. Suddenly the auditorium was dren- top of the lot, By now the slides were completely out of order. "This free form and small heros. and perhaps two big ones. For all ot large,a treat to be part of. ched With blues sineng. . . "I'm ring to Chtcayy. Ibis is what is — a real challenge." The audience loved one or them on Tuesday evening, He left his early days until a bit later on. First of all he wantedto •m gonna do • ...the photographs from the proJcctors sped it. And so finally to the archi- the RIBA was the place to be. The rear partition slid out of clear the air about LeCorbusier. possibly in case anyone in the audience had the Wild along. They were disparate street scenes from Chicago's tecture. or at least to the house that Wild built for himself in sight as the main lecture hall was been persuaded by South Side. The slides started to north London over a period of expanded to its full capacity. Roddy Gradidge the previous show Wild's fascination With the four years. "Isn•t it better todo Ted Cullinan mounted the week. To Corb,archltccturcwas juxtaposition of opposites. something slowly and carefully the play of masses broughtwithin a geometrical grid. A together by light. To a famousdown-and-out and a bus.ness London practitioner of theexecutive in front of a Mies modern style, though. thefacade. Wildispreoccupiedwith definitive form of moderncollage, but in Amertca he architecture was thecornmercialthinks you don't have to make block. How many speculativecollages — you find them again office buildings did Le Corbusierand again. Another short burst do? Wild couldn't remember theof music and more images from number. Perhaps there was — making spaces. some truth in James Dunnett•sthe South Side. rostrum. "I first met David Wild suggestion that the RoutemasterAt this point the slides went if you have time? Who says time at the end of the (David bus was nearly the best piece ofout of synch, It was almost ts money! I don't." does a thumbs up to a friend in modern architecture in London.bound to happen. The two To him. there is absolutely the audience) when we all thought And now he began. "I wascarousels took turns to project nothing satisfying as making buildings should be built by the tx»rn by the seaside. At the agc ofonto the screen. so that one slide things. It may bc the first design people and tor the people." But three I was taken to New Yorkfaded in while the previous one model for his house. it may be then there wasa recession which on the Queen Mary. I was hungfaded out. It took two assistants the ground plan With regulating led us to monetarism, and from the edge Of the Empireat the projection table tooversce lines laid studiously upon it tn conservatism, and carelessness. State Building. So I'm involvedthings. Sadly. what had been red ink. It may bc the working when fatalism took over from With the metropolis."well rehearsed was gotng well drawings ("if you look hard you optumtsm. Early influences seemed towrong. "Never mind. They can see the dimensions") or it This was to be an optimistic have been the Boys Fun Book andchanged the slides round as a may be the lovingly constructed evening — so optimistic that similar publications that en-joke in my first public lecture. I shuttering for the circular Wild's first words on rising to couraged him to make things.learned all about aranoia and columns. the rostrum were "This is going He was particularly impresseddefensible space t at evening." He went on to show other to be a serious talk. . .so please with instructions for a "PocketHe poured a large glass ofthe red projects, including a plan for a feel free to burst out laughing". Receiver for Sports Fans".liquid from the green bottle. house next door to hrs own. that Very seriously, he opened a Better than the kits you get theseComing back to England he is inspred by Adolf Loos(whois charming little attache case and days.tried to put the radicalrsation he now more interesting to Wild removed a huge and varied Back in Britain he went topicked up in the States to some than Mies). selection of books. The case grammar school and failed hiseffect. He produced the Big Red He finished with a kaleido• must have been bottomless. A-levels badly. He worked on aDiary for Pluto Press that many scope of slides With musical especially as the last item to building site, but then went towill remember fondly. but few backing that seemed tobnngthe emerge was a corked green art college to study architecturewill know was conceived as lecture right back to its begtnbottle with what turnedout tobe (you only needed O•levels inanother collage. The day by day ning. Every book had been a red liquid inside. those days), He spent five days alayout was a grid. He latd quoted from. and the bottle was evening wasn't going to week drawing things. His first Child of the metropolis in his London home. Photos: Georr Beeckrnan. historical images (drawings of getting low. Paul Finch on the European shopping centre conference. MONTE Carlo an irresis- even prayer. In Short become a wnpowrnv« 1.000 delegates and companions Shop supermarkets. tible attraction for more than way of life rather than giant-sized to this year's European Council Centres in the US. delegates, Of Shopping Centres conference. heard, had already been designed About half the delegates were purely on the basis of this type of British, including representatives market research. Other informa- of nearly SO firms of architects tion from across the Atlantic was and designers. by far the largest talk less cheerful: centre owners plan single national group. Crighton to take part later this year in a and Fitch had hired yachts (the national campaign to persuade former unfortunately becoming different ways. and that centres adolescents tostay off drugs — 10 entangled the Niarchos probably needed to be places for per cent arc "chemically depen- usingPOlNT ASTERmeans... mega-yacht on an unuiseattempt meeting and spending time "ith dent"; neøs another chilline piece of to leave the harbour); what shopping attached — "attractive gas that 1.5 million people recession we wondered. as cham- places "here people might buy". *ere fingerprinted in US shop- paene and fruits de mer arroed in ne centres of the 1990s uould ping centres last year as part of a abundance. need a local identity. be activity- security and child protection In the UK. up to 50% time saving centre doelopers heard. can shoppingsee only based. ties for provide sports, increased recreation facili•and of scheme. shopping•Not quite the human face boom times round the corner: Rrfect results with unskilled schemes under construction or with planning permission total 62 million square feet. Of the 600- Only one tm/ and accessories Odd have centres yet to built be since refurbished 1965.500or produces four major remodelled, noted Harold Couch THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE SPECIALISTS joint forms of Parker.property consultants Ilillier Good rent growth and de- Already used and specified by mand bright from prospects. retailers though made therefor most leading contractors and specialists. were some clouds — he did not Avat7able from most builders merchants belieu• more than one in three proposed out-of-town centres and leading DIX. stockists. uould take place. The theme of the conference If they are out of stock or you have any trouble finding it — was the "human face of shop. ping", and demographic stati• ring Terry Huxley on 0443-690954. We are here to help. stics came in thick and rast — rather less attention "as paid to the "inhuman face" of buying All from a television screen. 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Tel: 0443 690954. groups "multi-dimensional but people who models"fitted Sa.és, AJbon Des. ot Camerase ltd. each with their assn ••socio style". street. lcndcr,WC2HBOJ 1 IS fines) WI'at this meant fordevelopers was the recognition that social groups had to be catered for in Enter 2 ON ENQUIRY EXPRESSCARO Enter 3 ON ENQUIRY EXPRESSCARO Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Building Design Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Allan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 20 March 1987 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/2dac682db4361fadecfc8e42e21babeb.pdf 1365dafb080004e02c10b886b9ae169a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Education Description An account of the resource Many NAM members were engaged in the field of architectural education, either as staff or students, and pursued new ideas for course content and pedagogy, reassessing existing course structures and priorities in conventional architectural training. The concern to focus on socially necessary buildings and to find new and meaningful ways of engaging with building users and the wider community- both central NAM themes - illuminated much of the discussion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Regrouping for ARCUK round two Subject The topic of the resource Article in Scorpio Description An account of the resource BUILDING DESIGN. February 27. 1987 11 Statistics SORRY yo VOUR CIASS THERES A MINISTRY THE 000 IS Scorpio HEADMISTRESS. Bur AN , INSPECTOR IN YOUR OFFICE HE SAYS HES FPCM THE EWIRONMENT DEPARTMENT Nor EDUCATION AND SC'ENCk Bryan acnes Regrouping for Arcuk round two WILL the education lobby on Arcuk take the RIBA's latest move to crush them lying down? Not very likely. since the registration council's constitution does allow for elements other than glove puppets from Portland Place to have a voice. HEADMISTRESS CALCEO Aßour THE TEMPORARY' CLASSROOM WHICH YOV ÄÆ HAD IN YOUR PLAYGßOUND SINCE 1953 ..THEYOE FINALLY ER..!FRAD NOT, Its JUST BEEN GOT AROUND ro BUT 1 GPAOE 2 REPLACING IT ! YOU'D LIKE TO LISTED STATVS KNOW.. The story so far: Arcuk council is dominated by RIBA nominees. whtch for years has meant that the two orgamsations have had more or less the same policies. Certain anomalies in Arcuk's make-up. for example the fact that many schools were without representatives on the board of education, were gradually ironed out. Trouble arose when Arcuk. entirely against traditional practice. dared to take a different line over school closures to its erstwhile master. It then decided it should have an education officer and should have more of a say on school visiting boards, thus emphasising the statutory responsibillty it carries for architectural education — something it has always devolved to the institute. All this was too much for the Portland Placemen, who decided that poor old Professor Denys Hinton and Bob Adams should be sacrificial lambs. and who were thus not nominated for the new council, But Will this be the end of the story? After all. both men could bcnominated to the architectural education board by schools themselves. And under the terms ofa "gentlemen•s agreement" between the RIBA and the Unattached Architects. netthet side challenges nominations that each makes to the council. It is thus possible that Hinton and Adams could be invited by the unattached to stay on council. The curiosity in alt this is that the RIBA. having supported the closure of two schools. is now saying that they should be kept open to teach what amounts to community architecture. Having adopted Arcuk's clothes. the RIBA has decided to freeze out those Who have dared to question its infallibility. Three's a crowd . . . THE Cotb exhibition opening at the Hayward next week reminds me of the night in 1953 when the great maneame overto London to recetve his Royal Gold Medal at the RIBA. Noless than three of his most ardent lady architect admirers were to be seen vying for his attention at the party after. They had reasoned that a night with the master of the modern movement was as close as it was possible to get to an earthly paradise. Discretion prevents me from saying which lady won the contest. However. I confi• dently predict that all three Will be at the private view of the exhibition this Sunday. Scene and heard THE picture of ex-BD editor Peter Murray and wife Jane in the Sunday Times colour supple. ment showed their new home — a Norman Shaw villa in West London. Murray thus joins his fellow Blueprint apostle of all that is modern in today's design, Deyan SudJic, by livtng in a listed building! At least Deyan had his styled by Jan Kaplicky. TALKING of JR. the BBC were doing their usual bit for architects lie next to nothing)on Tomorrow's World last week. Quite a good explanation of Future System's design for a futunstic tower was marred by the non-mention of designers Kaplicky and David Nixon. This follows in the tradition of coverage of the Hongkong Bank building without mentioning Norman Foster. Why oh why do they behave in this way? RUMOURS have been flying across the Atlantic as to Arthur Drexler•s successor as director Of architecture and design at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Stuart Wrede, curator at the museum sincc 1985. and orgamser of the recent Mario Botta exhibition. has been appointed acting director. but informed sources suggest the museum is lookin for a higher profile director. t won't be Alvin Boyarsky, SS-year-old Architectural Association supremo for the past 15 years. He was offered the post but turned it down. Now FT critic Colin Amery is reported to want the job. MY sympathies to Architectural Press. who began the promotion of their new monthly giveaway last week. The editor? None other than Richard Willcock. fun•loving ex-AJtechnicaI man. Unfortunately no-one had told them that far from editing the new organ. he was in fact leavtng it to join Jose Manser.as deputy editor of The Architect. and as editor of its interiors supplement. GREMLINS scrambled a line in last week's item about people seeking money. The relevant sentence should have said that the British Architectural Library Trust isso short of cash that it can't even afford to pay a solicitor to draw up its trust deed . . . Meanwhile the Building Communities organisers are still seeking cash — the Community Architecture Group has declined to help out. 10 years ago AN extra €2,100 million investment in housing and jobs is needed on Merseyside over the next 10 years to prevent the conurbation's inner areas from sinking into urban decline of staggering proportions. This is the message the county council has sent to the secretaries ofstate for environment, industry and employment. Budding Design. 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Sheffidd SO 8AH ON EXPRESS Enter 12 ENQUIRY CARD 12 BUILDING DESIGN, February 27, 1987 DESPITE the impression Partners (1983) 2 ACI where Charges brought by the Latent Damage Act given by the Latent Damage the limitation period ran from discoverability without any may not be as extreme as they appear, Act 1986 as having wreaked terrible changes on the lia- longstop. Further. whether or not there will be many cases says Susan Midha, solicitor with Herbert bility of builders and professional advisers, and having where damage actually occurs more than IS years from the date Oppenheimer, Nathan & Vandyk enlarged the scope for em- of the negligent act or omission. ploycrs and others to sue. the the Act are the wide terms of the longstop clause such actions changes madc by largely of degree only, and will prevent being brought altogether. except Degrees of one's overall view of the Act where there is deliberate con- will, to a certain extent, cealmcnt of the defects. Pirelli have contributed to a false depend on whether one is an may sense of security in professional optimist or a pessimist. extra three advisers; surprisingly, perhaps, Lord in the It is the case that an years to bring proceedings has since Fraser's speech case clearly indicated that the damage been given by the Act (which law, as he was required to came into force on September pronounce it. was not just and from the discoverability of should be changed. Parliament years from the completion oft he such a claim. Further. if at the damage. But this is tempered by took the hint. job. it will be necessary. after the end of four years of litigation the fact that "discoverability" The practical effects of the Act comes into force. to keep, (which takes us up to Il years and not "discovery" is the Act are. therefore. matters of maintain and retain them for I S from the date the damage starting point for the limitation degree rather than substance years. This is not entirely true. It occurred) the defendant. having period, and a IS year longstop and those professional advisers is true that the old limitation lost the action. issued a contri• has been put on all negligence who indulged in good practice in period was six years from the bution notice against a third actions (other than personal the keeping of records etc before date that the damage occurred, party at the end of the two year injury) and not just those the Act will have little to worry but it was always possible for a period allowed under the Civil involving latent damage. about after it. plaintiff to issue a writ at the end Liability (Contribution) Act From the professional advi- The change in the period of of the six-year period, and serve 1978. he would have a further ser's point of view. this must be liability it a year less a day after that. two years! an improvement on the state of It has been said that now. 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TELEPHONE: 0206) 562400 TELEX: 987991 breach of duty. a further period confirmation can be time. can be added to this scenario. consuming and not necessarily Under the new Act. the cost-effective. longstop period is absolute and Written evidence starts from the date ofbreach of It has been suggested that duty (ie the negligent act or written statements should be omission concerned). It is taken from all personnel in- essential to appreciate this if the volved at the end of the job. effects of the Act are to be put which could then bc used in into their proper perspective. It evidence if a member of staff has also been suggested that expires before the limitation contribution notices (which, as period does. It is unlikely that has been seen. can extend such statements would address liability for a further three, four themselves to the matters rele- five years) will be barred after vant to the latent damage in the IS yearlongstophasexpired. question. They would be shoot- In view of this. the Act does ing in the dark,and would havea not call for a radical reappraisal by contractors and professional very limited application. advisers of their liability, more a Insurance methodical look at their prac- It is not yet clear how the tices and a hard-headed look at insurers will approach the the economics of claims man• question of long-term insurance agement. for latent damage. The current Keeping records position is that in general, cover IS given on a claims made. not It IS always possible, though claims arising. basis. If. there- not necessarily practicable or fore. a builder or professional economically viable. to keep all adviser is insured when he enters records of completed work into the contract with the indefinitely. Space. however. is employer. but not when the an expensive commodity; mic- problem manifests itself, the rofiching is not cheap andcan be plaintiff may find himself withe very time-consurmng. Good out any effective remedy. practice, therefore. dictates that From the viewpoint of the only a selection of material be builder or professional adviser, kept when a job is completed. in theory the need to retain From the point of view of insurance after a job has been litigation. obvious documents completed has now been limited to be kept would be: (to just less than 16 years) rather client's brief and any other than being limitless. Whether in relevant correspondence; practice it is desirable for contract documents; professional advisers to keep up variation of instructions; insurance for even this long. vs site meeting minutes; another matter. certificates of practical com- In the recent case of Investors ptetion. and dates ofany inspec- in Industry Commercial Proper. tions. surveys etc; ties Limited v South Bedford- state of the art information; shire County Council. the claim progress charts. against the structural engin- The approach to the selection eers was dropped because they would be to have in documen- were no longer insured. It tary form as much as possible of has been suggested that the what the client's requirements effect of the Act will be to let were, problems during the job, '"fly-by-night" builders and pro- and their resolution. fessional advisers off the hook. It is possible that the person- While in no way seeking to nel involved in thejob will not he suggest that the structural available to give oral evidence, engineers involved in that so that it will be difficult to prove matter were "fly-by-night". it is what is not in the papers. All this salutary to note that thecase was information is such as would brought under the old law. ordinarily have been kept in any Whether or not premiums will event. except perhaps that cone rise when the Act comes into cerning the date of any inspec- force will. it is hoped, depend on tions, surveys etc which are of the insurcrs• claims experience value in calculating longstop — and is at the moment impos- periods. Sible to predict. Fears engen- It is frequently the case that dered by the Act may. however disputes turn on the state of the unfounded. lead to more urgent art at the time that the work was consideration of more generally done. A presumption will im- applicable building insurance mediately be raised in favour of and a consequent reduction in the professional adviser who the amount of litigation. retains the literature on the state Summary of the art with his records The Act will not. therefore. provided. of course. that he has followed it! make sweeping changes to the practice which professional Recording advisers and builders should Where there is a change in the adopt. It does, however. give us instructions, by the client or the all an opportunity to reconsider adviser, it is obviously desirable our own practices in protecting that it is recorded in writing. ourselves from liability. in the Many builders automatically light of the knowledge that our confirm site instructions in liability is now limited in time. so writing and it would be an that we can make informed unwise professional adviser who decisions as to the cost-effective- failed to check such confirma- ness of those practices. tion and raise, in writing, any The wide interest which the disagreement as to its contents. Act has evoked may also lead to Site minutes are a frequent fundamental changes in the way bone of contention. in that they in which responsibility for latent often raise problems without defects and latent damage arc recording the attempts to re- apportioned, with a consequent solve them. Keeping attendance reduction in the aggregate notes of all telephone conversa- amount of insurance premiums tions should be considered. but paid. and time spent pursuingor it has to be said that written defending fruitless claims. If you would like further information concerning the products on these pages, please fill in and return the pre-paid reader enquiry carg,F, Enter 1 3 ON ENQUIRY EXPRESSCARO Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Building Design Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Allan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 27 February 1987 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/87cb4bb60fe71d94789cd49d36b1d6c7.pdf 5696d0cda32b808dd30414fc8a0c6f65 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Education Description An account of the resource Many NAM members were engaged in the field of architectural education, either as staff or students, and pursued new ideas for course content and pedagogy, reassessing existing course structures and priorities in conventional architectural training. The concern to focus on socially necessary buildings and to find new and meaningful ways of engaging with building users and the wider community- both central NAM themes - illuminated much of the discussion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource RIBA and ARCUK on course for collision Subject The topic of the resource Article Description An account of the resource No 823 RIBA and Arcuk on course for collision THE RIBA is heading for a battle with the Architects Registration Council over "ho controls architectural education. The institute has strengthened its presence in Arcuk f01109ing its nomination of 42 • important and articulate" members to the 6Sstrong council. They take up their posts in March, RIBA president Larry Rolland and president-elect Rod Hackney said this they had been concerned for the past 12 months that Arcuk's increasing interest in educational matters "as "not in the best interests of architecture, the public or future student intake". Although the RIBA accepted the closure of the tun archi• tecture schools at Iluddersfield and North-East London Poly. technic. it is keen tostrengthen its negotiating poncrs with the Government folloøing its deci. sion to oppose any further closures. "The RIBA has been dis. charging its responsibilities ror architectural education since long before the formation of Arcuk and continues to fulfil its obligations in this field," an RIBA statement said. The institute sees Arcuk primarily as a registration body and believes that any expansion into other roles can only cause confusion and diffusion of effort. In fact Arcuk has a statutory duty. unlike the RIBA. to regulate architectural education. Rolland and Hackney are expecting difficult times ahead and have nominated seasoned RIBA campaigners along with younger RIBA members to the Arcuk council. •ney include Max Hutchinson. Nick Brill, Gordon Graham. Alan Groves, Mike Jeffels, Peter Jones, Harley Sherlock and Professor John Tarn. One initiative that Hackney is keen for the RIBA to pursue is a new role for the Huddersfield and North-Fmst London Polytechnic schools. The senior vice-president wants both schools reopened under the auspices of Inner City Aid and teaching "enabling" courses (Scorpio January 16). The weekly newspaper for the design team FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 1987 Insurance giants in the wrong PRACTICE WINS BIG LIABILITY Ill ILI 111 Taken from "A project for Frankfurt•• by Peter Conk. this not the conventional closed building hut a series or iterns drawing is among the exhibits incloded in the Of hidden in the undergrowth. suspended among the trees. in LAWSUIT Cook's work at Fischer Fine Art. A groupofprojectsfor the City won joint first place for (be Los Angeles Prize made by in 1986. small pavilions and special set pieces. place operates like a park or a zoo with glancing and gliding walks and the "hole thing lies above and around a lagoon." The the American Institute of Architects The picture shows a proposal ror "Qsthafen on the Main. exhibition. at 30 King Street, London SW l.continues until "11ere stands a 'ertical park that contains a February 25. A SMALL firm of Exeter architects has success- pounds. as the judge put it. for remedial works. Then in June 1982, the Soane staff knew Lutyens fully sued two giant American insurance com- housing association issued a writ against Acland and Donald approval panics who refused to its professional Butler as second defendants. In September 1983. Acland comform for about police tip-off PROPOSALS for Lutyens honour pleted a new proposals House in the City have finally indemnity policy. But even though the judge ABS Insurance Brokers which referred to this writ. been granted listed building STAFF at the Sir John Soane As a result of last Friday's consent by English Heritage. awarded costs against the writ was extended by the court. and it was not until Musuem had known about the poticc tip-off of a planned episode. security arrangements Its London Advisory Com. in thc museum arc to be tigh- mittee. together with the Lut- ' companies. New Hampshire and Home Insurance, the January 1984thatA statement of claim was served, which referred since Christmas, a'sistant carsator Margaret Richardson told tened. Richardson said: "Our yens Trust, were unhappy with whole attitude will sadly have to the interior treatment of the not just to brickwork but to BD this week. change." building by architects William By BD Reporters other alleged defects. By this time. ABS had swit- A gang of six men attempted to rob the Lincoln's Inn Nimmo & Partners (News Dece Aberdeen dies ember 12). estimates that its ched much of its insurance museum last Friday but wal- Developer Greycoat then practice legal bill not covered by the business from New Hampshire to Home. because of the form- keded into a police ambush. One DA VID Aberdeen, architect of brought in architects Jnskip & Congress House, the TUC Jenkins to amend the scheme, award will be well over five er•s withdrawal from the man was killed during police fire. headquarters in London. has particularly the treatment ofthe figures. market. Richardson said the police died aged 73. atrium design. In addition the two partners When New Hampshire was had been "incredible in the in the firm. Acland. Thorman & informed of the statement of way Dennis Lambeth, have spent "hundreds of hours" in pre- claim. it said it could only be liable in respect of brickwork, they had protected the museurn", which had been under constant watch sinceChristmas. DESIGN LAND LONDON paring for the High Court action. while Horne repudiated all liability. saying that there had Four of the staff, including Ille dispute arose following been non-disclosure of relevant Richardson, were hiding upstairs when the raid took place. design work carried out for the information and that the claim She said it was "very scary". Devon & Cornwall Housing Association. completed in 1977. had not been made in the period covered by the policy. Staff had been told that the nete were subsequently com- Ote practice was thus left with men were dangerous. plaints about the brickwork, designed by another firm, the prospect of entering its legal battle With the housing asso- The gang arrived at the museum at the closing time of Donald Butler Associates. When a claim was was made, Home's attitude was based on able time of the day," she said. it was settled. however. with information supplied by the ABS "If we hadn't known of the raid Acland. Thorman making a brokers. which referred to the someone would have opened the payment of a few thousand continued back page door in the normal way". Hackney supporter's pledge DAVID Davies. chairman of Hackney's proposals". Reports that Alan Groves is PROFESSIONAL DY Davies Associates. is the Meanwhile RIBA practice proposing to call a speciat first big name architect to put vice-president Ian Thornton has general meeting to decide the himself forward for RIBA lashed out at the Sunday Times RIBA's nomination for the UIA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS Council this year. over statements attributed to presidency remain unconfirmed Davies, who masterminded him concerning council opposi. this "*tek as BD went to press. A COMPLETE the successful flotation of his tion to Hackney. The RIBA said it understood practice on the Unlisted Securi- He has demanded an apology Groves was collecting signaties Market last year told BD: "I in the paper for what he calls tures. but he was unavailable for EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR will be supporting many of Rod "pretty scurrilous journalism". comment. Gandhi memorial DESIGN SERVICE 'litese schools could then be government funded and eater for a general inner city professional course teaching the skills of architecture. management, bus. iness and social commitment. NDEX 44-46 Scrutton Street ROSTRUM 2, News and 48, News in pictures 8, Infill 9. Comment 9, Perspective 10, Scorpio 11, SAGs 11. Letters 12-13. Legal WIS. Features 18-31, New products 32-33, Technical London EC2A 4HH literature 34, Free classified 35. Dateline 36. Easicheck 37, Appointments 38-47. pages 18-27 Telephone: 01-377 2777 ON EXPRESS Enter 1 ENQUIRY CARD 2 BUILDING DESIGN. February 13. 1987 Rostrum IT would be hard to imagine square ("interval spaces" in his a greater contrast than that terms) and in bringing them betueen last week's RIBA inside the building. Thus the lecture, by Jeremy Dixon. plan of the Scharoun school was described by Beigel in terms of a and this week's presentation "street" with two "lanes' • by Florian Beigel. running off it. onto which the In place of Dixon's anti- classroom "houses" faced. intellectual approach. Beigel main hall at Great Dixter placed himself in a powerful (another favounte of Beigcl•s) Intellectual tradition that in- was likewise presented as a eluded Giacometti, Camillo "square", in which the "build• Sitte, Scharoun. Aalto. Sch.nd. ings" facing onto the "square" let, Colin Rowe and (especially) (ie the internal elevations) were Walter Segal. treated in the same manner as In place of Dixon's very the external elevations of the English emphasis on the pic- building. tonal, Beigel — standing four- Ille prime appeal of these square in the German modernist "interval spaces" for Beige) is tradition —emphasisedspace as their gregariousness: they are the central fact of architecture. places of meeting, of exchange Buildings, said Beigel (quoting (both of goods and ideas). of Segal). arc not purely visual: display and visibility. and they must also be acceptable to above all of simple sociability, It the mind. and this meant is around internal spaces of this exercising an appeal through kind, he believes, that we should shape and space. orgamse our buildings. Finally. in place of Dixon's Such spaces have a number of work forthe Royal Opera House characteristics. They must be —an "elitist" client if ever there central and preferably at the was one — Beigel presented his intersection of circulation work for the Half Moon 'liteatre routes; they must allow both for in the East End. a self-styled seeing and being seen; they must radical client in search of a have a neutral floor plane and building that would both oper- easy entry and exit; their sut- ate as a community theatre and faces must be finished in the proclaim its belief in the • •muta- same materials as the outside of btlity of society". the building', and they must be Beigers major theoretical flooded with light. interest is in the street and the Beige! described three pro- alifabs EXPANSION JOINTS. MOVING WITH THE TIMES. Accommodates types 01 (example Unobtrusive, attractive flvsh-htsng design. aluminium finish (To BS1474: 1972.) Slondard rongo 909: movement plus or minus 8mm. Fat fixing. Loodbearing bridge. 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Mark Swenarton reports. competition entries: a timberconstruction sports hall (1975), ry. organised in elevation as an "archetypal child's facade". and a tourist reception centre for the with windows from small condown Devon village of Clovelly ( 1986), major interest wxsin cealcd galleries looking over the main space. walls at Thoroughly the third. the much•lauded Half either end are very different; Moon Theatre in the Milc End sheet metal. thin and fluted. like Road ( 1979-85). a curtain. giving onto the open For a modernist architect the courtyards in front and behind brief for this project was a and linked by an implied dream: a radical theatre group "street" running at an angle modern which wanted to break down the barrier between the theatre and across the auditorium. Within this space the performance area the city, to draw new audiences and the seating can bc arranged by reclaiming the classical rcp in a variety of configurations, for a popular audience, and to The Half Moon Theatre inhabit a building that could as design carried out by Beigel easily house the paintings of and the "Architecture Bureau" message local pensioners or schoolchildren as Hamlet or Sweeney at the Polytechnic of North London. where Beige! teaches. Todd. Beigel's ideas about Betgel emphastses that only the bringing the city inside the resources (studio, research building were thus already fellowship. Beigel's own time) present in the brief. allocated by the polytechnic. result (BD October 4. under its policy of community 198S) was less a theatre than "a involvement, made it possible to little world of theatres". Thesite give the project the time that it is T-shaped. lying alongside and required. behind an existing Edwardian Time. as was emphasiscd in chapel (now converted into a the ensuing discussion, was the foyer), with an entrance from one thing lacking in the every- the street at the base of the Tand day commercial world. What. a disused cemetery beyond the Peter Ahrends wondered. could site at the rear. Beigel'ssolution a radical architect do if support rests on a series of courtyards. such as that given by the some literal and external. others polytechnic, and a client such as metaphorical and internal. the Half Moon Theatre. were The auditorium itself is not to hand? Will Humpty Dumpty Lumuted Manufacturers, Suppliers 'mstaners of UPVC Windows. 000 n • NOT e keen, one Made tfyou think like to Beigel — theatre or life. Picture: Geoff Beeckrnan. Tony Aldous examines the Green lobby's to be taken arguments for the countryside and argues that a change of heart is necessary. for Growing pains granted STRICTLY MONTTORED QUALrry cövmot DEPENDABLE SERVICING TECHNICAL BACK-UP GOOD DISTRIBUTION We have built the bustness on this - and that is what we will continue to build on. CONTACT: JOHN PEARCE Alders Way Estate Pai ton TQ4 7PJ Telephone; (0803) 526288/ 529% OFFICE SPACE straight-forward. old-fashioned ment dedicated to abolishing preservation. Not what one had controls. The Greens. almost to a hoped for from the Council for the Protection of Rural England, man, oppose Tillingham Hallstyle developments. A powerful CITY FRINGE SMALL %hich changed its name years ago argument in their favour is that STUDIO/OFFICE BRANCH OFFICE to make the P in CPRE stand for inquiry inspectors, "ith trans• 1,500sqft, tstnoor,idealforthe protection. (erred powers and excessive building designer, very brtsht, reeaeed Today's countryside needs regard for ministerial circulars. €8,000 per enrwtn inc rates, in neat re. change. Landscapes which are sanctioning dubious piece- service charge, insurance etc, +1'• 400 t. farmers can no longer manage meal incursions into the green Stock Page •od meme need discreet management to belt. Better to meet the bulk of Telephone 251 4171 make the land more accessible. the demand with Bell-sited, well- comprehensible and enjoyable to designed settlements. all those millions who make Development in the country- SHOREDTCH PARKWAY NW' informal countryside recreation side is going to happen. The STUDIO OFFICE SPACE one of the country's most popular debate is not about whether, but Spaces immediate»• avObJe in outdoor activities. where and how. Argument should shared designers studio in EC2. Sh•red use Dwindling agricultural be site specific and it should Newly refurbiShedv all facilitjes Of incomes must be supplemented benefit rural communitiesandthe provided, excellent light Car rd •eryy from sources such as leisure, qualities of environment, design per€ng waildble. ycNtect tourism. light industry, and hi- and the changing rural land• 01-377"77 Telephone 01-2611407 tech employment. scapes. NEWS of government plans for The fallacy of rural preser• loosening controls over "develop- vation is this. It looks at badly• ment" in the countryside have sited. badly-designed, inadeproduced shock waves of anger quately serviced development in and indignation (if not of surprise) the countryside, and proclaims from the "Green" lobby. "Iheir ''TO prevent this, we must say no concern is understandable and to virtually all development". justifiable — some of their It isn't the case in today's ecoar ments are not. nomic and political climate. An ritain's Greens have gen- age of farm surpluses and reduced c erally opposed development in the or static subsidies means that the countryside, no matter how good nelfare of the farming community the proposals or how poor the is no longer a credible proxy for co countryside. They have been the welfare orrural communities. against conifer afforestation and Farmers now employ only a opposed well-landscaped car fraction of the rural population parking for visitors to the and spending power based on food countryside. production is no longer the This kind of resistance to dominant economic input. change is not conservation — it is Politically. we have a govern• Enter 2 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 13 February 1987 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/a899b0f0f21d7ba96e54a6bb7190d1d2.pdf 0f1f1aad215eeb6c175666b80f3b462e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource RIBA humiliation over education Subject The topic of the resource Article by J Wood Description An account of the resource BUILDING DESIGN, May 22. 1987 3 News Stirling revision for City JAMES Stirling•s long-awaited rew;ions to his scheme for Peter Palumbo's redevelopment of Mansion House Square have been placed before City planners and should bc considered next month. Revision only been made to "Scheme B". the design Which involves the demolition of all the buildings on the triangular site. includtng the Mapping & Webb corner building. A storey has been temo•.ed because Stirling•s early design did not comply with the City's now plot ratio rules. There is also increased shop• ping space and further improvement to the Bank Underground station exit. "lhe alternative scheme. which retains Mappin & Webb. rematns the same, A city spokesman said that Palumbo is assare of the planners' "fundamental objections•• to its hetght. Review over Docklands NICK Grimshaw•s Ladkarns building on the Isle of Dogs may be physically moved to a site in Newham. possibly the Royal Docks, to make way for the Canary Wharf development. Meanwhile a new building which may be built for Ladkarns by Gnmshaws in Dollar Bay. Isle of Dogs. vs upsetting local residents. They feel the new building wilt destroy their view of the docks. depress property pricesand that the noise will increase tn the area. In its fight to stop the construction of the building the Glen Terrace Residents' Association has won a judicial rev.ew of the decision. Festival rr3 site plan A E 100 million mixed scheme designed by the Mason Richards Partnership is to be developed on the Sha Garden Festival Site in Stoke-on-Trent. of the mplus scheme. St Modwen Properues. was chosen by the local council from a total of 18 applicants — including London & Edinburgh Trust. The proposals include a 26.S00sq m retatl park. S.400sq m of offices/studtos. a ccrarmc trade and exhibition centre, m of industnal accom• modatton. a 12•scrcen cinema. bowling alley. dry ski-slope. an Indoor letsure centre and a 200bed hotel. Cambridge confusion A COMPETITION-winning design Cambridge Untverstty may be dropped in favour of a cheaper design-build solution. Last July Colquhoun & Miller beat a prestig•ous group of archttects in a limited competition for a mar»r development on the Addenbrook's Hospital site. RIBA argument who RIBA has suffered a humiliating defeat in its battle to impose its "ill on the Architects Registration Council. At the first mcetingof Arcuk's neulv elected board of architectural education. members voted 34-13 to re-appoint Professor Denys Hinton as chairman. Previously an RIBA nominee to the board. Hinton was dropped by the institute when he refused to try to reverse Arcuk decisions on education (News March 20). But Hinton was nominated for the board by the Portsmouth school and defeated the official R I BA candidate. Joyce Lowman. in the election for the chair. 'I his was despite intense lobbying by the institute, which wrote to all its members on the board urging them to vote for its • •on-tcial candidate". Completing the snub to the RIBA. the board re-elected Professor Ben Farmer to the vice-chairman's post against the RIBA's choice. Alan Willis. Last week's results follow a similar victory in March for Ken Tay lor against Go rdon Gra ham in the election for the vice• chairman's post on Arcuk Council. Following last 's elections the board reatiirrncd its policy to seek joint RIBA/Arcuk %isiting hoards. Following his election. Hinton Council architect arrested LIVERPOOL chief architect James Rohh has been suspended by the council follouing his arrest last by the city's fraud squad. Robb. a Labour councillor for Knowsley. and three of Fleet (Liserpool) Ltd. a building contractor. "ere all arrested in a police swoop last Friday morning. Robb arrested as he arrived at his Dale Street office for work. The men have been released on bail pending further inquiries. No charges tune been brought. hut detectives are examining docu• ments and files seized during their søoop. Robb and the other men were questioned by police in connection Bith the granting of contracts by the council. A council spokesman told BD that Robb's position with the council bould bc revieued "hen the police in•estigations were concluded. Robb•s application for early retirement (News March 27) has been frozen. and the department is non being run by deputy chief architect Brian Weir. Robb had infuriated his staff recently by drawing up a secret report recommending the fragmentation and reduction in sizeof the architects department. He had planned to retire and emigrate to California "here his "ife•s family runs a property business. By John Wood But the umverslty recently commisqoncd another scheme from 'T Destgn. Build. although the origtnal architects appo•ntnent has not been officially nccjled. humiliation in over runs education said: "I want to ensure that the intensity. board can carry out its statutory A seasoned politician who is a functions effectively and member of Barnet council and responsibly. " who served on the defunct He also hoped that there Greater London Council. would be an early end to the antagonism between Arcuk and such a heated meeting in my lite." Michael Darke, secretary of the Standing Conference of Heads of Schools of Archithe RIBA which had marked the tecture, who proposed Iltnton last three months. said: "The RIBA must now Hinton described the meeting acknowledge that Arcuk has a as amicable. but Ellis Hillman.a duty to become more directly lay member of thc board since involved in the validation 1973. was shocked by its process." Who goes where? 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Lethargy complaint A NATIONAL surveyclaims80 per cent of office workers believe their place of work causes symptoms of ill-health. It reports that air-conditioncd buildings have the highest rates of sickness and that the most common symptom is tcth• argy. The commission is not prepared to say at this stage hoys much the height of the scheme is going tobe reduced. as it looking at his revisions in detail next month. Apparently Johnson is also prepared to try and introduce • •a human scale" into the scheme after the REAC told him that it disliked the way he had disguised storeys as one. Ibe 1.1)DC has agreed not to determine St Martins Property Corporation's planning application until the roised scheme has been approved by the REAC. Racal-Chubb has got designs on being an integral part of your building specifications. 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The damning report catalogues a series of ' •controversial incidents". including sackings and disciplinary actions.against rofcssional staff within the IDS. which have reportedly resulted from zealous application of the equal opportunity policy. An unnamed senior architect is quoted in thc newspaper as saying "politics comes before professionalism". journal also clatms that "a new ethnic weighting system More cash for homes says report A SIMPLIFIED home improvcmcnt grant system targeted at those most in need should b introduced in Wales. accordin to a report from the Cornmtttcon Welsh Affairs. The condtnon and repair privately-owned housing sa urgent action is needed in Walt where housing conditions worse by all available inditors. than in England. Poor conditions are con trated in the private sect much of which dates back to pre- 1919 period. About 12 per cent ofprivatei. owned housing is unfit fo human habitation and 10 pen cent lacks at least one bmsic amenity. In the private rented sector 24 per cent of all privately rented homes are unfit. says the report. Birmingham hotel boost ANOTHER international hotel chain has been given planmng consent for a multi-storey cotnplex In the centrc of Btrrn• ingham. Percy Thomas Partnership have designed an eight-storey. ISO-bed hotel for thc French chain, Novotcl. The new building Will face the controversial. E 32 million Hvatt Hotel which was finally given consent in February. Novoters E3.S million development will have a six-storey rectangular tower standing on plinth and includes basement car parking. restaurants and three hanqucting sultes. Work is due to start in July uith completion set for thc end of 1988. Student wins gas prize NICHOLAS Williams of the Birmingham school of architecture. has won first prize in the new British Gas student archltects energy competition. A winner is nominated from each of the 36 RIBA-recogmsed architecture schools. Birmingham was the first to announce its winner. By BD reporter makes it impossible for white British men to be shortlisted for jobs in the Building Design Service". The accusations against the council have been supported by an anonymous correspondant to BD. who claims to work tn the BDS. He or she writes "better paid positions normally reserved for effort and professional expertise arc now the rewards of left-wing activists". A council spokeswoman denicd that thc application of the council's equal opportunities policy was in any way extreme. "Our policy of positive discri- mination means that of two people equally well qualified the candidate from the minority group Will get the job." But. she continued. "we would not employ someone who was not qualitied to do the job. unless we could organise a training programme." Asked whether it was true that white men do not get shortlisted for Jobs. the spokeswoman said: "We have appointed several such candidates in the last few months". 4 BUILDING DESIGN. May 22, 1987 Cabaret at Racial the Rialto 'take over Chassay right have planning consent for a scheme to was the circle the cabaret /restaurant. professionals restore and con»ett the Rialto cinema on Co•entty Street This "ill he done in sus•b a so to retain the into an uptuatkct cabaret night spot. decoratisa• reliefs along the front of the circle balustrade. Grand Productions' plans to convert the Rinlto— the pension fund the Rialto. managed of I.ondo.n's earliest purposc•uilt cinemas — into a to persuade Westminster City Council to a chance of ALLEGATIONS of an "0b. restaurant and cabaret on the first floor "ith a restaurant because it could not sell the property as a cinema. and bar on the ground floor. But according to Stefanie Of Hurrell Eok•v session with racial issues" Designed by Ilorace Gilbert in 1913. the 600-seat Associates, who triedto buy the Rialtofrom ESS it have been levelled at Ilarincinema's main feature is itselegantovalaoditorium. cinema on a prc•ious occasion, ESS was as\ing too much gey council's Building Design to be restored. (Letters Wright, designed the Groucho club in John Robots Architects are project managers — not the Service by a local paper. Soho. "ill put in a floor in the auditorium to make Bhat designers of scheme as reported on May 8. The report. in the Haringey drainage U.V. ROOF DRAINAGE SYSTEM A complete system for highly efficient economic roof drainage suitable for the majority Of Industrial/cornmercial buildings. The patented sump (roof outlet) is engineered to 100% fill collecting pipowor$< at a specified design rainfall intensity. The U.V. design method enables pipevvork to be dimensioned precisely. with vanet Alan . 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The Package concept reduces civil costs and provides a complete fully automatic pumping station •off the shelf' The HDP Pump Station is Use class secures future for theatres THE Theatres Trust has wel- protection promoted by the suitable for new comed the new Use Classes Theatres Trust Act 1976and the installations, or Order which should safeguard consequent requirement in the for use in existing the future of manv theatres. ' 'It •s hats in the air," said trust general development order for consultation with the Theatres chambers as a director John Earl. • • We •re Trust before granting planning free standing unit. delighted that our energetic representations and those of permission on land which in. cludes a theatre". Single or dual pump other people have had the Earl is convinced that DOE packages are available desired effect. " minister William Waldegrave and pipework can be The DOE circular issued earlier this month creates an reversed the intention to include theatres in the assembly and the installed to suit stations with a separately constructed assembly and leisure class. but takes theatres out of it, leisure class. With theatres included, irre• valve chamber. Typical Their exclusion. says the circular. "reflects the special versiblc changes could have gone forward unchecked applications are handling domestic/ industrial effluents, and general drainage duties. Use class changes could mean more bingo i ead of play> This Flygt HDP Pump Station consistsof a pump chamber, rotary moulded in high THEATRES HIT AT PLANNING THREAT BD highlighted the threat to the theatres (July l). Send for Techmcal Details: FLYGT FLYGT PUMPS LTD. Cclwitk NG4 2AN 0602 614444 37316 Enter 5 ON ENQUIRY EXPRESSCARO Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Building Design Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Allan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 22 May 1987 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/226c18ddc7cc2f630c160d42251c5aff.pdf 9af6d883022e3051a4f60602b0837eea Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Education Description An account of the resource Many NAM members were engaged in the field of architectural education, either as staff or students, and pursued new ideas for course content and pedagogy, reassessing existing course structures and priorities in conventional architectural training. The concern to focus on socially necessary buildings and to find new and meaningful ways of engaging with building users and the wider community- both central NAM themes - illuminated much of the discussion. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Time for ARCUK to put its house in Order' Subject The topic of the resource Article by M McCarthy (RIBA stooge) Description An account of the resource Opinion WITHIN the past few weeks stipulated by Parliament in the all architects will have registration Acts. received at their places of Readers may recall the series work the Arcuk Annual of "Luder/Parris Files" in Report for 1986-87. The BD. Those authors commented "The unwarranted and un• normally turgid little blue lawful interference of Arcuk book this year is enlivened by with the way members con- innuendoes, incongruities, duct themselves makes it and inaccuracies. Some plain that members of council passages seem to have been have no conception of the limits designed to deceive. The of their statutory powers and are thread linkingall these things gathering to themselves authority is architectural education. they do not in law possess." (BD January I l. 1980). only the The statement that "Arcuk is reasons for the gathering of not limited in its activities solely to those mentioned in the Acts authority and interference seem and may legitimately engage in to have changed! courses of action which it Board of architectural education considers relevant and/or focus for education matters necessary .. appears on page in Arcuk is obviously the board 19 of the report. Whether or not of architectural education. The this is true a questionofdegree constitution of the BAE is set and reasonableness in the cir- out in the second schedule to the cumstanccs. but it will most Architects (Registration) Act often be untrue. A more accurate 1931. It is this very constitution maxim would be • 'Arcuk is which Arcuk has now attempted limited in its activities solely to to subvert. those mentioned in the Acts". Former chairman Bob Adams Where does this contradiction states in the foreword to the lead? Let us consider. for annual report: "The board of example. the subjects of research architectural education has and continuing professional been expanded to include almost development. The report on all of thc recogniscd schools of page 20 proclaims: "Research is architecture in the UK. This not a luxury but an essential long overdue reform will enable component of a department in the board to reflect more any university or polytechnic." accurately opinions on archi- As a statement that is irrefutable. tectural education." The expan- but whether or not research for sion is ultra viro and the reason the benefit of schools of archi- given does not bear examination. tecture should be financed from The truth is partially revealed Atcuk retention fees is debat- on page 16 of the report. which able. Section I(4Hb) of the states: "The limited representa- Architects Registration (Amend- tion ofthc schools of architecture ment) Act 1969 authorizes on the BAE has becn the subject Arcuk to apply its education Of criticism for some time." fund in support and furtherance What the report does not say is of research providedit is designed that criticism has come since to improve the general practice 1983 exclusively from the un• ofarchitecture. Why is it that the represented schools. Less parti- research projects funded by san commentators have made a Arcuk are not listed in the wide range of criticisms about report. so that those paying for the deficiencies of the Act. them can see both the relevance including the gross under- of the work and that the Act is representation of practitioners being complicd with? and over-representation of The same page of the report academics on the over-large tells us: "The provision of committee of 64-plus members. •research awards has been ex- Limited additional places on tended to cover continuing BAE are possible. Paragraph 2 professional development. of the second schedule essentially Arcuk has made a major invest- authorizes a powerofco-option. The question is whether architects will put up "ith funding adventures in the name of education policy. ment in this area and must The paragraph creates five continue to influence further procedural hurdles to be over- developments". Contrast that come before an additional with Arcuk chairman John appointment to BAE can be Tarn's statement earlier this made. They are: month that Arcuk had chosento in respect of schools unre- promote CPD through its con- presented on BA E; stituent bodies (BD July 10). the governing body of the What right has Arcuk to do any school recommends a repre- of this? There is no provision in sentative to BAE; any of the Acts specifically the BAE considers the rec- enabling such investment. the ommendation (including whe- exerting of influence. or pro- ther or not the school is in fact moting through constituent unrepresented); bodies. The "dissemination of the BAE nominates to COUn- teaching or the results of cil in the prescrtbcd manner; and research concerning archi- council appoints to the tecture" is as close as the Acts board. come to the point. The "prescribed manner" At the same time as Professor means in the manner set out in Tarn was making his comments, regulations approved by the Paul Johnson was telling Daily Privy Council. Mail readers "The British For 55 years there was no Disease is not so much laziness regulation prescribing how and lack of enterprise. It is . . . a nominations were to be made to low-spirited willingness to put council. However, Arcuk made up with abuses because to an appropriate addition to reform them would involve too regulation 1986. and much risk and trouble. It is a it was approved by the Privy paralysing caution which at Council the following Nov- times amounts to sheer ember. Arcuk supposedly used cowardice." Architects are the new procedure for the first probably no more cautious than time at an annual meeting in other sections of society. but for March this year when it pur- years they put up with a code of portedly appointed additional conduct which Arcuk had no persons to BAE. Eighteen power to promulgate. and a ban names are listed on pages 26 and on practice as a limited liability 27 of the annual report under the company which Arcuk had no misleading heading of "Nom- power to impose. inations under regulation I The question now is whether Passing over the anomaly that architects will put up with this year's committees arc listed having to fund adventures in the in the 1986-87 annual report, it is name of education policy which noteworthy that not all persons stray well beyond the bounds listed claim to be a member of Time for Arcuk to put its house in order the BAE! We will return to this "governing body of a university point later, For the moment it is or polytechnic". The first phrase sufficient to note that Professor is ambiguous. but if the Act had Denys Hinton. purportedly meant a head ofschool acting on elected chairman of BAE at its his own volition then it would first meeting, is listed as a have said so. The term "govern- representative of Portsmouth ing body" must mean two or Polytechnic. more persons having a responsibility for the management of Breaches of the Act? the school. Some schools have It must here be said that the 1931 adopted this interpretation but Act is such a muddle that it others have not. It appears that makes the legal draftsmanship some representatives have been of an incompetent drunk on an recommended otherwise than in off-day positively shine. Some accordance with the require- sections offend against the ments of the Act. A few of the principles of natural justice, and representatives stumble at this the European Courts could hurdle. probably require them to be However. we discover at least amended. Taken as a whole it one non-runner. Arcuk claims creates an unnecessary and that the school ofarchitecture at unwieldy bureaucracy and irn• Brighton Polytechnic nomin- poses hopelessly inefficient pro- ated Robert MacLeod as its cedures. The following argu- representative. It is the East ments put forward for consid- Sussex County Council edu- eration now directly from the cation authority which is ul• provisions of the Act regardless timately responsible for the of logic or merit of circum- running of the polytechnic. The stance. county education officer states One perversity of the Act is categorically that neither the that Arcuk Council is given no county council nor the council discretion at the fifth hurdle in of the Brighton Polytechnic making additional appoint- have been involved in MacLeod's ments to the BAE. It must act as nomination. and that he under- a mere rubber-stamp and ap- stands that MacLeod is no point any person who has longer a member of the BAE. cleared the first four hurdles of It isa third and fourth hurdle the procedure. Let us con- argument that is the substantive sider the recent events against point of contention. At its the test of those four hurdles. meeting on Wednesday the A first hurdle argument is a RIBA Council was informed subsidiary one. but if accepted that its legal adviser considers means that Professor's Hinton's this argument to be correct. The nomination falls at the outset. BAE neither considered the The head of Portsmouth School recommendations from the is Professor Geoffrey Broad. schools normade thenominations bent, who sits on the BAE tocouncil. It could not. Section S of the Act requires the BAE tobe representing the faculty of architecture, British School at appointed annually. The BAE R ome (a statutory nomination). itself was to bc appointed at the Clearly it would be unreason- very annual meeting which pur- able to suppose that Broadbent portedly appointed the "co. could hold one opinion in one opted" persons. All those capacity and another opinion in properly recommended fall and his other capacity. Thus Ports. drop out of the racc at these mouth is effectively represented hurdles. There is a further. subsidiary on the BAE and is not entitled to fourth hurdle argument. The further co-opted representation. purported nominations were A second hurdle argument is not placed before Arcuk Council in the prescribed manner, in also a subsidiary one. Recom- that members were provided mendations to the BAE must with neither particulars of the come from "governing bodies of schools of architecture". It is persons nominated nor pare clear that there is a distinction ticulars (apart from names) of the schools they were to repre- between the " governing body of sent. In other words, the addi- a school ofarchitecture•• and the tion to regulation 1(1) so recently approved by the Privy whether it has taken into Council was ignored in every account matters which it ought particular. not to take into account, or It should be emphasised that conversely, has refused or challengtng Arcuk's conduct in omitted to take into account purportedly appointing addi- matters which it ought to take tional persons to the BAE in no into account, and also whether way reflects upon the integrity of having passed the first part of those persons. Doubtless they the test it has nevertheless come arc innocently trapped in a to a conclusion so unreason- procedural blunder. able that no reasonable person could ever have come to it. The What are the consequences? court will interfere if the test is If the substantive argument is failed. The main ground for correct then the appointment of review of decisions by Arcuk the BAE by Arcuk Council was and its BAE will be abuse of ultra vires and invalid. all subsequent decisions of the jurisdiction or illegality, BAE are invalid, and Professor Architectural education Hinton is ineligible to be The losers in this affair are our chairman of BAE. The invalid- architectural students upon ity of BAE decisions has far- whom the future of the profes- reaching consequences. It sion depends. would mean. for example, that The construction industry's five schools of architecture major clients are not satisfied would be derecognised, as with its traditional level of would the RIRA's examination. performance, and are rightly In order to regulanse the demanding that it responds to position. Arcuk must quash the their needs. New approaches are BAE and its decisions. and required if the clients' objec- appoint a properly constituted tivc of defect-free, value-for. board which must then re- money building is to be achi• conduct its business. Arcuk has eved. The architectural profes- shown a marked reluctance even sion is a very small sector of the to acknowledge the existence of industry and must appreciate a doubt about the propriety of both how it is changing and how its actions. so what legal reme- it needs to change. If the dies are available? In theory architectural profession is to there are five and they are all retain any credibility then available through the process of architectural education must judicial review, equip students to meet this Judicial review challenge. There needs to be a The legal system controls the strong partnership between actions of bodies that derive leading practitioners and the their authority from Act of heads of schools, Together they Parliament by way of judicial could formulate new policies to review. This specialised remedy seize the opportunities available in public law is the means by since the shedding of the old which the High Court exercises a restrictive code. supervisory jurisdiction over Those who perceive the R IBA inferior courts, tribunals or as a stultifying influence which other public bodies. can be circumvented by poli- The High Court cannot de- ticising Arcuk are wrong. Not terminc whether decisions are only because the leading prot- right or wrong on their merits. agonists will always move with However, the court can de• the balance of power, but termine whether or not admini- because Arcuk is an inefficient, strattve decisions are unlawful outmoded straight-jacket tot- and invalid. it can quash de- ally unable to respond to cisions. and it can ensure that change. The prevalence of the new decisions are taken prop- meaningless title Reg Arch erly. demonstrates the serious limi- There is no doubt that de- tat ions of Arcuk which is power- The losers in this affair are our architectural students, upon whom the future of the profession depends. cisions of Arcuk are subject to less to prevent its use by the the remedy of judicial review. unqualified. It would be as easy Grounds for review to abolish Arcuk as to update the Acts. Judicial review may be exercised In contrast it is a simple on the general grounds of: matter to amend the RIBA by- abuse ofjurisdiction; Iaivs. They could formally abuse of descretion; and recognise the Heads of Schools violation of the rules of Standing Conference and be the natural justice. basis of a permanent and satis- Lord Diplock has referred to factory relationship. these categories as "illegality", Had such a relationship "irrationality", and "impro- existed over the last five years. priety•• (I). there would not have been an In the widest sense, all the Esher Report. architectural grounds justifying the use of education would have been judicial review constitute an better attuned to the require. abuse of jurisdiction. How- ments of the nation. and the ever. abuse of Jurisdiction in the heads of schools could have normal. narrower sense is concentrated on the needs of encapsulated in the concept of their students. ultra vines. The question for I Council of Civil Service Un- determination is normally whe- ions v Minister for the Civil ther the public body has done something that the statute did 2 Associated Provincial Picture not permit. Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Cor- The test for abuse of dis• poration(1948) KB 223. cretion is made under the Maurice McCarthy has been an headings of irrelevancy and assistant director of the depart- unreasonableness. Irrelevancy men,' of building design and is a misuse of power to exercise construction at the London discretion in a manner which Borough of Hillingdon since was not intended by Parliament. 1974. He specialises tn 'heproject Unreasonableness includes rea- management of large and Ching a decision that is in- complex projects. He has four hercntly unreasonable. or with- times been elected to the council out any evidence to support it. oftheRIBA. nasa Vice-President This test of irrelevancy and in 1972 and honorary secretary unreasonableness is known as from 1981 to 1984. From 1982 to the Wednesbury principle after a 1985 he nas chairman of the judgment by Lord Greene MR institute's Arcuk liaison com- (2). In practice it means that the mittee and served on Arcuk High Court is entitled to in- Council throughout that time. He vestigate the action of a public has also served on the Arcuk body with a view to seeing discipline committee. News Helmut Jahn faces malpractice action over Chicago centre HELMUT Jahn has found the centre of the legal action. state of Illinois is seeking himself on the receiving end of The system uses giant re- SIS million repair costs from all a S20 million lawsuit over his frigeration units to churn out defendants. and SS ice million machines.from controversial State of Illinois 360.000kg of ice every night. the The makers suit of alleges the faulty in- During the day the ice is uscd to Center in Chicago. stallation of the ice-making state is suing Murphy/ By equipment and fraud on the part Jahn Inc. their partners I-ester B John Morrish of the equipment manufacturer. Knight & Associates. and sar- The Murphy/Jahnjoint venture ious other firms. alleging mal- cool water and keep the building with Knight is accused of practice and negligence in the at a maximum 26 deg C • •negliently and carelessly" planning and construction of Many of the 30.000 staff have failing to supervise the instalthe building. complatncd that temperatures lation contractor. Murphy/Jahn counter• have risen as high as 43 deg Cin In the meantime. the state has sued. blaming Knight for the summer and as low as 16dcg Cin called in a firm of consulting design of the heating and winter. when they were forced to engineers to repair the airventilation svstem "hich is at uear gloves in the office. conditioning svstem. 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Mouclwi & Panners • EuroÉs tallest building — an office skyscraper "hich is to be part of the Frankfurt Fair Grounds designed by Chicago-based Helmut Jahn. • Landscape Institute • IT.'lngston Mclmosh • 'Ibe 254m high tower is part of a rebuilding and rnodcrnisation B hic*' bas put Frankfurt on tbc map in terms of innovative architecture. Jahn • London [hcklands Devel%jrnent Corporation • has been cbosen to design the S4-storey tomr and a hall to complete the redevelopment of tbe east section of the fair ground. Toenable tbe company to • Melvin lansley & Mark • mount up to five oents pct month. a substantial doeloptnent prograrnrne been underway since 1980. calling for an investment or more than DM 700 • Micluel Brown landscape Ardlitc«s • million. lhe (air ground been divided into three autonomous section — • Development • Milrwt [klvaux • considered essential ror small rain often require integrated facilities such as conference rooms. • National Association of Alntshouscs • The Hall I allony ror of exhibition space on tuo as "ell as underground parking for 900 ears. The toner e ill provide a symbolic • (Xcidental Petroleum • Perdnch Steeplejacks • gate-nay at its base topped by apyratnidofsteel and glass. There "ill be m of tsable Funding for (be office tom•t is being provided by a group of • Powel Moya & Panncrs • Rendel Palmer Trilton • investors "ho are leasing the site from Messe Frankfurt for 75 yean. The new hall gill be primarily financed b' incornc from the Inn Parncrship • • Renton Wood Tea in the garden • Rock Townsend • Royal Institute of, BrilLSh Architects • • Sootüsh Development Agency • A GIANT teapot will dominate The display will cost almost • Sir Frederick Snow & Panners • Stoke-on-Trent's exhibit at the but councillors hope • 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival. they can attract sponsorship • Sates of Jersey Development Commitwe It will stand alongside a huge from pottery companies and • Thomas Macaulcy • Travers Morgan • cup. saucer and sugar bowl at a maJor tea companies which can key location within the River cash in on the • •cuppa" theme. • W J. Caims & Banners • Panruship • Clyde site. A sweetener for visitors to the All the exhibits will be con- garden will be seating disguised structed out of glass-fibre as sugar lumps, and the aim will because none of the city's be to scoop a gold medal for . and many other well-known pottery firms has an oven large Stoke-on-Trent and to promote enough to fire the outsize pots. the City as a tourist centre. names exhibiting at: CMC BUILDING A BETTER BRITAIN 30th ANNIVfRSA.RY O(HIBITION 1-3 OCT 1987 • BUSINESS DESIGN CENTRE ISLINGTON • LONDON Telephone 01-724 5012 for details of Design Centre remaining stands Enter 7 ON ENQUIRY EXPRESSCARO Enter 8 ON ENQUIRY EXPRESSCARO BUILDING DESIGN. July 31. 1987 7 Barclays Bank hase presented the City or Norwich with the Gurney 00<1. The 12 "oat glass panels were decorated With acid-etching b James Knight. featuring the Nor•ic coat of arms. the Barclays eagle and the and 197S. as the clock is to mad the bicentenary or the Gurney which became part or narc lays. Each crest is backed with blue acetate and side-lit, so that the panels clou at night. Knight said: • 'By øorking on both sides of the 'beet o' glass and allowing the acid to gay longer in certain areas. it is to achieve seu•ral different of cut, • 'With the Barclays eagle. I cut the three crossns "ithin the eagle deeper than the rest so that at night light floods out from them. gising real depth to the panel." Designs for the quay MARSHALL Haines & Barrow have des•gned a €25 million residential and commercial development for Skillion at Baltic Quay in Surrey Docks. project is scheduled for completion in 1989 and will provide 95 homes anda network of small offices. There will also be a pub, restaurants and shops. Have you noticed. . . that all patio doors look the same From Glostal you will of course get: High lever operated book 102k as standard. A choice o' silver, white or brown finjsh at nocxtra cost. A local dealer who will supply and install to your specification. 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Enter 9 ENQUIRY CARD 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 31 July 1987 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/0bd64dcc345570289de9d271872c9aec.pdf 223b00fc37cf0f7b4f7b8761b6b413b0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. Hitherto entirely dominated by the RIBA bloc, the Council began to yield to a new dynamic through NAM's involvement, enabling fresh perspectives on such issues as mandatory fee scales, greater lay representation on the body, ethically-based standards of professional conduct, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Registered Status Subject The topic of the resource Letter from J Weller Description An account of the resource BUILDING DESIGN. March 27.1987 13 Letters Sacrificing the environment THE BUILDING REFERENCE BOOK FOR BUILDING DESIGNERS BY HENRY HAVERSTOCK 'The Easibrief" is d compendium of the technical pages published under that name in Building Design between 1983 and 1985, covenng a wide range of design methods, techniques and materials. Prepared by architects Haverstock Associates, the book vhll be an invaluable aid to anyone whose business is designing buildings, providing fullyindexed technical advice, plus references on where to obtain more detailed information. Plus Plus u The Easiregs" Our guide to the rewritten Building Regulations, which appeared in weekly instalments from autumn 1985 until July 1986, is incorporated in 'The Easibnef', giving the most up-to-date all-in-one publication of its type now on the market. Order your copy now, price €15 plus €2 p&p. An invoicing charge of E2 will be made for orders which do not include a Plus Please send me d copy of 'THE BUILDING DESIGN EASIBRIEF'. 1 enclose herewith cheque El 7 including P&P made payable to "BUILDING DESIGN EASIBRIEF'. Name: Company: Address: . The Building Design Easibri•i Morgan Grampian House 30 Caldervood Street cheque. Woolwich. London SE 18 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Building Design Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 27.3. 87 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/e3f446cabf7d961552ec35ee644d6718.pdf 66d4a8c86a0c149cc0f1ea0100f05c84 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 When ARCUK finally flies its own flag Subject The topic of the resource Letter from J Allan Description An account of the resource Letters A building team Is a market not a with much to offer community BUILDING DESIGN, November 13, 1981 15 When ARCUK finally flies its own flag... From S S Stevenson WE are writing to you as underrecognised members of the 'Building Team' to which your paper is directed. We are consultants specialising in building maintenance management. In the past our methods have proven most beneficial to building owners and we can illustrate this by means of a number of building contracts we have been responsible for both in the the U.K. and abroad. Safe and economical upkeep of the building concerned, are accompamed by the obvious visual and environmental benefits. Our concern is for the life of the building after the owner takes possession. It is in this area, we feel, that the 'building team' requires more emphasis, ifthe buildin owneristohavea reliable pac age for the total care of the finished building. Building Design recently published a diagram, produced by the Economic Development Council (Building) depicting the 'Client' ship approaching the 'total building life cycle' ice berg. It is the hidden cost tactors shown in this diagram such as Cyclical Renewal, Operations and Maintenance, and Energy which are taken into account by our management services and techniques. We feel that this service to the client requires specialist attention, and that the public respect will be incrased for the Architect who ensures this service for his client. We would like to extend an invitation for you to come to our Haslemere presentation centre in order that you may appreciate our services more fully, we feel we have a lot to offer the Building Team. M T Stevenson Haslemere, Surrey facility? From L A Roche SWISS COTTAGEfreemarket — I hope that Philippa Jacobs and I are on the same side in this issue. She says there is no reason why a weekend market should not be accommodated in the public section... ' Agreed— if the necessary vehicle access for unloading is obtainable. The Council s intentions regarding the use of the public space are not clear to me; if the market is deemed acceptable why all the fuss? However, in her next paragraph Philippa Jacobs says the choice was never between an office building and a market but between the office building and a variety of community facilities...' Is this market not a community facility? The point I wished to bring out in my letter was that a spontaneouscommunityenterprise, developed over several years, was beink displaced and that, for thesa eofthe vitality of the area as a whole, it ought to be possible to bring it back (if the Council could be persuaded to alter its Brief to the Architects). Perhaps the Jacobs solution is the right one. Incidentially, I did not advocate and would not envisage an underground car park — merely under buildings. L A Roche London N 1 From John S Allan YOUR irrepressible compulsion to turn news into melodrama was more evident than usualin ourrecentcovera eof ARCUk Council, BD October 10). The Unattached Councillors neither tried nor failed to "increase the power of ARCUK", and I certainly did not make the fatuous "plea" that "all architects are equal". What I did say was the ARCUK's correct response to the DOE consultative paper on the Future of Building Control should have been to ensure the De artment was aware that all arc itects enjoy equal status under the Act, (ie that membership of a professional association confers no higher qualification), and that any criteria for the selection of certifiers should respect this fact. This, plus the suggestion that ARCUK should monitor developments, was the substance of the Unattached motion — the effect of which, if passed, would have been to safeguard the position of all registered persons in this uncertain matter — not simply the Unattached. It isjust vulgar to cast this asa bid to increase ARCUK's power. In rejecting the motion the Council simply and rather short-sightedly denied itself the right to participate in what is still a young discussion. After its dismal performance in the monopolies issue, ARCUK's reluctance to deal with government departments is probably understandable. Nevertheless, as the whole episode of the code changes shows, ARCUK is gradually learning to distinguish its identitv and role from that of the RIBA— a painful process after fifty years of subjugation. Naturally, we should like to think that this reorientation is due in some measure to the efforts of the Unattached in recent years. We have long argued tor a greater lay representation and direct professional elections to Council, but even without a reformed constitution, ARCUK, when it flies its own flag, may have a valuable role — and in such issues as eduction, perhaps even a critical one. To represent this evolution merely as a shrill partisan squabble both misinforms your readers and ignores undramatic but important changes. John S Allan London, W 1 Letters to the editor should be sent to Building Design, 30 Calderwood Street, London SE18. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Building Design Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 13.11.81 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/fe3afcfe631438c77af18b3bda64f475.pdf a0ce95b3ab6a28369800f61467d6280a 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 ARCUK scraps Code Subject The topic of the resource Article "ARCUK scraps Code" Description An account of the resource The weekly newspaper for the building team FRIDAY JANUARY 23 1981 No 529 Building Design's code campaign triumph ARCHITECTS were granted new freedoms this week when the Architects Registration Council voted to scrap its code of professional conduct. ARCUK Council agreed to abandon its existing principles and rules in favour ofa ARCUK new soft-line approach of discretionary guidelines out- lined at a special council meeting this week. The new principles leave architects free to choose their own standards of behaviour with no permanent form of guidance from ARCUK. A RCUK 's powers will be restricted to advice. S CChanges are particularly although there were some relevant to the 5000 reservations, particularly about simultaneous attached architects. They bility practice.and limited lianow have a set of far less But there a general restrictive ethics than RIBA acceptance of the new pnnciplcs members. for the maintenance of an The old code will be kept architect's integrity in the RAPS until June this year but ARCUKun-to following areas:was tntent to is suspending clauses relating of information on directorships and limited lia- availability The giving in a proper manner, bility companies and touting and without oust for work — falling in line With another architect from an recent RIBA code architect changes.will appointment A registcrcd not be struck off for carrying The definition of the terms out any of these prohibited of service, duties and responactivities between now and sibilities and their legal basis, June. scope and remuneration, and ARCUK's "new approach" the prior declaration of other means that no occupation or interests relevant to an engageaction is prohibited or is in ment. itself disgraceful. There will be The concientious perforno compulsory conditions or mance of duties undertaken, restrict ions On means with proper regard for the practice. such as limited o' an by or simultaneous practice. and the product, With fairness in the mation means or the of giv•ng amount out of fees.infor- adrmnisterin tract and witkout a buildvng inducementscon• On the whole the proposals to show favour. were welcomed by council, The architects are requested Inside aboard ! page 13 THAT MAN AGAIN pages 16-17 Index ROSTRUM 2, News 3-6 and 28, Infill 7, Comment 7, PersJ.ective 8. Scorpio 9, US cavity foam storm — 'Britain is quite safe' For Precincts, Pavements and Paths. ina wide rangeofcolours and textu 3 forcolcodata spec et to... Clive Green. Concrete Services Ltd. Ouse Acres, Boroughbridge Road.York Y02 5SR. Telephone 0904 794151 Concrete Services reader inquiry number 1 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Building Design Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 23.1.81 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/aca4bb15f585fdf14fcf24d09049bc0d.pdf a1d74cb0c78f6b4bd64d1d62b313a929 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 Those shillings and pounds Subject The topic of the resource Article " Those shillings and pounds" Description An account of the resource 14 BUILDING DESIGN, February 6, 1981 THOSE SHILLINGS AND POUNDS It is high time the mandatory fee scaie was replaced with something more flexible and of more benefit income is the level of principals' hourly rates for time charge work. In 1962 it was two guineas per hour. by three-and-a-half uineas. In 1971 it was raise to LS per hour. where it stuck until 19". Two guineas to five pounds from 1962 to 1977 tells its own story. 'Ibe argument that mandatory fee scales would save the profession from a fate worse than death has not helped, The inflexibility of the scale prevents The introduction to the present scale is a good point to start. The scale is for the mutual benefit of clients and architects — so it is said. Because that contention is likely to be more closely scrutimscd in the future, we had better make sure more notice is taken of clients' interest and requirements, These clients. almost without exception, supported the general concept of percenta e scales in their evidence to t e Monopolies Commission but salanes not compare creative design and the need well with the equivalent earn- indemnity insurance in 1965. forced to use all labour saving to provide buildings which ings of other professions. And and this is now three percent — methods available to reduce keep out wind and rain, while the RIBA over recent where has the extra two per overheads. architects have tomaketheir years has been preoccupied cent come from? It is unlikely The RIBA in 1970 to living from their art. with other issues, Architecturalthe situation salaries that overheads have decreasedor techmcal introduce above tapering 000. Now. fees for in jobsreal The days of the dilettante has worsened. indeed most offices have strug- terms. allowing for inflation, the man of private means using ractice in less than a decade hard to keep those under equivalent size contract suffer. architecture to fill his idle hours as changed from a relatively gled have gone. While the practice low risk. reasonable risk. returnlow control. profit. Profits It hascome have gone outofgrossdown, reduction ing that quarter is little per more cent thanfee of architecture must always be occupation to a high far more than merely a way of return one. risks up. 1200 largcon today's making a living. few architects A number of factors have costs. tion of A the cons'derable profession's •aork propor-has can ignore the need for adquatc contributed to this- The Taxes suffered an automatic financial return for their abili• enormous extension of profesty, time and effort. sional liability since law started the firstto the Similarly. total fee allocated the proportion to techni•of reduction RIBA argued in fees about while retainingthe Government and the public changes in case fees. at healtky lat e should wish to ensure a appearin 1963. leading toa rap- cal sa laries has increased as suc- mandatory where lack of financial climate for idly increasing exposure to cessive governments have pilcdthe effective Another official area action has lost architects. "If you pay peanuts, clatrns. has resulted in vastly in- charges and taxes on required far greater flexibility in application. A new scalc needs to be flexible. with the various alternative methods of charging clearly set out so that the most appropnate and suitable for architect and client can be selected and applied, The suggestion that the scale is in any way a minimum charge should be dropped. It should bc used as a basts to be negotiated upwards as well as downwards. Some parts of a contract may warrant a higher fee —a situation that already applies to the supervision element. Here. architects are poorly compensated for the work. responstbi. lity and open-ended nature of the commitment. The difficulty for all but the most experienced clients will be to establish with any prectsion what they will get in return for to be use the and dis- and in go or be a a in reader inquiry number 13 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Building Design Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6.2.1981 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/de39df1bdbea6501dd932b60f8680f26.pdf d314aa25837d1fdd71b290caea9e2dc3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. Hitherto entirely dominated by the RIBA bloc, the Council began to yield to a new dynamic through NAM's involvement, enabling fresh perspectives on such issues as mandatory fee scales, greater lay representation on the body, ethically-based standards of professional conduct, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Platform article by G Wigglesworth re Architects Registration Act Subject The topic of the resource Platform article by G Wigglesworth re Architects Registration Act Description An account of the resource 16 BUILDING DESIGN. Apr" n. B.D. WINE CELLARS ESTATE BOTTLED SPANISH RED WINE CASttuo "RNA V A' '0 ctcuns, w.iE. bom Enter Lovell exit dry rot, woodworm and rising damp . for a professional service second to none. Expert treatments backed by the resources of our Group. providing a package which can include all buildinq work. Phone our Technical Services Department for personal attention. Lovell Lovell Specialist Treatments Ltd., Baring Road, Beaconsfield. Bucks. Tel: Beaconsfield 5481. For instønt information tick 17 on inquiry e•td The best laid plans... Is it time to change the Architects Registration Act? Gordon Wigglesworth argues that recent French legislation is highly relevant to Britain. A NEW law just passed in France has overnight trans• formed the position of architects and is as crucial to their future as the passing of the architects Registration Act of 1931 in Britain. The new law is based firmly on the premise that "sound architectural creativity is in the public interest" (News in Focus, February I I). The French legislation comes at a time when a large number of the architectural profession in France is unemployed and Platform when the proportion of build• in which architects is to be maintained at a decent ncommunity. The time has come level. architects must be used at Vto implement their theories in Barbour Index Plan Storage Please tell me more about Barbour Index Plan Storage Name Organisation Address Tel. No. BARBOUR Barbour Index Limited New Lodge, Drift Road, Windsor, Berkshire SL4 4RQ Telephone:Winkfield Row 4121 (STD 03447) every opportunity. Their initi• ative should bc followed. W lgglovorlh. If architects are to demand a greater say in using their professional skills for the bene• fit of society. the question of competence must be squarely faced. It would be wrong for the architectural profession. in view of the interference of central and local government in professional matters. to accept responsibility for all defects arising in their buildings. Nonetheless, those who de• mand rights must accept responsibilities and it could be argued that the Registration Council. by relying on the RIBA to scrutinise exami• nations in universities and poly• technies. d<RS not ensure sufficiently high standards from graduates. or adequately protect the public against poor professional work. The situation could be improved if ARCUK were to free the RIBA from its surrogate examining role by examining students themsebes on completion of a full•time or part-time course. Registration would then depend entirely on a successful examination result. and the link between regis• tration and competence would be strengthened. this country. The problem of increasing the profession •s workload could be further eased by direct G€nrrnment intenention. If the present reduction in the activities of the construction industry is to continue. surely the Government should take presentativc measures? If the Government is willing to make preferential arrangements for the construction industry to export, rather than to gear its production solely to the home market. there is every reason to provide similar encouragemcnt to the consultant professions. Central Govern• ment should improve its co. ordinating and advisory role and should provide guidance and financial assistance to enable firms without large capital resources to export Brittsh expertise. •ntis might take the form of low interest loans and fee guarantee on the lines of Export Credit Guarantee. Additionally British cultural and commercial representatives abroad must be encouraged to take a much more vigorous and creative role in selling British architectural For itgt•nt tick 18 on inquiry c•td Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Building Design Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 22.4.1977