All Eleanor Jolliffe articles – Page 3
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Opinion
Let’s get this right – the future of our profession is at stake
Sweeping changes are on the way but there are some fundamental questions about how, and indeed whether, the new competence regime will work, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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Could our year of crafting revive the craft of building?
The whole country has gone mad for making and even housebuilders are talking about beauty. This is our moment – seize it, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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Put self-interest aside and focus on the future of the profession
The response in some quarters to the Future Architects Front’s concerns reflects a profession with work to do to improve its practices and image, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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Addressing the problems of public procurement
A newly published government green paper has the potential to profoundly impact UK architectural practice, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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Opinion
Answer the question – and shoulder the responsibility
Dodging questions can have devastating consequences, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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The adapt or die mantra still holds true for architects as a profession
Eleanor Jolliffe finds the existential preoccupations of a near decade-old RIBA report to be just as relevant today
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Opinion
Could this pandemic be the making of home?
Covid-19 has changed the way we work but it could also alter our attitude to the place where we live
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A fresher’s guide to starting an architecture degree
Architecture students had it tough even before covid struck. Eleanor Jolliffe has some advice for first-years
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A window of opportunity in these challenging times
Covid-19 has made life more complicated but necessity has always been the mother of invention, as Eleanor Jolliffe finds out
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Opinion
In experts we trust?
Eleanor Jolliffe examines what it means to be a professional and what the sorry evidence from the Grenfell Inquiry might teach us
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Opinion
What is the point of the RIBA president?
As nominations close for Alan Jones’ replacement, Eleanor Jolliffe asks who would make a good successor
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Opinion
It’s like I’m living in an Italo Calvino novel
Trapped at home, our experiences of our invisible cities have become fragmentary and dreamlike, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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Opinion
Learning from lockdown: Getting a (door) handle on the spread of disease
Eleanor Jolliffe looks at how the pandemic might change the way we specify
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Opinion
A short history of epidemics and their impact on the built environment
Covid-19 is a new experience for us but there are clues all around to previous outbreaks which our forebears endured
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Opinion
What architects and politicians have in common
The two professions need to learn to communicate if we are to build a better future, says Eleanor Jolliffe as she starts a new series of columns
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Opinion
Prophets who inhabit liminal spaces
Architects’ ability to handle uncertainty will help the profession survive uncertain times, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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Our adversarial procurement system is not fit for collaborative construction
Design & build contracts de-skill architects and make accidents more likely, argues Eleanor Jolliffe
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Opinion
Diversity in architecture has come a long way – but we’re not there yet
Eleanor Jolliffe considers how to get everyone a seat at the table
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Opinion
Architectural education is a problem of degrees
The profession’s unprofessional origins might have something useful to say about its future, writes Eleanor Jolliffe