All Letters to the editor articles – Page 59
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OpinionMake more of the year out
The latest call from the Association of Consultant Architects to “relax work experience rules” (News March 20) came as no surprise. As a part I student myself, I strongly feel that what needs to be altered is not the necessity of a year out, which to my mind is indubitably ...
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Ode to joy
Thank you, Jonathan Glancey, for bringing up a worthwhile but neglected issue (Whatever happened to craft? March 27)
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Suburb hubbub
I am an architect, and a resident of Hampstead Garden Suburb. Boots (March 27) might like to know that there was a presentation by Hopkins on March 24, some nine months too late, without a single three-dimensional drawing to show the new blocks from Central Square or the flanking roads ...
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RIBA: get real
I have followed your raging debate about Arb and the RIBA. I even wrote to the minister two years ago, imploring her to resist the RIBA’s efforts to take over Arb’s functions, and I made sure that I didn’t vote for a Reform Group candidate
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Fount of wisdom
Last Sunday, I cycled past Centre Point and was saddened to see the pool and fountains dry and hoarded-off, ready for demolition
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Correction
In last week’s front page story (“Lifeline for arts projects”) Haworth Tompkins and director Steve Tompkins were incorrectly spelt as Tomkins
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Computer craft
Like it or not, computers are here to stay (Whatever happened to craft? March 27), so the issue is how computing-based design can achieve a more sensual quality rather than a default abandonment of how architecture has been practiced for the past two decades or so.
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OpinionThe third way
It has occurred to me that architects visiting London might be mildly surprised to see Palladio and Le Corbusier’s names writ large on the side of buses and in the passages of the Underground
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Survey the scene
The recent healthy debate about the regulation of the profession (Letters passim) poses difficulties in moving forward where none need exist
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It’s not unusual
Regarding your article on job opportunities in Kazakhstan and elsewhere (News March 20), it would appear that the writer has never been outside the western hemisphere
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OpinionHeterodox on Hereford House
In its de-listing of Colin St John Wilson’s Hereford House (News February 20), the DCMS has gravely misjudged the building’s significance — it is important as his first work in the private sphere, following his noteworthy contributions at London County Council
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Drain the swamp
I agree with Susan Ballinger (Letters March 20). All planning and building regulations applications should be made by an architect as this would solve a lot of the problems — RIBA and Arb, take note!
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Content majority
I am bemused by Gordon Kidd (Letters March 20) suggesting the answer to the poor turnout in the Arb elections is to “return Arb to its registration-only function”
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Tense sense
I wonder whether you could exert some grammatical influence over your columnist Owen Hatherley? His otherwise thoughtful article on Milton Keynes (Urban trawl March 6) uses that creeping colloquialism: “we find two men and a dog sat outside”.
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Mellow on Marsh
My lecture at the RA on Richard Seifert (Culture March 13) was limited by the format to half-an-hour, so I only discussed influences specifically acknowledged by George Marsh, Seifert’s principal designer in the 1960s and early 1970s, although this was not mentioned by your reviewer.
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Use it or lose it
That the majority of the Arb Reform Group was successfully elected is welcome, but the 15.3% ballot return figure is disgraceful (News March 13).
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RIBA is having its own seizure
I didn’t spend six years at university and a further four in practice to call myself an architect, also undertaking CPD and paying out hundreds of pounds each year for PII, to find myself competing against unqualified designers and consultants (Letters March 13 and March 6).
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Despoiled toil
So Rafael Waksberg (Letters March 6) thinks architects’ work is barely better than of the unqualified. What is the point of all that training, then? He is probably right.
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Reality cheque
I read Jonathan Glancey’s plea (March 13) for the universal application of good design and manners, rather than the corralling of such principles in conservation areas, with absolute agreement.