All Letters to the editor articles – Page 63
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Opinion
League analysis
Schosa acknowledges there are many legitimate ways of analysing the data emerging from the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise
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Pulling rank
Sharp-eyed readers may have noticed the omission of some leading research institutions from your list of the “top 25” schools of architecture (News January 9).
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Spirited place
I enjoyed your piece on Jim Stirling’s Andrew Melville Hall (Solutions January 9). As my daughter is studying in St Andrews, I take every opportunity to wander around the last of his university buildings in the UK.
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OpinionEasy does it
Future Systems’ Jan Kaplicky suggests “[Fosters’ bus] entry is totally obsolete” (Boots January 9). I would agree — not because of the design concept but because it would be economically impracticable to construct and maintain.
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Blindingly clear
In reference to the Future Systems design for a new bus for London (Boots January 9), when will the hubristic blob and jagged shape brigade put function high up on the design agenda?
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OpinionBeyond technicalities
It was gratifying to read of the great research success of UK architecture schools (News January 9), but it is important to make a few clarifications.
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OpinionWomen’s work
Do you, like me, ever sit at your desk and wonder where the boundaries of your duties lie, or even whether our clients comprehend the task we have to do?
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OpinionSkills needed not role models
I am a “black” architect running a small practice in south London and find your news story on black role models (12 December) extremely disturbing.
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Let’s get together
How disappointing that concerns over the RIBA fees increase led to calls for a break with the RIBA. (Letters December 19).
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Best laid plans...
Carolyn Steel’s Opinion piece (5 December) elucidated much of why local communities are often at odds with the planning process and feel marginalised by so-called regeneration schemes.
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Mote and beam
Michael Rasmussen (Letters December 19) uses such words as “disturbed”, “ill timed and insensitive”, “great offence”, “offensive”, “wave of resignations”, “cutting the common bond”. What dreadful act might justify such language?
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Time to think
Carolyn Steel (Opinion December 5) raises an important question ignored for the past decade: how to improve derelict real estate and retain the community hub within it.
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Spec saver
Your front page coverage of the Good Homes Alliance’s critique of the Green Guide to Specification (News December 5) is not an accurate reflection of the development of the guide.
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Never married
I am intrigued to know how a body which has been wholly independent for almost 100 years can be accused of “breaking away” and “separatism”?
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OpinionOffence will lose RIBA members
Last week I received a letter from the president of the RIAS outlining the RIBA’s intention to increase subscriptions by 3% and asking for the views of the profession in Scotland. I am not in favour.
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On good terms
Your article, “RIBA fees hike sparks threat of RIAS divorce” (December 12), could bear some clarification.
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Corrections
AOC teaches at London Metropolitan University, not Leeds, as stated in Debate, December 5.