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How is Architectural Practice changing? Join me in Cardiff on 9 December

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This year the Royal Society of Architects in Wales (RSAW – @ArchitectsWales) autumn Conference is called “Practice Makes Perfect”. We’ll be looking at how the practice of architecture is changing in the UK. The current recession is dragging on and it is now three years since the first swathe of redundancies in UK Architecture, and [...]

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RIBA Conference: Housing: Creating designs for life

Next week (Thursday 13th October) I shall be at the RIBA Housing conference in Cambridge and shall be live blogging the event using CoveritLive. This will be my first outing with CoveritLive, a service which allows visitors to read about an event and participate in a discussion through an interactive console. The system has been [...]

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Architects: A Businesslike Practice vs Design Quality – how to get both

Is it possible to be successful in architecture and make money? Of course it is. Here are some thoughts about how. The recent RIBA Building Futures report “A Future for Architects?” included a paragraph about the prevalent view that architects are not good at or willing to be business people. These views were put forward [...]

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Sticking Plaster – paying RIBA graduates the minimum wage

Training to become an architect is a long process, involving five years of study interspersed with two years of practical experience in architects offices, and ending in a final exam, also taken in practice. As a result students are dependant not only on a university education but also on their ability to find placements in [...]

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The Future for Architects – Have another Look

I’ve been working myself up to review the RIBA Building Futures report ‘The Future for Architects’ for ten days since it was launched. For me, if writing a blog post takes that long it is usually because there is something bugging me, and there is. Lets start with the nitpicking. Firstly I thought – great, [...]

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The RIBA should promote Architects not just Architecture

I was delighted to get a phone call at the end of last year from a digital agency that has been commissioned to help the RIBA decide what to do with their online directory of practices. At last! As you may be aware I’m a champion of the online RIBA directory, but I think it [...]

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A #useful TV programme on Architecture?

After the Stirling Prize televising on Saturday night I wrote a blog post about what non- architects thought about it (the TV programme and the awards). The post has garnered some great comments and I wanted to look at these and pose a new question which we might be able to use to generate some [...]

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What do you think of the RIBA Stirling Prize?

Tonight a building designed by architect Zaha Hadid won the Stirling Prize, the RIBA’s flagship prize for architecture, with an art and architecture gallery in Rome called the MAXXI. The ceremony was broadcast live on BBC2 as a Culture Show special, having in previous years been televised on Channel 4. I watched some of the [...]

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Architect’s Low Pay – the RIBA responds

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On Thursday the RIBA issued a press release, RIBA President Ruth Reed takes action to tackle student hardship and low pay, which set out proposals to deal with financial hardship amongst architecture students, graduates and young practitioners.
The proposals include:

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UK Architects Practices increase but sizes shift – RIBA

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In September of 2009 there were 4.9% more RIBA Chartered Practices than at the same time in 2008, according to RIBA Director of Practice Adrian Dobson. Figures released by the RIBA show a change in distribution of practice size which has penalised one man bands and larger firms in favour of small and ‘micro’ firms [...]

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