A Disparaging Remark
If more architecture students understood what a legal minefield they were entering they might decide to go off and do something else instead.
Five Critical Essays
Offering hospitality to a dissenting view as evidence that the closure of our democratic traditions is not yet complete.
What’s in a name?
What designers do, and how they describe themselves, is important. By the 1990s, the graphic designer and the craft of design was being written out of the script.
Corroding the Curriculum
Parents and teachers would be horrified to find political parties in schools pushing partisan agendas, but seem happy for environmental lobbyists to hand out leaflets, write lesson plans, and prepare coursework.
The Public? Remember them?
Architects have lost all contact with the very people – the public – that they fantasise about representing.
Activists in the classroom
Third Party advisors are putting students and tutors in an invidious position, compelling both to recite the ‘acceptable’ narrative, rather than explore education openly.
Companies’ Proper Gander into Design Education
The Design Council’s virtue-signalling provides a good illustration of the capture of craftsmanship by the fad for sustainable goals.
Gimmick merchants, status salesmen and hidden persuaders
Design Declares and Architects Declare are the worst kind of manifesto, signalling their faux-virtue, commercialism, PR, and prejudice.
Liberty has its Limits
To claim freedoms we must use those freedoms with judgement, foresight, and awareness about the consequences of our actions for others.
ARB Use of Power
The concept of academic freedom, long held to be the essence of a university education, is nowhere to be seen.
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