THE RIBA PRESIDENT 2026 IS….
I will be organising an online get-together, hosting some debates later in the year, and also arranging a face-to-face gathering over drinks
Get Out of the Kitchen
If the world is getting warmer it would be churlish, they say, not to pay more to be part the global solution.
Three Questions
Here are my answers to three questions from the Future Architecture Front, in advance of the RIBA Presidential campaign results.
List, demolish & retrofit… the RIBA Presidential campaign
Austin Williams, candidate to be President of the RIBA 2026 answers questions about his top priorities and how he would address them
Welsh Labour: The End of an Error
Welsh Labour, enabled by Plaid Cymru, has delivered the lowest educational outcomes… A fifth of primary school leavers are functionally illiterate.
Can Pay, Won’t Pay
These are the normalisers of the crimewave. These are the people who think vandalism is OK… that imagine that civil disobedience trumps the democratic process.
Chagossians Fight Back
Chagossians are finding new ways to fight back against the Government’s £35bn sovereignty deal with Mauritius
On the Regulation of the function of Architects
… a bunch of “creatives” who think that the world owes them a living.
Mr Starmer goes to Beijing
The UK should be more confident. China’s own creativity is hampered by a state that doesn’t appreciate autonomy and independence of its citizens.
Review: What’s Wrong With Benny Hill?
Anthony Bugess, the author of The Clockwork Orange described him as “a comic genius steeped in the British music hall tradition”
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