19 10 310 https://newarchitecturemovement.org/files/original/76ac0a47265a64301fa4745b66b72c12.pdf 349a16a75bd3dc9a7bc3c7f15854f6b0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. Hitherto entirely dominated by the RIBA bloc, the Council began to yield to a new dynamic through NAM's involvement, enabling fresh perspectives on such issues as mandatory fee scales, greater lay representation on the body, ethically-based standards of professional conduct, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from K Forder Subject The topic of the resource Letter from K Forder (Registrar) to J Tarn enclosing letter to Stephen Dunmore of DoE re PI Liability Study Team, letter from S Dunmore to Forder dated 18.11.88 and DTI notice (8pp total) Description An account of the resource I enclose herewith a copy of a letter dated 16 November which is self explanatory together with the accompaning Press Release dated 11 May. I have written in terms which indicate surprise that this is the first mention of this matter that has been made to ARCUK with a request for submission by the end of this month. I am however glad to hear that constituent bodies such as the FAS, IAAS, and the RIBA have been consulted and have submitted questionnaires on the mat ter . It rather seems that the big gap in consultation has been an apparent failure to seek the views of unattached architects and the Architectural Association. I am making appropriate representations to the Department of the Environment on this matter together •with querying a situation where it rather appears that on the! three study groups looking at the matter there appear to be only two architects. I should be grateful if constituent bodies could let me have copies of submissions they have made so that we can come to some conclusion on how the matter should proceed. Registrar Architects Registration Council of the United Kingdom (STAB: 73 Hallam Street London WI N 6EE Tel: 01-580 5861 Fax: 01-436 5269 Registrar: Kenneth J. Forder M.A. KJF/CL 18 November 1988 Stephen Dunmore Esq Department of the Environment Room PI/ 123 2 Mars ham Street London swip 3EB Dear Stephen I wr ite to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 16 November on the Professional Liability Review and I am writ ing this letter because although I hope to speak to you on the telephone on Monday there is always a possibility that we may not make contact. You may be surprised to learn that this is the first that ARCUK has heard about the setting up of the Construction Industry Study Team and indeed is the first time we have seen the Press Release dated Il May. I gather there has been another Press Release since then. These facts seem all the more surpris ing in view of the fact that the Architects Registration Council is virtually the only statuatory body in the whole construction industry (apart from the Construction Industry Training Board) . I do not of course want to make a song and dance about it but I really think it is very important that the Statutory Body should be informed of such measures at a very early date. The ludicrous position I face at the momen t is that we are given precisely twelve days in which to make a submiss ion. This is of course quite imposs i b I e. When we have an opportunity to speak perhaps we might discuss this. There are I think two things which have been lost sight of. Firstly, although from the checks I have been able to l.nake it seems that most constituent bodies of ARCUK (but not the Architectural Association ( ! ) ) have been consulted and have been sent questionnaires, it is not generally realised that one in four architects is not a member of a constituent body at all. It rather seems that this sector of the profession has not had an opportunity to make its views known. I think we shall have to discuss this also. Secondly at first glance I find it rather astonishing to real ise that architects, who are after all the leaders of the building team and in fact feel the final financial edge of any professional indemnity issue, are represented by precisely two persons in the study teams, both members of one constituent body and neither of them a present or former member of ARCUK Council. Cont/ 2. PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY REVIEW CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY STUDY TEAM DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT Room 23 2 Marsham Street, London SWIP 3EB Fax (01) 276 3826 Direct line 01-276 Mr K Forder Registrar Architects Registration Council of the United Kingdom 73 Hall am Street London WIN 6EE 16 November 1988 Dear Kenneth PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY REVIEW As- you may already be aware, the Department of Trade and Industry recently set up three review teams to investigate the problems of professional liability experienced by audi tors; valuation surveyors ; and construction industry professionals, i e architects, consul ting engineers and quantity and building surveyors . A Press Notice concerning the study teams' work is attached. The construction industry study team has been gathering information by means of questionnaires sent out to professionals, clients of the indus try , insurers , brokers and contrac tors ; in tervi ews wi th interes ted parties ; and liaison with the professional institutions . We are seeking to es tablish a factual basis on which to ground our recommendations , to establish the nature and extent of the liability prob 1 em , and to solicit recommendations for improving the current arrangemen ts . I am writing now to give you the opportuni ty, on behalf of ARCUK to put forward evidence to the cons truction industry study team on professional liabili ty probl ems as éhey affect professional archi tects . We are working to a tight timetable, and would be grateful to receive your submission by the end of November. This would be followed, if necessary, by a meeting between ARCUK and the study team chairman and secretariat to discuss the submission. It would be of great help if your submission could broadly follow the structure outlined below: . Problems perceived in the current arrangements . Action taken/ to be taken by your organisation to combat these problems . Priorities for reform. How these reforms could best be implemented. Chairman Professor Donald Bishop, CEng, MICE, ARICS, FCIOB Secretary Ms. Ann Blackmore Technical Secretarv Dr. Geoff Pros.ser Perhaps you would let me know whether you wish to take the opportuni ty of providing evidence. I look forward to hearing from you . Yours sincerely , STEPHEN DUNMORE� 88/363 •101 01-21 s 47,72 11 May 1988 Out ot- I lours 7877 PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY STUDIES CHAIRMAN NAMED Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Lord Young today announced the appointment of Professor Andrew Likicrman to chair a series of fact—finding studies into professional liability problems. Three study teams have been set up by the Department of Trade and Industry to establish the nature, scope, extent and implications of these problems. The move is a result of the concern of a range of professions at the increasing number of people using the courts to claim damages for professional negligence and at the dramatic increase in the amounts involved. In addition professional indemnity insurance has become more costly and difficult to obtain. Replying to a Parliamentary Question, Lord Young said: "We have appointed Andrew Likierman, Professor of Accounting and Financial Control at London Business School to be overall Chairman of the fact-finding studies into professional liability. "We have asked Professor Likierman to oversee the work of the three study teams so as to ensure consistency between their approeches and to draw together the results of the individual studies. He will chair a small steering group which will include the Chairmen of the study teams. " These three chairmen will be: Auditors: William C C Morrison CA, deputy senior partner of Peat Marwick Y,cLintock and former President of the Institute of Chartered Äccountants of Scotland Ärchitects/Consu1tinq Enqineers/Construction ÜSurveyors: Donald Bishop CEng, MICE, ÄRICS, F•CIOB formerly London Master Builders Professor of Building at University College, London Other survevors: Ian Oddy FRICS, FRVA, FCIArb — managing partner of St Quintin (Chart.ered Surveyors ) More. . . Liabi it y . 1,0.Td Younq continued: L he menibers of the .study teams have been chc.)3cn so that in each team there is at least one member of the relevant profession or professions, a legal. expert, an insurance and someone with experience as a user of the professional The members are as fol lows: Auditors: Anthony W Mallinson LLM; Robin Jackson; ( further member to be appointed) Architects etc: K Wesley Whims ter FICE, FIStructE, MConsE, FlWEMr FCIArb; Peter Down CEng, FIMechEr SCIBSE, MConsE; Chris Vickers FRICS, ACIArb; Clifford Lansley Dip Arch, AR IBA; Roger Squire FRICS; Bernard Anderson AR IBA; Anthony Kidd FCII, Donald Keating QC, FCIÄrb; Johrl Myatt CEng, FICE Other surveyors: John Chapman FRICS, FRVÄ; Brian Grainger FRICS, F S VA; •Ray Moorman; Edward Hart ill BScr FRICS, Jeremy Mortimer; Kim Lewison Cantab), Barrister at Law NOTES TO EDITORS The decision to ccynmission a series of fact—finding studies was announc.ed by Mr Maude on 28 October 1988 in the light of represent— ations about liability problems from a number of professions and recognising that these problems raised questions of public interest. Anyone wishing to give evidence to the study teams should write to the following addresses: Auditors: Richard Grafen, Department of Trade and Industry, Room 521 10—18 Victoria Street, London SWIH CNN Architects etc: Gail Marshall, Department of the Environment, Roorn Al 07 r Ronne.y House, London SWIP 3PY Other surveyors: Li Ilian P H Birch, Department of the Environment, Room C 14/19At 2 Marsham Street, London SWIP 3EB A copy of the study team's terms of reference and biographical notes on Professor Likierman are attached. ENDS Liability. TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR FACT-FINDING STUDIES In the .li.ght of current concern about the cost and availability of professional indemnity insurance and the extent of professional civil arising out of statutory requirements ) (b ) architects/ consulting engineers/construction surveyors (c) other surveyors (such as land surveyors and mining surveyors ) The studies should in particular: Examine the nature of the service provided by the professions listed above, the professional duties and liabilities arising from that service, including the extent to which there. are requirements •Eo conform to professional standards and guidelines; the way in which the service is held out to the public; and public expectations and understanding of the service provided; ( i i ) Obtain detailed information about recent trends in the availability and cost of professional indemnity insurance for the profession listed above, and the reasons for these; ( i i i ) Obtain information about how the law has operated in the past and how it currently operates in relation to actions in negligence against members of the professions listed above; ( i v) Consider international developments with particular reference to the European Community and the extent to which they have affected, or may affect, (i), ( i i ) and ( i i i ) above; (v) Assess the effects, now and in the future, of (i), ( i i ) and ( i i i ) above on the availability, quality and cost of the services proviöed by the professions listed above, and the impact on those who rely on the service provided by members of these professions and to assess the effects of (i), ( i i ) and ( i i i ) above on the effectiveness and competitiveness of these professions; (vi ) If appropriate, suggest possible next steps for future consideration of the subject. 1.1i abi 1.i$_v . . . 4 PROFESSOR Professor Andrew Likierman, 44 r is a graduate in Philosophy r Politics and Economics of Balliol College, Oxford. At the London Business School, where he is Professor of Accounting and Financial Control, he is Chairman of the Faculty Board and an elected Governor. He is also Chairman of the Economist Bookshop Ltd, a Council Member of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, a Council Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and Chairman of its Education and Training Commmittee; a member of -the Audit Commission; chairman of the Editorial Board of "Public Money and Management" and advisor on public expenditure matters to the Treasury amd Civil Service Social Services, Employment and Transport Select Committees of the House of Commons . Before taking up his present post Professor Likierman first worked for Tootal Ltd in Manchester, moving to Qualitex Ltd, where he became a Divisional Managing Director. He also spent three years as a member of the Central Policy Review Staff (the "Think Tank" ) , lectured at Leeds University and was a member of the Council of the Consumers Association. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource K Forder Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 18.11.88 https://newarchitecturemovement.org/files/original/08a2b26de39f293c97bbeefabbf30da7.pdf da6af44da53bf9f5d1003534f83997cf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Harrogate Founding Congress Subject The topic of the resource The Harrogate Congress was the founding of NAM. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 21-23 November 1975 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ken Thorpe Presentation Subject The topic of the resource Ken Thorpe's presentation to the 1st NAM Congress at Harrogate Description An account of the resource HARROGATE CONGRESS, NOVEMBER 1975 ALLAN, John 67 Romilly Road, London N 4 ANGUS, David Architectural Association, Bedford Square, London ANSON, Brian 16 Claremont Gardens, Surbiton, Surrey BEAVAN, P J 18a Melbury Road, London.. W 14 BROWNING, John 36 Elm Grove, Hornsey, London N 8 BURRELL, Andy, Architectural Association, Bedford Square, London DELANEY, Anne Geulan Felen, Pentre Court, Llandysul, Dyfed FARMERY, David Beech Lodge, Beech Lane, Woodcote, Reading RG8 OPX FILEMAN, Brian Architectural Association, Bedford Square, London FINEBERG, Barry 82 Antrim Road, London NW3 FLEURY, Clive Building Design GIMSON, Mark Architectural AssOciation, Bedford Square, London HAGNESS, Einar Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh HARIVEL le, John P 9 Fullerton Crescent, Troon KA10 6LL Ayrshire HEDIN, Jennifer Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh JARRETT, Margaret Architectural association, Bedford Square London JOHNSON, Peter 3 Moore Street, London SW3 LEACH, Wilf 69 Davy Street Dean Bank, Ferry Hill, County Durham LERWILL Ken 49 York Road, Teddington, Middlesex LYNDON, Peter Architectural Association, Bedford Square, London LITTLE, Stephen 36 Whitechapel Street, Didsbury, Manchester LUCKING, Dick Canterbury College of Art, Canterbury McINTYRE, Bill Architectural Association Bedford Square, London MANN, E Building Magazine, 51 Beech Ave, Whitley Bay NE26 1DZ MOLONEY, Peter Architectural Association, Bedford Squgre, London MILLS, George 60 Beech Street, Paddock, Tuddersfield MILLS, Rosie 60 Beech Street, Paddock, Huddersfield MURRAY, John 5 Shilton Avenue, London N 6 MURRAY, Mrs J 5 Shilton Avenue, London N 6 PEBODY, Giles 17 The Mansions, 33 Mill Lane, London NW6 POWELL, Nigel 43a Woodhouse Lane, Leeds 2 PURSER, Adam 50 Bargate Road, Belper, Derbyshire DE5 1NF RIDDEL, T Renton Howard Wood Levin Ptnrs. 22 Little Portland St London W1N 5AP ROBERTS, Marian 37 Greenham Road, London N 10 ROEBUCK, David 0/0 9 Glyn Mansions, :7ammersuith Road, London W 14 SLOTE, Jon Miami Exchange Student, Architectural Association SOMERWELL, David Dept of Arch, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh STEWART, Lachlan Dept of Arch, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh TAYLOR, David Architectural Association, Bedford Square, London Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ken Thorpe Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 22.11.75 https://newarchitecturemovement.org/files/original/689c65412a67b4ce1c4467e7c7d6da94.pdf 3028a6765814c68ab09a6014283e77f6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Letter from Sally Oppenheim, July 1979 Description An account of the resource John Murray Esq Unattached Architects ARCUK 75 Hallam Street London wW1 ‘ Cer Als FM abi DEPARTOMFETNRATDE 1VICTORIA STREET ( LONDON SWI1H OET TELEPHONE DIRECTLINE 01215 2©62 y w/ July 1979 Private Secretary V3975 Fromthe SWITCHBOARD 012157877 Minister of State for Consumer Affairs The Rt Hon Sally Oppenheim MP I am writing to thank Mr Koebuck for his letter of 12 July to the Minister of State for Consumer Affairs Summariisng the position of the Unattached Architects. (Mr Roebuck asked that any further correspondence should be addressed to you). Mrs Oppenheim has asked me to say that she too found the meeting on 10 July a very useful one, and that in considering what action is necessary following the Monopolies & Mergers Commission report on architects' scale fees, she and the Secretary of State will take fully into account the points that you, Mr Roebuck and the other representatn of the Unattached Architexts have made. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ken Thorpe Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Murray Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 07/06/1978 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Sally Oppenheim, July 1979 https://newarchitecturemovement.org/files/original/3e7137206e406fcc6f0731d4f464fe07.pdf 658d7b3407dcf6947ee8ffa6dad74c33 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. Hitherto entirely dominated by the RIBA bloc, the Council began to yield to a new dynamic through NAM's involvement, enabling fresh perspectives on such issues as mandatory fee scales, greater lay representation on the body, ethically-based standards of professional conduct, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Report on questionnaire to Unattached Architects, Nov 1977 Description An account of the resource —_~— ———— Report on questionnaire to unattached architects (November, 1977) (3. 1.00 The questionnaire was included in the annual circular to unattached architects, which contains nomination forms for unattached represen- tatives. This year approximately 4100’ were sent. 2.00 211 replies were received. A copy of the questionnaire and an analysis of each part are attached. ‘ 3,00 3.01 Summary 3.02 Size, type and position in office. 85% were employed, 15% partners in private practice of chief officers. Nearly 60% were employed in the public sector.. ; 3.03 Question 1. Nearly every respondent took this to mean = ‘why are you not a member of the R.I.BeA. ?" Most respondents gave more than one reason; the numbers and variety are summarised in the graph as % of the reasons given. 3.04 3,05 Question 2. Over ons half are members of a union; the vast ma jority of these belong to N.A.L.G.0. 4 3.06 Question 4. As with Question 14, most respondents gave more than 4 ome suggestions; numbers and variety are summarised in the graph.~ More than 4 gave no reply, some stating that they were not sufficiently© acquainted with the Code. 3.07 4,00 Question 5S. Remarks as Question 4, Two out of 3 gave no reply. 5.00 In view of the low returns, both in 1975 and this year, it is consid- ered that statistical advice should be sought before framing any future questionnaires. KT/ 7.6.78 foe and sex distribution. The oldest respondent was 74; over x were under 40; one in 4 were under 30; one in 40 were women; and 1417 stated that they were 'retired', Question 3. This question is in two parts. Two out of 3 replied "yes" to amending the Acts to require a cross section of the profession on the Council (3.(a)).- Respondents were equally divided on the question of increasing lay representation on the Council. One in 4 made no reply to either part of the question. The replies were very interesting dus to the range of subjects introduced and the extent to which some ware treated. A few respondents gave only their name and ege. Many wrote at length about their concerns viewpoints, and proposals. | @ Dear Unattached, The Architects Registration Acts lay down that each 500 unattached architects are to have one representative on ARCUK. The numbers of unattached have been steadily increasing over the last five years. We are writing to you as your elected unattached representatives on ARCUK for the year 1976-77. In attending ARCUK meetings over the past year we have attempted to stress the need for openness and accountability in the conduct of ARCUK's affairs with respect to both the public and the profession. Further, we have been concerned by the imbalance of representation on ARCUK. The vast majority of ARCUK are members of the RIBAs; and a large proportion of these are also principals in private practice. This state of affairs neither adequately reflects the structure of the profession itself, over 80% of whom is salaried, nor allows effective representation of the lay public who, after all, use the buildings which architects design. Although we are elected by you, we have practically no means of knowing which of the issues currently facing the profession are of concern to you. Once a year we have this opportunity of contacting you. As in 1975 we are attempting to gather some information about unattached architects. It would help us if we knew your opinions on subjects being discussed in ARCUK; for example, on advertising, on maintaining the minimum,fee scale, on citizens advice bureaux, on ‘architectural' consultancies, and on lay representation in the affairs of the profession. In addition we welcome suggestions on the issues which you feel should be raised for discussion in ARCUK during the coming year.~ Please let us have your answers to the questions below and any additional views and comments; all of which will be kept in confidence. Finally, please contact any of your ARCUK representatives matter of concern. Yours faithfully, 1 Why are you unattached ? 2 Are you a member of a trades union ? throughout the coming year on any Anne Delaney, Alan Lipman, Bob Maltz, Robin Phillips, Dave Roebuck, Ken Thorpe and Ian Tod If yes, which? Acts should be amended (a) to take 3 Do you consider that the Registration account of the actual constitution of the profession, and (b) to increase lay representation on ARCUK 7? 4 What reforms, if any, would you suggest should be made to ARCUK's Code ? 5 Can you suggest ways in which we can look after your interests on ARCUK? NAME AGE TYPE OF OFFICE (central government, local authority, private practice, industry, education, self employed, unemployed, other) SIZE OF OFFICE YOUR POSITION IN OFFICE Please reply to : Unattached Architects, c/o 109, CADOGAN TERRACE, LONDON E 9 Rs OTS ae CG ny Sesshap LISStas Why are you unattached 7? i 2 Are you a member of a trades union ? If yes, which? 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Introduction and Origins Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource What is the New Architecture Movement? Subject The topic of the resource Description of NAM's Aims, Origins, Activities, Structure, Participation and Support, Enquiries. (12 page copy) Description An account of the resource JUSMISAOPT 01N{D9IIYOIY MON NeAM is a movement Of architects and laymen committed to radical change in the relationship of the profession to the public, and within the profession itself. NeA.M, Believes that architecture is a public service which should be equally available to all sectours of society. Therefore we are working to redistribute power in architecture among the 80% of the population who at present have no say in the design or use. of their environment, The following pages give a synopsis of our background, aims and programme of action. If you wish to find out more, or join us please contact:— John Browning, 36 Elm Grove, London N8 014-348-7669 . .>: : noe ° Au? ARGHITacTUR ie at 1. BACKGROURD . @ It has taken almost exactly twenty-five years for the ; impetus behind the first .odern jovement inthis, country to:be 7a exhausted. The festival of Britain 1951 and. jAIT- taken as the official niles tones at the amumataen and closure ef the period respectively, ‘e seem to stand new at the beginning cf a new phase , in which the eriteeia of ‘relevant! action will be determined as much by the understanding of our legacy as our current political standpoint, | The effeots of the piacese at radicalization induced by war emuld be seen in the arrival of the first. modern Socialist Government ih its far-reaching s>cial referms on the damestic scale, and in eur modified nation status in | ‘ate and the realization that we were no longer an imperial power. | : os cfenvironmenttheNewTownsMovement, the Town & Country Play ine Act ey iat hone the first expression of a new vision and omfidence that had already permeated other Bpoven) af BeOL Sys including for example the health services. The South Bank Pxhibitien and ue Associated Housing schemes in Lansbury, ast London epitomised the mixture of exuberance and ‘committed concern' while sheving that modern architecture was not simply a flat roof or a corner window, but a cemprehensive urban language. The underlying ideas, had of course been werked out long befare : it was tcedified visually in the 1938 Exhibition that is at about the time when @nthe threefold premise of cheap ! energy, expansionist economics and enlightened paternalism, | "progressive"architects and planners (now comfortably established in government institutions and Wall connected practices) were ready for the big boom, The extent of development, publicly or privatelys sponsered during thel960's, is unlikely te be equalled during the lifetime of anyone reaching this - and the housing, new towns, universities, tansport infrastructure etc., of this period will somehow fone be do for the majcrity of us and our children till the latter are middle-aged. of the Mars Group, which itself derived its premises from the parent CIAM movement in Barope. But theclimate of 1945 wasdifferentbointdehgreeandinkina. Thepost-warar.:.°fortheft timesawtheallianceofthe "new wisdom', hithertu phevecupation ef dissatisfied intellectuals and enlightened bourgeois patrons, withall ins executive farce of government and the major institutions. At the very moment that the pioneer's thesis appeared ts be vindicated, so the process ef institutionalizing its assumptions ean in its adeptien by a new establishment due ta become infinttery more sophisticated ~ and bureaucratic than any hitherte. Naturally it was intelligent° enough to abserb . the prece ss and perssnalities that would otherwise haye beew dynamite, and throughout the 50's the ’professions ef architectuarned planning were happy to be included in the monolithic drivefor reconstruction. Me anti-thosis which tan Tea a ins in conflict with¢ this centralist orthodoxy Speed ants in the 1960's in phenomens, ranging from the satire novenent, to student protest, But abteriés were hardening . In 1970 the DOE - a concept that would have seemed revolutionary 25 years earlier - established itself in the now familiar faulty towers, sited carefully separate from Waitehall ; and expressing so precisely its blant combination of technogracyand officialdom, to provide over a process -that was already: in decline. What would happen now? Obvious with hindsight ;& simple coronary case with enmplications. We ran out of fuel — petro-: chemical, financial, and most important social. For by new the assumed popular consent on which all this development had been based was solidly organised into community groups, environmentalists, conservation lobbies, spaceship earth economists, tec of increasing expertise. It began to seem once more that the people with the power were less intelligent than the people without it. The -complications? Almost as fast as the develapment boom fever was dying in the establishment the antihodies were being absorbed, Particpation, piecemeal planning,rehab and recycling have been hastily substituted in the official policies of national and local authorities and the professional institutilns such that concepts of ‘community Architecture' and Neighbourhood Participation! are already bandied with bogus fone and trendy humbug, without much noticeabje advantagteo the intended beneficiaries. The cur rent climate is pluralistic and diverse to the extent that, given the rifgt form of words , everyone can apparently claim to be progressive - the rg5, RIBA, most L.A. 's, the RTPIetc, ete - concealing the fact that major idealogical change is eccurring with little or no.commensurate redistribtuiion of power. Fnvironmental matters ccntinue to be detemminedon the basis +f power, not of need, and the status quo is effectively maintained. It is this situation that NAM was formed to study and pehetrate. So much for what amounts te the context in ‘the sutside world. Meanwhile, what ofour context in the profession? In the same perind the profession has transformed iteself from a craft-orientated elite of aesthetic gastronomes supported by forelock tugging draughtsmen, into and army of professionals dpeendant on a very different calibre of re cruit, a university educated, mainly middle class mass of aspiring principals whose habit of identifying with employers has blurred their vision of the pelitical reality within their offices and throughout the RIBA. Contessccoes Salatied architects, more direct and satisfying the majority of the profession, who may relationships with the users of their products, have little to be optimistic about because of the economic crisis, The professions. governing body, RIBA, is dominated by the interests of private practice and salaried architects have to realise that the NAM is the only*effective voice challenging the Private Practice Principal's Party , 66 Portland. Plage... Such a.state. of. affairs,.when 80% of a ea ake profession is misrepresented by default (or not at all) would be absurd at the best of times, now ‘that the crisis bites home the contrdietions | between principals and assitants, established and still at college. grow daily more apparent. The Middle East Klondike can only briefly disguise the fact that wheras the publiss access to lawyers and doctours was relatively easy, until the goverment. use of architects beaurocratic offices. cuts reduce this. too,: the publics. only existed by surrogate clients and a remote . ceeTe Ae hope for It is out of this uneasy climate of reality and alussion, wisdom and displicity that N.A.M. developed. At the unlikely venue of Harrogate a gathering of under a hundred people meet for a weekendi:n November, 75,- at the invitation of a small group called ARC, ARC had been preoccupied with such questions for a couple of years,— The outcome was the nucleus of a New Architecture Movement which has since distinguisheidt’s om identity from that of ARC and-at the same time consolidated its aims and membership. More on aims later. The two essentail characteristics of the Movement that Harrogate established ares- ‘ a. It must have a constructive attitude: founded on strong annalysis. Yet another vocal articulation seemed unnecessary and. abortive. b. That its. structure should be both federal and national, allowing the individual personal involvement and avenues of action. Apart from a rudimentary liason process the character of the movement is its diversity and localised basis. A centralised power elite was seen as alien and. unconstructive, Individualansdlocalgroupsspreadthrougthheocountrymakeupthe movement, all are ofan equal status and are free to.develop their own programmes in support of the generally agreed aims. Any material produced is signed, Edinburgh NAM Group, or NAM Cardif Group. The~ purpose of the small, at present London based, .Liason Group is to maintain and develop contacts and to set up the next National Congress, If you are thinking of joining we hope that our contact list has:a member close by you, if not then we would be delighted if you initiated your own NAM Group. Speakers and information can be sent to yOUs In time a network of groups should develop to cover the country, each one working out its own ideas wether localised or more universal. The Congress will be one way of communicating between groups and for working out overall.aims and strategies, a The key to this decentralised structure is that of individual commitmant and local autonomy. We are not a movement with presidents or celebrities, its strength lies in the involvement of you, and the help we can all give each other. , For a Schubert or’“a.Cangin such constraints as “imposed ‘by patronage — were minimal for they were in effect their own patrons dirécting thei creative energies towards thair own needs and conditions. But in architecturheis is by no.means so easy, for it is a rare occurrence for the architect to.act as nis own patron, except say, when he builds his own house. Of all the’arts, “then, architecture is particularly dependent on patronage. , for without patronage there is no building and without building architecture.enters the realms of graphics and sculpture. For those whose art is less dependeont on external- patronage for their well being there has been the opportunity ‘to liberate themselves from stereo-typed convention, but in architecture we have- ‘been trapped. Tach move into a mew mode of work is frustrated. Those whohave attempted to escape by side stepping the issue altogether have: fled ‘to the world of ‘alternative technology! or to the world of the 'conceptualists!. For the alternstive technologists there is bub one fate, the eventual take over by the owners of production who will appropriate their creations to further their owna@ids. Those inventions that have a potential for generating profit and maintaining the status quo will be exploited: those that do not will be thrown avay. For the conceptualists there is only the world of fantasy and dreams. Like the 'trip' one too maay it will end in trauma and despair, their self inflated bubbie w2.1l burst,for it has little content and no Substance, The New Architecture Movement offers a third alternative to this impasse. It is devising a strategy that attacks the heart of the dilemna, the principles of patronage. The notion of patronage encompasses 1 variety of associations but their common reference point is to an unequal relationship between benefactor and benificery. The benkficery of course is the architect. Hoi do we define patron2ge in our context patronage is the means by which the building needs of individuals and their institutions are determindd. ‘le realise that under any social system there will alvays be more users than patrons but we do not see this process of assessing building needs as an independent variable to the design problem. It is intrinsic to the forms that we will create. This is a »rinciple of our movement. Ye cannot wait for the real patrons to stand up. “ve must go to then, but this will only be achieved by removing the obstales in our own instituticns. ‘aArchitecture', it is suggested is the social art. Certainly the crertion of architecture is a prerequisite for civilisation. Undeniably, it effects everyone's aspect of peoples lives. And yet we have situations where architecture, which is about living, is practised by a group of veople, architects, who have erected barricrs around themselves, Our conclusions can only be thatthe barriers have been erected because either the practitioners are incapableo’f practising architecture or unnecessary, or their masters, the patrons, misuse their practice. Thus it is our belief that the institutions of architecture operate not only to the detrinmt of the non patrons but to architects themselves. As a creative activity architecture, supposedly represents values that exist beyond mere building. All creative activities experience to some degree or another three converging imagination, the power of technics and the exercise of patronage. ALE three interact through design and their’ megolution is~ the creation of forms, In the “sence of. patronag technics’ aes imagination have no context and thus no substance or meaning. onde? the force of the —2 NAM identifies these institutionass the way architects are organised, their education and their methods of sractice. Sach in turn reinforce and sustain the present system of patronage and moreover because the architect is the beneficery in an unequal relationship, they were intended to do so, .If we accept that patronage is ultimately exercised for its. own benevolence whether for prestige, profit or pover andifitisthemeansofassesthseibuinldgingneedsofsocietythan there is a prima facie case of ‘aiding, and abetting’. NAM intends to exemine each institution in turn. NAM will demonstrate the vay in which these institutions.act for patronagbey isolatins the practice of architecture. from..its. context. The RIBA claims to speak for architects as if they were one voice, Assension.and arguement is confined to the closed doors of Portland Place. It thefefore snuffs out any attempt to undermine a system of patronage at which it is the beneficery. Through education it produces students who aquiesSce to the status quo because the nature of their training has concealed from them the true nature of their work, The organisation of practice is so structured that it is only able to function in the context of the | existing patronase. the setting up of small scale loc lly based projects should be seen in the context of a national oxperiment. pimilarly. Housing associations, Housing .ctbion Areas and (IAs are controlled by professionals at the expense of the residents whom they purport to serve, In the long term, this can only render the professional impotent, for it is through real participation where the bases for decisions are exposed to all. that the orofessional will foster iis own development. Private practice is accountable only to the ae who weild power i.e. that.,small.sroup ve have identified as patvons. ‘here is no effective means of control by those who are affected by the buildings thus produced and there is little public awareness of the profits yielded by the. fee scale, ithin offices, a minority of employer architects exercise hierar— chical control,:due as much to their orn inclination as to their respon- Sibilities.sided: Partnership La» heir employees, lured by the carrot of eventual advancement ~— if chery find favour - are suspicious competi-~ tive and divided. Such a system will, in the long term collapse for Lt is-not sufficiently flevible to respond.to the wanging pattern of patronage: the dominance of the public ‘client and the increasing social. economic and environmental avareness expressed by the public at large. whether in conservation issues ‘or.politicel stances, N.aA.ii. therefore proposes a whole range of reforms within practice, from ensuring that private offices are subject to a form of local accountability, to office structures. based on the principleosf co-ownership. Salaried architects should be givena real opportunity to organise and join unions for without such strength they are at the mercy of the market. Hor the public sector architect there looms a different series of frustrations, Local Authority architects work in large centralised rigid | organisations which, while.professing to serve he public, in reality serve md are ecountable only to co.mittee chairmen, Direct contact between users and architects is at least discouraged or forbidden. “he monolithic internal hicrachy fosters the promotion ethos. Success isto méve out of architecture into management. Rarely does:the Chief Architects? heavy responsibility for huge expenditure to one client create an office’ spirit any more inspired thea vell-organised defensiveness. “hy is this so? Host public architects have a firm belief in the. sist 4Oe" of their cause... liany’ have gone.to good vublic offices tO essoane the partner bréathing down their. neck. -.-Might it be that the, system. has been so devised to tolerate the mediocreo,r that it is so. fail-safe that no practitioner is that importent? It is clear that es bureaucracies. develop, the definition of roles becomes increasingly restrictive. ‘he public architect is. insulated from the very problems which @e the substance | of building néeds; and: the exercise of his imagination and skill becomes 7 irrelevant BS r . the Wew architecture liovement believes that she bide which is continually croding the basis of the architect's vork can only be turned by surplanting the local authority service by a National Design Service based on de~ centralised local authority design teams and offering a freely available service to groups and individuals in local -reas, ‘hese teams vould be organised in such a vay that not ohly would they to help articulate the needs of residents but also implement them, Such an intimate relationship vould automatically introduce a means of accountability. this is not a vague notion of control or criticism but a participatory process by which the skills of architects do not hide behind a bushel but are exposed to the commonsense of the laymen. Architectural education is dominated and controlled by the RIBA through the Board of Uducation, yet it is society which foots the bill without any means of control, or rather it has vested its control in the hands of architects. iwhis has encouraged an introverted montality, H.A.li. has been disappointed, but in rotrospect not surprised,a& the failure of achitec tural students to respond to the «uestions that NAH. ete have -posed. ~The fostering ‘of architectural studies in a world of unreality;whether.in.“theworstoxcessesofon aoe orteetinical.5 fetishes, ‘is producing. anew sowense ion of ¢lraving-board fodder or drop outs.oa ;ioe : : : te. NAN, dhidnde: to set up a’ sia aby group to examine the cuestion of.education but -it is clear that central to our attitude is to arrange a marriage between schools:and:. their communities. Schools of Architecture have considerable resources: which could be used for. the benefit of the community. /In:general, we should be’aimingf.or more autonomy in syllabus in order to enable’ cach school to respond to varying local con- dittons ond opportunitics. i : here can be few: doubts as to our attitude to the way the profession is. at present: organised and:controlled. ighty per cent of architects wrote off the BIBA years. ago. . Yet, though it no longer has any meaning for most architects, its power is immense and Council is controlled by the same faces year aftcr year. NAH. seeks 0 echoes ornor ples of practice outside the RIBA in such a way that’ are not cosettcd in their own front: room but are excposed, tothe street. ‘whese new principles of practice will range from a set of ethics, perhaps in the: form.of an oath; model rules on procedure,to the abolishing of mandatory feo scale, so that a range: of architectural ARCUK which is Bevory afront organisation of the RIDA. servismcoreeswid:elyavailabie Controloftheactiviticsofthe profession should be returned to where it was originally invested, namely par Laem the Asthey stand, the Registration Acts are’administored by:--: NA.'isnota igoly ‘Itspressontemphasisonele and theory is a-prelude to a programie of action.: Yhat action is aimed at breaking down the barriers bet:reen society and architects, Links will be forged with the local communities where we live through: trade unions, -. tenemts associations, local amenity groups and locel councillors. TC. hall. work to raise jhe expectations of the service provided by. practices sient offices,.Onabroader.scale,our.intentionistoco-operate with other progressive groups. By lobbying politicians we hope -to achieve changes in the Registration Acts. ‘Our prograime is not: reformist for all our actions are to! be judged.in. the light of our desire to seck fundamental changes in the exercise of patronage. In practising community architccture our philosophy.is not. to offer @ndy to innocent children but to demonsttrate the failure of established institutions to respond to the peoples needs. Sy this means people themselves will seek their own solutions; and for architects there is tho reward of their own fulfillment. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 2nd NAM Congress Blackpool Subject The topic of the resource Assorted papers re 2nd NAM Congress in Blackpool (Several copies) Description An account of the resource Agz aztig 5 =13Ls3 oa BIaSNVA APR UIT RD. is o aC Je ag aoe nl) Warbfe cea RN ROAD Hara aps \ OS markt 42 On the Be ‘Dal€Pp. z BE) SS ces et PO gtvrmono|S ési.0w] +h saz DUNELT jn Cerrar mice 3 Playing field @. North Pier 4 ae 4G, i 2Fpasrvabe|| i brevis! zi peCorrea ~],'ENEEs sain Health (a pe 8yl AM_EPASRADE 35390 hs ies ( SR PARee oes Bga or “COLLINGWOOD SM_’_SFo— SOS LN SS Mar : Mem! (aR ~ uy govceAY teen BY a JAMES Lng AV rm [ee 2 fSO BS x =~ ‘Towa HalClS wa owas unBANKiheae fos wm et ne dnformation Bureau comes es FaLMOUINS eS alt! mC Se SAVILLE AY SARC AY AV a ss ANTRIM. STON =| 2 ‘S| >aary nD=&) , oW£ Ne2 Di S Ss 3 ROSEGALL—_2V. ee Convent Woodtarh Garden ‘Central Pier ba Programme N.A.li. 2ND NATIONAL CONGRESS Friday, 26th November, 1976 18.00 — 19.00 19.00 — 19.30 19.30 — 20.00 20.00 = 20.45 20.45 — 21.15 Clek> ==22.00 Registration of delegates and guests. Registratioant hotels. Opening of the Congress by the Lord Mayor of Blackpool. Saturday, 27th November, 1976 9.30 =— 10.30 10.30 — 11.00 1#600-—:12.15 42 V5. 3. ES 335° - 14.15 T4615. 5615 15.45 = 15.645 15.45 —- 17.00 17.00. =— 18.00 18.00 = 19.30 19.30 = 20.30 Speakers introduce lst Workshop Topics. Morning Coffee Workshops on: Private Practice — Plans for Reform A National Design Service & Local Control Architectural Education The Structure of N.A.Ii. Plenary Session: Reports from Workshops. Break for Lunch. (Lunch not included in fee.) Speakers introduce 2nd Workshop Topics. (Plus any additional Workshop Topics requested by Congress) Afternoon Tea Workshops on Unionisationo.f Architects and Designers The Profession Aesthetics Plenary Session: Reports from Workshops. Buffet Supper and Bar open. Optional period to begin: Area Group discussions. Sunday, 28th November, 1976 9.30 - 10.30 10.330 .—<1 F500 11.00 = 12.00 12,.003=212% 30 Plenary Session: Report from 1975/76 Liason Group Local Area Group Organisation N.AM. Newsletter Next Congress Planning Group Any other issues Morning Coffee Area Group Discussions. Closing Plenary Session. Opening Plenary Sessions Guest Speaker. Buffet Supper and Bar. History of N.A.M. Short Group Reports Aims of the Congress Information NEW ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT This sheet gives basic information about The New Architecture liovement. If you wish to join N.A.M. or obtain copies of further N.A.M. literature please write to The Secretary, NAM Liason Group, 143 Whitfield Street, London, W.l. ORIGINS N.A.M. was officially founded in November 1975 at the Harrogate National Congress, although several of the constituent members and ideas had been assembled up to two years previously. This Congress achieved a consensus on the essential direction and structure of the movement which was issued as a Press Statement. A Contact List was started, several local groups were established, and a Liason Group was delegated to maintain and extend contacts and to organize the next Congress. AI N.A.M. is working through the collective action of architects and others to alter radically the system of patronage in archi- tecture. We wish to reform the existing power structure in architecture, dominated by corporate or wealthy clients and principals (public or private), with direct relationships between users and designers. The aim is thereby to restore effective control by ordinary people over their environment, and real social responsibility and accountability in the work of architects. Programmes for action are formulated from detailed critiques of the current situation and its background. MEMBERSHIP Members are drawn from all areas of architectural activity in addition to the lay public. In the former category salaried architects in private practice from the majority, though Local Authority officers, teachers and students are also a substantial element. The contact list is growing rapidly. STRUCTURE the Movement's structure, which was established at Harrogate, is a network not a pyramid. It thus consists mainly of locally based groups of up to about a dozen members, who are kept in touch by a small Liason Group. There is no hierarchy, each group pursuing its defined tasks in furtherance of the overall aim. The object is to avoid bureaucracy or celebrities and the Liason Group's role is therefore basically administrative : circulating documents from other groups, making new contacts and arranging the National Congress, when Liason Group members may be redelegated. Local Groups are now working in various parts of the country, and if you wish to become involved the Liason Group will introduce you to the nearest group or alternatively help you to establish a new group. No enrolment fee as such is asked for, membership being based on agreement with and involvement in pursuing the Movement's aim. Individual groups are for the most part self-financing. Contributions are however payable at conferences, and for specific items such as some of the larger reports etc. These funds are lodged in the N.A.M. account, for which three Liason Group members are signatories. Application for grants is currently in hand. The Liason Group operates from 143, ‘hitfield Street, London, W.1l., to which all initial enquiries should be addressed. The local groups make their own arrangements, the normal practice being to meet at the residence of each of the members in turn, the host member acting as chairperson for their meeting. One member agrees to act as postman for the group. in the Movement. FINANCE PREMISES LITURATURE 0—— me REPRESENVATION The Movement's overall aims are refined and endorsed at national and local conferences, which have received fair coverage in the architectural and technical press. Local groups and individual members are free to present their own work or to propose changes Other N.A.M. documents recently produced, all of which are available on recuest, include: "NAM - Historical Perspective", NAM - Brochure, "A National Design Service", "Ihe Case Against Handatory Minimum Fees" - the report of NAM to the Monopolies Commission (£1), "A Short History of the Architectural Profession" (10p). A complete list of all NAM documents, press cuttings etc. is kept up to date by The Liason Group. e e NEW ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT Invitation 143,WhitfieldStreet, London, W.l. lst November, 1976. Dear As you may know, the New Architecture Movement was established at the Harrogate Congress in November 1975 in broad agreement as to its aims and structure. Since then its activities have developed steadily, and the Liason Group which was deputed at Harrogate to arrange the next Congress now warmly invite you to attend this, The 2nd N.A.M. Congress at Blackpool, 26th — 28th November, 1976. During the year since Harrogate several groups have met regularly and consolidated their programme, and apart from refining NAM's critique of the current situation in architecture, have made press statements, submitted evidence to the Monopolies Commission Inquiry into architects' fees, set up a Community Design Service in Cardiff, become involved with the Birmingham Green Ban Action movement, organised the London: Seminar last spring and significantly increased the Contacts List. Discussions in several of the major areas of NAM's programme have now progressed sufficiently to demand wider canvassing and endorsement by the move-— ment as a whole. At the same time, more active support from sympathizers and new ¢roups is needed to increase firepower and pursue specific plans of action. We therefore hope that you will wish to participate in the 2nd Congress and so contribute to this vital step. Blackpool on the 26th. Yours sincerely, po. NAM, Liason Group. As you can see from the attached papers it will be a very full weekend, and we very much hope that you will be able to be present from the opening on Friday evening. A shorter visit may be booked, however, if you are unable to attend the whole Congress and will also be warmly welcomed. We Look forward to receiving your application as early as possible, and to seeing you at Application NAM. 2ND NATIONAL CONGRESS CONFERENCE FEE ACCOMAODATION Single Bedroom Double Bedroom shared Bedroom Cost per person: £7 Cost per person: &4 Cost per person: £3.25 Cost per persons: £3.75 TOTAL MONEY ENCLOSED: Pri. 26th Sat. 27th Peis 26th Sat. 27th Fri. 26th Sat. 27th Please make cheques payable to New Architecture Movement. hiay we have your telephone no. if possible please ? Could you please indicate how you heard of this Congress, if not by means of this communication. VALG AMD ADDRESS: Please send completed forms to NEV ANCHITECSURE MOVEMENT 143, WHITFIELD S?tREST, LONDON, %:.1. No. of Total persons gsd. If a special coach can be arranged from London, would you be interested ? are able to arrange it, we shall phone or write with the details. l. On receipt of your application the booking will be made as requested. In order to reduce postage, we shall not be sending confirmation letters. Ce If you indicate that you would wish to take the special coach, and we If you are able to, please take a copy of this form and pass it to someone else in your office/ college/ area who may be interested. An early reply would be greatly appreciated, particularly if hotel accommodation is required. = ~ PLEASE DISPLAY ON OFFICE NOTICE BOARD Dear FRIENDS As you may know, the New Architecture Movement was established at the Harrogate Congress in November 1975 in broad agreement as to its aims and structure. Since then its activities have developed steadily, and the Liason Group which was deputed at Harrogate to arrange the next Congress now warmly invite you to attend this, The 2nd N.A.M. Congress at Blackpool, 26th ~— 28th November, 1976. : During the year since Harrogate several groups have met regularly and consolidated their programme, and apart from refining NAM's critique of the current situation in architecture, have made press statements, submitted evidence to the Monopolies Commission Inquiry into architects’ fees, set up a Community Design Service in Cardiff, become involved with the Birmingham Green Ban Action movement, organised the London: Seminar last spring and significantly increased the Contacts List. Discussions in several of the major areas of NAM's programme have now progressed sufficiently to demand wider canvassing and endorsement by the move- ment as a whole. At toe same time, more active support from sympathizers and new groups is needed to increase firepower and pursue specific plans of action. Ye therefore hope that you will wish to participate in the 2nd Congress and so contribute to this vital step. As you can see from the attached papers it will be a very full weekend, and we very much hope that you will be able to be present from the opening on Friday evening. A shorter visit may be booked, however, if you are unable to attend the whole Congress and will also be warmly welcomed. We look forward to receiving your application as early as possible, and to seeing you at Blackpool on the 26th. Yours sincerely, \A ‘doh | \LrGay | \ po. HAN, Liason Group. NEW ARCHITECTURS MOVEMENT 143, Whitfield Street, London, W.l. lst November, 1976. Programme NAM. 2ND NATIONAL CONGRESS Friday, 26th November, 1976 niLyCL Leow) 9 18.00 - 19.00 19.00 ~ 19.30 19.30 = 20.00 20.00 = 20.45 20.45 — 21.15 - 21.15 = 22.00 Registration of delegates and guests. Registration at hotels. Opening of the Congress by the Lord Mayor of Blackpool. Opening Plenary Session: History of N.A.M. Satu2r7tdhaNovyem,ber,1976 9.30 = 10.30 10.30 = 11.00 11.00 = 12.15 12.15 = 13.15 13.15 - 14.15 pert? & ~/@* (Oem 15.15 =— 15.45 15.45 — 17.00 17.00 = 18.00 18.00 = 19.30 *K19.30 = 20.30 Speakers introduce lst Workshop Topics. Morning Coffee Workshops on: Private Practice - Plans for Reform : A National Design Service & Local Control + Architectural Education . PtreStructofutarAceitre Plenary Session: Reports from Workshops. Break for Lunch. (Lunch not included in fee.) Speakers introduce 2nd Workshop Topics. (Plus any additional Workshop Topics requested by Congress) Afternoon Tea Workshops on3 Unionisationo.f Architects and Designers Sunday, 25th November, 1976 9.30 —- 10.30 10.30 ~ 11.00 11.00 = 12,00 12.00 — 12.30 Plenary Session: Report from 1975/76 Liason Cepur LocalAreaGroupOrganisationNUK N.A.M. Newsletter Next Congress am Morning Coffee Area Group Discussions. Closing Plenary Session Able CLAD Berd OL.mA Guest Speaker. Buffet Supper and Bar. The Profession Le Aestheticise, _ Gi DAs Plenary Session: Reports from eeRencee. Buffet Supper and Bar open. Optional period to begin. Area Group discussions.. Hil d \ ° — sci Short Group Reports Aims of the Congress ww 5. 6.8 “a o. 9. wi Os Ht Education and the Profession ArchitecturalWorkers&TradeUnionism STAMP = The Architects' Union ? Architects v The R.I.BeA., 1919-1935. Professionalism ~ Youd |mane lfoix . The Politics of Aesthetics Literature Ni ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT The following NAM documents are available at the Blackpool Congress. Numbers 1 = 11 are papers included in the conference fee and are issued at Registration. The remainder may be obtained at the 'bookshop'. 1.0Information:NAMeee v2. e Historical Perspective V3.4 Private Practice : Progress Report v4. € A National Design Service (2 parts) Hawser Trunnion North London Group Central London Group Francis Bradshaw David Somervell Andrew Fekete CentralLondonGroup Andrew Fekete Andrew Fekete Anne Delaney Paul Downton Index : List of all NAM documents, references etc., (not including Blackpool papers.) a Se ee V 12. The Monopolies Commission Report (£1) vac Report to the Birmingham Green Ban Action Central London Group Central London Group VY14. Doe 15. VY16. 17. Committee (50p) (10p). Interior Perspective North London Group North London Group Asbestos : Information Leafl A Short History of the Architectural Profession Adam Purser paicgeys teeust come ACRE Bhrol on »Hobao sarin80 = Se Wor’ mohaed fectaeo or nebnedSentness sonetetece Say @i- BSSrank #3605 Meccod* edt ta henisigo of yam tobriames sat =44i ary - We £elteod MAT: xctiemectal «. , &- eeltosqets imaistovere »SV er s ~*, ¥ WOH SHSTGQCTT i SDEISALT abavisd «..f W/ (attée S$)soiree? mgtaad fanortet Aas ¥ noieestext 2 basnoivaeuse «22° nobetabst oehatsEau:coupigoias i ‘ivedtisorw eae = Sante seeenesLEEedsfa A9Be stootissoh paivanzeek toyaokt8t0% »‘oil eto evanseres etaanpoet§Anite30,tei::Rebel tee a * 27 .(re) reozelxere ao ae eee of.44 Gortergelwesed.abaROT BaF6?J26gem+ / (aoe) eadibemot quest nobnod Bes0K ex. aobao.t ideou Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Liaison Group Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Nov 1976 https://newarchitecturemovement.org/files/original/a234ae6da1f81339dda9034565e9bb87.pdf a9fda7b20fa542b8d81c86589663bad1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Later NAM Congresses, 2-5 Subject The topic of the resource A further 5 NAM Congresses after the initial Harrogate Congress in 1975, plus other documents Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976-1980 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource NAM Reports Subject The topic of the resource Reports available at Blackpool Congress (18). Hardcopies In File 2 above Description An account of the resource Ngd The following NAM documents are available at the Blackpool Congress. Numbers 1 - II are papers included in the oonferenoe fee and are issued at Registration. The remainder may be obtained at the "bookshop'. 1.11/1nformation NAM Leaflet 2. Historical Perspective 3. vi Private Practice : Progress Report 4."A National Design Service (2 parts) 5. "Education and the Profession 6. 'F'Architeatural Workers & Trade Unionism 7. a. Architects v The 1919-1935. 9. %/Professionalism 10.v/The Politics of Aesthetics 11. Index : List of all NA N documents, references (not including Blaokpool papers.) 12.V.The Monopolies Commission Report (U) IV/Report to the Birmingham Green Ban. Action Committee (50p) STAMP - The Architects' Union ? Hawser Trunnion North London Group Central London Group ftanois Bradshaw David Somervel Andrew Pekete Central London Group Andrew Fekete Andrew ftkete Anne Delaney Paul Dot on etc., 14. Interior Perspective 15. New Architecture Calendar (50p) 16. Asbestos : Information Leaflet 17/A Short History of the Architectural Profession (100, Central London Group Central London. Group North London Group North London Group Adam Purser V Do lief -kew-; VIA-444* -40. 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Title A name given to the resource Later NAM Congresses, 2-5 Subject The topic of the resource A further 5 NAM Congresses after the initial Harrogate Congress in 1975, plus other documents Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976-1980 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 3rd Annual Congress Hull Subject The topic of the resource 1977 Congress Application Notice of 3rd Annual Congress (1 page, A5) Description An account of the resource NAM 1977CONGRESS APPLICATION The 3rd annual congress of the New Architecture Movement will be, taking place on the weekend of the 25th,26th and 27th november 1977,This years event will be the 3rd NAM congresa:following the inaugural congress at Harrogate” in 1975,and. Blackpool in 1976.The hosts for this year are the Hull group of NAM in School of Architecture. The congress of '77 concludes a year of'action'during which NAM has emerged as a force world.Much of this'action'has stemed from the researches and and discussions carried out by NAM groups during 1976 which were aired and refined at the Blackpool congress. These *actions'include the following, NAM's May Unionisation Conference within which to organise architectural workers. NAM's Unionisation groups’ report'Working for What'. NAM's presence in ARCUK representing the unattached Salaried architect. NAM's newspaper 'Slate' the only radical paper for architectural workers. conjunction with the Hull : within the architectural which chose T.A.8.S. These public expressions of NAM as well as the less publicised ones are the issues around which NAM groups” form to work on,The groups which have issues clarified enough to present a working paper use the congress workshops to enlarge the discussion and to put forward motions for the congress to adopt. Workshops so far proposed for this years congress cover; EDUCATION NATIONAL DESIGN SERVICE ,UNIONISATION, ARCUK, WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE}SLATE!CONSTITUTION, A fuller list of workshop options will be included in the final briefing package. The programme for the congress begins with registration at 7.30pm on friday 25th novenber followed by an introduction and discussion.A buffet will be provided. Saturday is bound up with congress workshops/general sessions and public forum/discussion in the late afternooa followed by a social eva ng,food,drink and chat. she NAM agm takes place on sunday morning with an alternative event which is a tour de Hull for those not directly involved in NAM, ‘Ine congress ends after lunch on sunday afternoon, The cost of the congress includes meals for the 3-days. A more detaile? rpogranme will be included in the final briefing. What is NAM,? The New Architecture Movement ("NAM") aims, through the col- lective action of architectural workers and other concerned people, to play an active role in radically altering the sys- tem of patronage and power in architecture. It seeks an archi- tectural practice directly accountable to all who use its pro- ducts and democratically controlled by the workers within it. NAM aims thereby to promote effective contol by ordinary people over their environment and by architectural workers over their working lives. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Liaison Group Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Allan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1977 https://newarchitecturemovement.org/files/original/0b8aef97bbbc9a97400fd27394840b42.pdf dc639e683e176ef72be998fd691adb66 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Later NAM Congresses, 2-5 Subject The topic of the resource A further 5 NAM Congresses after the initial Harrogate Congress in 1975, plus other documents Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976-1980 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 3rd Annual Congress Hull Subject The topic of the resource Conference papers 3rd Annual Congress Hull (20 pages incl report in Building mag) Description An account of the resource 18:00 = 20:15 20:15 - 21:00 21:00 - 21:45 21:45 Registration Buffet Dinner INTRODUCTION Reports from local NAM groups General discussion: "Building NAM" Socializing, bar, etc. END OF CONGRESS ULL CONGRESS PROGRAMME Friday, 25th November 1977 Saturday, 26th November 1977 09:00 - 09:45 09:45 - 10:00 10:00 - 11:30 Registration (for anyone who missed Friday evening) Introduction to first Workshops FIRST WORKSHOPS: (a) "Institutions of the Profession" (contact person: 11:30 = 11:45 11:45 = 12:45 Pebody) (c) Commmity Architecture (contact person: Tom Woolley) Coffee 12:45 - 14:00 14:00 = 14:15 > PLENARY SESSION: Reports back from first vorkshops Discussion Lunch Introduction to second workshops SECOND WORKSHOPS: — 15:45 16:00 = 17:00 - 16:00 Tea PLENARY SESSION: z Reports back from second workshops Discussion Open Meeting: "Hull: controlling the architects* Chairman's summing up Cold buffet, bar opens Social (including supper, music, etc.) 17:00 - 18:00 18:30 -— 21:00 21:00 Sunday, 27th November 1977 10:00 = 13:00 10:00 - 13:30 10:00 - 10:30 10:30 = 11:30 11:50 - 11:45 11:45 — 13:00 13:00 - 13:15 13:15 - 13:30 13:30 - 14:30 Conducted tour of Hull for non-members AGM of NAM members (open to all paid-up members) Report from Liaison Group Discussion: NAM's structure and constitution Cotfee = 4 Mandating of Liaison Group for 1978 Election of Liaison Group for 1978 Final announcements Zunch and local group organising Anne Delaney) (b) SLATE, the NAM newsletter (contact person: Giles te Women in architecture (contact person: Marion Roberts) (b) Trade union organisation in architecture and the allied building professions (contact person: Andrzej Michalik) z {3} Architectural Education (contact person: Ian Tod) (d) National Design Service (contact person: John Murray ) Welcome to Hull, full School of Architecture and wie) RANT GEN Be Acchitocture Association (KSiA., vho run the Social _Centre, the canteen and thebar),and the School itself - from hom we have seriner rooms, lecture theatre, Crit. room and exhibition erca. Asusueltherearesome-vointstokeienm»ind. 1. Please keep drinks to the arca shown shased on the slan, as eny inirin coulé leaG te HSAA losing their eee 2. pene Sign in the HSA visitors vook fack day.This gives you the right to ues the bars Ze Please take great care not to harm the exibition of the Jaranese rouse, very “SZ, vory expensive, but onjoy it. 4. Behind the black curtain in the lecture theatre ve have a fily, weajection screen ~ asain it is exvensive so please take care not te lean on it. 9+ There is no smoking allowed in the lecture theatre. Agein, we welco:e you to the conrress and hope that you enjoy yourself. Dear Friend: “See you in Eull, — NAM Liaison Group - We acknowledge receipt of your NAM Congress application form and your cheque/postal order for ..... We enclose travel instructions and Congress programme. In case of last minute emergencies, contact Ian Tod at the Hull School of Architecture, tel: Hull 25938. Please take careful note of the following, if ticked: eeeee eseee Please bring sleeping bag, as you have requested the alternative accommodation @ 50p per night, ee++- You require accommodation for one night only but have not indicated whether that is Friday or Saturday night. Please inform us by return of post. Because of unforseen circumstances, we regret that the bed and breakfast @ £2.50 per night is not available. Bed and breakfast in the £3 to £4 range is being booked and we should appreciate very much if you would pay the additional amount upon arrival at the Congress. eeeee If enough people from London are interested, it might be possible to arrange low-cost communal transport to Hull on Friday afternoon and back to London on Sunday afternoon. If you are interested, please inform us by return post and indicate telephone number at which you can be reached. ; New Architecture Movement, 9 Poland Street, London W.1. : Friday, 25th November 1977 18:00 = 20:15 20:15 - 21:00 21:00 = 21:45 21:45 Registration Buffet Dinner INTRODUCTION Reports from local NAM groups General discussion: "Building NAM" Socializing, bar, etc. Saturday, 26th November 1977 eB 09:00 - 09:45 09:45 - 10:00 10:00 - 11:30 11:30 - 11:45 11245 = 12:45 12:45 - 14:00 14:00 - 14:15 15:45 - 16:00 16:00 = 17:00 17:00 - 18:00 18:30 21:00 21:00 _ Discussion Sunday, 27th November 1977 10:00 = 13:00 10:00 - 13:30 10:00 - 10:30 10:30 - 11:30 11:30 - 11:45 11:45 - 13:00 13:00 - 13:15 13:15 - 13:30 13:30 - 14:30 Conducted tour of Hull for non-members AGM of NAM members (open to all paid-up members) Report from Liaison Group Discussion: NAM's structure and constitution Coffee Mandating of Liaison Group for 1978 Election of Liaison Group for 1978 Final announcements Iunch and local group organising END OF CONGRESS mig St HULL CONGRESS PROGRAMME Registration (for anyone who missed Friday evening) Introduction to first Workshops FIRST WORKSHOPS: (a) "Institutions of the Profession" (contact person: Anne Delaney) (b) SLATE, the NAM newsletter (contact person: Giles Pebody ) : (c) Community Architecture (contact person: Tom Woolley) Coffee PLENARY SESSION: Reports back from first workshops Discussion Lunch Introduction to second workshops SECOND WORKSHOPS: {a} Women in architecture (contact person: Marion Roberts) b) Trade union organisation in architecture and the allied building professions (contact person: Andrzej Michalik) ts} Architectural Education feeereet person: Ian Tod) d) National Design Service (contact person: John Murray ) Tea : PLENARY SESSION: Reports back from second workshops Open Meeting: "Hull: controlling the architects" Chairman's summing up Cold buffet, bar opens Social (including supper, msic, etc.) Birmingham New Street Passerges chame ot Sheffieks in in tech direction unless 1p- : 12.00C% sr 14.00 9% 16.36 19.01 14.49E 17.32. 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SS SASS Ss SQN N IANS SCEens NNSAY\S ‘ NRW KAM S \ MOQ QAAMRAYN, NN SLABIES ‘CONFERENCE AREA.‘| | {Brunswick Avenue.| Shia od went ef” le i h iN Cafearea ene porenmise is ~Ce ahahaSie5 fatMe ame AsSNES= pa~| | EXHIBITION AREA, : ioney 7 reSo iasa Licensed areas shown hatched. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE DRINKS FROM THE BAR OUTSIDE THE LICENSED PREMISES. 44; Neville Morgan endeMloorenlatenel SuGhavslattenCie eeee -a7 Sao $270 WHOLE CoNcnrSss ATrinvDANCD KRULL 1977 1. John Allan 2. Norman Arnold 3. Stephen Barker 4. Susan Barlow 5. Jos Boys 6,. Francess Bradshaw 7. Dave Breakell 67 Romilly Road, London 14 355 040 9 Midland Road, Leeds 6, Yorks 48 Longmead Raad, Pendleson, Salford 6 205 Argbelle Street, Roath, Cardiff 8, ‘Tony Brohn 53 Millbrook Road, London Sw9 New Zealand or c/o Aylesbeare Post Office, Nr. Exeter, Devon 9. Christopher Brookes 10, Andy Brown 11. David Burney 12. Peter Bush I2 45 Hill House, Harrington Hill, Clapton, London E5 13. Graham Carey n) Geoff Cohen 15. Jamie Comrie 16. 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'Foelas', Tonrhiw Road, Tragarth, Bethesda, Bangor, Wales Spoorsingel 32, Delft, Holland Eull School of Architecture Building Design, 30 Calderwood Street, Woolwich SE18 14 Duncan Terrace. London Nl c/o BUDA, Lozgells Social Develpment Centre, Handsworth, Birmingham B19 1HS 173-5 Lozells Road 235 Arthur Road, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey 63 North Bar, Beverley 6 Granville Terrace, Bingley, West Yorks 14, Bromwydd Avenue, Penylan, Cardiff ©i— S4b “S634 London NwWl 1, The Leys, Green End, Kingsthorpe, Northampton Newnham College, 41 Endcliffe Rise Road, Sheffield 17 Show House, Bardney Orton Goldhey, Peterborough 29 South Hill Park, London NW3 36 Sutherland ___Wetsh-Scheoit-of—tirehiteetun, Cambridge CB3 9DF 4 Priory Terrace, 4 Highshore Road, Peckham, London SE15 5AA Cheltenham, Gloucestershire North Yorks 7 28 Park Pince, Carty CFL-53A London SE5 ORD 10 Brief Street, 14 Holmdale Road, London NW6 794 6437 Cheltenham S,hool 31 Hevford Avenue, London SW8 14 Derby Grove, Lenton, Nottingham G39 B2E4 Wik s¥e 275/ 45 Ate John Murray 46, Hattie Majas John Napier 48. Guido Van Overbeél 49. Pankaj C Pandya 50. Ken Pearce 51. Giles Pebody 52. DW Petterick Do's Andy PAi11ips 54. 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Jeremy Armita 10 Spencer Rad, Belper, Derbyshire 077 22 82 Arran Street, Roath, Cardiff 25 St George's Avenue, London N7 OHB Cod 4It3 44¥4 IIIS: 23 Grove Hill Road, London SE5 Oosteinde 41, Delft, Holland 170 Harrogate Road, Leeds 7 25 Market Street, Huddersfield 6 Tolmers Square 1 Fairfax Street, Bishophill, York, N Yorks 17 Delancey Street, London NW1 19 Langtree, Skelmsersdale, Lancs WN8 6TQ 96 Wellsted Street, Hull, Humberside 55 Ramsay Road, London E7 55 Ramsay Road, London ET 4xt, Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh 5;Milton AveyLondon N.6, /2 122, Stanford Hill,London N.16. 68 Wragby Road, Lincoln Gerrit van der Beenstraat agit a Amsterdam, Holland c/o International $tudents House, 229 Gt Portland St, London 127 Feirbridge Road, Holloway, London N19. 272 ogo, WIN as c/o Levitt Bernstein Assoc,; 20, Oval Road, London MW td i 5 Marshall Street, Newland Ave, Hull 12a Tansdown Parade, Cheltenham, Glos Architecture Dept, Heriot-Watt University/iqinburgh College of 74. Dave and Angela Sutton 10 Andover Street, Sheffield S3 9EG 75. Ifor Thomas Wo Weve 1, Thompson T7Te Ian Tod 56 Elm Street, Roath, Cardiff 51, St Johns Wood Terrace, London NW8 9 Midland Road, Leeds 4~8.—_D_Walker 79. E Walker 80. David Somervell 81. Nick Wates 82. Caroline Lwin 85. Julia Wilson-Jones 84. Tom Wooley Bast Street; Kethem Dritfteht,—tumberstic;—¥605-ORn 15 Briarsdale Croft, Gipton, Leeds 1S8 3NE 22 Panmure Place, Edinburgh 3 10 Tolmers Square, London NW1 10 Tolmers Square, London NW1 6th Floor, Waretiouse D, Wapping Wa11, London 51 27 Clerkenwell Close, London ECG1R OAT Keoftle why Clue Walton. 1D Wene Ldezel tre jg Liclavel Th QV. lO (omg hk Lalcalh Read - ae (cad LA Ache. ©o7142 were festculendy wabreilido.Whd 24/u)r arkrodIfoFa.avsh qieup?: A CA. brebdect. Mme 363045 cHuce 13426 | Brice Smuth Sb Sonny vale Lead C 2 LA Act.tat David Mba Jol_wp-yke lane Chichglev Sure L.A Avdiles: Tetle heffuotel3 Lenny Diop : © QB. NAPKards Load REAM .Sothna\neien.. 1. 2. 3. ’ 4. DRAFT CONSTITUTION This Constitution has been based on the constitution proposed for the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science. The name of the movement is to be The New Architecture Movement. The NAM aime srs e collective action of architecture workers and lay- people to play an active role in radically altering the system of patronage and power in architecture. It seeks an architectural practice directly accountable to all who use its products and democratically controlled by the workers within it. NAM aims thereby to promte effective control by ordinary people over their environment and by architectural workers over their working lives. Members of the Movement shall be those who accept the aims of NAM. Members agree to pay an annual subscription. Membership may also be extended to those who affiliate to accredited groups. The formation of local and working groups of the Movement to organise activities in a particular locality or issue shall be encouraged. These groups shall: i) accept the broad aims of the Movement ii) submit areport of their activities to the national congress to include the names of members of the Movement who take part in the group and a contact address. iii) a group must comprise at least three paid-up members of he Movement; it may send a delegate to a Standing Congress. iv) the delegates from local and issue groups shall report back to their groups. There shall be an Annual National Congress. ‘the purpose of the Congress shall be to endorse policies formulated by the groups, elect a Liaison Group and elect a Standing Congress. 5 6. The Liaison Group is required to carry out administrative work only and to service the Standing Congress. It shall have the power to vote funds to encourage the setting up of other groups and is requirea to organise the annual vongress. No person may serve on the Liaison Group for more than one year. Te The Standing Congress shall act for the Movement between Annual Congresses, It shall compose ot 2U members which shall include one delegate for each accredited group and the rest shall be elected at the Annual Congress. The Chairperson of the Standing Congress shall rotate. i) the Standing Congress shall meet four times a year and the minutes of the meetings are to be published in Slate: there shall be at least 2 weeks notification in advance to all groups of these meetings. a quorum shall be 50%. ii) coe /2 Te iii) iv) v) the Standing Congress is empowered to recognise groups and review their acceptance as groups of the Movement and their right to send delegates to the Standing Congress. These decisions require a two-thirds majority and are subject to confirmation by a straight vote at an Annual Congress, Standing Congress may call an emergency meeting at the request of at least five of its number 8. 9, The question of affiliation to the Movement by other bodies and societies is to be investigated by the Liaison Group and to be reported to the 1978 Congress. Amendments to this constitution may be decided by two-thirds majority of those voting at an Annual or Emergency Congress. Such an amendment must be proposed by at least 6 paid-up members of the Movement. If such a proposed amendment is to be voted on at an Annual Congress, it must be submitted before a date to be announced to members by the Standing Congress. This date shall be at least two months and at most four months before the date of the Annual Congress and the announcement shall be given with at least one month's notice. If such a proposed amendment is to be voted on at an Emergency Congress, the amendment must be submitted in time for circulation one month before the Emergency Congress. »Al q Nominations for its elected members shall be sought not less than two months before the Annual Congress. A candidate at the time of nomination must be a paid-up member of the Movement, and isrequired to be nominated by two other paid-up members and is required to publish a statement of no more than 200 words to describe his/her activities and ideas. 10. An Emergency Congress can be held at the instigation of one-third of the Standing Congress or 30 members of the Movement. ll. 12. The 1977 Congress will be required to accredit the groups for the purposes of sending delegates to the 1977/78 Standing Congress. These groups shall include the Liaison Group and Slate. NAM shall seek the status of a charitable trust. prepared by David Roebuck 25.11.77 /2 ‘The existing structure of the New Avch.tectuve Movement shall be conselidaGd and strengthened | I. embevship is open te all whe accept the | road Qims of he New Ach tecture Mavenet (|Gms) a5pathieAletaealeclbcceipTicndetevmineof c ot the nny | (one VESS- Qusedklor | QvuAeTee rolalig Shall be held)'between ees ses to on (pry Se sf (eato HyRHE members the AG, pelicans receive the N.A.M, nWsuae7gan oyvo C“tte2KeAGM. Motion om NAM), Sitguettwne¢ fang loca x f SSS AinoGove of Shall be ele lac Cie CCAC ANG GalAy aad ee q,AllNAMCotSeo eeet(eastONS delega t To Eiroup forums Five ata bo who at |rast ten GaysWiprocee The Liaison q ad Tone | oeCue A foun CG. 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The New Architecture Movement ("Nam) aims, through the collective action of architectural workers and other concerned people, to Play an active role in Padically altering the system of Patronage and power in architecture. It seeks an architectural Practice directly accountable to all who use its Products and democratically controlled by the workers within it. Nam aims thereby to promote effective control by ordinary People over their environ- ment and by architectural workers over their working lives. NAM is comple- tely independent. It is not, and does not seek to become, a "learned so- ++ «publishing SLATE, a bi-monthly Newsletter and Tadical paper on architec- ture and the building industry, ++-developing outline Proposals for a "National Design Service," If you would like to become a member of NAM, fill in this form and send it together with a cheque or postal order (payable to the New Architecture Movement) for £5 (if you're employed) or £2 (student, claimant or OAP) to NAM, 9 Poland Street, London W1V 306. NA MOVEMENT RealMSECGontbacoSdacttncaaanaeeaeeu, ciety," "professional institute" or trade union. Congress held in Harrogate for the Purpose of building Up a broadly-based, Progressive force for accountability and Gemocracy in architecture. Qut of that Congress came a contact list, several local NAM 9roups and a Liaison Congress, which was held in Blackpool in November 1976. During NAM's first two years, the activities of varioys 9roups included: +--submitting evidence to the Monopolies Commission investigating alleged price-fixing among architectural firms, ++-publishing a report, Working for What?: The Case for Trade Union Organ- isation in Architecture and the Allied Building Professions, and spon- soring a special conference on the subject at which People employed in the building Professions decided within which one union to launch an Organising drive among private sector staff. (TASS was chosen. ) ithandiscsiBLaae oe bibles ouGGs On eonbesscsuGnacon cence maton, rene oaseaccicseiere eheiereloloroiotela(eleteiGlaslarareteyeter eet ee (Membership includes a year's subscription to SLATE, the nam newsletter, But if you would like to receive 6 issues of SLATE without Joining Nam, enclose cheque/p.o. for £1.50 with your name and address.) STRUCTURE PARTICIPATION AND SUPPORT ENQUIRIES cut andr return growing. come. ++epublishing the New Architecture Calendar, tt ndar ++eworking towards the establishment of "community design services" in Cardiff and Leeds, ++ Participating in "Interbuild '77," the biennial building industry ex- hibition, with a NAM stand. ++«speaking to groups of architects, architecture students and community activists about subjects of NAM's concern, Further development in these and other areas is expected during 1978. In addition, NAM nominees have been elected to six of the seven seats Tepresenting over 3,000 "unattached " architects on the Architects Regis- tration Council (ARCUK) for 1977-1978. group finances its own activities. The structure of NAM is more a "network" than a "pyramid." It consists of autonomous locally=based and/or issue-oriented groups as well as single members. Each group defines its Own role in furtherance of the overall aims. Broader contact is maintained through a Liaison Group, which consists of six members elected at the annual Congress as well as delegates from the groups. The Liaison Group is accountable to the Movement as a whole. People active in NAM, and those who support its aims, are drawn from within the field of architecture as well as from the "lay" public. From within architecture, workers in architectural practices predominate, fol- lowed by students and teachers of architecture. Interest in NAM is steadily The Second Congress decided to consolidate and strengthen the existing structure and financing of NAM by collecting subscriptions from the mem- bership. Membership now costs £5 for employed people and £2 for students and unemployed. A seperate subscription to SLATE, the NAM newsletter sent free to members, costs £1.50 for six issues. Contributions are also wel- Subscriptions and contributions are intended to cover Liaison Group expen- ses and to "float" activities that are, in principle, self-supporting, such as the Congress, seminars, literature for sale, etc. At present, each NAM All enquiries to The Secretary, Liaison Group, The New Architecture Move- ment, 9 Poland Streat, London wiv 30G. ing preliminary steps: 3rd Congress November 1977 function of securing the stability of the social system. This is not going to happen over night. NAM's proposals for a Nationa] Design Service are based on a critique® of architectural Patronage and its affects on architectural service to the public, architects working arrangements and the type and form of buildings which result from it. We argued for a design service which would be directly accountable to and controlled by the people in its locality, and it was Suggested that neighbourhood based local authority offices should form the foundation of such a service. The main factor was identified as control Over resources at local level. Control over the design process is a secondary although re- lated issue. It was pointed out that local authorities are centrally important as the main and often the only structure through which the majority of people can exert demands and gain access to land, finance and other resources necessary for their housing health and education requirements. The role of the state in providing what are essentially the means of reproduction was also examined together with its other Although it appears that local authorities cannot be radically changed in our society, history has shown that as the lowest tier of government they are susceptible to vigorous Pressure from below. They can be made to change direction in the face of the collective demands of tenants organisations,local political parties and trade unions. It is in these areas that NAM must organise and promulgate its ideas for a national design service which would require democratic control over local re- sources and local design and construction teams by local residents. The NDS Group considers that this Congress should initiate the follow- -2- Consolidate NDS Group by the inclusion of local authority architectural workers Mandate NDS Group as a matter Or urgency to undertake the necessary research and publicity that a conference of local authority architectural workers may be held to discuss this issue before the local elections in May 1978 2 Mandate NDS Group to begin negotiations with Union repre- sentatives of direct. labour Organisations and with repre- sentatives of national tenant Organisations to prepare the foundations for eventual links between local authority tenants and their architectural and construction workers. available from 9 Poland Street "A National Design Service'! Paper 2, May 1976 Paper 3, Nov 1976 London WI Price: 50p enclose (cheque/postal order payable to the New Architecture ‘Movement. Prices above include POSURESYeserves=teateetaneeeeeeenae TOTAL <¢ ee I would like to receive the NAM newsletter 'SLATE' without joining NAM The cost is £1.50(six issues) ;) : enclose a cheque/postal order (payable to New Architecture Movement) orf NAME ; ADDRESS | Sseuenee copies of Education and the Proffession @ SOD See Seer copies of Short History of the Architectural Prof- ession:@:30m5... abecieainteal.OO ile:ani|£ Se ctee copies of Report to the Birmingham Green Ban Action CommaTtee:'@SOD. lsat ceeta enaeI £ se enn copies of Working for What? The Case For Trade Union Organisation in Architecture and Allied Building Professions,@;SOpsigs oakkicnds:.qbast.bLuew.aecaLns£ oe copies of Architectural Practice, ARCUK, and the chitects Registration Acts é (9) RPI PCAINIMENEyreoes teoo £ e-copiesofProfessionalismé@LODeiciicesrerchcohcetleneistSee£ ..copies of The NAM Monopolies Commission Report @ ¢1.¢ -.copies of SLATE:The NAM newsletter (no.1 3/77) @ 25p£ -..copies of SLATE:The NAM newsletter (no 2 5/77) @ 25p.£ on ee copies of SLATE:The NAM newsletter (no 3 7/77) @ 25pe -+..copies of SLATE:The NAM newsletter (no 4 9/77) @ 25p£ copies of SLATE:The NAM newsletter (no 5.12/77) @ 25p TNE EREESAESERARRARERIDERAREHAREEEAVR EERVASEEEATIoo oy NEW ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT PUBLICATIONS ~flease send me the following: siayece aae copies of 1978 Calendar illustrated Hellman @ £1.00.£ Stare ees copies of Asbestos information leaflet (two sheets A4) aYa er Laey copies of NAM information leaflet (One sheet A4) ead AL ASAE ESEEANE ERE ANEKE SENSED EESKERE CERES HERE WUS IEE CREE RIES oo Tee EEEEA RETA TESCAREERARR REHKKKEDA6EHBEON54oaks In addition to, or in place of, becoming a NAM member or newsletter subscriber, I would like to contribute financially to NAM's work. I enclose a contribution (cheque/postal order payable to the New Architecture! Movement) ¢ nt RMAEEESSEERSERSARESSFABANEEERESARAAAADRAKE RRMA RRR oaas Please send me the following, for which I enclose a ‘stamped, self-— addressed envelope (large enough to take A4 size papers): Cheques and postal orders Payable to NAM. Please return VAME ADDRESS this form as to The Secretary NEW ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT, 9 Poland Street, London W1V 3DG Date received_ ~a soon as possible NAH Employed in architectural education (specify scinool) Unemployed PbO t FEOIOGIOICICOCICS OOOOOIIOIISOIGAIOISIDIGIGRxISIokekdoko FOICRICIOIIOIIOIIGORICIOIOICICIIOIOIIOIGDIOOCOIROIOIOIIGsolSIGAIGoiekoko: The following information would help the Liason Group better serve the membership and readership. Please complete if possible. 1 enclose a cheque/postal order (Payable to the New Architecture Mov't) for €£ OCCUPATION: Employed in architecture (specify firm, authority, etc) ) Other employment (specify) PARTICIPATION IN NAM local or issue oased groups (specify which group/s) TRADE UNION MEMBERSHIP (specify which union and branch) would like torbe a member of the New Architecture Movement. (Please use block letters TELEPHONE Home Work Membership fee for one year (Incl. year's subs to SLATE) Employed people..:.. £5.00 Claimants/Students/OAP's..... £2.00 Student (specify school and department) ‘re you an 'UNATTACHED ARCHITECT'(ie. not a member of RIBA, Architectur issociation,) but registered with ARCUK. Yes/No NAM These public expressions of NAM as well as the less publicised ones are the issues around which NAM groups form to work on.eThe groups which have issues clarified enough to present a working paper use the congress workshops to enlarge the discussion and to put forward m tions for the congress to adopt. Werkshops so far Proposed for this Years congress Cover; EDUCATION ,NATIONAT, DESIGN SERVICE ,UNIONISATION, ARCUK, ‘WOMEN IN 7 CHITECTURE jSLATESCONSTITUTION, A fuller list of workshop options will be included in vhe final briefing package, Tt require bed and breakfast accomodation @ £2.50. per night per per 1/2 nights single/double TOTAT ©snes I requi-s the alternative accomodation @ 50p per night na 1977CONGRESS APPLICATION The 3rd annual Congress of the New Architecture Movement Will be taking place on the weekend of the 25th,26th and 27th november 1977.This years event will be the 3rd NAM congress following the inaugural congress at Harrogater in 1975,and Blackpool in 1976.The hosts for this year: are the Hull €roup of NAM in conjunction with the Huli School of Architecture, The congress of '77 concludes a year of action'duri Which NAM has emerged as a force within the architectural world.Much of this'action'has stemed from the researches and and discussions carried out by NAM Groups during 1976 which were aired and refined at the Blackpool congress. These 'actions"inelude the following, NAM's May Unionisation Conference which chose T.A.S.S. within which to organise architectural workers, NAM's Unionisation groups report'Working for What’, NAM's presence in ARCUK Tepresenting the unattached Salaried architect, NAM's newspaper 'Slate! the only radical paper for architectural workers. tear off and return to 9,Poland st,London,w1 NAM 1977 CONGRESS APPLICATTON DATE vicholel©1°1@le\elwielelsiatelelelti/7, igsSoSteesclaceneegacADDRESS:eeneemeee WVA2 nights LOLA cvetetes ore I enclose a cheque payable to the New Architecture Movement for the following amount Udogoconssaan What is NAM,? EE The cost of the congress includes meals for the 3—days. The congress ends after lunch on Sunday afternoon, A more detailed programme will be included in the final briefing. The programme for the congress begins with registration at 7.30pm on friday 25th novanber followed by an introduction and discussion.A buffet will be provided, Saturday is bound up with congress workshops/general sessions and a public forum/discussion in the late afternoon followed by a social evening, food,drink and chat. The NAM agm takes place on Sunday morning with an alternative event Which is a tour de Hull for those not directly involved in NAM. The New Architecture Movement ("NAM") sims, through the col- lective action of architectural workers and other concerned people, to play an active role in radically altering the sys- tem of patronage and power in architecture. It seeks an archi- tectural practice directly accountable to all who use its pro- ducts and democratically controlled by the workers within it. NAM aims thereby to promote effective contol by ordinary people Over their environment and by architectural workers over their working lives. cut here and return the lower portion to 9,Poland Street. INTERVAL RESOLUTIONS AGM: HULL, NOVEMBER 27 1977 NEW ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT © [opr tlooqncoes 4 9, POLAND St, LONDON. Wiv3DG. & i) The AGM agreed to set up a Constitution Group to look into the structure of NAM and to report back to a specially convened congress or the Fourth Annual Congress. The AGM passed the following motions to direct the Movement until the next Congress, or until a constitution is established: The New Architecture Movements aims, through the collective action or architectural workers and other concerned people, to play an active role in radically altering the system of patronage and power in architecture. It seeks an architectural practice directly accountable to all who use its products and democratically controlled by the workers within it. NAM aims thereby. to promote effective control by ordinary people over their environment and by architectural workers over their lives. Membership is open to all who accept the broad aims of the New Architecture Movement and pay the annual sub- scription determined by the AGM. Members receive SLATE and put motions to and vote at the AGI. Group Forums open to all members shall be held quarterly between Congresses to facilitate communication between groups, to assist NAM policy shall be decided by an AGM at the annual Congress. Policy as formulated by groups and members shall be offered for endorsement to the AGM at the annual Congress. the Liaison Group and to aid in carrying out AGI policy. All NAM groups are encouraged to send at least one delegate to each Group Forun. A Liaison Group of at least 10 members shall be elected at this AGM. At least 5 shall be from the same locality in order to facilitate day to day administration. The Liaison Group may co-opt up to four additional members, ; . . 6. The Liaison Group shall: oe TORII BIH i) Attend all Group Forums and help to arrange such Forums with local Groups. i ii) Be responsible for membership subscriptions and central finances. dii) Organise the Annual Congress and AGM. iv) Encourage the development of NAM and encourage local groups to arrange monthly meetings, advertised in SLATE and given support by the Liaison Group; and that the Liaison Group should attach priority to the formation of new local groups where they do not exist, 7. The Liaison Group is accountable to the iMovement through the AGM and can be recalled or redirected by a special Congress requested by at least 15 members. 8. Each group shall submit a report in advance of the Annual Congress. SLATE is the newsletter and organ of the New Architecture Movement. It shall serve the ifovement and be responsible to the AGM and Group Forums, t shall be financed by its own sales and shall receive from the Liaison Group full cover price per member in advance of each issue to a maximum of 6 per year. 10. The membership subscription for 1978 shall be £5 for employed people and £2.50 for students, unemployed and 0.A.P's (subject to detailed study by the Liaison Group). 11. A Constitution Group should be formed to look into the structure of NAM and to report back to a specially convened congress or the Fourth Annual Congress. 12.PressstatementsorlettersshouldbesignedbytherelevNAMagnrotup. 13. The Liaison Group is to forward "issue" mail to the relevant "issue group". & AG Lo 4: rs over Dp pol 4 1 ys abour | ' iatnry vory min le I nise =z ocal rade uz 5e ae This Congress comménds the completed work of the Unionisation (Organising) Committee and recommends and urges all workers in the private sector building design professions to join TASS-BDS. FREER III IIE FORHEIRIBEE NAM LIAISON GROUP 1976/77 9 Poland Street, London W.1. This Congress mandates a working party to explore the notential for an alliance between members of TASS-BDS and building design workers in the public sector trade unions. This Congress deplores the use of sexism in advertising and the character- isation of women and men in degrading stereotyped roles in the architectural trade press. We therefore call upon NAM members to refuse to specify any products promoted through sexist advertising, and to encourage fellow architectural workers to follow suit. This Congress deplores sexism in all aspects of the building industry and approves the setting up of NAM campaisning groups to investigate and take action on the vosition of women in the industry and education. Following the workshop on Architectural Education the Congress noted that an issue group is to be re-established to co-ordinate further work. This Congress supports the efforts of NAM members representing unattached architects on the Architects Registration Council of the United Kingdom. i) This Congress notes the savage attacks orchestrated by the National Federation of Building Trade Employers and the Tory Party against Direct Labour Organisations and Local Authority architects' departments. ii) This Congress expresses its support for the democratic fight of the Direct Llahour Organisations. A new Liaison Group comprising nine people was elected for 1977/78 to co-ordinate the administration of the Movement. This is not going to happen over night. ing preliminary steps: 3rd Congress November 1977 NAM's proposals for a National Design Service are based on a critique® of architectural patronage and its affects on architectural service to the public, architects working arrangements and the type and form of buildings which result from it. We argued for a design service which would be directly accountable to and controlled by the people in its locality, and it was suggested that neighbourhood based local authority offices should form the foundation of such a service. The main factor was identified as control over resources at local level. Control over the design process is a secondary although re- lated issue. It was pointed out that local authorities are centrally important as the main and often the only structure through which the majority of people can exert demands and gain access to land, finance and other resources necessary for their housing health and education requirements. The role of the state in providing what are essentially the means of reproduction was also examined together with its other function of securing the stability of the social system. Although it appears that local authorities cannot be radically changed in our society, history has shown that as the lowest tier of government they are susceptible to vigorous pressure from below. They can be made to change direction in the face of the collective demands of tenants organisations,local political parties and trade unions. It is in these areas that NAM must organise and promulgate its ideas for a national design service which would require democratic control over local re- sources and local design and construction teams by local residents. The NDS Group considers that this Congress should initiate the follow- -2- Consolidate NDS Group by the inclusion of local authority architectural workers Mandate NDS Group as a matter or urgency to undertake the necessary research and publicity that a conference of local authority architectural workers may be held to discuss this issue before the local elections in May 1978 Mandate NDS Group to begin negotiations with Union repre- sentatives of direct. labour organisations and with repre- sentatives of national tenant organisations to prepare the foundations for eventual links between loca] authority tenants and their architectural and construction workers. "A National Design Service" Paper 2, May 1976 Paper 3, Nov 1976 available from 9 Poland Street London WI Price: 50p : - “A built in 1958. Mr Emerton. Mr Phillips, who had been off work for two days after the ac- cident, telephoned Shrewsbury office from Wrex- ham on 26 July and refused to carry on working unless he had a labourer. Mr Jordan visited the site and was forced togive him his dismissal note. Mr Emerton said the day Mr Phillips resumed work after the accident he apologised to Mr Jordan for calling in the fac- tories inspector and “accepted that he had been wrong”. Questioned by Mr Driver, Mr Emerton agreed it was nor- Dismissal notice mal for a craftsman like Mr Phillips to have an assistant, but in this instance his usual “mate” was on holiday. In those cir- cumstances he would be ex- pected to work alone. Mr Jordan told the Tribunal that on the day he gave Mr Phillips his dismissal notice Mr Phillips was working on a house gable, and said that once he had finished the gables he would not do any labouring work for the rest of the roof. Mr Phillips told him: “It’s not on. I am employed asa slater and tiler.” “He just seemed determined to be dismissed,” said Mr Jor- dan, “I did not want to get rid of him because he is a g00d tiler and Ineeded him. But Ihad to do it.” Mr Phillips, a slater and tiler for 25 years, told the Tribunal that on the day of his accident he was standing on aceiling Joist which broke. “I grabbed the trusses, and Iwrenched my knee and the side of my back. There was a clear drop to the the wanted scaffolding Gatwick prepares for Jumbos floor joists.” He came down the ladder “yery shaken” and told the builder he was getting in touch with the factories inspec tor. Mr Phillips claimed that if scaffolding had been provided he would have been Standing on it instead of the ceiling joists. Mr Phillips said there were two labourers available at Shrewsbury who could have assisted him load the roof on Which he was working, but when he asked if one of them could labour for him he was told it was “too far’. When Mr Jordan came to & site he was working on § gable, and he told Mr Jordan he did not intend to load the roof with tiles when there was a labourer free to do the work. Mr Jordan give him his dismissal notice and said: “I’ve had it in my pocket for quite a while.” “J Just remarked, ‘It’s been fixed then, has it?” ” said Mr Phillips. “If he had not come to the site Iwould have had my dinner and then done the other gables. Iwould have carried on work- ing. But Isaid Iwasn’t loading the roof while there was a free labourer,” said Mr Phillips. He had had no real dispute with Mr Emerton in the past — “just the odd tiff”. Ernest Coombs, industrial relations officer of the NFBTE, who represented the firm, sub- mitted that Emerton had not acted unreasonably in disaaiss- ingMrPhillipsforrls Carry out working instructions in accordance with his contrae of employment. Competitions and awards Wimpey Ltd. When itiscompleted, A “safety conscious” roof tiler was sacked because he made a nuisance of himself to his boss. it was claimed at an Industrial Tribunal at Shrewsbury. He called in a factories in- spector when he was not satisfi- ed with safety measures on a housing site where he worked, and was dismissed a few days later after he refused to load tiles on a roof because, he claimed, it was not a craftsman’s job and there was a labourer available to do it. ~He is a very safety- conscious person who has perhaps made a nuisance of himself, but that is no reason to dismiss him,” said John Driver, representing 45-year-old George Phillips of Shenandoah Cottage, Cinder Lane, Reaseheath, Nantwich. “It seems clear that for one reason Or another the company were looking for a reason to give him the sack.” But Mr Phillips lost his unfair dismissal claim against his former employers, Emerton Roofing (Western) Ltd, of Ac- ton, Nantwich. Anthony Gordon, the Tribunal chairman, said the panel was unanimous in its deci- sion, the reasons for which would be made known at a later date. Gerald Emerton, the firm’s Managing director, and a member of the National Federa- tion of Roofing Contractors’ safety committee, told the Tribunal that on 18 July the manager of the Shrewsbury branch, Leslie Jordan, told him he was having “further trouble” ee eee O The commemorative medal for the most outstanding British- designed and built entry in the tural interest coupled with an housing section of the adventurous use of colour wai Europrefab Golden Trophy won by 23-year-old Pete Competition has been awarded Robertson of the Sco to Millard Contractors Ltd of Sutherland school of architee Tipton, West Midlands. The ture, Aberdeen. medal was awarded by the System Builders section of the NFBTE for Millard’s “Pur- pose Built” timber frame system. Millard recently. com- pleted 91 houses in Greenwich on a difficult site using this system. O The £250 pnize, given by an entry of particular architec ‘Safety first’ tiler who with Mr Phillips over scaf- folding at the Merinda housing development at Wrexham. Mr Phillips was refusing to work on the Wrexham site un less scaffolding was provided, Mr Jordan had given Mr Phillips a verbal warning for not complying with instructions, and he was put on casual work in the Shrewsbury yard while it was decided what further steps should be taken. Mr Emerton said he prepared a final written warning which Mr Jordan was to give to Mr Phillips if he again refused to work at the Wrexham site. Under building safety re- quirements the work Mr Phillips was engaged on did not need scaffolding. The safety re quirements laid down that edge protection or scaffolding was not necessary unless a roof had a slope of more than 30 degrees, and the slope on the Wrexham houses was only 224 degrees. Mr Phillips was handed the written final warning when he again refused to g0 to Wrexham on 20 July. “I had given instruc- tions that it was only to be issued if it was absolutely necessary,” said Mr Emerton. Mr Phillips then agreed to g0 to the Wrexham site, and that same day he was involved in an accident. Two days later, said Mr Emerton, he was told by the main contractors that factory inspectors were inspecting the building where the accident had happened. “Later I was in- formed they would not be sub mitting a report because there was no case to answer,” said O Eastham House, Wirre owned by Merseyside Improv Houses, has been selected as the most successful sheltered hou. ing scheme for the elderly fro: over 180 entries in the Institut of Housing Silver Jubilee com- petition. CA regional architectural com- petition is being organised by the Scottish Special Housing Association with the RIAS. Eight local authority practices in Glasgow and West area have been asked to submit their designs for a housing develop- ment in Glasgow. The central pier at London's Gatwick airport has been completely rebuilt to handle jumbo jets at a cost of £10 million. The aircraft are boarded by manoeuvrable apron-drive air bridges. The architects are Yorke Rosenberg Mardall, while the contractor is George O The final of the Institution of Civil Engineers’ 1977 Cooling Prize competition has been won by a young Plymouth Polytechnic research Student, Clive Williams, for his Paper on the measurement of ground movement using lasers. inJune 1978,itwilltake1]JumbojetSatonce,replacingtheoriginalpier 36 Building 2 December 1977 On the road energy code The first part of an ambitious programme towards es tablishing a building energy code (excluding dwellings) was launched last week by the Chartered Institution of Building Services. Practical guide lines* are provided for achieving conservation through good practice in design. Three other parts are to follow, the most important being guidance on energy design targets. Part I of the code concen trates on new building. In ducing it, Neville Billington, Ov: of the CIBS chnology Board, said “No part of the building and its ser- vices can be considered in isolation. Independent in Stallation of heating and lighting, for example, can lead to waste while the intelligent use of controls can save up to 30 per cent of energy used. to an Buildings can better,” be designed The document goes far beyond the well-known [HVE Guides in scope and underlines the CIBS aim of involving the services engineer in decisions made about a building’s design and running efficiency. It is written as a guide to what is practical and economic, rather than embracing what CIBS describes as the esoteric and the ayant garde, It covers such New NEC; a building success Story. This year’s building exhibition mingham was a mistake. Interbuild has been so General pressure on the Successful that the organisers NEC is so heavy, that special have already promised to return government permission is now n, standards for heating ang ghting, standards for f r e. AM’s directions ome interesting new goals ere established at the third an- to the National Exhibition Cen- tre in two years’ time — and this the halls by 1200 m? at a cost of forge links between architec tablishment of a National tural trade unions in the public Design Service Group within and private sectors. In another NAM. This was mandated to motion that deplored sexism in investigate how local authorities the building industry, NAM could provide the public with members were exhorted “to access to the resources of hous- refuse to specify any products The employers had also wanted safety representatives to have served a minimum period of two years, which was in line with the regulations. Here the unions gained their point that a one year period would be more appropriate. The unions also wanted site safety committees to be set up within one month instead of three. Although the employers wouldn’t agree, they have left it to be a matter of consultation. As a result of the delay in Getting agreement between the two sides, plans to hold pilot training schemes on safety in January have now been put back. ing and architecture in general. The potential for local authority architectural staff, direct labour The decline in workload is slowing down but is not yet reversed, according to the latest Survey by the RICS on quantity surveyors’ workload. While 21 per cent of practices reported an improvement in the third quarter, 36 per cent suffered a decline. An RICS spokesman said promoted through sexist adver- tising”. Manufacturers of shower- baths may like to note this. at the electricians’ annual con- ference, the union’s rule forbid- ding communists to hold official positions was maintained. UCATT has two communists on its national executive council and a number scattered among its regional council members. @ UKAPE is issuing a writ Corrections against the Advisory, Concilia- The cost of the FrigateRefitting Service in complex at Devonport (Building respect of a report on the 18 November) was £17.5 mil- ing to get a declaration that the report is invalid. tion and Arbitration recognition of collective lion not £33 million as stated, bargaining rights at the Bedford sites of W H Allen. The professional engineers are hop- Organisations, tenants’ time they would be booking the about £500000. Although federations and trade unions to entire place, not just four out of Planning permission will ual congress of the New work jointly towards this end the six halls as this year. probably be forthcoming soon, Architecture Movement (NAM), which was held in Hull last weekend. One of the main new fronts that was opened up was the es- was announced as the theme for Trade visitors’ attendance is the next Interbuild in November a conference next May. reported to be up by 25 per cent 1979 may be among the first ex- On the trade union front, a on 1975, completely allaying hibitions to benefit from the working party was set up to the fears that the move to Bir- enlarged facilities. being sought to expand one of Building 2 December 1977 35 ims as optimum levels of in- sul *CIBS Energy Code Part 1: Guidance towards energy conserving design of buildings and services. Cost to CIBS members is £2.50 and to non members is £3.50 from the CIBS Publications Department, 49 ¢adogan Square, London SWIX OJB equipment and places a duty on the manufacturer to provide data to the specifier. CIBS acknowledges its debt to the similar American ASHRAE code published in 1975 and which is now incor- porated in legislation, but says that its code goes further and is able to cope with the changes in regulations and cost that are bound to occur. Commenting on the code for DOE, Ian Macpherson of the Building Regulations Division stated: “Energy conservation is too important to leave to regulations. Conservation must Start in the designer’s heart. This code is the key.” Part 2 of the code is due out in draft form next spring and will deal with the challenging topic of energy targets. The Public Services Agency is waiting for this Part 2 to appear before deciding whether or not to make use of the code man- datory on its building projects. RIBA is in liaison with the CIBS and Richard Burton, RIBA’s energy convenor, reports that the code will be dis- cussed during the new RIBA in- itiatives on energy announced by president Gordon Graham last week. for the next year Safety working rule agreed No recovery yet for surveyors that some practices have that the Health and Safety reported no new commissions Commission guidelines were for preliminary estimates or Specific in giving the unions bills of quantities during the responsibility in this field. past two quarters. “It is par- However, it has been agreed ticularly worrying that 70 per that there can be discussions cent of member firms received with the employers on ap- no commissions for new private pointments although these will housing work during this impose no obligations on the period,” he said. unions. re @ Fees, advertising and limited liability could become major issues if architects and sur- yeyors are not adequately com- pensated for their responsibilities in their fee scales, says Henry Parkin, president of the IAAS. In these circumstances, he says, many would want to abandon the existing prohibitions. @ Prospects of a merger dimension by 300 mm generally between the main building un- reduced the target area by more ion UCATT and the EPTU than 25 per cent. This should were not helped last week when, have read 2 per cent. Interbuilding on success A new working rule agreement over the new safety rules was agreed between the employers and unions last week. Ratifica- tion is expected in January. Originally, the building em- ployers had sought a greater Say in the appointment of safety representatives which the un- ions had resisted, pointing out In the article “Sizing up con struction” on the economics of dimensional co-ordination (Building 1 November), it was stated that to reduce a plan pien histS oleSeeLeeceche ; CULT Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Liaison Group Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available John Murray Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1977