“Architecture has become a conveyor belt with students being pushed through a system that does not necessarily give society what it wants at the other end. Her [Reed’s] trick will be to make a case that learning can be done at the coalface, education is continuous and that, with architecture, it is people that count, not qualifications. Finally, she needs to avoid Prince Charles and Richard Rogers if she possibly can. These two big beasts in the architectural jungle detract from the real issue facing the profession, which is unemployment, a very expensive education system and clients who do not understand what an architect does.”
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“What the stories do suggest is that efforts to pursue blanket bans on certain architects because they're foreign, or because their work is seen as insufficiently sensitive to context or history, don't do anybody much good, not least the banners themselves. In both cases, simplistic judgments -- Modern architecture ruined the city! Keep foreign architects away from our stimulus money! -- can lead to a sort of provincialism by way of protectionism.”?Los Angeles Times
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??“Skylines are like cities - they grow in fits and starts, and never according to plan … What we also see, unfortunately, is the challenge of architecture writ large - the difficulty of getting things right both on the ground and in the air, and the complexity of trying to shift a city's scale without bending it out of shape.”?
SF Gate
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“A New York-based architect is to design a £50million home for Glasgow School of Art opposite its iconic Mackintosh masterpiece … This is about a major cultural institution that should be promoting Scottish talent. I am very disappointed but frankly not surprised.”
Evening Times
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“Wow. This is one of those projects that the local authority architect thought: "I can do this. This is my big chance. Those fancy-dan architects from Glasgow/London will finally recognise the genius of us Ayrshire natives." So the local authority didn't have a competition, didn't take any advice and went with its own, terribly untalented architecture office. The result is this embarassing lump of sandstone, stranglingly enclosing what remains of a listed monument.”
Bad British Architecture
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