Yudu - RIBA September 2011

Context | RIBA Briefing

RIBA BRIEF CLIENT ADVISOR

THERE’S SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE THIS AUTUMN

PUBLIC PROGRAMME

THE RIBA HQ at 66 Portland Place is the place to be on Tuesday evenings this autumn. Stirling Prize winner Zaha Hadid opens the

public programmes season by giving the 2011 Stephen Lawrence Trust Memorial lecture. She will reflect on design and diversity in an increasingly competitive global market. The following week, 11 October, sees the opening event of the ‘Architecture Open’ exhibition in Gallery 1. The aim is to show the wide variety of approaches to conceptualising and developing ideas, giving an equal platform to familiar and lesser-known London practices. A series of four talks on Cities of Tomorrow

will bring together perspectives of changing large-city growth around the world. The first, on 18 October, will feature Milton Braga and profile Sao Paolo in Brazil. On Tuesday 25 October we look at the

legacy of post modernism. Timed to coincide with the V&A exhibition ‘Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990’, speakers including Terry Farrell, Piers Gough and Sean Griffiths will consider the movement’s lasting impact on architecture and design in the UK. The Cities of Tomorrow series continues

on 1 November with Richard Rogers and his partners Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour giving their take on the role of the sustainable city in the 21st century and how design affects the way we live. Thomas Heatherwick will give the 2011

RIBA Lecture, which invites an eminent non- architect to explore a theme that challenges the profession, on 8 November. As one of Britain’s leading designers, he will ask ‘When does design become architecture?’ Art Deco and the Age of Glamour in Britain

will be the focus of ‘Putting on the Glitz’, an exhibition of 100 images drawn from the

British Architectural Library photographic collection (1 Oct-26 Nov), and subject of an expert discussion on 15 November. David Adjaye adds his voice to the Cities of Tomorrow series on 22 November, focusing on Africa’s diverse metropolitan architecture. The series is rounded off on 29 November by architect and urbanist Jan Gehl looking at the need for people-inspired interventions in city development, using Copenhagen and New York as case studies. Finally, on 6 December, the annual Jencks

Award will be given to Eric Owen Moss, Culver City architect who has for over 30 years evolved a local grammar of architecture, showing a rare commitment to place and character. On Tuesdays exhibition galleries, restaurant, bookshop and library will stay open late. With exhibitions at Portland Place and events

across the country, this is a bumper season. For details go to www.architecture.com/programmes

Robert Mallet- Stevens, Ambassade Française, Exposition Internationale des Arts

Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris, 1925. RIBA British Architectural Library Books & Periodicals Collection.

SEMINAR BACKS SERVICE RELAUNCH

THE RIBA will relaunch its accredited Client Adviser service at a seminar for clients and their other advisers on 21 September. Formerly called RIBA Client Design Advisors, the revised service focuses on strategic advice to clients and omits the D word which stopped some clients from involving advisers at the start of a project. Now that the government has redefined its construction strategy to require specific client skills, the public sector field has opened for more adviser input. The retreat of the Cabe Enabler service also paves the way. The RIBA is running a seminar for central and local government, business professional groups, accountants, and real estate and project management firms, all of whom are in a position to help clients put together the advisory team they need. Paul Fletcher, chair of the RIBA Client Advisers steering group, and former RIBA vice president Richard Saxon will present the need for and the ideas behind the service. Paul Morrell, the government’s chief construction adviser, and Richard Simmons, former chief executive of Cabe, will put the idea in context. Two client case studies will illustrate the concept with more in a poster session.

A Client Advisers Forum is planned for later in the year to share thinking on the service in the light of the new government strategy.