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A recent name that has put their hat in the ring might be a surprise, namely closed-loop pioneer architect Duncan Baker-Brown, of Waste House fame, who manages to combine running a practice with teaching at the University of Brighton. A surprise because he’s clearly a champion of reuse and “adapt and retrofi t rather than pull down,” in place of overly-fl amboyant new architectural statements.
Maybe his timing is very good, given the huge focus on retrofi t and reuse that is needed if we are to hit our climate targets. And his laid back yet enthusiastic style, in tandem with his focus on students as the future pipeline of designers, might be further factors that see him get a head of steam in the presidential race. One of his many promises in his pitch for the role is to see a subsidised national retrofi t industry, and to hassle Government until that happens.
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In the absence of a national policy on retrofi t, collaborative industry endeavours are the way forward, but are architects being included in retrofi t at scale? One of Oki’s aims was for architects to be ‘agents of change,’ but they need to be at the table for that to happen.
RIBA currently represents 52,000 members; many are crying out for strong leadership, as design continues to fi ght for its place in the diffi cult conversations to come on sustainability, both economic and environmental.
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FROM THE EDITOR
his October, we will know the name of the new RIBA president. We could be forgiven for having only recently become familiar with the name of the incumbent, Mace architect Muyiwa Oki, the fi rst black person to hold that role – and at 32 when appointed, its youngest. The fast turnaround the RIBA favours means a two-year term that feels even shorter, with the president elect a visible presence for the fi nal few months. Will this hamper the organisation’s ability to mine the real benefi ts of communicating inclusion, diversity and broadening design to the wider community as well as it could have done during Oki’s tenure?
Back in 2018, Mark Middleton of Grimshaw (Oki’s previous fi rm), called for a doubling of the president’s tenure, to something more like a Prime Minister’s administration; although even that duration seems often too short to ensure full accountability and engagement with decisions.
Will the next president have a strong mandate to push such strident ideas to the top of the UK design agenda, if the voter apathy which has been seen in recent elections is demonstrated again this year? A bigger number than the one in fi ve RIBA members voting in 2018 needs to be seen for the president to feel there is a strong breeze behind the agenda they are hoping to drive forward.
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