B******s to Architecture
Occasional irreverent comment on (mainly UK) architecture and architects
223 : We need to talk about ARB
Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 10:30 PM
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All registered architects should really be very, very, concerned about the meglomaniac aspirations of our so-called registration body - see postings on this website passim ad nauseam. The news in last weeks journals that ARB intends raising our fees by 10% - see [this article] on the BD website as an example - has caused a predictably knee-jerk reaction from just about everyone, but ... no one, and I repeat NO ONE, seems to have reached the obvious conclusion which this lone voice in the e-wilderness has been boring-on about for years:
Do any of us really care about protection-of-title when protection-of-function has never been even remotely on the cards? Why do we continue to pay fees to this moribund organisation which seems hell-bent on feathering its own nest whilst totally ignoring the real needs of those that it is supposed to represent? Oh, I'm sorry, that was a momentary slip - I thought that ARB was representing architects when it's actually representing ... ARB.
Can we please ask the RIBA to come off the proverbial fence and get this farce sorted-out once-and-for-all? Here's a radical suggestion ... every RIBA member should title themselves "Architect RIBA" but resign from ARB and refuse to pay their fees. ARB could choose to respond in several ways ... hopefully they would try and sue every RIBA member individually and bankrupt themselves in the process; alternatively they could try and sue the RIBA and that would take a few years to get court; or, more positively, the RIBA could seek to repeal the Architect's Registration Act 1997 and sweep-away ARB for ever.
The RIBA may have many failings, but not half as many as ARB, and it's at least marginally accountable to its membership whereas ARB seems to care sweet f**k-all for those who pay its fees. So come on Sunand and Ruth, show us what you're really made of, and lead us all in a mutiny against the tyrannous oppressors of ARB - it'll send your street-cred stratospheric.
Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 10:30 PM
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All registered architects should really be very, very, concerned about the meglomaniac aspirations of our so-called registration body - see postings on this website passim ad nauseam. The news in last weeks journals that ARB intends raising our fees by 10% - see [this article] on the BD website as an example - has caused a predictably knee-jerk reaction from just about everyone, but ... no one, and I repeat NO ONE, seems to have reached the obvious conclusion which this lone voice in the e-wilderness has been boring-on about for years:Just what is ARB for?
Do any of us really care about protection-of-title when protection-of-function has never been even remotely on the cards? Why do we continue to pay fees to this moribund organisation which seems hell-bent on feathering its own nest whilst totally ignoring the real needs of those that it is supposed to represent? Oh, I'm sorry, that was a momentary slip - I thought that ARB was representing architects when it's actually representing ... ARB.
Can we please ask the RIBA to come off the proverbial fence and get this farce sorted-out once-and-for-all? Here's a radical suggestion ... every RIBA member should title themselves "Architect RIBA" but resign from ARB and refuse to pay their fees. ARB could choose to respond in several ways ... hopefully they would try and sue every RIBA member individually and bankrupt themselves in the process; alternatively they could try and sue the RIBA and that would take a few years to get court; or, more positively, the RIBA could seek to repeal the Architect's Registration Act 1997 and sweep-away ARB for ever.
The RIBA may have many failings, but not half as many as ARB, and it's at least marginally accountable to its membership whereas ARB seems to care sweet f**k-all for those who pay its fees. So come on Sunand and Ruth, show us what you're really made of, and lead us all in a mutiny against the tyrannous oppressors of ARB - it'll send your street-cred stratospheric.
