i List of Works Robson Tiaveboyd Offi anc Showman cone, 1800. Zoo Biery Lordan, 1947 WAH, Cordon, 108% Pomaries thnkaen,Statferstive, oe Anthis ine vermonrefers to. that taken by me, and asic office response to requests from others, Such tequests are not necessarily of anarchite>= frequently jn-the form of a SueReT “a ‘arctistwesspemse, Tn auch cases, an architecural res fic, and -aitst0 compared wii fie oie} eer ~hatives of fast proposalrelathdto other disciplines; setiifes and pon-atchitectural products or serordly, A. Aon (aw Tow), USA, 19685 fer Bla, Corn, 952 ‘A Stualures Feseaich, 195 Phun Gi, Suseos. 1970 Dork angyrTuctsater Piper. Te “Seatly explained reason for x0 response at all, Ths ies Spare, laiter is Be. frst constructive “inatton’ that archileet pzvofier, hoving satisfied, Me 2 ‘TRE. 16 @uable ins tesponse to be.consttictve, esses fad aithoritatve. Teed this sone oF “finest. reasons for ayehlles 15. havoive: thetnselves indotuly if Apscipacory design as-récommencied by Reckminster Buller. Only ang itonsaily ese ig, wvsing and reviewing one's appetite, expertise, ~ehfliand dloil can one wir sonfidence aise others “GG TGA¥ cere, THE former altemative caf reslt Faoatft eure conve, vcd ir Snake, usta, 1983 ~ +o architecture. ~ Hower, in al the schertias illustrated, architectare ‘was. considered an appropriate response if only for fmited time, ‘Thus the ckallenge from the Iymior esomen Moar. bord ent to explain an “Aiernative to thé then popular ‘new’ universities (arly Sixties) produced the Pouertes ‘Thiakbelinep wake advantage of focal unemployment, #. 1 Housing programme, @ fedundant rail detwork, vast areas. of tinured, urgigble lang, consisting mainly of 2 £2 old coal-working and cy Bus, and a uational need for {cigutss and engineers, At the tine, chough not out itsideas were heeded by batt the UK aud US Adminis trations because, Lthink, of its immediacy in response toa knows situation. 1c ironic that the response of lier architecis at the time, 1962, was totally hostile ‘whilgaow twenty years later ~ the Deriod proposed for its Sécio-tconomic life - architects find it Soterestirg’ and ‘important’! "This lack of realisaticn by the profession of the comparatively short-‘shelf-Hfe" of mos: worubwhile proposals has bon experiedsed in many of the ocher Schemes in this section - fortutacely, ae majodty of. the population realises that good architecture results from timely action and that bad architecture Ss avoided ough inaction, “The immediacy of the task reclres as equally swift a espouse from client as from designer’ Thus in Post ’ fot, devsions on insplementation and rejection WEEs, equally urgent, although many. of the proposals rang* ‘overa tio hundred year Future petiod. Itispoor design to olan oak tress which wil live for one hundred and Fifty years, at twenty-year intervals Wit ihe London Aviery, we were blessed with cor ‘ious access to both real dad assumed clients and the, existing facilities dhat outs were to replace. Flowever, Tort dignad 22 byCothir Bice Tow sgned FA by Frank Nowy 9 ttre ovetsatSrove, bes ‘ive pobanil oF 3 mov senior , the progcanove was tight in:money and time and sie tite was even tighter The Aviary helps 1 cial FPrimtose Hil aac keep the public road outsidethe Z00 from callapse, Action onthese two mauers was next urgently aviary or a0, es Phun Clty required iting ¥ out all the way ‘rough ts ealzaticn,Asl6cal police, fire officers and healt authorities softened, nelghbouting faruiets and Tocal resides hardened, Then the day before opeting, the need to" make worey on the ste was removed Through ihe-sale of film sights. Design action here, rated ss mi spceing pets through tte heily netied nd brambld ood, okecking which parts of the pasture flooded should it rain, ensuring Deer was available in caus nof"botiles and mill was Available in a tare, 2s to the stmactre of the sage. “Tasks requising the addition of the now to the old, avoiding disturbance yet enbancing performance, i2- ‘arlably raise te question of how bite need'be dove. Tn Atoen, the eapetizpositon of science-based indus ities and services on a typical US euburban area resulted in ‘cosmecies" for enshing plant and be sting of the new across existing freeways. ‘The separation of thestruemre from the sitebas been a castar inerest of tis office. In ack Ahoy, Truck- gate and. Airpertable, 2 tio of ransportation 2c teapes, there i herent uncertainty the salty oF any permapent st, This basic, design premise thus activates the enle bature of pans. AC the seme tim, itreduces the enviccnmental importance aisodlated widh ibe permancat ste. Soveral of our ‘rojeet have required no particlar site in order to be Gesieted and cousiructed. The cil containment Pro jposas, site tested before the Torrey Canyon disaster, fs Ddnesuchdesign. Inates projects, such usr extended Sonsoltascies concerned with, for exemple, aocom- modation in the North Sea oil industry or with the During of cubble (an office concer: stace 19762), the continously updated report ot Design Validity Chart feplaces safle cravings ac a design gonerator of other people's actions, Calculated indolence on the part ofthe architect can produce rear works by others. CR Yb eit gern orca rvetve revinfaton of he elon Ral Seon proposats with nse stasoret chats, estat ovare'd are antipates pubic novess ard erioymont‘A preater asrareness in architects and planners oftheir ‘eal vaive to society could, at the present, resi in (nat are occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality Orie as a direct result of architectural endeavor, Although basic behavioural patcecning of nstiution’ and intvuls hasbeen izereasngly questions or the lest fifty years, the period of wi olesile fejection ‘of old ‘meres, through expediency, nocespity or intelligence, is “Comporatively recent. Such rejetion hs enable a wide Tange of 26M, Jes wel-defined or pedigree-shronded, social, esonomi aiedmiisjrative patie evolve, “Thus he building of & new Coloaial Office becomes: nowprobim, wile the days of piteéd ‘baths are munbered. Far from encouraging such change and accelerating its ordered advance, sechitecrure axé Planning wold appear wo show ac realisation of its tapacity co make sveh 2 contribution. In fact mos. architects and planners Yauve contistenly produced izer-dimemsional packaged ammunition for the reactionaries, T comder i unlikely thal archilecture and plemning will area the éontribution Hush Puppieshave made to society coda, Jt alone approach shat of the ransistor ot [oop atl fora reappraisal of is particular expertise is self jmposed, or inflicted from outside. “Untortunalely, the nawre of ccucetion of architects ‘and planar is pamaily directed at producing thes Aimensional ciscipfring for al-vomer. Perkazs this vould not be so bae if any assescmnent vere made of the Yaldlifespan of the ctient's intcatons end desir. (The ‘ed meaning, progressive parens/instusions Who, On (planning thetr ucare hore wih their archiscet planter, Tre concerned about inbuilt flexibility that will enable then offspring 12.live quite dijferennly from them, tragically ignore the increasing probabil. that their loved onex wil norsiay around to enjoy such contider- tion, Change and Fexibiity in architecmre and Planning is associated by the professions with the Edaptation, extension, or most progressively with the limited life of structures. and organisations’ which, hhopertcs are permacent!y dependent on their particular deg oF ineraction with other artefacts. Thus, while josttutions, trades and activities question their very exivience, the architects and plaare's are tearing their ipa out looking for now ways 1 justify such enistence, Fehester with not he desiroyed by & demotion order ‘approved by the Royal Fine Aris Commission: i wilde Wen the last aitigue-boutigae operetor ard his thentele are bored with hobbling over the cobbles Grud move ou) “Howerss, architects and planners are desperately dedicated t6trving (0 inject ot discover some relevance ineiviliced man’s aged ariefactual droppings “keen the cars out, build a byepass, slap a preservation order on the front and some more aquere fect on the back’ 1 architects and plarmers were a itde more modest about thx debt society cwes them for possessing such fantastic threodimensioual ewarencss, and alte more ‘eonceliedly optimistic about the ipmiense acceleration ‘they, theouph their expertie, are capable of providing ‘o the frogress of ordered sociel change, they might in fact ‘yarrant aitention (rom the rest for their otter quélitics, ‘At the present It is difficult to find geod reasons why they shoakl nat be ignored tofally. ... Over-hat imagery in bait form appears 10 be in inverse proporton to the importance of the activity it houses Pig St Pancras Station iS £0 go, Hs successor must Be ever more gloriously recognisable’, they said, stepping ‘aver the National Computer Grid) 1 believe chat a large proportion of the tak of providing either inbuilt Heaibilty or planned Spsolessencebas already heen taken out of viens of ihe architects and plamcers at the physical scale of particular arvefact ot locale, This has occurred dhrough The alies professions’ incapacity to help, but the nex! phese of life-conditioning has et to be undertaken Sach a phase demands a far more deliberate ‘applcction of an expendable aesthetic mm hich, oF Course, determination of valid social Efe will be required for all atefactual dcisions, being & necessary constituent of such an aesthetic. "Tris involves the recognition of the fact that as ibe even availability netwark of invisible services inereases jn both intensity and content (credit cards and corr ruunication salves) the vesidaal activities requiring pliyeea! location, hardsvare and avcess become more particular or ‘to taste’ (The wine and food sockelists ave al ways been able fo send mveningyid ariiches ithe Statesman from tee South of France whiten onecares where Cadbury’ milk chocoiaie is made.) This in fact becomes a Ter mote critical conditioning tasks For the architect and planner, since he can no longer take relugein decision-malingas a result of determining the LCD, for it need no lenger exist - in is realm, at least Thus’ the consciously planned and purposely built eniviyoumncal that expleils the potential of unevenness fof envirenmental conditioning is Ikely to become one Of the main contributions that architects andi plesiners con make 10 society, ‘However, ence architects end planners rid thom selves of the lea thet they are cupsble, through that which they feave on the ground, of re-orienting the past to the advantage of the present generation, then itis Tikely that the following o3jectives can be undertaken in the cance of life-conditioning only by good arclibeats ‘and planners. "The architect/planner must exercise a his expertise, con being asked for artefactusl conditioning, on tbe relevance of or necestly for doing anything at all. (The best technieu! advice may be that rather than putt a House your client should ieave is wife.) ..» iL is walter patlatic thet, while the appearance and performance of clothes, food, furniture, motor cars End wivesshusbancs i now considered a subject ‘worthy of oflylimited-icrm personel predilection, the ‘value judgement on a bouse or own isnot forthe users to make but for posterity, continted overleny