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• Grenfell inquiry has shone a light on architecture profession’s flaws | Letters

  10-09-2024 18:42
  
  Kerr Robertson and Catherine Brownell on the structural defects in the training and fees of architectsOliver Wainwright’s article about the Grenfell Tower inquiry report was spot-on (‘Professional buck-passers’: why the excoriating Grenfell report was right to damn architects, 5 September). He could also have added that the Royal Institute of British Architects’ complacency on continuing professional development (CPD) has been another factor. On the point about architects
  
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• A genius in pink jandals: Rewi Thompson, the Māori architect who shocked his neighbours

  10-09-2024 15:27
  
  He was one of the boldest and most influential Māori architects, whose outfits were as eye-catching as his buildings. A new book captures his creations, from his own defiant home to a ‘healing’ correctional facilityIn the leafy Auckland suburb of Kohimarama, where pitch-roofed clapboard homes line well-kept streets, a striking grey ziggurat rises from the subtropical foliage. It looks like a defensive fortification, greeting the road with a monolithic, windowless facade. Narrow
  
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