Royal_Institute_of_British_Architects

context: The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its charter granted in 1837 and Supplemental Charter granted in 1971.
qas: answers: text: Royal Institute of British Architects
question: What does RIBA stand for?

answers: text: the advancement of architecture
question: What is the goal of RIBA?

answers: text: 1837
question: When was RIBA founded?

answers: text: 1971
question: When was RIBA's founding document expanded?

answers: text: United Kingdom
question: In what country does RIBA mainly operate?

context: Originally named the Institute of British Architects in London, it was formed in 1834 by several prominent architects, including Philip Hardwick, Thomas Allom, William Donthorne, Thomas Leverton Donaldson, William Adams Nicholson, John Buonarotti Papworth, and Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey.
qas: answers: text: Institute of British Architects in London
question: What was Riba's first name?

answers: text: 1834
question: In what year was the Institute of British Architects founded?

answers: text: London
question: In what city was the Institute of British Architects located?

answers: text: Architects
question: In terms of profession, what were people like Philip Hardwick, William Adams Nicholson and Thomas de Grey?

context: After the grant of the royal charter it had become known as the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, eventually dropping the reference to London in 1892. In 1934, it moved to its current headquarters on Portland Place, with the building being opened by King George V and Queen Mary.
qas: answers: text: the grant of the royal charter
question: What caused the change of the Institute's name?

answers: text: the reference to London
question: What was removed from the Royal Institute's name?

answers: text: 1892
question: When was the mention of London removed from the Royal Institute's name?

answers: text: Portland Place
question: Where is the Royal Institute of British Architects located?

answers: text: King George V and Queen Mary
question: Who opened the structure in which the Royal Institute is currently housed?

context: It was granted its Royal Charter in 1837 under King William IV. Supplemental Charters of 1887, 1909 and 1925 were replaced by a single Charter in 1971, and there have been minor amendments since then.
qas: answers: text: 1837
question: When did the Royal Institute receive its charter?

answers: text: King William IV
question: Who was responsible for giving the charter to the Royal Institute?

answers: text: 1887, 1909 and 1925
question: In what years was the Royal Institute issued supplemental charters?

answers: text: 1971
question: When were the various supplemental charters consolidated?

answers: text: minor amendments
question: What term characterizes the nature of changes to the charter after 1971?

context: The original Charter of 1837 set out the purpose of the Royal Institute to be: '… the general advancement of Civil Architecture, and for promoting and facilitating the acquirement of the knowledge of the various arts and sciences connected therewith…'
qas: answers: text: the general advancement of Civil Architecture
question: What was the central aim of the Royal Institute?

answers: text: The original Charter of 1837
question: What document set forth the goals of the Royal Institute?

answers: text: promoting and facilitating
question: What was the Royal Institute responsible for doing with regards to the development of knowledge related to architecture?

context: The operational framework is provided by the Byelaws, which are more frequently updated than the Charter. Any revisions to the Charter or Byelaws require the Privy Council's approval. 
qas: answers: text: the Byelaws
question: What sets forth the standards by which the Royal Institute functions?

answers: text: the Byelaws
question: What guidelines for the Royal Institute are updated most often?

answers: text: the Privy Council's approval
question: What is necessary to make any changes to either document which governs the operations of the Royal Institute?

context: The design of the Institute's Mycenean lions medal and the motto ‘Usui civium, decori urbium' has been attributed to Thomas Leverton Donaldson, who had been honorary secretary until 1839. The RIBA Guide to its Archive and History (Angela Mace,1986) records that the first official version of this badge was used as a bookplate for the Institute's library and publications from 1835 to 1891, when it was redesigned by J.H.Metcalfe. It was again redesigned in 1931 by Eric Gill and in 1960 by Joan Hassall. The description in the 1837 by-laws was: "gules, two lions rampant guardant or, supporting a column marked with lines chevron, proper, all standing on a base of the same; a garter surrounding the whole with the inscription Institute of British Architects, anno salutis MDCCCXXXIV; above a mural crown proper, and beneath the motto Usui civium decori urbium ".
qas: answers: text: Usui civium decori urbium
question: What was the first Latin phrase used by the Royal Institute?

answers: text: Thomas Leverton Donaldson
question: Who is responsible for the use of 'usui civium decori urbium'?

answers: text: honorary secretary
question: What was Donaldson's role within the Royal Institute?

answers: text: Eric Gill
question: Who reworked the Royal Institute's medal desgin in 1931?

answers: text: 1960
question: When did Joan Hassall redesign the Royal Institute's medal?

context: In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the RIBA and its members had a leading part in the promotion of architectural education in the United Kingdom, including the establishment of the Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom (ARCUK) and the Board of Architectural Education under the Architects (Registration) Acts, 1931 to 1938. A member of the RIBA, Lionel Bailey Budden, then Associate Professor in the Liverpool University School of Architecture, had contributed the article on Architectural Education published in the fourteenth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1929). His School, Liverpool, was one of the twenty schools named for the purpose of constituting the statutory Board of Architectural Education when the 1931 Act was passed.
qas: answers: text: the Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom
question: What organization was the Royal Institute instrumental in establishing?

answers: text: the Board of Architectural Education under the Architects (Registration) Acts, 1931 to 1938
question: Which items of legislation did the Royal Institute play a large role in promoting?

answers: text: the Liverpool University School of Architecture
question: Where did Lional Bailey Budden teach?

answers: text: Encyclopædia Britannica
question: What major compendium did Budden help write an article for?

answers: text: twenty
question: How many schools formed the Board of Architectural Education?

context: Soon after the passing of the 1931 Act, in the book published on the occasion of the Institute's centenary celebration in 1934, Harry Barnes, FRIBA, Chairman of the Registration Committee, mentioned that ARCUK could not be a rival of any architectural association, least of all the RIBA, given the way ARCUK was constituted. Barnes commented that the Act's purpose was not protecting the architectural profession, and that the legitimate interests of the profession were best served by the (then) architectural associations in which some 80 per cent of those practising architecture were to be found.
qas: answers: text: 1934
question: When did the Royal Institute celebrate its 100th anniversary?

answers: text: Harry Barnes
question: Who was the head of the Registration Committee in 1934?

answers: text: 80 per cent
question: In 1934, what percentage of architects were members of professional organizations?

answers: text: architectural associations
question: Who did Barnes believe was best able to advance the interests of architects?

answers: text: ARCUK
question: What specific institution did Barnes indicate could not be a rival of the Royal Institute?

context: The RIBA Guide to its Archive and History (1986) has a section on the "Statutory registration of architects" with a bibliography extending from a draft bill of 1887 to one of 1969. The Guide's section on "Education" records the setting up in 1904 of the RIBA Board of Architectural Education, and the system by which any school which applied for recognition, whose syllabus was approved by the Board and whose examinations were conducted by an approved external examiner, and whose standard of attainment was guaranteed by periodical inspections by a "Visiting Board" from the BAE, could be placed on the list of "recognized schools" and its successful students could qualify for exemption from RIBA examinations.
qas: answers: text: 1904
question: When does the Royal Institute's Guide indicate the first RIBA Board was established?

answers: text: syllabus
question: What school document had to meet the standards of the Board for admittance?

answers: text: an approved external examiner
question: What was necessary for testing in schools applying to the RIBA Board?

answers: text: Visiting Board
question: What body carried out on-site inspection of member schools of the RIBA Board?

context: The content of the acts, particularly section 1 (1) of the amending act of 1938, shows the importance which was then attached to giving architects the responsibility of superintending or supervising the building works of local authorities (for housing and other projects), rather than persons professionally qualified only as municipal or other engineers. By the 1970s another issue had emerged affecting education for qualification and registration for practice as an architect, due to the obligation imposed on the United Kingdom and other European governments to comply with European Union Directives concerning mutual recognition of professional qualifications in favour of equal standards across borders, in furtherance of the policy for a single market of the European Union. This led to proposals for reconstituting ARCUK. Eventually, in the 1990s, before proceeding, the government issued a consultation paper "Reform of Architects Registration" (1994). The change of name to "Architects Registration Board" was one of the proposals which was later enacted in the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 and reenacted as the Architects Act 1997; another was the abolition of the ARCUK Board of Architectural Education.
qas: answers: text: European Union
question: What organization's policies regarding acceptance of professional qualifications prompted thoughts of revamping ARCUK?

answers: text: 1996
question: When did the name of ARCUK change?

answers: text: the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act
question: What was the name of the legistlation leading to the change in ARCUK's name?

answers: text: the ARCUK Board of Architectural Education
question: What was shut down as a result of legislation changing the name of ARCUK?

answers: text: Architects Registration Board
question: What was the new name given to ARCUK in the '90s?

context: RIBA Visiting Boards continue to assess courses for exemption from the RIBA's examinations in architecture. Under arrangements made in 2011 the validation criteria are jointly held by the RIBA and the Architects Registration Board, but unlike the ARB, the RIBA also validates courses outside the UK.
qas: answers: text: to assess courses for exemption from the RIBA's examinations in architecture
question: What is the function of the Royal Institute's Visiting Boards?

answers: text: 2011
question: When did the Royal Institute and ARB reach accord on a shared body of criteria?

answers: text: Architects Registration Board
question: What does ARB stand for?

answers: text: RIBA also validates courses outside the UK
question: What is a key difference between the ARB and Royal Institute?

context: The RIBA is a member organisation, with 44,000 members. Chartered Members are entitled to call themselves chartered architects and to append the post-nominals RIBA after their name; Student Members are not permitted to do so. Formerly, fellowships of the institute were granted, although no longer; those who continue to hold this title instead add FRIBA.
qas: answers: text: 44,000
question: How many people have membership in the Royal Institute?

answers: text: RIBA
question: What can chartered members of RIBA add to their name to indicate their status?

answers: text: Student Members
question: What type of Royal Institute members are not able to use the organization's acronym after their names?

answers: text: fellowships
question: What is not provided by the Royal Institute anymore?

answers: text: FRIBA
question: Fellows of the Royal Institute can use what abbreviation with their names?

context: RIBA is based at 66 Portland Place, London—a 1930s Grade II* listed building designed by architect George Grey Wornum with sculptures by Edward Bainbridge Copnall and James Woodford. Parts of the London building are open to the public, including the Library. It has a large architectural bookshop, a café, restaurant and lecture theatres. Rooms are hired out for events.
qas: answers: text: 66 Portland Place
question: What is the Royal Institute of British Architects' street address?

answers: text: George Grey Wornum
question: Who designed RIBA's headquarters?

answers: text: the Library
question: What is one room in RIBA's headquarters that can be visited by the public?

answers: text: events
question: For what purpose can rooms be rented at the Royal Institute's building?

context: The Institute also maintains a dozen regional offices around the United Kingdom, it opened its first regional office for the East of England at Cambridge in 1966.
qas: answers: text: a dozen
question: How many satellite offices does the Royal Institute run in the UK?

answers: text: 1966
question: When was RIBA's first satellite office opened?

answers: text: Cambridge
question: In what city was the first RIBA branch office opened?

answers: text: the East of England
question: What territory did RIBA's Cambridge branch office cover?

context: RIBA Enterprises is the commercial arm of RIBA, with a registered office in Newcastle upon Tyne, a base at 15 Bonhill Street in London, and an office in Newark. It employs over 250 staff, approximately 180 of whom are based in Newcastle.
qas: answers: text: RIBA Enterprises
question: What is the name of the Royal Institute's business operation?

answers: text: 15 Bonhill Street in London
question: Where does RIBA's business group have its headquarters office?

answers: text: over 250
question: How many people work for RIBA Enterprises?

answers: text: 180
question: How many of RIBA Enterprises' staff are located at the Newcastle office?

context: Its services include RIBA Insight, RIBA Appointments, and RIBA Publishing. It publishes the RIBA Product Selector and RIBA Journal. In Newcastle is the NBS, the National Building Specification, which has 130 staff and deals with the building regulations and the Construction Information Service. RIBA Bookshops, which operates online and at 66 Portland Place, is also part of RIBA Enterprises.
qas: answers: text: RIBA Insight, RIBA Appointments, and RIBA Publishing
question: What are three divisions of RIBA Enterprises?

answers: text: RIBA Product Selector and RIBA Journal
question: What are two publications produced by RIBA Publishing?

answers: text: National Building Specification
question: What does NBS stand for?

answers: text: 130
question: How many people work for the NBS?

answers: text: Newcastle
question: Where is the NBS located?

context: The British Architectural Library, sometimes referred to as the RIBA Library, was established in 1834 upon the founding of the institute with donations from members. Now, with over four million items, it is one of the three largest architectural libraries in the world and the largest in Europe. Some items from the collections are on permanent display at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in the V&A + RIBA Architecture Gallery and included in temporary exhibitions at the RIBA and across Europe and North America. Its collections include:
qas: answers: text: The British Architectural Library
question: What is another name for the Royal Institute Library?

answers: text: 1834
question: When was the RIBA library founded?

answers: text: over four million
question: How many materials are housed in the RIBA library?

answers: text: Europe
question: The British Architectural Library is the biggest library of its kind in which continent?

answers: text: Victoria and Albert Museum
question: In what institution are some materials from the RIBA collection located?

context: The overcrowded conditions of the library was one of the reasons why the RIBA moved from 9 Conduit Street to larger premises at 66 Portland Place in 1934. The library remained open throughout World War Two and was able to shelter the archives of Modernist architect Adolf Loos during the war.
qas: answers: text: 9 Conduit Street
question: What was the RIBA Library's first address?

answers: text: 66 Portland Place
question: Where did RIBA move its library?

answers: text: 1934
question: In what year did RIBA move its library?

answers: text: Adolf Loos
question: Which architect's work was preserved throughout World War II by the Royal Institute's Library?

context: The library is based at two public sites: the Reading Room at the RIBA's headquarters, 66 Portland Place, London; and the RIBA Architecture Study Rooms in the Henry Cole Wing of the V&A. The Reading Room, designed by the building's architect George Grey Wornum and his wife Miriam, retains its original 1934 Art Deco interior with open bookshelves, original furniture and double-height central space. The study rooms, opened in 2004, were designed by Wright & Wright. The library is funded entirely by the RIBA but it is open to the public without charge. It operates a free education programme aimed at students, education groups and families, and an information service for RIBA members and the public through the RIBA Information Centre.
qas: answers: text: 66 Portland Place
question: Where is the Royal Institute Library's Reading Room located?

answers: text: the Henry Cole Wing of the V&A
question: Where are RIBA's Study Rooms located?

answers: text: Art Deco
question: What art style was used inthe design of the Reading Room?

answers: text: 2004
question: In what year did the Royal Institute's Reading Rooms open?

answers: text: students, education groups and families
question: Who is meant to benefit from teaching provided by the RIBA library?

context: Since 2004, through the V&A + RIBA Architecture Partnership, the RIBA and V&A have worked together to promote the understanding and enjoyment of architecture.
qas: answers: text: 2004
question: When did the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Royal Institute of British Architects start a formal relationship?

answers: text: the V&A + RIBA Architecture Partnership
question: What is the name of the joint venture involving the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Royal Institute of British Architects?

answers: text: to promote the understanding and enjoyment of architecture
question: What is the main goal of the V&A + RIBA partnership?

context: In 2004, the two institutions created the Architecture Gallery (Room 128) at the V&A showing artefacts from the collections of both institutions, this was the first permanent gallery devoted to architecture in the UK. The adjacent Architecture Exhibition Space (Room 128a) is used for temporary displays related to architecture. Both spaces were designed by Gareth Hoskins Architects. At the same time the RIBA Library Drawing and Archives Collections moved from 21 Portman Place to new facilities in the Henry Cole Wing at the V&A. Under the Partnership new study rooms were opened where members of the public could view items from the RIBA and V&A architectural collections under the supervision of curatorial staff. These and the nearby education room were designed by Wright & Wright Architects.
qas: answers: text: Room 128
question: In what space at the V&A is the Architecture Gallery located?

answers: text: Architecture Exhibition Space
question: What is found at Room 128a of the Victoria & Albert Museum?

answers: text: Gareth Hoskins Architects
question: Who designed rooms 128 and 128a at the V&A Museum?

answers: text: 21 Portman Place
question: Where was the Royal Institute's Drawing and Archives Collections located originally?

answers: text: the Henry Cole Wing
question: What part of the V&A was the Royal Institute's Drawing and Archives collection moved to?

context: RIBA runs many awards including the Stirling Prize for the best new building of the year, the Royal Gold Medal (first awarded in 1848), which honours a distinguished body of work, and the Stephen Lawrence Prize for projects with a construction budget of less than £500,000. The RIBA also awards the President's Medals for student work, which are regarded as the most prestigious awards in architectural education, and the RIBA President's Awards for Research. The RIBA European Award was inaugurated in 2005 for work in the European Union, outside the UK. The RIBA National Award and the RIBA International Award were established in 2007. Since 1966, the RIBA also judges regional awards which are presented locally in the UK regions (East, East Midlands, London, North East, North West, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South/South East, South West/Wessex, Wales, West Midlands and Yorkshire).
qas: answers: text: the best new building of the year
question: What does the Royal Institute of British Architects award the Stirling Prize for?

answers: text: 1848
question: What was the first year in which RIBA's Royal Gold Medal was given?

answers: text: a distinguished body of work
question: What is the Royal Gold Medal awarded for?

answers: text: £500,000
question: What is the limit of how much can be spent on projects receiving the Stephen Lawrence Prize?

answers: text: the President's Medals
question: What is the name of the RIBA awards given to students of architecture?

context: Architectural design competitions are used by an organisation that plans to build a new building or refurbish an existing building. They can be used for buildings, engineering work, structures, landscape design projects or public realm artworks. A competition typically asks for architects and/or designers to submit a design proposal in response to a given Brief. The winning design will then be selected by an independent jury panel of design professionals and client representatives. The independence of the jury is vital to the fair conduct of a competition.
qas: answers: text: Architectural design competitions
question: What are events that a company can sponsor when it is planning a new construction project or redesigning an existing one?

answers: text: Brief
question: What is provided to guide entrants in an architectural competition?

answers: text: design professionals and client representatives
question: What kinds of people generally make up the panels which judge architecture competitions?

answers: text: independence of the jury
question: What is necessary for the integrity of a design competition?

answers: text: public realm artworks
question: What kind of artistic production can be supported by design competitions?

context: In addition to the Architects Registration Board, the RIBA provides accreditation to architecture schools in the UK under a course validation procedure. It also provides validation to international courses without input from the ARB.
qas: answers: text: RIBA
question: Aside from the ARB, what other organization offers accreditation services for schools serving architects?

answers: text: course validation
question: What process does RIBA use in its accreditation system?

answers: text: international courses
question: What kinds of courses does RIBA conduct accreditation services for apart from the Architects Registration Board?

context: The RIBA has three parts to the education process: Part I which is generally a three-year first degree, a year-out of at least one year work experience in an architectural practice precedes the Part II which is generally a two-year post graduate diploma or masters. A further year out must be taken before the RIBA Part III professional exams can be taken. Overall it takes a minimum of seven years before an architecture student can seek chartered status.
qas: answers: text: three-year first degree
question: What is the first step in the Royal Institute's guidelines for education?

answers: text: a two-year post graduate diploma or masters
question: What is required by the second stage in the education provisions set out by RIBA?

answers: text: professional exams
question: What does the third part of the Royal Institute's educational process contain?

answers: text: seven years
question: How long does it take, at the least, for a student to be eligible for the title of Chartered?

answers: text: A further year out
question: What occurs between the second and third parts of the education process prescribed by the Royal Institute?

context: In 2007, RIBA called for minimum space standards in newly built British houses after research was published suggesting that British houses were falling behind other European countries. "The average new home sold to people today is significantly smaller than that built in the 1920s... We're way behind the rest of Europe—even densely populated Holland has better proportioned houses than are being built in the country. So let's see minimum space standards for all new homes," said RIBA president Jack Pringle.
qas: answers: text: minimum space standards
question: What did the Royal Institute support in order to keep up with housing in mainland Europe?

answers: text: 2007
question: When did the Royal Institute promote setting lower limits on the size of new homes in Britain?

answers: text: Jack Pringle
question: Who was the head of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2007?

answers: text: the 1920s
question: To what decade did Pringle unfavorably compare the size of modern British homes?

answers: text: Holland
question: What country did Pringle cite as having homes with better proportions than those found in the UK?