John Duncan, along with Pat Pinder and David Standen, has prepared suitable clauses for both the Long Form and Short Form Client Agreements. These will be considered at the next Practice Committee meeting. If we are going to increase architectural awareness and criticism let us have a more informative, less mean-spirited approach than usually comes with Jackson's outbursts. While I have no argument with the jury's selection and though that the photographic presentation of the winners was generally excellent, I found the lack of drawings and diagrams a serious drawback to an appreciation of the projects. In the presentation of John Wardle's Kew House, for instance, it is impossible to gain an understanding of where Horace Tribe ends and where Wardle begins, and therefore it is impossible to appreciate what Wardle was actually awarded for.
Drawing is, after all, the main mode of architectural communication.
However he is wrong to say the style does not occur all over Australia. In Tasmania the pitches tend to be lower and in Queensland examples are often up on stumps. In fact it is almost the last of the Australian cottage styles to show some regional variation. Renzo Piano Building Workshop asked that none of the team be singled out in the review of Aurora Place in the last issue. RPBW prides itself on a collaborative working method that involves many people from a range of disciplines, coming from diverse backgrounds.