The outgoing RIBA president talks about his attempts to change the course of the Portland Place ‘supertanker’ and why he is staying around to see through his House of Architecture plans
The profession responds to the news that grassroots candidate Muyiwa Oki has been elected as the RIBA’s next president
Campaigners bidding to get an architectural worker voted in as the next RIBA president have named Muyiwa Oki as their challenger in the forthcoming election
Campaigners are bidding to get an architectural worker elected as the next RIBA president so as to shake up an institute ‘out of touch’ with the wider profession
No RIBA president will make any difference to the broken institute without a shake-up of its internal structures, writes former RIBA councillor Indy Johar
Fortunes have been fading at Portland Place for decades but scandal, leaks and resignations left it rudderless in 2020. Let’s hope the new chair and president can pull the institute out of its tailspin, says Ben Derbyshire
Richard Waite talks to Simon Allford, the RIBA’s new president-elect, about what he thinks is wrong with the institute and his plans to ‘storm’ Portland Place and make the institute more relevant to its members
RIBA president-elect Simon Allford has discussed his political leanings, saying he ‘despise[s] orthodoxies, and has no links to political parties’ while revealing has always considered himself 'an anarchist’ in a wide-ranging interview with AJ editor Emily Booth
Manchester-based architect Nick Moss has become the latest contender to make a bid for the RIBA presidency
Glasgow-based architect Jude Barber has become the third contender to join the race to become the next president of the RIBA
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