Author Archives: Kunle Barker

Last month’s AJ Retrofit Live event, while sometimes fractious, showed how cross-disciplinary collaboration can foster innovation, writes Kunle Barker

Instead of carbon-shaming the RIBA, ACAN should work with them to set improved sustainability guidelines for future competitions, says Kunle Barker

There are some moves for reform at the RIBA, but voter apathy in the face of inertia at the institute is holding back change, says Kunle Barker

Black people encounter obstacles in their professional lives of a kind unimagined by their white counterparts. Kunle Barker shares a personal testimony illustrating an insidious problem that blights the construction industry

Offsetting is not even close to being sustainable and is allowing lazy, ego-driven designs to be accepted, says Kunle Barker 

Architecture competition organisers should encourage smaller practices to enter, making a practice’s size and diversity key criteria for entry, writes Kunle Barker

Plans for new minimum university entry requirements seem based on the perverse idea that the purpose of education is to raise your earning potential, writes Kunle Barker

We have removed the common sense factor in determining planning decisions, says Kunle Barker

Kunle Barker suggests some new year’s resolutions the industry might do well to adopt for 2022

There needs to be a radical change in the way planning submissions are assessed to reflect how we quantify, measure and value sustainability within developments, says Kunle Barker