Transactions Of The Royal Institute Of British Architects

Author : Royal Institute of British Architects
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781391776385
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (763 download)

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Download or read book Royal Institute of British Architects written by Royal Institute of British Architects and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Royal Institute of British Architects: The Transactions, Session 1879-80 The responsibilities, duties and powers of the Metropolitan Board-oi Works are enormous, and they annually increase. It is not only important that the organization for devising and deciding the details of street improvements should be the best of the kind available, but it is also important that the machinery employed for purchasing, letting and selling the common property of the metropolitan ratepayers should be well put together. N ow, both individually and collectively, we architects are in constant communication with the Metropolitan Board. The Institute has statutory relations with it and receives numerous acts of courtesy from it; its Superintending Architect is an honoured member Of our Council, and its Chairman one of our distinguished class of Honorary Associates. We, as a corporate body, not only wish well to the Board, we would do whatever might lie'in.our power to aid it in the discharge of its manifold functions. Architects may be elected members of that Board, just as barristers, solicitors and doctors may be so elected. It would be ridiculous to say that professional men shall not Sit at that Board because they may have had a pecuniary interest in some of its public business transactions. But I shall run no risk of censure when I say that a Fellow or an Associate of this Institute, if he be elected a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works, ought not from that moment to have any professional connection whatever with the purchase of land Offered for sale or lease by the Board; nor should he be professionally engaged in the superintendence of buildings to be erected upon land which is the property of ratepayers, whose agent and representative he is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.