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

The profession is ideally placed to guide clients through the maze of sustainable retrofit, says Kunle Barker

The ethos of more experienced peers training the less experienced has been of great credit to architecture – we mustn’t sacrifice this to commercial pressures, says Kunle Barker

Just because we have discovered the joys of home-working, we mustn’t overlook the significant benefits of being face-to-face in an office, says Kunle Barker

Practices must first get the fundamentals right, before expending time and money on progressive mental health strategies, says Kunle Barker

Meeting clients’ needs while designing for climate emergency is a challenge, but a goal we should all be aiming at, says Kunle Barker

Industry-wide collaboration, with architecture firms sharing their successes and failures openly and honestly is the only way to keep up with our rapidly evolving sustainability goals, says Kunle Barker