Raising Design Quality in Social Housing and International Design Exchange
In 1999, Ian Ritchie Architects designed and realised with Scottish Homes and Thenew Housing Association innovative social housing in Glasgow’s East End. The project was monitored by Scottish Homes for the first three years of occupation.
In 2000, as founding CABE commissioner, Ian Ritchie established and chaired a Housing Industry Research Group which included Peabody, Guinness, Rowntree, Nationwide, Popular Housing Forum, FPD Savills, Arup, DETR, Bellway, Westbury, Chelsfield and London Residential Research.
In 2000, Ian Ritchie, while a CABE Commissioner, initiated a cross-cultural exchange between CABE and La Direction de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (DAPA) to explore how differences in design, financing, procurement and manufacture of social housing could be used to benefit both the UK and French supply. A protocol was signed between the two agencies and in autumn 2002, a social housing Design, R&D and Construction programme of projects to be constructed in Paris and Sénart, London and the South East Region was officially launched. The first constructed project is at Whitecity, London, designed by Cartwright Pickard (London) and BCD Architectes (Paris).
From 1997 to 2003, Ian Ritchie was president of Europan UK (a pan European urban and social housing biennial design competition for young architects). Since 2004 this organisation has been managed by CABE.
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