Carmona, MP;
Renninger, A;
(2018)
The Royal Fine Art Commission and seventy-five years of English design review: the first sixty years, 1924-1984.
Planning Perspectives
, 33
(1)
pp. 53-73.
10.1080/02665433.2016.1278398.
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Abstract
This paper is the first of two linked papers that focus on the work of the Royal Fine Art Commission (RFAC), which, for three quarters of a century, held the mantel of the UK Government’s advisor on design in the built environment for England and Wales. The paper draws on archival and documentary evidence to explore the important work and concerns of the RFAC from its creation in 1924 and its early years, through to the post-war construction boom and into the 1980s and a new less paternalistic era of government. Analysis of the archives is supplemented by what the limited available literature tells us about the RFAC. As the instigator of a national design review service covering England and Wales, the work of the RFAC forms an important context for understanding more recent approaches to design review, both in the UK and internationally, that today form a critical component of contemporary planning practices.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The Royal Fine Art Commission and seventy-five years of English design review: the first sixty years, 1924-1984 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02665433.2016.1278398 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2016.1278398 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Royal Fine Art Commission, design review, design governance |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1544276 |
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