Levitt Bernstein architect honoured for her tenacious campaigning for better housing
莱维特·伯恩斯坦(Levitt Bernstein)的住宅研究主管朱莉娅·帕克(Julia Park)被评为亚洲建筑协会年度建筑领袖。
朴槿惠因其为改善住房环境而开展的工作而获奖，特别是她反对不受监管地将办公室改造成往往非常不适合居住的住宅。
She has worked tirelessly to raise awareness of the issue, managing to secure coverage in the Times, Guardian and BBC radio, with headlines such as ‘Will these be the worst new rabbit hutch flats in Britain?’ and ‘Developer won approval for flat tinier than taxi’.
She also produced a damning report at Levitt Bernstein called Why the Government Should End Permitted Development Rights for Office-To-Residential Conversions which explained how the policy works, why it is so difficult for local authorities to gain immunity from permitted development (PD) and what its human consequences have been.
She recentlyhelped secure a U-turn from the governmentwhich, despite insisting all was well, suddenly relented and agreed that every new home built under PD rules would have to meet national space standards. The announcement, last month, was hailed as a significant victory by critics of the system.
此前，一项政府委托的审查发现，PD创造了“比规划许可转换质量更差的居住环境，与未来居住者的健康、福祉和生活质量广泛相关的一系列因素”。该报告的作者考察了几个只有16平方米的PD公寓的开发项目，而根据政府的面积标准，一居室公寓的最小面积为37平方米。
Park first raised the issue in Building Design where she has been our enormously respected housing columnist for the past six years, writing tirelessly and forensically month after month on this and related subjects. Her encyclopaedic knowledge of housing policy and standards has helped her hold successive governments to account.
Throughout this she has never lost sight of the human dimension which drives her quest for decent homes.
Earlier this year she was interviewed for a powerfulRadio 4 documentary22岁的Immie Rhodes在临时住房中长大。他们一起调查了纽伯里大厦(Newbury House)，这是一栋位于雷德布里奇A12号公路旁的办公大楼，两人都偶然发现了它，并在发现有人住在里面时感到震惊。他们发现，该公寓已被改造成小至13平方米的公寓，使用了PD权。朴是伦敦市长的设计倡导者，她告诉罗兹，她从来没有见过这么小的房子，她已经做了30年的住宅建筑师，因为她相信“体面的住房会给人们的生活带来改变”。
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The Architect of the Year judges were unanimous in their admiration for Park’s success in influencing government policy and for highlighting far beyond the bounds of the profession what architects and good architecture can achieve.
In a video acceptance speech, Park said she was surprised but touched by the award and described her campaigning as “behaving like a dog with a bone”.
She added: “My very short list of things to celebrate this year just got a bit longer.”
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