ABSTRACT
Looking through the archives of the RIBA Journal, author came across such an account of an architect from 1910. It was written in memory of the great Gothic Revival church architect and Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Royal Gold Medallist G F Bodley by one of his former colleagues, Walter Tapper. The author interviewing architect Angela Brady as she took over as president of RIBA in 2011. Brady is a noted champion of increasing the representation of women and ethnic minorities in the profession, chaired Women in Architecture 2000-2005, and was part of the group who set up Architects for Change. In architectural journalism, it inevitably collided with the lad culture of the construction industry and, in particular, the advertisements then deemed acceptable, some of which raised graduate eyebrows even then and look frankly incredible now, in a Life on Mars kind of way.
