"If we're to ask one man to turn this around, that's a heavy task indeed"

The inauguration of Muyiwa Oki as RIBA president must become a moment of real, positive change in British architecture, writes Marsha Ramroop.One-hundred-and-eighty-nine years ago, men whose shadows fill Florence Hall, and whose legacies are absorbed into those walls, founded an institute. They had a vision for an architecture profession that was progressive, necessary and relevant.
One-hundred years later, the Portland Place building opened its magnificent bronze doors Usui civium decori urbium