Builders and other tradespeople should be encouraged to retrain as architects in mid-career, in an attempt to make architecture less exclusive, RIBA president Sunand Prasad said this week.rnPrasad, one of the contributors to a new government report which found middle-class domination of the professions was getting stronger, said the institute would now work with the Construction Industry Council to find ways of helping people begin studying architecture later in life.rn"The hard work starts now," he said. "Architectural education is very expensive and so it is very hard for people from economically less privileged backgrounds. I would like to see people migrate to architecture in later life, through part-time education.
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