How to take the lead again

摘要

Gordon Graham was the first RIBA president I knew, in office 1977-79, many years before I took this job. Old-school modernist, senior partner in ACP, liked his whisky and ciggies. I remember him sitting in the back of the coach, puffing away, in a 1979 trip to Paris organised by the resourceful Salaried Architects Group. Top of our agenda was of course the Pompidou Centre, then still fresh.