...of facades, ground plans, and sky outlines, which disgrace our public buildings, and disfigured our so-called metropolitan and provincial improvements....pleasure, as relieving themselves from questions of great embarr rassment, and as likely to be conducive to a more satisfactory result in architecture and in...

...VicePrésidents, and a newly-infused ' lay element,' into a sort of standing Committee of Taste, or ' permanent council of advice and reference in all matters...to the Fine Arts, public monuments, and buildings/ is one to which we must express our most decided opposition. In the first place, the very limited sphere...

...department. In the end it only recommended a charter to define the RA's rights and responsibilities as a 'valuable permanent Council of advice and reference...matters relating to the Fine Arts, public monuments and buildings'.29 The proposal that the Academy should oversee a national system of professional certification...