Collective Architecture director Jude Barber has become the latest candidate to stand for RIBA president, placing inclusivity, climate and collaboration at the heart of her manifesto.

 

Barber will go head-to-head with AHMM co-founder Simon Allford and Sumita Singha, founder of Ecologic and Architects for Change - the only other candidates to publicly declare in the race so far.

 

Rallying support Barber commented: "This current crisis has shone a big, bright light on all that is (and was) either good or bad in the process of making of architecture – and our need to better address these proactively with our clients and collaborators across design, delivery and education.”
 
“I want the RIBA to have a clear, strong voice that speaks in a way that best represents and includes the views of all our members – and future members – from every corner of the country and beyond."

 

Barber is a strong voice in promoting gender equality and is a founder member of A New Chapter, a grassroots body pushing greater transparency within the RIAS which is conducting its own leadership campaign.