From the Letters section of the RIBA Journal October 1997 p.30

'Please explain'

'Sir: Regarding the Hitman-Eddy house competition (RIBAJ, Sept,p32), I feel I must do what little I can to prevent the spread of a fashion based on ensuring that, as far as possible, no two walls are parallel and, preferably, not vertical. I had better confess to having entered the competition myself, which I would have been happy to lose to such runners-up as Frank Lyons et al, whose entry was comprehensible to ordinary mortals as a building, and relevant to the awkward and less-than-remarkable site.

'If some Architectural Association-nik can explain what is being attempted - and how we are meant to tell the difference between deliberate disorientation of our senses and merely incompetent perspective - I am willing to learn.
More seriously, I cannot help raising an eyebrow when the RIBA competitions office is involved, and putting the seal of our institute (and therefore us all) on much that would be refused wall space in our studios, causing a client frankly seeking guidance and asking for bread to be saddled with stone - probably reconstructed stone at that.'

Christopher Morton, Worcs.

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