File Downloads

The following page is in development; it includes records of Network publications and related information available to download. Please get in touch should you require any information not listed here.

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pdf Better design - Better places (517.04 kb) ‘Better design, Better places' brings together the findings from 70 schemes reviewed since the inception of the South West Design Review Panel. to increase understanding of what makes a well designed development. It includes an essential checklist of 10 key points that the Panel has identified through its first two years of work and deems critical to the success of projects.

ACN Publications

pdf Engaging Places (1.72 mb) A document jointly published in October 2003 by the Architecture Centre Network and CABE Education which examines Architecture and the built environment as a learning resource.
pdf Snapshot (4.16 mb) 'People's Stories from the Architecture Centre Network'
An occasional Network publication. Issue 1 edited by Annie Atkins.

ACN Reports

word Architecture Centre Network Edu Pedagogy CPD Report (302.00 kb) A report of the Architecture Centre Network Education pilot CPD event Engaging with Pedagogy in April 2005.
word Heritage and Design Champions paper (237.50 kb) A paper commissioned from the Architecture Centre Network by English Heritage and published in January 2005 to accompany the seminar on local authority historic environment and design champions in the UK.
word Housing in the UK: The view from Centres for Architecture and the Built Environment (170.50 kb) A report commissioned by the Architecture Centre Network examining the work of member architecture centres in relation to Housing: published February 2005.

Network Resources

pdf Design Champions Induction Pack (614.46 kb) A resources pack for local authority Design Champions published in Dec 2005 by Northern Architecture and the North of England Civic Trust with funding by CABE, English Heritage and One NorthEast.
pdf JACBEE Positioning Document (337.25 kb) A positioning document on behalf of the Architecture Centre Network prepared for the Joint Advisory Committee on Built Environment Education in 2004.
pdf Shaping Places [32k pdf] (31.79 kb) Summary and case study of the Shaping Places programme from the Kent Architecture Centre [May 06].