Angela Brady and Peter Murray persuade culture minister Ed Vaizey to take part in campaign stunt

Culture and creative industries minister Ed Vaizey has worn a T-shirt promoting all the architects who are banned from promoting their Olympic work.

He was approached by RIBA president Angela Brady at a British Business Embassy event at Lancaster House and persuaded to wear the T-shirt created by Peter Murray.

Murray has been driving the campaign to get the ban overturned. He wore the T-shirt, covered in the names of all the architects who designed Olympic venues and pavilions, to yesterday’s creative industries event hosted by the UKTI.

Brady said: “I was delighted that he put the T-shirt on because he didn’t have to. I think he thinks the ban is ridiculous.”

She gave him a hand-written note addressed to Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt imploring him to relax the ban - but then found herself able to lobby Hunt in person at an event at the Royal Academy last night.

“I nobbled him,” she said. “I said, ‘You were meant to be sorting this gagging of architects’ and he said, ‘I thought it was all sorted’. I said, ‘No, it absolutely isn’t, but I know you can do it’.”

Brady said she is taking every opportunity to talk to international journalists about the architects behind the Olympic buildings. She gave a press conference earlier this month and held a reception for journalists and Olympic architects at Portland Place this morning.

Architects from Make, Hopkins, Stanton Williams and Populous attended the event, held in the RIBA’s Olympic architecture exhibition, along with journalists from China and the US.