We want to hear from you! Share projects and information about your responses to the COVID-19 pandemic at uia@uia-architectes.org.
We want to hear from you! Share projects and information about your responses to the COVID-19 pandemic at uia@uia-architectes.org.
The Pakistan Council of Architects and Town Planners have published a report of the national survey analysing the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the architecture and town planning professions in Pakistan.
The Vietnam Association of Architects (VAA) organised an ideas competition for the design of makeshift hospitals. The competition aimed to promote architects’ creative ideas in the design of makeshift hospitals, able to cope with the complex evolutions of infectious diseases.
Lu Andong, Committee member of the UIA Work Program Public Spaces (China branch), designed a project for the isolation ward of suspected cases of the Third People’s Hospital of Jiangdu District in Yangzhou.
As part of the UN-Habitat World Urban Campaign, the UIA recently organised the latest global online Urban Thinkers Campus webinar, entitled: Architects’ response in reshaping our cities that are resilient to pandemic situations. Speakers included Ishtiaque Zahir Titas (Bangladesh) and Nathalie Mossin (Denmark), co-directors of the UIA Sustainable Development Goals Commission.
FIKA, an organization co-operating with 3 individual institutions, has provided information from the Korea Centers for Disease Control & Prevention official website regarding national policy for COVID-19.