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We want to hear from you! Share projects and information relating to architects’ 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.
The Ordre National des Architectes du Cameroun has presented a design by Architects Bertrand Meyanga for a COVID-19 health center with a 1000-bed capacity.
The Architects’ Council of Europe has published the findings of two surveys issued to its Member Organisations to understand how they are dealing with the COVID-19 crisis, to evaluate its initial impact on the architectural profession, and to collect information about measures in place to help SMEs and the self-employed.
The Habitat Professionals Forum was founded in 1999 under the auspices of UN-HABITAT as an interdisciplinary partnership of Human Settlement Professionals and UN HABITAT. The Forum was established to promote the delivery of sustainable urbanization and equitable human settlements development. It consists of international associations of human settlements professions which are democratic, non-profit, non-political and […]
As the places of people’s work and residence, the built environment is regarded as a crucial aspect of COVID-19 prevention and control. The Chinese National Assessment Standard for Green Building (GB/T 50378-2019) expands the connotation of green building, which pays more attention to the safety, health and livability on the basis of “four savings and environmental protection”. This paper puts forward the contribution of GB/T 50378-2019 during the process of COVID-19 prevention and control.
JIA has launched its own official COVID-19 Architectural Information Hub.
JIA has been operating under the same restrictions as many of the UIA’s other national organisations. The Japanese government’s State of Emergency was extended until 25 May in Tokyo and four other prefectures (Chiba, Kanagawa, Saitama and Hokkaido). It is now lifted. The JIA office opened on 26 May 2020.
Because the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare encourages people to avoid the “3Cs” (Closed space, Crowded places, Close contact), JIA notes that:
JIA is pleased to spotlight some noteworthy examples of Japanese architects cooperating in the combat against COVID-19:
Please also find the latest version of the COVID-19 countermeasures for Japanese construction sites issued by the Ministry of Land Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. (JIA thanks the Indian Institute of Architects for their kind English translation of the document. The Japanese version is here.)