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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.
Collaboration on free webinar on Healthy, Inclusive and Sustainable Communities to support Families Through the Pandemic and Into the Future, organised by UAP and Eastern Regional Organization for Planning and Human Settlements (EAROPH) – 26 March 2021
Information dating from April 2020
Photo credit: Creating a mobile playground for children in response to COVID-19 Hanoi, Vietnam. Image courtesy of UN-Habitat, Global Public Space Program
Vietnamese architect Trinh Phuong Quan published “The most rushed project – Confessions of an architect who designed a field hospital against Covid-19 in Singapore”, an account of his work on a Community isolation center and worker housing during the Covid-19 epidemic in Tampines and Bulim, Singapore – 15 June 2021
On May 4, 2021, the leaders of the Vietnam Association of Architects held an unscheduled meeting led by Chairman Dr. Architect Phan Dang Son to discuss a number of urgent issues related to future activities of the Association and ensuring the prevention and control of Covid-19 – 5 May 2021
Topics discussed:
Information dating from July 2020
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.
The Ministry of Urban Development and Construction/Ethiopia recognised the organized effort by AEA member architects during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Contributions of the AEA Covid-19 task force:
Information dating from April 2020
Information dating from April 2020
The College of Architects of Ecuador, Provincial of Pichincha (CAE-P), participated in the second Panamerican Biennial of Architecture of Quito (BAQ) , completely adapted to the digital environment due to the international situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. From 9-20 November 2020, the biennial event connected more than 1500 people from all over the world, making Ecuador a benchmark not only for initiatives related to architecture, but also technology.
Forum on Public space and resilience in pandemic times, 29 April 2020
Forum on Public space and resilience in pandemic times, 29 April
Publication:
Guidelines for safer workplaces during COVID-19 in Bangladesh – June 2020
Information dating from April 2020
Information dating from April 2020
The IAI is organizing a fundraiser for Indonesia Doctors’ Assocation and other humanitarian organisations
The IAI notes the loss of eminent Indonesian architect Ahmed Djuhara (b. 1966), deceased on 27 March 2020 of Covid-19. He served as chairman of the IAI for the periods 2015-2018 and 2018-2021.
ASC site includes Fight Against the Epidemic as well as interviews:
Guidelines for office buildings in response to coronavirus
The ASC notes the collaborative project organised by China Construction Technology Group in Ethiopia to “create a good production and living environment for the Ethiopian people.”
ASC appreciates the support of the international community, notably UIA President Thomas Vonier and UIA Honourary President Vassilis Sgoutas
Public Realm Challenges Challenges Post Covid-19 – 19 June 2020
Covid-19 Response – Frequently Asked Questions – 25 September 2020
Guidelines to help members keep up with any changes to COVID-19 restrictions affecting their business. Specifically tailored to architects, who “straddle both office-based professional services and services required on construction sites (pre-construction, the construction phase and post-occupancy)”, the Guidelines explain how COVID-19 restrictions affect “different aspects of architectural practice.”
Information dating from April 2020
Policy initiatives include:
Editorial by Natalia Brener, President of the SAU: “A great challenge for the SAU on our 107th Anniversary” – 22 May 2021
“A tour of the real estate in a pandemic year” – 9 February 2021
GACH Care Guide – With the intention of collaborating to minimize the impacts of the global pandemic due to covid-19, SAU shares two care guides prepared by the Honorary Scientific Advisory Group – 9 December 2020
Covid-19 Ideas Contest – 3 December 2020
On the memorial in Montevideo‘s Rambla to the covid-19 pandemic – 25 November 2020
Management of heritage sites during covid-19 – 9 September 2020
Information dating from April 2020