UIA Newsletter - 30 September 2022

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WORLD ARCHITECTURE DAY 2022:

UIA DECLARATION

Created by the UIA in 1985, World Architecture Day is celebrated on the first Monday of October in parallel with UN World Habitat Day, for which the theme this year is Architecture for Well-Being. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s event spotlights how the build environment can affect well-being and how architects can, in the words of UIA President José Luis Cortés, “​​unite with the private, social and public sectors to find a holistic and harmonious balance between the built and natural environments.”

The UIA is organising on Monday, 3 October 2022 at 14:00 (CET) a webinar on Architecture for Well-being moderated by Ruzica Bozovic Stamenovic (Serbia) and including architects and experts from around the world.

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INTERNATIONAL INNOVATIVE HEALTH DESIGN AWARDS: LAUNCH

The UIA has launched the International Innovative Health Design Awards, organised by the UIA Public Health Group and open to all architects around the world. In keeping with the activities around 2022, the UIA Year of Design for Health, the Awards address how architecture and research can mitigate the impact of future calamities. Architects are invited to submit entries in one of two categories: Built Work and Theoretical Work.

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LAUNCH: THE UIA AWARD FOR INNOVATION IN ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION

The UIA has launched the second edition of the UIA Award for Innovation in Architectural Education, organised jointly by the UIA Architectural Education Commission and the UIA Sustainable Development Goals Commission. This edition of the award will focus on the UN Sustainable Development Goals and addresses university level professional education in architecture or any study programme for professional architectural education worldwide.

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HONG KONG: WEBINAR ON ARCHITECTURE COMPETITIONS

On 15 October at 16:00 HKT the Hong Kong Institute of Architects (HKIA) is hosting a webinar on architectural competitions as a method of procurement for public works. Organised by the HKIA Competitions Committee and supported by the UIA, the webinar will feature as keynote speaker UIA Region I Council Member Regina Gonthier, Co-Director of the UIA International Competitions Commission.

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COLOMBIA: ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE

The Sociedad Colombiana de Arquitectos (SCA) is organising the XXVIII Colombian Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism from 14 to 19 November 2022. With the theme Architecture for Health, it will celebrate prominent Colombian architecture realised over the past five years. The event marks the Society's 60th anniversary.

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HONG KONG: EXHIBITION IN NYC

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Hong Kong Institute of Architects (HKIA)'s exhibition, “Beyond Territories - Made . Make . Making”, will travel to New York 10-25 October 2022. The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, New York (NYETO) of the HKSAR Government is the main sponsor.

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JAPAN: PRAEMIUM IMPERIALE

Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA were announced the winners of the 33rd Praemium Imperiale in the architecture category. Created in 1988 by the Japan Art Association, the oldest cultural foundation in Japan, the Praemium Imperiale is organised into five categories: painting, sculpture, architecture, music and theater-cinema.

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NEPAL: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

The Society of Nepalese Architects (SONA) has extended to 20 October the deadline for submitting abstracts in preparation for the SONA Annual Convention, taking place 13-14 January 2023 inKathmandu. The theme is the role of architecture and identity in the context of the contemporary city. Academic and written work should analyse changing urban conditions.

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BANGLADESH: BUILDING EXPO

The Institute of Architects Bangladesh (IAB) is hosting a building material expo inDhaka, Bangladesh on 8-10 November 2022. The expo is part of a series of events organised to celebrate the Institute’s Golden Jubilee, the 50th anniversary of its establishment in 1972.

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NIGERIA: ANNUAL ASSEMBLY

The Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA) is organising its 62nd Annual General Meeting and Conference at the Calabar International Convention Centre in Calabar, Nigeria from 23-26 November with the theme, “Architecture – A Resource for Health & Wellbeing”.

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COLOMBIA: NEW PRESIDENT

Silvia María Mendoza assumed on 1 September 2022 the Presidency of the Sociedad Colombiana de Arquitectos (SCA) from Alfredo Reyes Rojas,elected in 2021 for a two-year term. Graduate of the Autonomous University of the Caribbean and the Pontifical Bolivarian University of Montería, she served as SCA Vice President, as President of SCA Córdoba, and as Vice President of Córdoba's Territorial Planning Council.

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THAILAND: PRESIDENT REELECTED

Chana Sumpalung has been reelected President of the Association of Siamese Architects (ASA) for a two-year term from May 2022 to April 2024. A practicing architect and currently Managing Director of 49 Design Group, one of the largest design firms in Southeast Asia headquartered in Bangkok, he studied architecture at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand and the University of Florida in the United States.

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ARCHITECTS' COUNCIL OF EUROPE: GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE) will hold its next General Assembly (AG22/2) in Brussels, Belgium on 25 November 2022 at 9:00-17:30 CET. The hybrid event will take place in person and via Zoom. It will be preceded by a conference on artificial intelligence on Thursday, 24 November (9:00-17:00), a hybrid event at which UIA President José Luis Cortés will be present.

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UNITED NATIONS: SAN MARINO DECLARATION

The UNECE Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Land Management, the United Nations body entrusted with addressing housing and urban development challenges, has issued a draft of the San Marino Declaration calling architects and other built environment professionals to agree to uphold a series of "principles for sustainable and inclusive urban design and architecture in support of sustainable, safe, healthy, socially inclusive, climate-neutral and circular homes, urban infrastructure and cities".

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DAYLIGHT TALK WITH ESTAR

As part of the 2022 Daylight Talks series, on 20 September 2022, Aarhus School of Architecture presented a talk by architecture, landscape and design studio Estar. Organised by the VELUX Group in collaboration with individual schools of architecture and endorsed by the UIA and theEuropean Association for Architectural Education (EAAE), the Talks explore the significance of natural light in architecture and will present prominent architects and educators working consciously and qualitatively with daylight in their projects and educational programmes.

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