Preparations for
the 9th G.A.
During the 22nd meeting of the Executive Committee of UMAR,
which has been held in Athens on 20 and 21 September 2002,
we have had the honor to receive in our meeting Dr. Evangelos
M. LYROUDIAS, who was delegated by the president of SADAS-PEA,
and we have had the occasion to discuss on the next General
Assembly of UMAR, which was foreseen to be held in Athens
in November 2002, according to the invitation of the representative
of your organisation during the 18th meeting which was held
in Athens on 23-24 February 2001. Our colleague Arch. Vassilis
GRIGORIADIS reiterated this invitation during the 20th meeting
of EC and 8th General Assembly.
The delegates who were present at the 8th
General Assembly thanked to SADAS-PEA for its Invitation
to host the 9th G.A. of UMAR, which is elective, and decided
to hold it in November 2002 in Athens.
According to those reiterated invitations
and decision of the G.A. of UMAR, we are involved for The
organisation of the General Assembly and we’ve addressed
to SADAS-PEA the letters in February, March, June and September,
for overweening the details. But unfortunately, we didn’t
Receive any response or a confirmation from them.
Considering the situation, the E.C. of UMAR
has been obliged to decide to postpone the G.A. meeting
to 17-18 January 2003.
Considering that the official invitations
and the related documents must be sent to the member associations
three months before of the date of the G.A. (before 16 October)
we asked to SADAS-PEA to define their definitive decision
for the purpose of hosting the 9th G.A. of UMAR before the
10th of October.
We have stayed in relation with them until
26 October 2002. In the mean time, informed by the Communiqué
no: 15 sent by the G.S. to all members, Ordine degli Architetti
di Torino proposed itself for hosting the 9th General Assembly.
In coordination with Salah HEGAB, President of UMAR we have
decided to hold the meeting in Torino.
Once again we thank to O.A.Torino for hosting
this meeting which makes us forget the same situation that
we have lived in 1999 and 2000 because of last minute desistement
of C.N.A.P.P.C
Communiqués of
the General Secretary
The Communiqués are prepared and diffused by the G.S. each
two or three months for informing the members on the evolutions
and for creating the coordination of activities of UMAR.
Because of this inactive period, only three has been published
and diffused (Communiqué no:13 at the mid of February,
Communiqué no:14 at the end of June and
Communiqué no: 15 at the end of September)
Meeting of representatives of
members of UMAR during UIA Congress in Berlin
During the 21st World Congress of U.I.A., on 26 July, we
have had the occasion to hold a meeting of the representatives
of the member countries who were present in Berlin. Those
who participated to this unofficial meeting of UMAR was
as below:
Albania :
Algeria :
Croatia :
Cyprus : Stavros PERDIOS
Egypt : Salah HEGAB
France : Jean François SUSINI, Patrice GENET
Greece :
Israel :
Italy : Sergio CAVALLO, Pietro Paolo MINCIO, Giorgio GIANI
Malta : David PACE, Antony Fenech VELLA
Mauritania :
Morocco : Elhaimer Abdellah Ibrahim, Benabdeljahl Abdelmoumen
Palestine : Shadi GHADBAN, Charles KIDESS
Portugal : Pedro GUILHERME, Joao AFONSO
Tunisia : Taoufik EL EUCH, Amir TURKI
Turkey : Arif ªENTEK, Ahmet SÖNMEZ, Salih Z. PEKIN
We have had the honour to receive Mr. Vassilis
SGOUTAS as the president of U.I.A. In his speech Mr. SGOUTAS
mentioned that UIA is intended to support the regional organisations
of architects. He reiterated his proposition concerning
that UMAR participates to the Work Groups of U.I.A. We transmitted
to him our decision of General Assembly in Larnaka, concerning
to stop the works of UMAR which may be duplicated with UIA
projects for avoiding a parallelism.
The members who were present in this unofficial
meeting exposed the latest architectural events in their
countries and their stands towards UMAR and UIA.
We have reiterated our decision in the G.A.
(Larnaka) for supporting the candidature of member countries
of UMAR for the different posts in UIA.
Listed below, you will find candidatures
for UIA posts and member Countries/Colleagues of UMAR.
Président de l’UIA:
Taoufik EL EUCH (Tunisia) UMAR
Hisham ALBAKRI (Malaysia)
Andreas HEMPEL (Germany)
Jaime LERNER (Brazil) (elected)
Alejandro SOKOLOFF (Colombia)
Secrétaire Générale de l’UIA:
Jean-Claude RIGUET (France) UMAR elected
Trésorier de l’UIA:
Seif Allah A. ALNAGA (Egypte) UMAR
Donald J HACKL (Etats Unis) elected
Peter HANNA (Ireland)
Vice Presidency:
- Region I
- John WRIGHT (G. Britain)
- Region II
- Ahmed AL-GHAFARI (Syrie) UMAR
- Alexandru BELDIMAN (Romanie)
- Yuri GNEDOVSKI (Russie)
- Region III
- Miguel PEREIRA (Brazil)
- Mauricio RIVERO BORRELL (Mexique)
- Region IV
- Louise COX (Australia) elected
- Region V
- Seif Allah A. ALNAGA (Egypte) * UMAR
- Brian JOHNSON (Afrique du Sud)
- Gaétan SIEW (Mauritius) elected
Council Members of UIA:
- Region I (1 membre a élire – 1 post to be filled)
Jean-François QUELDERIE / Jean-Marie CHARPENTIER (France)
UMAR (elected)
Luut RIENKS / Rob BUDDING ( Netherland)
- Region II (3 membres a élire – 3 posts
to be filled)
Itzhak LIPOVETZKY-LIR/Uri ZERUBAVEL (Israel) UMAR
Süha ÖZKAN / Günhan DANIªMAN (Turkey-Turquie) UMAR Elected
Elizabeth SIOLA/Nikos FINDIKAKIS (Greece-Grece) UMAR Elected
Ahmed AL-GHAFARI (Syrie)
Krzysztof CHWALIBOG / Ryszard JURKOWSKI (Poland)
Yuri GNEDOVSKI (*)/Alexander KOUDRIAVTSEV (Russie)
Zsolt JEKEL/ Laszlo MIKO (Hongrie)
Tomaz KANCLER/Martjaz BERTONCELI (Slovanie) elected
- Region III (3 membres a élire – 3 posts
to be filled)
Jose Luis CORTES DELGADO/ Hector GIRON DE LA PENA (Mexico)
Jose A.SOTO PACHECO / Maria Eugenia VEGA (Costa Rica) elected
Jorge TAYLOR ZANETTI/Humberto ECHEVERRIA (Panama.)
- Region IV (3 membres a élire) – 3 posts
to be filled
Sungjung CHOUGH/Lawrence KIM (Rep. Of KOREA) elected
Kazuo IWAMURA / George KUNHIRO (Japan) elected
Chunhua SONG / Kai CUI (P.Rep of China-Chine) elected
Surath WICKRAMASINGHE/Mihindu KEERTHIRATNE (Sri Lanka)
Roberto SIMON, Haroldo Pinheiro Villar de QUEIROZ (Brazil)
elected
- Région V (0 membre a élire – 0 post to be filled )
Llewellyn Van WYK / Jan Willem RAS (*) (South Africa)
Donald Nwandou (Nigeria) elected
UIA 2008 VENUE
- TORINO / Italie (UMAR) elected
- Sevilla /SPAIN (UMAR)
- Busan / Corea
- Tokyo / Japan
Once more after Beijing, the solidarity of
UMAR members played an important role in the elections of
UIA.
Publication and
diffusion of the Minutes of the Meeting of Deans.
The members of Commission of Schools and the G.S. has collect
the missing information on presentation of schools of architecture
and records of debates in the Meeting of Deans, made the
corrections, prepared it for publication. This document
(Book of the “Meeting of Deans of Schools of Architecture
in Mediterranean basin”) has been published in 600 exemplars
in June, and sent to all schools and association of architects
of member countries in July. Publication and diffusion cost
is 950 EURO. Selling prise is 5 EURO.
Activities of
Committees, Commissions and Work Groups:
The Coordinators of Heritage Committee, Commission of Basic
Missions of Architects, Commission of DICUMAR, Commission
of Club UMAR, Commission of Schools of Architecture
will present their activity reports
Activities of
ASYA-MED – (First Constitutive Meeting of the Association
of Mediterranean Students and Young)
After having been postponed two times (in March and in May)
the constitutive meeting of ASYA-MED (Association of Students
and Young Architects in Mediterranean) has been held on
4-6 September 2002 in Cairo Egypt.
We are grateful to High Institute of Architecture
of Egypt and Association of Egyptian Architects who hosted
this meeting.
The representatives who participated to this
meeting was as follows:
CYPRUS Stylianos PELEKANOS
EGYPT Asmaa Abdel ATY et Aly Nabil EL HAKIM, Ahmed Mohammed
EL KARIM
GREECE Maria DROSSOU
MOROCCO Fayçal EL ABED EL ALAOUI et Amal HAMDOUCHI
TURKEY Humeyra AKKURT (Izmir) et Seden SAVAS (Adana)
The representatives of Spain, France, Israel,
Malta, Palestine, Portugal and Tunisia couldn’t attend the
meeting because of different reasons.
ALBANIA, ALGERIA, CROATIA, ITALY and MAURITANIA
didn’t designate their representatives yet.
The Agenda of the Meeting was as
follows:
1- Opening
2- Presentation of representatives on their countries
3- Discussions & amendment of the Statutes of ASYA-MED.
4- Establishment of an official Web-Site of ASYA-MED
5- Decision on the date and place of next meeting.
6- Miscellaneous
7- Press Release
Mr. Salah HEGAB president
of UMAR, Dr. Soad KAFAFY President of Misr University, Arch.
Sawsan El THOUKY, General Menager of HIAT, Arch. Mamdouh
Abdel Rahman, ex president of S.E.A., Dr. Mamdouh Ebdel
Karim Vice President of S.E.A. were also present in the
meeting and most of them assisted the discussions on the
Agenda.
Considering that whole of the expected representatives
weren’t present, it is decided to continue to the meeting
in an unofficially way and there weren’t the elections for
the Executive Board and foundation of ASYA-MED didn’t been
declared.
The representatives, during two days have
discussed the main items of the Statutes and improved it.
For concluding they have taken the following decisions:
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a- The proposal of representative
of Egyptian Students and Young Architects for procuring
an office and staff in Cairo has been considered as
a very encouraging investment for ASYA-MED.
b- The proposal concerning that Cairo be the Headquarter
of ASYA-MED has considered to be discussed and decided
in the official constitutive meeting where the quorum
be attended.
c- The Goals of ASYA-MED be redefined once again
d- The membership to ASYA-MED can be open to all Mediterranean
Students and to the young architects below 40
e- English and French be the official languages of ASYA-MED
f- The General Assemblies be held in every two years,
g- The delegation will have the equal writes and every
country will have one voice for the decisions.
h- The Executive Board will be composed of President,
Vice President, General Secretary, Treasurer, a member
who will be responsible of public relations, a member
who will be responsible of communication and a member
who will be responsible of cultural and technical activities.
i- Budget will include the incomes of registration,
annual fees, activities incomes, support of UMAR and
dons; expenses will cover the Budget of Secretariat
and the expenses for communication and publications,
j- Considering that the participation is weak it is
decided that the elections of the Executive Board be
in the next constitutive general assembly where the
quorum be attended.
k- The Constitutive General Assembly will be held in
at most one-year time.
l- The Coordinators and representatives who were present
in the meeting will share the tusks for preparing the
constitutive General Assembly. A secretary will be elected
by vote and by the mean of e-mail.
m- The draft of the Statutes amended as mentioned above,
and signed by the present representatives, will be sent
to all representatives of Mediterranean countries and
to the associations of architects.
n- It is decided also to make an appeal to all association
of architects requesting their support for the creation
of ASYA-MED, for the nomination of the representatives
of their countries.
o- Finally, it is decided that foundation of ASYA-MED
cannot be declared in the conditions of weak participation
and there will be no Press Release. |
In its 22nd meeting in Athens, the E.C. has
decided to send an appeal to all members for asking their
support for ASYA-MED. It is requested that the ASYA-MED
representatives of each member country be elected by the
Association(s) of Students in Architecture or by the General
Association of Students. In case that there isn’t any Association
of Students, the Association of Architects may nominate
the representative students in collaboration with the schools
of architecture in their country by the appropriated way
that they prefer. It is requested also that the Association
of Architects contribute to the participation of the representatives
to the next constitutive meeting of ASYA-MED.
Activities on Awards of Students’
Works
Considering the requests of Deans of Architectural Schools
in Mediterranean basin, the 8th G.A. held in Larnaka has
decided to organise a competition of project of idea and
conception in each two years period.
A work group has been established composed
of persons who will be nominated and mandated by Egypt,
France and Tunisia. This
Work Group should have the mission to define the modalities
and regulations to be respected, as well as to constitute
a project of Regulation to be submitted to the approval
of E.C. in its next meeting that will be held in April 2002.
But we didn’t receive any news from those member countries.
During the Meeting of Deans of Architectural
Schools in November 2001, the President of Chamber of Architects
of Antalya (Turkey) Arch. Recep ESENGIL, has proposed that
the Chamber may be involved in this project for coordinating
the tusks and guarantying the realisation. Since 4 month
the Chamber of Architects has constituted a work group for
preparing the regulations of “AWARDS of Student Works”.
This regulation has been studied during the 22nd E.C. Meeting
and following decisions has been taken:
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a- It is accepted that UMAR
may establish an “AWARDS of Student Works” or a Competition
in collaboration with the Chamber of Architects of Antalya
(Turkey)
b- The E.C. will make a call to all members for asking
their support for this project. UMAR has to write to
all schools of architecture in Mediterranean region
for initiating them to support this project.
c- General Secretary, who is already a member of Work
Group of the Chamber of Architects of Antalya, is charged
to establish the coordination between UMAR and the Chamber
and to involve in the project for spreading it.
d- E.C. requests that the Chamber of Architects of Antalya
revise the regulations that they have prepared to give
it a more international sense and vocation.
e- In the limits of possibilities UMAR may contribute
to the expenses of this project as previewed in its
approved Budget-2002.
f- E.C. will request from member countries their proposals
for the constitution of the jury and a jury member as
previewed in regulations. After reception of candidatures
from the members E.C. will decide on the name of the
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Activities on
Summer Schools of UMAR
Unfortunately for the first time since 1995, there wasn’t
any Summer School of UMAR organised this year.
We have received a promise of Ordine degli Architetti di
Torino (OAT), during the 8th General Assembly, for organising
a Summer School in Torino in the summer of 2002. We have
received a confirmation (in July) when all the schools were
closed. In the mean time, during the Berlin Congress the
representatives of OAT transmitted a letter of Mr. Rodolfo
ZICH, Vice-president of Torino International who was declaring
to open a Summer School of UMAR in the summer of 2003
We have prepared a guide on How to organise
a Summer Schools of UMAR for facilitating the tusks of those
who organise and those who participates and send students.
This Brochure is ready to be published.
Site Internet
of UMAR
The site is opened in December 1998. The first version of
the Site was in service in March 1999 on a limited provisory
domain. The operators of Chamber of Architects of Izmir
prepared this first version. Location of domain effectuated
in May 1999.
In July ’99 the second version was launched:
http://www.umar.org
Following the proposition made by a delegate
in the 6th G.A.
we are involved to prepare the independent pages for each
member of UMAR, which contains limited information on them
with names and addresses of persons who are in contact with
UMAR. A facility is in service of members where they can
place the number of information on architectural events
going on in their countries. Only thing to do is to send
us these information or to create in their country a Work
Group which will manage the progress of their own pages.
Suite a une proposition faite par un délégué
de 6eme A.G. nous avons établi les adresse de e-mail privé
pour chaque membre du B.E., pour chaque Commission ou Groupe
de Travail et pour chaque pays membres. Mais ce moyen est
tres peu utilisé par les membres.
Nous sommes en train de reformer le contenu
du Site Internet. Il est dans évolution lente due a des
difficultés de financement. Mais nous essayons de faire
le meilleur pour le tenir toujours en service.
Les expectations professionnelles des opérateurs
en ont fait que les travaux de mise en forme et actualisation
du Site Internet de l’UMAR se perturbent parfois et assez
souvent. Nous proposons qu’un budget doive etre mis en place
et un Comité qui assurera la gestion du Site doit etre crée.
Suite aux travaux pour donner un nouveau
visage et pour le reformer, qui ont duré 3 mois, le Site
Internet de l’UMAR est remis en service depuis le
1 septembre 2001. Maintenant le monde peut mieux
connaître UMAR, ses activités, son organisation, ses membres
par l’intermédiaire de ce site.
Nous avons préparé des pages indépendants pour chaque membre
de l’UMAR ou des informations restreintes sont placés avec
les noms et les adresses des personnes en contact avec UMAR.
Une possibilité est mise en service des membres qui leur
permet d’y intégrer autant d’information sur les évenements
architecturaux de leurs pays. Il suffit de nous envoyer
ces informations ou de créer un groupe de travail dans leurs
pays qui va gérer leurs pages individuelles. Mais ce moyen
qui n’est pas utilisé par les membres.
Registration of
UMAR
Since July 1994 UMAR hasn’t procured by an office in Athens,
there isn’t any established official address; official registration
of UMAR hasn’t been effectuated.
According to the decisions of 19th meeting of E.C. the procedures
of official registration of UMAR in its headquarter in Athens
continues. The official documents of UMAR has been submitted
to the Greek Authorities by the Lawyer who is charged to
establish these formalities. We hope that the registration
will be accomplished soon.
By this occasion we remind once again that
it is imperative that all member procures:
- The Statutes of Organisation of Architects or only the
concerning article of their Statutes (in English or French)
which allows their organisation to adhere in an international
union.
(If there weren’t any article in their Statutes, the member
organisation would have the obligation to take a decision
in its General Assembly in a shortest period, which will
allow the registration of UMAR.
Waiting to receive the Statutes from :
Algeria, Italy, Mauritania, Malta, Portugal, Israel and
Tunisia
- We haven’t received until today an official confirmation
of our Greek colleagues for an office, which can be used
by UMAR as Headquarter.
We have learned by experience that during
the procedures of registration, submitting a dossier to
an international institution, even in case of sending materials
abroad or opening an account in a bank etc. the engagements
of members must be official.
This is the reason why we are preparing a
form of declaration which includes the information and the
engagement of the member organisation, which must be filled,
signed and stamped by them.
Official Address
of UMAR
During the first G.A. meeting of UMAR in Rethymnon (Crete-Greece)
in 1994, at its foundation, SADAS-PEA (Greece) has declared
that if the official Headquarter of UMAR is accepted to
be in Athens, they will procure an office for the works
of UMAR and for keeping its archives. Taking in consideration
this declaration, members are accepted that the official
Headquarter be in Athens for a period of 10 years.
8 years passed since its creation, but this
office has never been given to the use of UMAR.
This is the reason why, UMAR utilises, by
E.C. decision, the address of its President and its General
Secretary as official address.
In the international context, for being official,
a permanent address is requested for any organisation.
We are waiting an official confirmation of
our Greek colleagues for an office, which can be used by
UMAR as Headquarter.
(A sign of UMAR has been tried to be hanged
to the door of an extension building of ICOMOS Panhélenic
Headquarter during the 18th meeting of E.C.)
Archives of UMAR
Due to its Statutes its General Secretary guards the archives
of UMAR. In January 1999 the outgoing General Secretary,
Mr. Vassilis GRIGORIADIS has remitted to the new General
Secretary the archives of UMAR containing 6 dossiers of
minutes of General Assemblies, E.C. meetings and registries.
Other documents and material are adding on related the projects
of UMAR (Summer Schools, Exhibitions, Participation to the
Congresses etc)
At the end of 2002 the volume of archives of UMAR reached
to 1,50 m3 (nearly one tonne) containing the minutes, registries
of 26 dossiers and published books, brochures, posters,
panels, exhibition materials etc. It became too much cumbersome
for to be guarded in a personal office of G.S. or even in
the headquarter office of a member organisation. It contains
all the dossiers that received the G.S. from his precedent.
The number and volume of dossiers increase during the 4
year mission of the G.S. The G.S. draws attention on the
difficulties to remit the existing archives to a new G.S.
because of its volume and weight.
It is imperative that UMAR has an office
in its Headquarter where all these material will be kept
safely.
UMAR must resolve this important problem.
QUESTONNAIRE SURVEY
: Survey on the situation of architecture on architectural
organisations and on architects of Mediterranean countries,
Only ALBANIA, FRANCE, TURKEY, MALTA and MOROCCO have responded
since its distribution to all members in 22 January 2000
the “Questionnaire” on the situation of Architects and Architecture
in Mediterranean countries. We are waiting to receive the
answers from all the other member countries.
The goal of this survey is to see in detail
the situation of architects and the architecture in Mediterranean
countries, to be able to compare it in between them and
with the other countries of the world and draw lessons for
defining the actual situation and the modes of action for
improving it in the future.
It is obvious that without the response of
every country we cannot evaluate a global sight of the situation
of architects and Mediterranean architecture.
We are asking to the G.A. to take a decision
on either giving up this survey, or to oblige the members
to respond in the shortest time for finalising it. We draw
the attention also, that this is not a continuous tusk but
may be finished at once.
Once this survey may finish, the E.C., which
considers that there isn’t any other better way to know
the Mediterranean architect’s situation, is intended to
put the results in a book form and to publish it.
UMAR Prize
The idea of awarding the UMAR Prize(s) isn’t new. This idea
has been proposed at the 4th G.A. Meeting. This idea has
been discussed once again at the 19th meeting of E.C. held
in Cairo.
The E.C. during its 19th meeting of E.C.
held in Cairo/Alexandria has decided that the propositions
on awarding the architects and/or on their works with medals
should have to be included to the Action Plan –2002 of UMAR
and that the representatives of SEA (Society of Egyptian
Architects) has proposed themselves to prepare a project
of “Rules of UMAR’s Prize” to be submitted to the 8th G.A.
Establishing the UMAR Prize is also a proposition
of the Meeting of Deans of Architectural Schools.
As there hasn’t been any project presented
to E.C. there hasn’t been any progress occurred. If this
proposal of “Rules of UMAR’s Prize” could have been presented
to the 21st Meeting of the E.C. it can be presented to the
G.A.
We are proposing that the G.A. form a Work
Group composed of competent persons for preparing a “Regulation
of UMAR Prize” and defines the criteria, duration of works,
Means of works, the budget etc.
B- What the E.C.
has realised during the last 4 years
Address Book
Resolving communication problems
Yearly Action Plans of UMAR
Publication of a Brochure on UMAR
Publication of the first issue of News Letter of UMAR
Preparation of an Exhibition on UMAR
Participation to the 20th World Congress of UIA in Beijing
in 1999
Organisation of 10 Summer Schools
Participation to the Collegiums in Egypt
Participation to the Collegiums in Tunisia
Survey works on the Architecture Schools in Mediterranean
region
Publication of Catalogue of Architecture Schools in Mediterranean
region
1st Meeting of the Deans of the Mediterranean Schools of
the Architecture
1st Exhibition on Mediterranean Architecture
2nd Exhibition on Mediterranean Architecture
3rd Exhibition on Mediterranean Architecture
Symposium on Social Role of Architects in Montpellier
Participation to the 21stWorld Congress of UIA in Berlin
in 2002
Creation of Web-Site of UMAR
Voyages between architects
Finally, we can say, without being timid,
neither modest, without having proud or ambitious we may
declare with an honor to be the initiators of;
- Realizing so much with so much limited means,
- Putting the liner in upper position without loosing the
views its real means
- Enlarging and fortifying UMAR
- Saving the fragile equilibrium between the members,
- Opening the horizons also large
- Being ambitious and propellers together
Before concluding this Report, I might thank
once again, to all those members who contributed to the
activities and participated to the actions of UMAR, and
to those who believes to the Mediterranean and architectural
solidarity and collaboration and to those who accepts to
be the rammers or the winds for bringing the UMAR’s boat
to a safe port for the goods of humanity.
I thank also to all the members of the Executive
Committee who worked with huge sacrifice, even some of them
couldn’t brought their contributions till to end of this
4 year period session; to their substitutes who were always
ready to act as the members, to the Coordinators of Committees,
Commissions and Work Groups who realized the big jobs.
Salah E. HEGAB
President of UMAR