Newsletter No 64
WOMEN ARE NOT ENOUGH VALUED BY A WORLD IN CRISIS
Above from left: Prime Ministers from Denmark (Mette Frederiksen), Island (Katrín Jakobsdottir), Taiwan (Tsai Ing-wen), Norway (Erna Solberg), Finland (Sanna Marin),and New Zeland (Jacinda Ardern) and German Chancellor Ángela Merkel. Page 4
USA RACISM: THE OTHER MORTAL PANDEMIC
Editorial Astonishing as it is the first world power
comfortably leads the ranking of countries
affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and there is no rational explanation for the wave of racial hatred that the self-defined ‘leader of democracy’ has been nurturing for centuries. Right: George Floyd (1960-2020) Page 2
Indian architect fights in Above pic: a majority of scientists, doctors, nurses, and health and social service
workers are women. Paradoxically, women are still a minority in politics. favor of the discriminated
Page 5 Shyama Sidana is a recently ARC • PEACE 2020MODULAR Prof. Dick Urban Vestbro associate from India.
Prof. Jaime Alzérreca Pérez explains A student of Prof. 16/06/2019 – 16/06/2020
Bijay Misra, an what this design series consists of emeritus member of Page 7 Our friend and the NGO, she tells us valuable colleague left us a year ago. about her ongoing fight on behalf of those discriminated NL shares in his against by the greed of world political memory one of his power. many challenges
Page 6 to all professionals to assume the role of cooperators with
ALSO IN THIS NEWSLETTER: those most in need in the construction of their first decent family home.
architectural class for students of the Universidad del Valle, in Bolivia, by the Page 3
Secretary of ARC • PEACE; Art Gallery of artists close to the NGO, and more. SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
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Editorial
COFFEE EYES, BLUE EYES Title of an experience filmed in 1968 by Jane Elliott, American anti-racist educator and activist. Access to the documentary is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ONoIqabYp4
"The United States burns and the In counties where the population of It is overwhelming to read, listen and flames have revived an issue that the colour predominates, the number of see President Trump in his constant country has kept unsolved for people hospitalized is three times the electoral bravado, leaning on the Bible centuries: racism," says the London national average and the number of and the armed forces. He has just done BBC in a report dated June 2, after the deaths is multiplied by six. it again, in a scene typical of TV novel egregious murder of George Floyd by series with a lot of ostentation and the state police , in broad daylight. “Many are 'essential' workers (nurses, lousy plot. public transport, supermarket Although this is a truism, the employees, or home caregivers ...). aforementioned anti-racism educator They cannot afford to telecommute or and activist said flatly: "You cannot not go to work, in many cases they do abuse a group of intelligent people for not have health insurance for the job 300 years and expect them to endure and in the end they are the most indefinitely." exposed," says Dr. Blackstock.
The Establishment always blames They were practically not tested at others for its own failings and first, due to the guidelines that inconsistencies; but, the statistics of prioritized those who had travelled to American racism in no way can be China or affected countries, for being ignored or considered as ‘fake news’. rich, famous or political.
The Urban Institute of Washington DC "If we cannot see racist policies, we It is obvious that his advisers were not has determined the following facts: cannot eliminate or replace them," successful in reminding him that there wrote the historian who directs the were already populists who posed as • For every $ 6 whites have, blacks Center for Anti-Racist Research and religious long before him; for example, have only $ 1. the ex-demagogue Chávez. Policy at American University, Ibram • Blacks convicted are 20 times more in Kendi. number than whites. What is urgent now is that all • Blacks received 3 times more governments, state, local and federal, suspensions and expulsions from begin to pay more attention to the school than whites. reality and challenges of the racial • Police infringe on blacks worse impact of the coronavirus. treatment than on whites.
• Blacks have fewer homes than Blackstock does not trust the Trump whites. Administration "because if it prioritized helping these communities As Dr. Usché Blackstock explained by it would have pushed to show data or telephone, “complete data is never would have issued specific guidelines known; this is due to centuries of through the Center for Disease Control ‘structural and systemic racism’ that and Prevention, which it has not permeates everything: from labour to done." Meanwhile, in the Cinema Mecca, economics; from social to environment Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the leading "everything that shines (or not) is and health.” scientists in the current Republican gold"; and the film industry does not For her part, Princeton teacher Administration's response group, has stop billing millions, thanks to racism. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor adapted an acknowledged that this crisis is Hypocrisy goes hand in hand with old proverb and shared it in 'The New "lighting a bright spotlight on the greed and together they now offer film Yorker': unacceptability" of these racial or series promotions based on this disparities. But, Washington still does cruel drama prevailing in American "When white America gets the new not provide the data that an impatient culture. coronavirus, black Americans die." society waits for in vain. The Editor
What solutions do we architects and urban planners give to the problem of social housing? ARC • PEACE had its XV GA in Barcelona on April 17, 2008. There were the then Secretary Dick Urban Vestbro, Prof. Bijay Misra (India - Japan) current member emeritus, and the international habitat expert Geoffrey Payne (UK). There was also
Dr. Branislava Saveljic-Balac (Czechia), then representative of ARC • PEACE to the UN in New York.
The Editor has the honour of sharing Innovative strategies were this document, almost one year after put into action during the Prof. Dick Urban Vestbro (Photo right), 1980s and 1990s. left us. During his lifetime, he However, they are defended the right of the poor to a circumstantial efforts that, decent home, and created successful in fact, continue to be examples of co-housing; quite a good applied in isolation. challenge to colleagues these days. Furthermore, they are not
Urbanization processes grow sensitive enough to the exponentially; whilst almost all the reality facing the poor. settlements arise in the periphery of While it is true that the cities; they are slums where governments and people live inhumanly. international organizations
The seminar convened in Barcelona Often the approaches practiced on often pay attention to the later served as the title for the book human settlements (slums) are quite development of housing strategies, in that Vestbro subsequently published: cumbersome and bureaucratic; giving practice very little has been done, and "Are we architects and urban planners rise to intricate construction permit is being done, to implement them. obstacles to the transformation of application procedures that, when It is sad to see that architects and slums?" (Photo above). For its part, the having to be completed by the poor, urban planners are - many times - the ARC • PEACE Board of Directors issued become impossible for them. most reluctant to learn and adopt a Declaration, here in an brief version: these development strategies. Too often, unfortunately, the architects The UN HABITAT organization and urban planners instead of playing a Consequently, the majority continues estimates that more than a billion renovation role that meets the needs to defend old urban conditioning laws people live in slums (favelas, or of the poor, aggravate the problem by and unrealistic regulations regarding shanties), i.e. urban settlements submitting to obsolete procedures. spaces. without title security, infrastructure It is necessary to replace the old The Editor fully agrees with this services: potable water network, regulations with others more analysis which is already twelve years sewage treatment, roads, or sanitary conducive to the effort that can be old; he calls on architects and urban equipment. planners to take seriously the need to made by citizens. This number is projected to increase to create urban housing development Rather than thinking of policies in two billion by 2030. So far, efforts strategies, taking into account the terms of providing ready-to-use targeting slum problems have yielded needs of the poor. Our profession can housing at any given time, habitat only very limited results. This is and should make a valuable should be thought of as a continuous especially true in low-income countries contribution to reducing the world's process where informally settled in Africa, South Asia, and Latin slum problem. human communities are progressively America. Let's be part of the solution and stop improved, through a process that One reason why efforts have been includes the active participation of being part of the problem. unsuccessful is the fact that decision- same beneficiaries. The Editor makers continue to apply methods that That will be accomplished when old are no longer in use. They are policies Book cited is available in pdf version: preconceptions about concentration based on the supposed availability of a https://issuu.com/asffrance/docs/publications limits, land-use coefficients and street good organization of the sector and width are abandoned. Do you want to know more about public services, in a renewed construction industry, and on the Public space, both semi-private and the activities of ARC • PEACE on these and many other topics? existence of a good number of common, must be recognized as of professionals committed to improving multiple and inclusive use. Write to the Secretary to this email: the urban condition of the most [email protected]
The idea of strategies that allow the humble citizens. Also visit the Facebook page of development of housing is not a new This is still far from reality. thing. ARC • PEACE International
Confirmed: Also in politics there are women doing better than men
With the provocative title: "What do The key to being "In this sense, women politicians the countries that are best responding successful in the fight achieve an accent closer to empathy in to the coronavirus have in common? against the pandemic their way of communicating. That are governed by women" Forbes is to have a social They move away from the epic tone magazine published an article by protection system that permeates some of the statements Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, (right photo), with quality health of their counterparts in many consultant on equality and gender services included. countries", reflects Elizondo. issues. It names German Chancellor Other social and cultural factors can Angela Merkel and the prime ministers influence the rate of infection. Just a "This is not a crisis and it is not a war of Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Finland, few examples: "different forms of either. It is a pandemic, a social Taiwan and New Zealand (see cover leisure, types of interpersonal and phenomenon. And I think that unlike photos) 7 of the 10 women who lead intergenerational relationships, units of what we saw in the last economic the same number of countries out of coexistence, kinds of mobility and crisis of 2009, female leadership the 197 recognized by the UN. The rest urban planning, social discipline in comes out stronger. Women always of the countries are led by men. The respect of measures", among others. had, and have, that central role as article swiftly circulates on WhatsApp For the political scientist, the Forbes backbone, supporter of the home; groups and social networks in different article "shows that despite the increase possibly there is a kind of association languages around the world. of the presence of women in between the health crisis, the message and female empowerment." says the These women are valued for their parliaments and even in executives,” in "positions of institutional leadership sociologist. readiness to take the first steps in the face of the pandemic, the proximity of that presence is still very low." "In this pandemic, the feminization of the message they addressed the María Ángeles Abellán2, (below pic) these tasks is evident when we see the population with and the ability to sociologist and social anthropologist, images of those who directly carry out convey confidence. she reformulates the question: care, health personnel, caregivers of nursing homes, cleaners, cashiers at Are women with political Do female traits help supermarkets ... And these leaders may responsibilities showing different in the management of represent symbolically for citizens a leadership than men? Is it true that the pandemic? "My disposition in which years of they have what it takes? And if they answer is affirmative, socialization in gender roles crystallize" do, what is it? since I positively value the capacities of concludes Elizondo. To answer these questions, the Spanish female leadership; Alicia Miyares3, (below pic) is a digital newspaper Público obtained the which does not mean that being a philosopher; she opinion of a sociologist, a political woman gives you carte blanche and is a acknowledges "It is scientist and a philosopher with a monolithic approach," she explains. possible that gender perspective. "This is not only a health crisis; it is also communication is a Do women do it better? one of confidence and, especially, of differentiating fact pacifying and containing citizens to "I do not believe that there can be any and women are avoid overflows and social chaos.” probably less direct cause-effect relationship between the fact that a woman is the That is the challenge. bellicose, because our socialization has no indication of competitiveness. All head of government of “Citizens wonder why Public risk a State and that the the rest are comparisons that bare prevention systems have failed. In this their own weight." measures adopted by context, female leadership is that government in the Adapted by The Editor committed to a less belligerent Source: fight against Covid-19 language, more direct (less canned), are more effective" https://www.publico.es/sociedad/respondi even more sincere and showing endo-mejor-crisis-coronavirus-paise- said Arantxa Elizondo1 resilience", says Abellán. gobernados-mujeres.html (right pic).
Communication is the key. 1 For the political scientist, due to "the Professor of Political Science at the possible outbreaks that might occur it "Precisely, this is one of the most University of the Basque Country. will be difficult to know what medium relevant issues for a government at a 2 Sociologist and social anthropologist and long-term strategies will result time when numerous rights of citizens from the University of Valencia. more effective when the confinements are to be restricted, including freedom 3 PhD in Philosophy, University of come to an end", she pondered. of movement," says Elizondo. Oviedo.
Exemplary women busy saving lives
Among the principles and activities Spain has 68% female doctors and 84% of ARC•PEACE International the nurses; and women are the majority in justification or promotion of any social, the groups of auxiliaries, cleaners, political or religious ideology is not kitchen sinks, etc. included. Similarly, the Official The staff of nursing homes, a
Newsletter does not publish articles in population also predominantly female support of feminism or other gender As the confinement is ending, the (70%, and almost 80% older than 78 woman will be more exposed to the ideology; this one is no exception. years) are made up of women. 3 out of risks of contagion than the man. During So far, it has been well demonstrated 4 health workers affected by COVID-19 that time medical visits will increase to that no ‘ism’ - be it from left, centre or are reported to be women. make up all suspended and postponed right viewpoints - could in practice This is a direct consequence of the fact appointments. In addition, it should be solve the historical inequality and that 61% of women, against 39% of borne in mind that when traveling iniquity between men and women, men, have been closer to people at through the city, women use public always to the detriment of the latter. risk, or infected; those with mild transport more than their own vehicle, For this reason, the Editor shares this symptoms, as well as the elderly, with the risks that this implies. Then, it article in which it is evident that the disabled and children confined at home will be necessary to evaluate the public health professions are highly due to the closing of schools. consequences that these valuable feminized, globally. Caretakers in domestic service should women will suffer after the crisis: Sustainable Development Goals 17 and not be forgotten. In these jobs, women fatigue, anxiety, acute stress, 18 involve diverse studies and account for 88% of the total and more depression, among others. statistics; however, although they than 60% with irregular jobs. If, as many claim, the pandemic has report differences by sex in the public made us better as a society, we must health area, they do not necessarily When editing this article, 3,548,312 Spaniards are unemployed; of the total be able to put in place effective, show the impact of gender on the supportive and equitable strategies management of these differences. 2,019,370 are women. According to data from the International Monetary that end current inequalities. Objective sources of information reveal Fund, the Spanish economy will We will achieve, among all of us, the that the first line in the fight against collapse 8% in 2020 and long-awaited social and economic the COVID-19 pandemic is largely made unemployment will skyrocket. reconstruction, beginning by up of women. In China, in the region recognizing and thanking the The hospitality and tourism sector is of most affected by the virus, women invaluable contribution of women in all particular concern, where the female were 90% of health personnel. In the areas of daily life. Ebola crisis (2014-2016) in Africa, presence is the majority (60%). Adapted by The Editor women suffered more infections due In addition, shopping and visits to Source: "Pandemics do know about Gender." to their role as family caregivers and health centers during the de ‘de- And the measures for recovery? for constituting the bulk of health escalation process’ are activities https://www.easp.es/web/coronavirusysaludpu personnel. In the European Union, 76% carried out by women on most blica/las-pandemias-si-saben-de-genero-y-las- of health workers are women. occasions. medidas-para-la-recuperacion/
Palestinians killed in Israel, 'by mistake' Saeb Erekat, Secretary General of the
Palestine Liberation Organization Palestinian youth Iyad Khairi Hallak, Fadi Samara, 37, was shot to death by (PLO), called for "the world to stop 32, with autism, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers on May 29 treating Israel as a state that is above Israeli police on in Ramallah. It was later the law, and for the International Saturday, May 30, for confirmed that in a very Criminal Court to fulfil its mandate", "suspecting that he was confusing action he was as reports the Wafa press agency. armed." Later it was shot when returning from demonstrated that the his usual job in Jerusalem Sources: young man did not and was on his way to where his five https://www.telesurtv.net/news/policias- carry any weapons and was going to children were waiting for him. These israelies-asesinan-joven-palestino- the historic center where he worked killings occur as normal in Israel, and the 20200530-0014.html and received special attention; the boy authorities only report the error. https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/fadi- lived in Wadi Joz neighbourhood in This happens when the architect adnan-samara/
East Jerusalem, of Palestinian majority Netanyahu advances towards the where he was highly appreciated. annexation of the West Bank territories. Adapted by The Editor
Baker was inspired by the philosophy The fight in favour of the discriminated has no roof of Professor Ernst F. Schumacher
(below); founder of the Intermediate Colleague Shyama Sivadas (right) is Immersed in the task Technology Development Group a restless Indian-born architect and of educating women (ITDG) and author of ‘Small is urban planner. She confesses that has and children where Beautiful’; who asked the architect been working in the profession and as public education for Oscar Margenet to an activist for the right of the poor to a various reasons does write the Spanish decent habitat for almost a quarter of a not reach, Shyama version of the book, century. uses pedagogical which finally came out Earlier this year, she began a fluid tools developed by the famous Italian as ‘Lo Pequeño es email exchange with the ARC • PEACE doctor and educator, Dr. Maria Hermoso’ (1978).
Secretary, which culminated in her Montessori (below). Shyama investigated urban habitat and joining the NGO. With proper Thanks to the conservation law in inner cities at the authorization, the Newsletter Editor doctrinal influence of Mackintosh School of Architecture now shares aspects of the colleague's such mentors, she (1998-2001) in Scotland. Now she is work that are related to the content of constantly contacts planning to go to the Schumacher this issue. lawyers, activists and College, in Devon, England, whose Deeply inspired by Gandhi's work and organizations that founder and director is the renowned cooperative action, she finally moved defend human and environmental pacifist and ecologist Satish Kumar from home to Atlanta, Georgia, USA, rights. (below). where racism continues to be the He hopes Shyama will cross the source of very bad news. She perceives Atlantic to work towards sustainable that this country’s construction construction once industry is monopolized by the real the pandemic is over; estate business; what challenges to also to achieve her work for racial and social equality. For idea of a cooperative this reason, she works from a global of construction network of people who share principles workers. In fact, she of social responsibility, coinciding with is already talking to those of ARC • PEACE. For a time, she did it with our member emeritus, Professor Bijay Misra, in a organizations whose mission and aims Shyama comes from a family of are such as ARC • PEACE’s. project of the construction workers workers with a history linked to Gandhi cooperative called Uralungal Labor Satish Kumar became known at the and his successor Acharya Vinoba Contract Cooperative Society (below). height of the Cold War, for his walk Bhave (below) and his Bhoodan (Land- from Gandhi's grave to Kennedy's gift) Movement, in favor of the rights The vision and example of the worthy grave with no money and only one of the poor to the land, in rural areas British-Indian architect Laurie Baker, other companion; a journey that took and towns of India. (below) in life considered the ‘Gandhi of over 2 years to complete, creating Architecture’ prompted her to use working groups for peace and ecology sustainable construction technology along the way. He met with the prime and resources. ministers of the nuclear states at the time: the US, the UK, France and Russia.
As a conclusion, people like this
colleague, stimulate us to continue
with ARC • PEACE mission and tasks That work inspired many people of both at global and local levels. good will and strong moral principles. Dr. Martin Luther King (below) led a We encourage readers to contact tough but non - Shyama through us, and join her violent fight crusade in favor of more and more discriminated people on earth. against racism; which meant for More about Laurie Baker’s legacy: him suffering https://www.architectural- persecution, prison review.com/essays/reputations/laurie-baker- 1917-2007/10045413.article and even losing his Baker worked on projects to help the poor in India, exclusively. The Editor own life.
MODULAR 2020: a sympathetic approach to the environment / Prof. J. Alzérreca Pérez The Newsletter And he adds: “Arranged on site, they Editor asked Prof. generate environments with that Jaime Alzérreca modular correlation that, if they Pérez (right) for a escaped this premise, would produce definition of what waste of materials by the cuts Modular 2020 is generated to reach non-modular about. The following is a summary of dimensions. the generous collaboration of our The structural module is generated colleague, a member ARC•PEACE from the use of Reinforced Concrete as International Board of Directors, who an input for the punctual and lives in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The full continuous structural proposal. It is The colleague explains that, after the report is offered at the link cited at the based on the positive and negative reflective analysis carried out in the bottom of this article. initial stage, the design stage is moments in beams with hyperstatic "MODULAR 2020 is a compilation of characteristics in both monolithic and reached thanks to the fact that "the integral design experiences that have arcaded structures. Where there are semiotic signs of the meanings and as their main characteristic the saving cantilevers, it will help reduce the size signifiers of the context of the project's of nature in a positive contribution to of moments that require more location guarantee the geometric basis the ecological footprint in the context reinforcement due to the characteristic for the posing of codes.” According to of Sustainable Architecture", defines of the traction effort. Taking into him, these "will become a modular the architect. account that iron bars are commonly foundation for generating parametric marketed in a standard length (12m), design." “Starting from the premise of strictly the main idea is to distribute the consuming what is necessary while We could then ask about the bending moments so that the required avoiding waste generated in the advantage of M2020: reinforcement adds up to 12m; this project design stage, M2020 uses the “It’s the empowerment of the citizen avoids unnecessary cuts and waste. that’s planned within the use phase. methodological aspects of coordination in its 4 essential modules: The environmental module works The feasibility of the undertaking is functional, constructive, structural and according to the number of air assured if the users commit to a environmental. renewals per hour in environments with sustainable use”, concludes the author. different uses; interacts with the The functional module is based on number of inhabitants in the anthropometric dimensions in geographical and climatological zone interaction with the ergonomics of the where the project is located. These furniture and circulation, within the data, which are made up of variables framework of the equipment and and constants, determine the size of usable areas. It generates systematized the rooms, as well as the size of the contexts in digital layers that will give openings. ” internal dimensions to environments, and will control the dimensioning of Then Alzérreca Pérez clarifies the way spaces based on the number of people in which the four modules interact: "They allow us to set both two- The Editor informs the reader that Prof. who are part of the architectural work. Jaime Alzérreca Pérez is in charge of dimensional and three-dimensional The construction module is part of a Construction Economics’ field in which the parameters systematized in the M2020 architectural project is analysed in relation database of commercial dimensions of project for the design of premises that construction materials. They feed to the consumption of nature required. will make up a database with MODULAR 2020 allowed the formation of digitally parameterized matrices and parametric characteristics. These will the academic constructive observatory then interact with the geometry of the serve as input to feed CAD and BIM promoted by the subject. project that is carried out with software, on the AutoCAD and REVIT materials on the structure and the In addition, it gave rise to methodological platforms of AutoDESK. ” guides that facilitated the inclusion of the finishing. The project process is improved thanks sustainable project process in the Its modular characteristics are framed to Informatics, because “it is generated curriculum of Architectural teaching at the with both structural and closing bricks; attached to a rational consumption of Universidad Mayor de San Simón, in with ceramic coatings; with concrete nature; without falling into Cochabamba, Bolivia. The Editor and glass block enclosures; and ceramic improvisations, since all the geometry cover material; i.e. 0.50m side pieces of the project is based and controlled PDF: that generate recurring modules of on anthropometric and ergonomic file:///C:/Users/Oscar/Documents/ARC%20PEAC E/Bolet%C3%ADn%2064/MODULAR-2020- 1.00, 1.50, 2.00, etc.” measures.” Jaime-Alz%C3%A9rreca-P%C3%A9rez-1.pdf
Postponed in Palma: XXI General Assembly and International Seminar
The sanitary measures taken in the They had already confirmed to attend The Secretary of face of the pandemic by the Balearic Graeme Bristol, ARC•PEACE Co-Chair, ARC•PEACE, Oscar Islands government, meant having to from Canada; Marilou Sánchez Margenet Nadal postpone both important events in the Hurtado of ARC•PEACE Peru; Osman (right) will announce institutional life of ARC•PEACE without Elkheir of ARC•PEACE Sudan; the new date for a new date. Apollinaire Salumu Kitenge M’ba of the XXI GA and the
It’s regrettable because a number of ARC•PEACE RD Congo; Ivana Fischer- International participants had already been invited Margenet, CEO of MANDUA, Germany. Seminar "Participation is a Right" once the Executive Committee fix it. (photos below), some of whom came This suspension comes when the from other countries; and reservations Seminar program was being prepared What has been confirmed is that the had already been made for air tickets together with municipal officials who program maintains its headquarters in and accommodation in Palma. have known ARC•PEACE since 2015. the Balearic Islands.
Above, from left: Architect Graeme Bristol, Municipal Councilor Neus Truyol Caimari, Palma General Director of Urbanism Dr. Architect Gabriel Horrach Estarellas, Architect Luz María Sánchez Hurtado, Dr. Architect Osman Elkheir; Licensed Ivana Fischer-Margenet and Architect Apollinaire Salumu Kitenge M’ba. ¡Hopefuly we can get them together to comply with the program!
PALMA URBANISM: THE GENERAL PLAN UNDER REVISION
At the close of this The Mayor expressed: "We incorporate Valuing this wise Newsletter, we the vision of sustainability and the fight municipal decision have good news against climate change, a commitment made at uncertain announced by the to affordable housing and a compact times, the Mayor of Palma, and close city, which drives new Newsletter Editor decided to share the José Hila Vargas (above) and the economic sectors." plates made for the urban area of
Councilor for City Model, Housing and The Councilor (right) said: Palma (see below), by colleagues who Sustainability, Neus Truyol Caimari. have been working for the Common "This General Plan responds to the Good for almost a decade. On Monday, June 22, both presented environmental, social and urban the draft document of the General challenges of the city of Palma now and There is great empathy with them, as Plan, with the main measures for the next 20 years with an innovative we are united by the motto that ARC • proposed, and which is initially strategy, based on sustainable PEACE is proclaiming since 1987: "Let's expected to be approved in the first development, social justice and the think globally and act locally with four months of 2021. humanization of the city”. social responsibility". The Editor
CONNECTIONS WITHOUT BORDERS, WITH UNTHINKABLE RESULTS
CONEXIONES SIN FRONTERAS, CON RESULTADOS IMPENSABLES Fernando David Mendizábal Mendoza The meeting served is a young man born and raised in to visualize the level Bolivia, where he completed primary and of architectural secondary studies. He graduated as an education achieved architect and has postgraduate studies in by young people by Environmental Management and virtue of the work of Sustainable Design, in universities of the tutors F. Mendizábal Argentine. He knew of ARC•PEACE in Mendoza (right) and 2016, by Rosa Nieves, a friend and great Jorge Villarroel. Some formal research collaborator of the NGO. works of the students which are part of the Fair Pavilion Project are also shown
Currently teaching at the Faculty of in the video. Architecture and Urbanism, of del Valle ARC•PEACE co-founder showed some of University, Cochabamba, Bolivia, he the works with which he was linked since The Design Proposal “addresses a series invited Architect Oscar Margenet Nadal, the 70s when he worked and studied in of design concepts, physical laws, rhythm Secretary of ARC•PEACE, to participate the United Kingdom; i.e. El Chocón- and gestalt applied to architecture, in a class via Internet. Fernando and the Cerros Colorados Complex Hydroelectric aiming to show the form and the plastic. teacher Jorge Villarroel Gonzáles are in Power Plant, in Neuquén, Argentina Likewise, it proposes to generate a public charge of the Architecture Workshops (photo above); the work of rehabilitation space for all types of users, with ‘A’ and ‘C’; and in these hard times of and change of use of a residential recreation and rest areas on the land 'going to class without leaving home' building in the typical Victorian style adjacent to the pavilion” Mendizábal they planned and achieved an excellent (19th century) to be transformed into defined. (photos below) international connection between the offices, in front of the gardens of London Cochabamba valley and the island capital Buckingham Palace; complementary Palma de Mallorca. About a hundred buildings for The Royal Mint (Casa de la students participated for more than Moneda), in Llantrisant, Wales; a tourist three hours (photo below). residential complex in Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates; the Expansion to the Kuwait City Hall, original work by the Greek architect George Candilis(1913- 1995) and a member of the famous Team Ten.
He also carried out the development of the town superblock focusing on ‘Traffic
in Towns’ (traffic in the cities) by the “
"Is there any limitation between influential British urban planner born in communicator and receiver in order to India, Sir Colin Buchanan (1907-2001); a “The audiovisual material reached the transmit knowledge?" Mendizábal asks. subject well known to Margenet since ears of teachers in charge of other And he himself replies: "There are no his graduation thesis was on Rosario subjects, friends from the university and barriers when parties are well urban transformation with the 'super architects abroad", reported the tutors; predisposed to both communicate and block' approach, exactly 50 years before i.e. “Architect Héctor Santojanni, from listen." this talk! (March-April 1970). Argentina, expressed his amazement at ‘the vocational aptitude-attitude of this The development of the meeting awoke At the end of the talk, with very specific young people and his exquisite handling curiosity among the first semester questions from the students, everyone of the formal’; and Architect Tito Lobo, students. And there were also many was grateful to the teachers for their saw from Brazil, ‘a lot of dedication and questions that the Architect Margenet practical initiative. Those who wish to appropriation of the theme achieved by was clarifying in the presentation of his have a look to the video, must enter at:
the students, in just one semester’.”
projects with anecdotes and good
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XOPDB8Rl humor, not without spells of laughter. U1E-lABvOy9mvylkfjl7OrIP/view The Editor
ARC•PEACE turns 33 on July 15, 2020: Let’s celebrate it together in the Special Supplement We’ll also give a warm farewell to our collaborator Marcelo Morales who returns to Uruguay after 2 years in Mallorca.
ARC•PEACE ART GALLERY
Right: “The Palma Scroll” Palma school children painted over hundreds of meters of strips of paper on a street of the Balearic capital on the European Mobility Day. Below, from left to right: “Reflection”, by Isabel Boticario “Ancestral footprint”, by Sibila Foong Bottom, from left to right: “I’m still an urban woman”, by Marita Cort “Self-portrait”, by Ángel ‘El Chino’ Foong (1935 -2002), Sibila's father was a Uruguayan plastic artist, painter, sculptor, engraver, ceramist, who lived in Argentina, Venezuela, and Italy;and travelled in the United States and Europe.
Galería de Arte 2020 Izquierda: “Huella ancestral”, de Sibila Foong. Centro: “Sigo siendo mujer-urbana”, de Marita Cort. Derecha: “Reflexión”, de Isabel Boticario
The Editor in charge of this Newsletter is ARC•PEACE International Secretary, Architect-Urban Planner Oscar Margenet Nadal. He thanks the valuable collaboration of all the people who made this edition possible: Architect Shyama Sidana, from Atlanta, USA; Professor Jaime Alzérreca Pérez, from the School of Architecture of the Universidad Mayor San Simón, from Cochabamba, Bolivia; Alejandra Cerutti Jacob, secretary of ARC•PEACE Ibero America; Marcelo Morales Macedo, ARC•PEACE volunteer in Palma; Architects Fernando David Mendizábal Mendoza and Jorge Villarroel Gonzáles from the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad del Valle, Bolivia; Plastic Artists Isabel Boticario and Marita Cort, from Palma and Sibila Foong, from Uruguay; all the children and teachers who collaborate with ‘El Rollo de Palma’; Ivana Fischer-Margenet, CEO of Mandua, sponsor of ARC•PEACE, from Germany; Authorities of the Municipality of Palma for their valuable support to our activities in Camp Redó; ARC•PEACE colleagues: Graeme Bristol, Co President; Osman Elkheir; Marilou Sánchez Hurtado and Apollinaire Salumu Kitenge M’ba for their decision to participate in Palma. Visit us on Facebook: ARC•PEACE International (English), ARC•PEACE Ibero-America (Spanish), ARC•PEACE Sudan (Arabic). Contributions are welcome: articles, projects, ideas, constructive criticism, translations into French, German, Portuguese and Arabic. If you want to cooperate, contact: Secretariat: [email protected]; Web Page: www.arcpeaceinternational.com;
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