In the wake of the Russian invasion targeting Ukraine, we are publishing appeals from the Association of Polish Architects and the Chamber of Architects of the Republic of Poland to support Ukrainian architects.
For all those wishing to help Ukraine, we provide a list of foundations and institutions conducting assistance(SEE HERE). Let's remember that every piece of support is important for our friends from Ukraine. We encourage you to support!
SARP appeal
Appeal to Polish architects
Colleagues,
The time when Russian aggression is trying to deprive our neighbors UKRAINE of freedom, requires our declaration of support and solidarity, addressed to those who have been subjected to the oppression of war. A democratically developing statehood faced the force of an enemy seeking to deprive HER of development opportunities, to destroy social infrastructure, to stall investments that build the country's structural spaces. The heroic defense conducted by the Citizens of Ukraine demonstrates the tremendous strength and will to persist in a free and developing State.
Recognizing these values as motivating us architects to demonstrate support for Ukrainian colleagues in the profession, I ask Polish architects to cooperate in the possibility of preserving the continuity of the professional work of our eastern neighbors. THEY - deprived of the chance to conduct projects in their own studios, condemned to temporary residence in Poland, also need support in organizing new jobs.
Realizing the postulates submitted on behalf of the Board of the Warsaw Branch of SARP by colleague Marta Sękulska-Wrońska, colleagues Szymon Wojciechowski and Pawel Kobylanski, and finally the Main Board of the Association, I appeal that in your offices and design studios THEY should be able to realize THEIR professional mission.
If such an opportunity arises - to get a job or create positions for THEM where they could continue their own projects - please inform your parent SARP Branches. Such an offer will be immediately passed on to the Ukrainian Architects coming to Poland and will become a proof of environmental solidarity.
It will show that we are not indifferent to the tragedies affecting individuals and a country invaded by the enemy, and that we want, like UkrainianArchitects, to participate in its reconstruction after the destruction of war.
I hope that this will also happen based on the projects created in the studios of Polish Architects made available to Fellows emigrating from Ukraine.
Jerzy Grochulski
Acting President of SARP
IARP Appeal
Dear Colleagues, Dear Fellow Architects of the IARP
In view of the state of war situation in Ukraine, we would like to inform you that the Presidium of the National Council of the Polish Chamber of Architects has sent a letter to Mr. Oleksandr Pavlovich Chizhevsky, President of the National Union of Ukrainian Architects, assuring support for Ukrainian architects in the face of the political situation facing their country and its citizens.
The dynamically developing situation and media coverage of both the state of hostilities and the living conditions of the citizens of
Ukraine since Russia's aggression against their country, and including the increased emigration of many to Poland, indicate the need for full support and ongoing, necessary assistance from the community of Polish architects to the citizens of Ukraine, affected by the consequences of the hostilities.
We therefore appeal to the architects of the members of the Chamber of Architects of the Republic of Poland to engage in providing this assistance both individually and directly, as well as through NGOs and other organizations, in the name of freedom and solidarity, the right to live and work in peace. We express the hope that as representatives of a profession that builds, not tears down the world, we will also now create a world in an atmosphere of peace and help for all those in need, bearing witness to friendship, understanding, empathy and solidarity.
With best regards,
Małgorzata Pilinkiewicz (IARP Architect, President of the National Council of the Polish Chamber of Architects),
Wojciech Gwizdak (IARP Architect, Secretary of the National Council of the Polish Chamber of Architects)
We published the content of the statement by the President of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine, Alexander Chizhevskyi, here.
