Institute says offers of work for Ukrainian professionals and students must come with six months of free accommodation
RIBA has said it will use its existing jobs platform to match architects and architecture students fleeing the conflict in Ukraine with opportunities in the UK.
此前，该学院前国际副院长克里斯•威廉姆森(Chris Williamson)上周呼吁家中有空余房间的专业人士考虑为因俄罗斯入侵而流离失所的建筑专业学生提供住宿。
Building Design understands the RIBA is already sharing information on professionals and students seeking safety outside of Ukraine with professionals who have offered help and partner organisations in mainland Europe on an informal basis.
但该协会昨日表示，从下周开始，RIBA Jobs将允许特许执业机构为无家可归的建筑师和建筑专业学生免费招聘职位或学徒。
It said all jobs would need to be paid in accordance with requirements for chartered practices and would need to come with an offer of free accommodation for an initial six-month period.
The plan has throwbacks to the creation of the RIBA Bureau in the 1930s, which helped to support architects seeking refuge from Nazi Germany.
此前政府推出了“乌克兰之家”计划，该计划将允许英国公民以及慈善机构、社区团体和企业将乌克兰人带到安全的地方，包括那些与乌克兰没有家庭关系的人。
The first phase of the scheme allows UK sponsors to nominate a named Ukrainian national or a Ukrainian family to stay with them in their home, or in a separate property.
In an update on theUkraine Crisissection of its website, RIBA said it was aware that many UK-based members and practices are keen to support those who have been forced to leave their homes in Ukraine and Ukrainians already living in the UK.
“We thank those already raising awareness and priming the profession to respond,” it said.
“As an organisation and charity, we are exploring how RIBA members could support the scheme and considering whether we can facilitate a process to match refugees with architectural education and employment opportunities in the UK.
“与此同时，我们鼓励任何有能力向提供人道主义救济的慈善机构捐款的人，例如联合国设立的乌克兰人道主义基金。”
Chris Williamson, a founding partner at infrastructure specialist Weston Williamson & Partners, told BD that hiscall last week for the profession to throw open its offices and homes to architecture students from the Ukrainehad generated around 20 offers of help.
He added that he had already lined up an architecture student seeking refuge in the UK, but said their situation was complicated because although they were forced to leave Ukraine, they are not a Ukrainian national.
“He made it to Berlin, we just have to get him from Berlin to here,” Williamson said.
In addition to his commercial work, Williamson also teaches at the London School of Architecture and the University of East London. He said both had pledged to offer tuition to displaced students from Ukraine.
“The difficulty seems to be finding the students; matching offers of help with people,” he said.
Williamson said he was currently signposting people who contacted him with offers of help to the RIBA, the Architects Council of Europe and the National Union of Architects of Ukraine.
He added: “I could offer to house a family, but I just thought let’s try to do something for the profession.”
Last week HLM Architectsflagged its keenness to offer work to displaced professionals from Ukraine.
Managing director Karen Mosley said the practice – which employs around 90 architects out of a total staff of 190 – had since been in touch with a number of other firms keen to help architects from Ukraine and had used the website hireforukraine.org.
“We have staff who are volunteering rooms in their homes and so we are currently trying to match and connect all of this together,” she said. “There is a solution here that should bring sanctuary and benefit for everyone.”
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