Opinion

Let’s open our institute to architects fleeing from eastern Europe

By 2022-03-10T07:00:00

Ben Derbyshire

We have an opportunity to stand with our Ukrainian counterparts and to offer collective support, writes Ben Derbyshire

Chris Williamson of Weston Williamson is an irrepressibly public-spirited professional. I worked with him as international vice-president during my term as president of RIBA. 

It is characteristic of him to suggest that we should organise to support Ukrainian architecture students. BD ran a piece on that suggestion this week which caught my eye.

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