Courses

Architecture & Development

started on 26 March with 22 participants from 17 countries. On 25 March, Sweden joined the Schengen visa area, which meant some participants got caught in “no-man’s land” at airports. Everyone got to Lund, eventually. The advantage to participants in coming courses is that they will not have to get separate visas to Denmark, Norway and the other Schengen countries.

Mario Rodriguez ICM 92 lectured on the course, and Tran Hoai Anh AD 91 ICM 95 was a tutor.

From next year the course will be named Housing & Development, which better reflects its themes and content.

International Construction Management was not held this year.

Architecture, Energy & Environment will be September 17 – October 26. Participants are already selected and approved.

Participants on the second Urban Housing Management course arrived in Lund by bus from Rotterdam on 1 March. There are 23 participants, including four alumni: Carlos de la Espriella AD 94, Wilfred Gitau Ngaruiya ICM 96, Fabian Farfan ICM 97 and Hilda Ndyuki AD 99. They will study in Lund until the end of June, when they will do fieldwork for two months and then return to either Rotterdam or Lund to write a thesis.

Among the 14 in the first UHM course, who received the Master of Science degree in December 2000 were Maria Marealle AD 98 and Rika Kisnarini AEE 98.

Alumni Survey

As part of the follow-up of our courses, HDM will be sending out a questionnaire soon, asking about your current professional activities, your thoughts about your experiences during and after the course in Lund, what was most valuable.

It will also be a chance for us to update our records, and get email addresses. We hope we can have an alumni page on the HDM homepage.

HDM’s home page

The papers for A&D 1998 and 2000 are on our homepage in pdf format, and the ICM papers will be there soon. You can download the Adobe reader for free on the site.

The compendia of participants’ papers for A&D and ICM 1997 and 1998 were sent by post last autumn. Please send us an email if you were on the course and have not received yours.

Architecture, Energy & Environment hit the web even earlier. You can find class photos for the last five years and papers from the last four years.

Not only are the papers from previous courses on our site, there is also information about new courses. See http://www.hdm.lth.se/training/Postgrad/INDEX.HTM
and then click on the course you are interested in.

Check also Sida’s homepage for a complete list of all the International Training Programmes. http://www.sida.se

Promesha

The annual regional course was held in Cochabamba in November and December. An expert group meeting is being planned this autumn to review the achievements of the programme and consider future activities. Phase 4 is under preparation: the focus countries will include Bolivia, Perú, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and Ecuador.

Meetings

Hans Rosenlund, Erik Johansson ICM 90 AEE 95 and Karin Grundström AEE 96 presented a paper entitled Urban Micro-climate in the City of Fez, Morocco at the 17th PLEA international conference held in Cambridge in July, 2000. It was written with their research partners in Morocco, Mohamed El Kortbi and Mohamed Mraissi AEE 97 who were not able to travel to Cambridge. The next PLEA conference will be in Brazil.

Karin Grundström and Laura Liuke AEE 95 presented a paper at the ESF/N-AERUS Annual Workshop 23–26 May 2001 in Leuven, Belgium (Network-Association of European Researchers on Urbanization in the South). The theme of the meeting was Coping with Informality and Illegality in Human Settlements in Developing Cities. Their paper refers to the experience of FUPROVI in Costa Rica, and they got direct information from Mario Rodriguez when he was lecturing in Lund.

People

The newest addition to the HDM family is Erik Daniel Lennart Bertacchi, son of Erik Johansson and his wife Cintia Bertacchi Uvo.

Subrata Chattopadhyay AD 93, AEE 97 spent most of 2000 as a visiting lecturer at HDM, working with both AD and UHM. He is back at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, where he successfully defended his PhD.

Most of the alumni contributions this time are from 1997 and 1998, from people writing to acknowledge receipt of compendia.

From Wiryono Raharjo:

“I am still in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, working at the school of architecture. My position as Vice Dean II will end in June 2001. Thereafter, I am hoping to take Doctoral Program, my focus of study will certainly not too far from the housing field.”

Luz Maria Sanchez ICM 97 sends a new email address <marilush@terra.com.pe>

Two from Latvia:

Ilma Valdmane AD 97 <ivaldmane@hotmail.com> “I am writing my master research work in Latvian Technical University, and will be graduating on the coming spring. Oh, yes, I have changed my address, and the job as well. I am working in Riga, as planner into the joint Swedish-Latvian pilot project about the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directives in Latvia.”

Viktors Sveics ICM 98 <sveics@rbsskals.lv>
“I still work in private owned company. My main responsibility is to take care and manage preparation of offers (tenders) for construction services. Our latest success is winning a tender for Riga Central Railway Station, reconstruction of the existing building, which is part of Railway Station Development Project. It is design and build contract, worth 4,53 m$ excl. VAT. Employer’s representatives are Sweden’s HIFAB and strict control is expected during the project.”

“Thanks a lot for sending us the compendia. It reminded me of the very nice days at Lund and the chilled cold days. Currently I am working in a EC funded programme called Kathmandu Valley Mapping Programme in Kathmandu Metropolitan City. I am a Field Coordinator of Integrated Action Planning, one of the components of the program of the Municipality.” Unam Pradhan ICM 97, home after earning his Masters degree at AIT in Thailand.

Cheng Shidan AD97 <chsd821@163.net> wrote: “I just came back from Chongqing where I am studying for my doctorate. Last October, I had a second-time trip in European.There was a conference on Sino-Germany Building Technology held in Stuttgart. After the conference, I visited several cities of Germany, then Belgium, Netherlands and France. It’s a very nice trip, but till now Sweden is the country which gives me the deepest impression.”

Mahua Mukherjee ICM 96 <mahua1965@rediffmail.com> has just completed her PhD work with a thesis entitled Design Parameters for human settlements in a megacity –Calcutta case study.

Andrea Ribeiro Gomes A&D 98 <andrearg@bignet.com.br> “Back to Brazil, everything is just fine and hot!!! I finished my master course and started my PhD still within the gender issue. I am translating the main part of my thesis to send you. Unfortunately, I have not enough time and good enough English to finish it soon. Maybe the middle of this year I can send you something.”

Mirian Sanchez Lemus AEE 2000 <miriamsl@yahoo.com> “Thank you very much for worrying and writing because the horrible earthquake we had (in El Salvador), and its terrible consequences – hundreds of hills torn down and in one case fell down on 300 houses at 11.30 am on Saturday. It is expected that there are about 1500 dead in the country.”

Andrew Ose Phiri AEE 99 sends his new address. Write to him yourself and ask for the details: Email: afrospace@email.com

Jian (He Jianqing) AD 96 (jqh.bj@263.net) sent the most recent message: “I an very excited to tell you that I am enrolled by Architectural Institute of Tsinghua University to read a PhD on Urban Planning. You may say I am too old. When I took the examination in March, I found that I am the only lady being 10 years older than the other candidates. When I was interviewed by four famous professors of the Institute, I spoke about my unease. To my suprise, the eldest professor who is nearly 80 years old, encouraged me that even he, himself, also wanted to be a student again. So I picked up a sort of confidence. This is my whole story. What do you think about it?”

Uday Shelat AD 2000 writes: “In January 2001 two professors and 20 students from QUT, Australia are coming to my department for a month. We are planning a joint design and planning studio and I am busy working on the details. He also sent a new email address. manisuday@icenet.net.