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CIAT will also accept sponsors
Peter Kellow - architectural practioner and writer (France)
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Lara Kopylova - writer and architectural journalist (Russia)
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Peter Kellow
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CIAT Practice Members shall:
- upon joining receive a HARD COPY IN THE POST of the booklet describing the Aims, Organisation, Activities and Resources.
- each have an indexed page on the website. The design of the page is entirely open. Practice members simply upload an html document which will be added to the website and indexed. A page from the practice's website might be a suitable and easy choice
- benefit from CIAT lobbying of procurors to employ traditional architectural CIAT Practice
- enjoy the benefits of publicity for their Practices in the CIAT Journal, Continuity Architecture, on the website and at Congresses
- receive the one HARD COPY IN THE POST of the magazine free. (A practice can receive additional copies by an employee becoming an Individual Member.)
- have your projects [of reasonable size] posted on the Atlas of New Traditional Architecture which is being constantly updated
- Inclusion in the journal shall incur no special fee to the Practice Member.
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This is not the Magazine
A main activity of CIAT is to hold congresses which
will be annual.
The purposes of the congresses are to -
- Create publicity in the world at large for CIAT, its principles and new traditional architecture being built now and having been built over the last 10 or 20 years
- Publicise the work of CIAT professional Members to the world at large. ... read more
As well as the holding of Congresses the second principle activity shall be the production of a magazine on traditional architecture featuring work of its professional Members.
The magazine shall be produced in a fine quality, full colour, hard copy only with no internet publication of it – except for certain excerpts ... read more
Here is a mockup. All contents and quality are indicative only.
CIAT shall use its resources to campaign for commissions, especially major public and commercial ones, to go to traditional architectural practices which are Founder Members and Practice Members of CIAT. ... read more
CIAT shall seek by all means possible to provide publicity for its architectural Practice Members.
As well as the congresses and the magazine these shall be promoted on the website with each Member having a listing with links to their website plus information and illustrations on the CIAT website.
The international reach of CIATwill enable Members to gain international recognition and foreign commissions.
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There are three main types of members - Practice Members, Individual Members and Sponsors
Practice Members will.
1. benefit from CIAT lobbying of procurors to employ traditional architectural CIAT Practice Members
2. enjoy the benefits of publicity for their practices in the CIAT Magazine, on the website and at Congresses
Individual Members shall receive the Journal, Newsletters and have preferential rates for Congresses.
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CIAT shall be a non-profit making organisation registered as a single organisation in a single country.
CIAT shall be administered by the Congress Board. The Board shall consist of Members elected for a predetermined term. The elections shall be held at Annual General Meetings which shall be held during the annual congresses.
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Until the advent of Modernist architecture in the early twentieth century there was no traditional architecture because all architecture was traditional.
Every building was designed by an architect who worked out of the long tradition of architecture that extends back to the dawn of civilisation. ... read more
An annual system of awards for new traditional architecture in a number of categories shall be instigated
It shall be recognised that not only complete buildings but individual elements of buildings should be recognised provided that the building to which they belong is traditional and of some merit.
This shall honour the work of artist, craftspersons, subcontractors and suppliers as essential and worthy contributors to the public and private environment.
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CIAT has already a prominent presense on Facebook, as a ready made resource. This is its page curently entitled Traditional Architecture World.
It is administered by CIAT Founder, Peter Kellow who edits all the content. Traditional Architecture World has over 5000 subscribers from all over the world which increase by about 40 every week.
When the CIAT site goes public the Facebook page will change its name to Traditional Architecture International Congress and so give CIAT a ready made Facebook presense with a large following. ... read more
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