INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR THE DESIGN OF EARTHQUAKE RESILIENT CITIES (INDERC): A NOTE TO INFORM YOU

Thursday, 11 October 2012

A NOTE TO INFORM YOU

TERESA GUEVARA-PÉREZ

Dear participants, this note is to inform you that our Special Session in the 15WCEE on "THE ROLE OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING IN THE EARTHQUAKE-RESILIENCE OF CITIES" that was held on Thursday, Sept. 27 in Lisbon, was a success.

At least 74 people that participated on it, signed the attendance list and some other that attended this SS informed us afterwards that they are also interested in order to receive information and participate on this regard. This means more than 80 people participating from the Lisbon SS.

The International Network for Design of Earthquake-Resilient Cities (INDERC), in Spanish, la Red Internacional para el Diseño de Ciudades Sísmicamente Resilientes (RIDCSR), was founded.

Next week we will give more detailed information.

Thank you very much to all those people who attended our 15WCEESS and also to all those who have visited this blog.

Until next week.

ANDREW CHARLESON, PATRICK MURPHY, MÁRIO LOPES AND FRIEDRICK KRIMGOLD

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Encouraging cross-disciplinary engagement:

1. Strengthening of communication and collaboration between earthquake engineering disciplines (structural engineering, seismology, lifelines engineering, emergency response and social sciences); architectural, urban planning and landscape architecture disciplines; and policy-makers and government authorities.

2. Establishing a common vocabulary of earthquake-resilience terminology across disciplines.

3. Active participation of architects and urban planners in the development of regulations that affect the earthquake-resilience of buildings.

4. Development and implementation of a cross-disciplinary approach in the design of cities, and the consideration of the city as a system where all components are interrelated.

5. Participation of city officials, decision makers and associations of architects and urban planners in controlling the application of seismic concepts in the design, planning and construction processes of the built components of cities.

6. Teaching cross-discipline courses in undergraduate and graduate schools of architecture, city urban planning and structural engineering, including the influence of urban planning and architectural configurations on seismic resilience of cities.

THE FOUNDERS OF INDERC

Teresa Guevara-Perez

Graduated as an Architect from the Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela and has a postgraduate Diploma in Industrialized Building from the Architectural Association Graduate School in London, a Master and a Ph.D. in Architecture, specializing in earthquake-resistant building at the University of California, Berkeley. She has worked as a researcher in the field of public housing and as an independent consultant on the Architecture of earthquake-resistant buildings, the seismic vulnerability of hospitals, urban configurations in seismic zones, and earthquake disaster mitigation. She is the author of various books, and papers, and articles published in specialized technical journals.

Alice Tavares Costa

Is an Architect who practises in Portugal. She is a researcher at Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (CEC- FEUP). Now is developing her doctoral thesis at Department of Civil Engineering of University of Aveiro. She has a special interest in the conservation of the Earth's Heritage with respect to seismic concerns, historical earthquakes, and the traditional systems of construction in seismic regions. She is the President of Portugal CICOP.Net.

Adriana Guisasola

Is an Architect who practices in Mendoza, Argentina. She teaches at the Faculty of Architecture, Urban and Desing of Mendoza University. She is specialist in Prevention, Planning and Management of Disaster Prone Areas and a specialist in Seismic Design. She has a special interest in Seismic Architectural Design with New Technologies of Seismic Protection. Now is developing her doctoral Thesis of Architecture: “Architecture and Base Isolation”. She is also the President of Arquitectura Sísmica S.A. and the President of the Seismic Architecture Foundation (FAS).

Luke Allen

Is an Architect who practises in Wellington, New Zealand, and teaches at the Victoria University of Wellington School of Architecture. He has a special interest in seismic design and design for resilience, and is a member of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering. He is also Secretary and Deputy Chair of the New Zealand Institute of Architects Wellington Branch.

Antonio Aretxabala Díez

Is a Geologist who practises in Spain, and teaches at the University of Navarre School of Architecture and Sciences. He has a special interest in the seismic effects on cities through the ground as a whole system as well as in the design of resilience mitigation tools through Urban Planning. He participated actively in the design for the resilience of Lorca (Spain) with the University of Murcia, the Federation of Business Owners of Lorca, and other enterprises and official organizations. He is also the Technical Director of the Laboratory of Buildings at the University of Navarre's School of Architecture.

Cristina Sanz

Graduated as an Architect from the University of Navarre, Spain has a Ph.D. in Architecture, specializing in structures at the School of Architecture of the same University. She has worked as a researcher in the field of quality control in building and reinforced concrete structures. During the period 2007-2011 she was the responsible of the Urbanism Area of the Town Hall of Tafalla (Navarre). Author of various books, papers and articles, she practices in Pamplona, Spain and has a special interest in quality control of reinforced concrete structures, regarding among others, seismic actions as well as in the relationship between the resilience of cities in seismic prone areas and Urban Planning design criteria.

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