What does IUA stand for?

The competition is being held under the auspices of the International Union of Architects.

If this sort of architecture flourished 'contractors could be replaced by shipbuilders'; he believed the design contradicted the official goal of staging a 'green' Olympics; and claimed that it 'would never have been approved in Herzog's own or any other Western country' Not content with that, he accused HdM, Paul Andreu (architect of the China Grand Theatre) and Rem Koolhaas (CCTV building) of 'using China as their new weapon test field, for the purpose of flaunting their own personal obsession's This flew in the fact of International Union of Architects guidelines, suggesting that such buildiong should 'enlighten regional cultural identity'.

The London-based Future Systems studio of Czech-born architect Kaplicky won the international contest for the project, held according to the rules of the International Union of Architects (UIA) last year.

More than 10,000 architects are expected to attend this prestigious conference organized by the International Union of Architects (UIA), the world's leading professional association for architects, and hosted by German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who will provide the opening address.

Reed Exhibitions is partnering with the International Union of Architects (UIA) to host the show.

This was explicitly presented in a study done by Rafi Segal and Eyal Weizman, now published as A Civilian Occupation--the politics of Israeli Architecture (Verso Press), Israel's exhibition entry to the International Union of Architects Conference in 2002 in Berlin, which was withdrawn by the Israel Association of United Architects (IAUA), Esther Zandberg wrote in Haaretz, 'the Israeli community of architects very piously follows a total separation between "pure" professionalism and "dirty" politics.

One of these eight firms for each of two categories - residential and commercial - will be announced July 4, 1996, in Barcelona at the triennial meeting of the International Union of Architects (UIA).

Every three years, the International Union of Architects (UIA) has its congress.