‘Let’s open our practices and homes to Ukrainian architecture students’

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Weston Williamson director calls for profession-wide acts of solidarity

The director of a leading architecture practice has offered his help to Ukrainian architecture students – and urged others in the profession to follow suit.

Chris Williamson, founding partner at infrastructure specialist Weston Williamson & Partners, said he could offer apprenticeships in his practice, connections at the architecture schools where he teaches – and his two spare rooms.

He admitted that alone he could only help one or two, but that if the profession rallied around something more significant could be achieved.

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