Professional Practice Central Africa

Burundi

BUJUMBURA, 17 May 03 (ABP) - Mr René Claude Ngendahayo, President of the future Ordre des architectes du Burundi. “ The main problem of the profession is its non-recognition, and anyone can call himself an architect ”. The Act for the creation of the Order and the protection of the title has been waiting for the last two years. The 50 local architects work for the five different categories of buildings

• Functional simple buildings (warehouses, stores and cemeteries)
• Small buildings (houses, prisons, small hotels, garages, sports fields)
• Larger buildings (private villas, residential complex, administrative buildings, banks)
• Artistic category (Interior decoration, exhibition stalls, public gardens)
• Restoration of buildings and historical monuments.

UIA Dossier sent on 04 May 03

Cameroon

180 architects. Strong foreign competition but important foreign investment

Centrafrican Republic

No news but contact through the Chad representative Roger Boriata.

Congo Brazzaville

150 architects in the difficult after war situation.

Congo Démocratique

The Société des Architectes du Congo – SAC – exists since1959 and since 1974 the bill is waiting for enactment. The school of architecture has developed several exchange programme with other institutions since its creation in 1967.
The SAC is a non-profit organisation with Congolese architects as well as foreign architects who have chosen Congo as a second home.
Since 1998 the government is having a closer look to future architects’ law.

Gabon

Country reorganising itself with new regulations. The architects have not been associated with the development of the country by their own government. Application form sent to Gabon on 04 May 03.

Equitorial Guinea

No news

Rwanda

No news

Sao Tome & Principe

No news

Chad

25 architects trying to create an Association.
UIA Dossier sent on 16 Jul 03