I just want thanks to Anton Ryslinge from EASA Denmark for all that he did for us in last years for joining Armenia to EASA.   

NC Sarhat Petrossian

From: "Anton Ryslinge" <aryslinge@hotmail.com>

To: sarhat@abgraf.infocom.amilink.net

Subject: Re: EASA Armenia

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 03:32:07 PDT

>Hello Anton!

>We are Karine and Sarhat from Armenia.

>We study in the Yerevan Institute of Architecture and Construction.

>Haik gave us your e-mail address and told us

>that you will give us information about EASA.

>Please  write us back as soon as possible.

>Next time we'll give you more information about us and our universitey.

>You can respond us.

>Aloyan Karine and Petrossian Sarhat

>from Yerevan,Armenia

>26 April 1999 

Hello Karine and Sarhat.  

Well, I'm really glad that you wrote. I've been trying for some time to get in touch with architecture students from the transcaucasian countries. But let me introduse myself: my name is Anton Ryslinge, and I am a student a the School of Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Art, in Copenhagen, Denmark. I am also the EASA NC of Copenhagen. What that means I will explain in the following.  

In 1981 there were held a big meeting for architecture students from various countries, in Liverpool in England. This was in a way the start for the EASA (European Architecture Students Assembly). Ever since there has been held a big summercamp each year in some european country, where architecture students have a chance to come together, do workshops and discussions (and parties). Which country that is the host of this summercamp is decided from year to year. This summer the camp will be held in northern Greece, and next year (the summer 2000) it will be held in Belgium and The Netherlands as a joint venture.  

I can tell you that last summer the camp were in Malta in the mediterranean sea. We were 500 students from more than 30 different countries, working together for two weeks. It was quite an incredible experience. And let me also tell you right away, that EASA is a non-profit, non-political and fully student-based organisation. The structure is flat; there are no presidents, no chairmen or whatsoever.

All decisions are taken in the group of NC's, when they meet every year. We have no members fee. But when you participate in a camp, you pay a certain amount to the organizers in order to make it possible. Several schools give economic support to the participants, so that more people can go to these events. 

Apart from the summer meeting, there are a couple of other activities as well. There are the SESAM's (Small European Students of Architecture Meeting) that are a kind of smaller workshops, that takes place whenever somebody decides to organize them. There has just been one in Slovenia, where I also went, and later this summer there will be held Sesams in Belarussia and Bulgaria. Then there are the WINTERSCHOOL, a 500-participants event that takes place in England every January. It's another one-week workshop, but with mostly english participants. And finally we have the annual NC-MEETING, where the NC's go together and decide what will happen in the next year. 

So why do I want to get in contact with students from transcaucasia?? Mostly because I, and the other NC's, (NC = National Contact. I am one of two National Contact persons of Denmark) want to have as many european countries as possible represented in the organization. For the moment I think that only Portugal, Bosnia, and Czech Republik are not represented. But since Armenia geographically belongs to Europe, we see no reason why you shouldn't join the group if you want to, since you're now an independent country. So if you are interested, you can read more about the whole thing on our homepage           http://www.arch.ethz.ch/easa and if you decide to join us, you will have to find one or two persons as NC's, and come to Greece in the summer to check it out.

If you have any questions, which I hope you do, please don't hesitate to ask me.  

Best regards,