Congratulations to Per Reinholtz, the new president of the ECIA (European Council of Interior Architects), elected in the general assembly last September 2014 in London. He follows Joke van Hengstum from the Netherlands, whose presidency terminates after six years.
As former board member of ECIA and past president of the Swedish organisation Per Reinholtz is well experienced with the mission and duties of the European association. As interior architect he is based with his office “Reinholtz & Ronnemark architects” in Växjö, Sweden. Moreover he is lecturer at university and schools.
Regarding his coming presidency he state: “The aims of ECIA are clear. My and the new boards aim is to further strengthen and intensify the contacts between ECIA and its members, the national organizations. The success of our networking mission is depending on reaching out to new members and countries in Europe.”
Joke van Hengstum will support the board for one more year as past president. Under her leadership ECIA evolved as a strong organisation with good connections to the national members. An important step was the updating of the European Charter for interior architecture training, adopted in 2013 by all 16 member organisations.
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Per Reinholtz, new president of the European Council of Interior Architects ECIA.
The new board of ECIA: (fltr) Carlo Beltramelli, Elke Kaiser, Per Reinholtz, Joke van Hengstum, Jan Geysen, Marianne Daepp and Anja Dirks (not on the photo).