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CICA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM 2025
TERRITORIALITY AND TEMPORALITY IN ARCHITECTURE
Online Conference.
Comité International des Critiques d’Architecture
18-19, 25–26 October 2025
Keynote Speakers
Anne Lacaton, France
Marina Tabassum, Bangladesh
Rozana Montiel Saucedo, México
AbdouMaliq Simone , Sierra Leone-UK
Call for Abstracts
How do buildings establish and engage with territories? How do temporalities manifest themselves in buildings? How do architects deal with multiple temporalities and territorialities? How do buildings live and die?
By exceeding the modernist categories of space and time to contemporary notions of territorialities and temporalities, we move from nouns to adjectives, from immutable and fixed ideas of reality to multiple, socially produced, and unstable qualities. Special attention will be given to how architecture engages with the past, present, and future in discussing the ecological and social potentials they convey.
Following the previous CICA Conferences (2021-2024), the 2025 conference seeks papers that critique built projects’ temporal and/or territorial qualities.
Abstracts
Abstracts (max. 500 words) should propose one case study that has been visited by the author and should be submitted here:
Conference
The selection to the conference is in two stages: first, acceptance of abstracts; second, develop- ment of abstracts into draft papers. Based on these, authors will be invited to one of the four sessions together with the keynote lecturers of the online conference 18–19, 25–26 October 2025.
Publication
The proceedings will be published in 2026 by Park Books of Zurich.
Organization
Jaime Solares Carmona, Yale University
Funding
CICA
Conference Format
The online format of the four-session conference allows for active debate between the audience and lecturers. Presentations are succinct to allow for ample discussion time. Besides the four keynotes, there will be up to 16 short papers. The conference will be recorded and placed on YouTube. The conference language will be English. Attendance is open and free of charge.
Dates
Call for Abstracts 29 January 2025
Deadline for Abstracts 09 April 2025
Notification of Acceptance 25 April 2025
Submission of Draft Papers 20 June 2025
Return of Edited Papers 22 August 2025
Conference Sessions 18–19, 25–26 October 2025
Organizing Comittee
Carlos Eduardo Comas, UFRGS, Porto Alegre
Elias Constantopoulos, Hellenic Institute of Architecture
Giovanna, Renzetti, U. Presbiteriana Mackenzie, São Paulo
Vinicius Okada, USP, São Paulo
Scientific Comittee
Carlos Eduardo Comas, UFRGS, Porto Alegre
Elias Constantopoulos, Hellenic Institute of Architecture
Fernando Diez, Di Tella University, Buenos Aires
Jasna Galjer, University of Zagreb, Zagreb
Berna Göl, Yeditepe University, Istanbul
Morten Birk Jørgensen, Royal Academy, Copenhagen
Li Xiangning, Tongji University, Shanghai
Robert McCarter, Washington University, St. Louis
Valerio Paolo Mosco, IUAV, Venice
Şengül Öymen Gür, Beykent Üniversitesi, Istanbul
José Manuel Pozo Municio, ETSAUN, Pamplona
Jaime Solares Carmona, Yale University, New Haven
Ana Tostões, CiTUA-Instituto Técnico, Lisbon
Wilfried Wang, CICA President, Tongji University
Ruth Verde Zein, U. Presbiteriana Mackenzie, São Paulo
Juan Calatrava, University of Granada, Granada
Kostas Tsiambaos, National Technical University of Athens, Athens
Pierre-Alain Croset, Polytechnic School of Milan, Milan
Teresa Stoppani, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich
Mariana Wilderom, Universidade São Judas Tadeu
Alejandra Celedón, Universidad Diego Portales
João Navarrete, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
Kaiwan Mehta, Balwant Sheth School of Architecture, Mumbai
Supporting Institutions
CICA International Committee of Architectural Critics
Yale University