CICA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ON ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM 2025 TERRITORIALITY AND TEMPORALITY IN ARCHITECTURE
Online Conference. CICA Comité International des Critiques d’Architecture
18-19, 25–26 October 2025
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 via https://forms.gle/BqJipruLdHiSTArL6
Conference
The selection to the conference is in two stages:
first, acceptance of abstracts; second, development 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.
Keynote Lecturers
Anne Lacaton, France
Marina Tabassum, Bangladesh
Rozana Montiel Saucedo, México
AbdouMaliq Simone , Sierra Leone-UK
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 2024
Conference Sessions 18–19, 25–26 October 2025
Organizing Committee
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 Committee
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 Joao Navarrete, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Kaiwan Mehta, Balwant Sheth School of Architecture, Mumbai Supporting Institutions CICA International Committee of Architectural Critics Yale University.