8/9/2025: Deadline for submission of proposals
11/11/2025: Publication of the sixth issue of the Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism.
14–16/11/2025: Conference in Écija, Spain
This year the conference will take place in Écija, from November 14 to 16. The in-person program will include debates, lectures by international architects and demonstrations by master artisans of traditional building crafts. Presentations will address the various topics proposed within the framework of the conference.
The conference will also be available online, as all sessions will be live-streamed, recorded, and later published on the website in the weeks following the event. The in-person program will be complemented by a series of pre-recorded lectures, based on the articles, essays, and built work featured in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism, which will be published to coincide with the conference dates.
This conference is organized by the Traditional Building Cultures Foundation thanks to Richard H. Driehaus and in collaboration with INTBAU Spain, INTBAU Portugal, the Fundação Serra Henriques, the Écija City Council and the Royal Academy of Sciences, Fine Arts and Humanities “Luis Vélez de Guevara”.
12:30 Visit to the Mosque of Córdoba **
14:00 Lunch *
16:00 Transfer Córdoba-Écija by bus *
18:30 Guided tour in Écija **
20:30 Dinner *
9:30 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
By representatives of the diverse organizing institutions and local authorities
10:00 LECTURE 1
Lectura histórica de la forma urbana de Écija: Evolución urbanística y arquitectónica de la ciudad contemporánea
Clemente López Jiménez
10:30 LECTURE 2
A propósito del palimpsesto arquitectónico: La Casa Palacio de los Bernabé-Madero en El Puerto de Santa Maria, Cádiz
Fernando Martín Sanjuán and José Luis Pérez Hidalgo
11:00 DISCUSSION
11:30 Coffee break
12:00 LECTURE 3
Rehabilitar con respeto e innovar desde la tradición: La experiencia de una vivienda en el Cabanyal, Valencia
Eva Sanjuán and Ana Beltrán (Estudio Correo Viejo)
12:30 LECTURE 4
Preserving Architectural Heritage through Tourism: The case of Historic Housing Tourism
Francisco Calheiros
13:00 LECTURE 5
Rehabilitación de los palacios de los Pardo Donlebún en Asturias
Francisco Ortega
13:00 DISCUSSION AND CLOSING REMARKS
14:00 Lunch *
16.00 – 17.30 | 18.00 – 19.30 DEMOSTRATIONS BY MASTERS IN VARIOUS TRADITIONAL BUILDING TRADES AND VISIT: **
20:30 Dinner *
9:30 Tribute to the late Léon Krier
Alejandro García Hermida
10:00 LECTURE 1
Brick: On the Cladding of Spaces
Uwe Schröder
10:30 LECTURE 2
From the Ground Up: Community, Craft, and Boundaries
Yasaman Esmaili
11:00 DISCUSSION
11:30 Coffee break
12:00-13:30 DEMOSTRATIONS: **
14:00 Lunch (picnic) *
15:30 Transfer Écija-Córdoba by bus *
12:30 Visit to the Mosque of Córdoba
14:00 Lunch at El Burlaero Restaurant
16:00 Transfer Córdoba-Écija by bus
18:30 Guided tour in Écija
Reserve your spot for the conference on Saturday, November 15th
9:30 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
By representatives of the diverse organizing institutions and local authorities
10:00 LECTURE 1
Lectura histórica de la forma urbana de Écija: Evolución urbanística y arquitectónica de la ciudad contemporánea
Clemente López Jiménez
10:30 LECTURE 2
A propósito del palimpsesto arquitectónico: La Casa Palacio de los Bernabé-Madero en El Puerto de Santa Maria, Cádiz
Fernando Martín Sanjuán and José Luis Pérez Hidalgo
11:00 DISCUSSION
11:30 Coffee break
12:00 LECTURE 3
Rehabilitar con respeto e innovar desde la tradición: La experiencia de una vivienda en el Cabanyal, Valencia
Eva Sanjuán and Ana Beltrán (Estudio Correo Viejo)
12:30 LECTURE 4
Preserving Architectural Heritage through Tourism: The case of Historic Housing Tourism
Francisco Calheiros
13:00 LECTURE 5
Rehabilitación de los palacios de los Pardo Donlebún en Asturias
Francisco Ortega
13:00 DISCUSSION AND CLOSING REMARKS
14:00 Cocktail at the Historical Museum of Écija
16.00 – 17.30 | 18.00 – 19.30 DEMONSTRATIONS WITH MASTERS IN VARIOUS TRADITIONAL CONSTRUCTION TRADES AND VISIT.
Choose an activity for 16:00-17:30
Choose an activity for 18:00-19:30
20:30 Dinner at Cien Vinos Restaurant
Reserve your spot for the conference on Sunday, November 16th
9:30 Tribute to the late Léon Krier
Alejandro García Hermida
10:00 LECTURE 1
Brick: On the Cladding of Spaces
Uwe Schröder
10:30 LECTURE 2
From the Ground Up: Community, Craft, and Boundaries
Yasaman Esmaili
11:00 DISCUSSION
11:30 Coffee break
12:00-13:30 DEMONSTRATIONS::
Extraction, conservation, and restoration of Roman wall painting and mosaic
Beatriz Taboada Villanueva, Irene Loschi and Antonio Fernandez Ugalde (Municipal Historic Museum of Écija)
Fresco painting workshop
Manuel Gil Ortiz e Ingrid Gómez Cruz (Museo de la Cal de Morón)
14:00 Food (picnic)
15:30 Écija-Córdoba bus transfer
All researchers, academics, and professionals involved in traditional building, architecture, and urbanism who work in —or have an interest in— the topics proposed for this conference are invited to submit their proposals for participation.
All proposals will undergo a selection process, as detailed below, and may be accepted either for presentation in the on-site or online programs of the conference, or for publication in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism. Some proposals may be selected for both.
Proposals may take the form of presentations of built works or research papers. Regardless of the format, all submissions must be sent to: info@culturasconstructivas.org.
The submitted proposals must be aligned with the topics scheduled for the conference. The deadline for submission of proposals is September 8, 2025. Once the proposal has been received, the organizing team will verify that its content aligns with the objectives of the conference.
Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their proposal around 22 September 2025.
If the proposal is selected for online or in-person presentation during the conference, or for publication in the Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism, the author will receive the necessary preparation guidelines.
Proposals may consist of documentation of built works or research papers related to the topics of the conference.
The format of both types of proposals must comply with the submission guidelines of the Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism.
Conference proposals must be submitted by email to: info@culturasconstructivas.org, and not through the journal’s online submission system.
The International Conference on Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism is organized thanks to Richard H. Driehaus by the Traditional Building Cultures Foundation, an institution dedicated to promoting the study, protection, education, dissemination, and preservation of traditional building, architecture, and urbanism as practiced in different regions around the world.
The conference is organized in collaboration with INTBAU Spain, INTBAU Portugal, the Hon. City Council of Écija, the Municipal History Museum of Écija, the Royal Academy of Sciences, Fine Arts and Humanities “Luis Vélez de Guevara,” and the Fundação Serra Henriques.
