28 September 2026: Deadline for submission of conference paper proposals
4/11/2026: Publication of the seventh issue of the Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism
13–15/11/2026: International Conference in Seville, Spain
This year, the conference will be held in person in Seville, Spain, from 13 to 15 November 2026. The programme will include debates, lectures by internationally renowned architects, and demonstrations by master artisans specialising in traditional building crafts. Presentations will address the various themes 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 organised by the Traditional Building Cultures Foundation thanks to Richard H. Driehaus, and in collaboration with INTBAU Spain.
The conference programme will be published soon.
12:30 Visit to the Mosque of Córdoba
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14:00 Lunch at El Burlaero Restaurant
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16:00 Transfer Córdoba-Écija by bus
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18:30 Guided tour in Écija
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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
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16.00 – 17.30 | 18.00 – 19.30 DEMONSTRATIONS WITH MASTERS IN VARIOUS TRADITIONAL CONSTRUCTION TRADES AND VISIT.
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Choose an activity for 18:00-19:30
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20:30 Dinner at Cien Vinos Restaurant
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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)
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Fresco painting workshop
Manuel Gil Ortiz e Ingrid Gómez Cruz (Museo de la Cal de Morón)
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14:00 Food (picnic)
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15:30 Écija-Córdoba bus transfer
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TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN AND LOCAL IDENTITY
– Traditional and vernacular architecture.
– Urban design based on traditional patterns.
– Urban landscape and contextual architecture.
– New interventions inspired by local building traditions.
– Preservation, restoration, and continuity of architectural identity.
– Traditional architecture and environmental, social, and cultural sustainability.
SEVILLE: ARCHITECTURE, CITY AND HERITAGE
– Traditional architecture, heritage, and the urban evolution of Seville.
– New architectural and urban interventions based on local building traditions.
– Preservation, restoration, and adaptive reuse of architectural heritage in continuity with local identity.
– Urban and architectural evolution of Seville in relation to the preservation of local identity during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
BUILDING TRADES, RESEARCH AND TRAINING
– Traditional building crafts, materials, and construction techniques.
– Historic structures and vernacular building systems.
– Preservation and transmission of traditional building crafts.
– History, theory, and research on traditional building cultures.
– Education and training programmes in these fields.
Researchers, academics, and professionals involved in traditional building, architecture, and urbanism are invited to submit proposals to participate in this conference.
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.
Submitted proposals must be aligned with the conference topics. The deadline for submission is 28 September 2026. Once a proposal has been received, the organising committee will review it to ensure that its content is consistent with the objectives and scope of the conference.
Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their proposals around 5 October 2026.
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 organised in collaboration with INTBAU Spain.
