Online via zoom, 18-19 and 25-26 October 2025

Docomomo Portugal is pleased to share the 2025 CICA International Conferences on Architectural Criticism. Entitled “Territoriality and Temporality in Architecture” it will take place in hybrid format, via Zoom on 18-19 and 25-26 October.

Following the previous CICA Conferences (2021-2024), the 2025 conference seeks a critique to built projects’ temporal and/or territorial qualities, answering questions as: 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.

DAY 1 A BUILDING’S LIFE
Saturday, October 18th • 10:00 AM (EST | GMT-4)
KEYNOTE Anne Lacaton (France)

DAY 2 CONTESTED TERRITORIES
Sunday, October 19th • 10:00 AM (EST | GMT-4)
KEYNOTE AbdouMaliq Simone (United Kingdom)

DAY 3 MAKING PLACE
Saturday, October 25th • 10:00 AM (EST | GMT-4)
KEYNOTE Rozana Montiel (Mexico)

DAY 4 MATTERS OF TIME
Sunday, October 26th • 10:00 AM (EST | GMT-4)*
*please be aware of the time change due to the end of daylight saving time in Europe.
KEYNOTE Marina Tabassum (Bangladesh)

Organization:
– CICA
– Jaime Solares Carmona, Yale University

Zoom link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/79698685674?pwd=X4D5PUIWO4nF5zy7uDxKwnW09bohgJ.1
Meeting ID: 796 9868 5674
Passcode: 961138
Room 706, Yale School of Architecture, 180 York St, New Haven, CT, USA

Full program and more information on CICA’s website: here