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[from] ADAPTIVE REUSE [to] ADAPTIVE ARCHITECTURE
Symposium, May 20-22 2026
[from] Adaptive Reuse [to)] Adaptive Architecture
SATURDAY MAY 23, 2026
SITE VISITS
[for registered participants]
The papers presented at the Symposium will support a redefinition of the boundaries between architectural design and #ADAPTIVEARCHITECTURE to explore meaningful theories of building alterations, arguing that all past is present and that all making is a remaking.
Keynote Speakers:
Wanda Dalla Costa, architect, TAWAW, Canada, USA
Sybil Mckenna, architect, EVOQ Architecture, Canada
Héctor Fernández Elorza, architect, ETSAM, Spain
Rumiko Handa, architect, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Liliane Wong, architect, RISD, USA
Event Co-convenors:
Dr. Federica Goffi, Professor of Architecture, CU —author of the call for papers.
Dr. Mariana Esponda, Professor of Architecture, CU
Dr. Mario Santana, Professor in Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering, CU
Architecture Without Borders Quebec | The Great Conference 2026 | "Architecture + Indigenous Habitat"
Join our Principal and Founder, Wanda Dalla Costa for Architecture Sans Frontières Québec (ASFQ) (Architecture without Borders Quebec) Grande Conference 2026 on May 11th. The event will be hosted at Montreal's Grande Bibliothèque and focus on the rightful place of Indigenous peoples in the design of their living environments. Indigenous and non-Indigenous experts and architects, including Francis Verreault-Paul, Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador are also slated to speak. Tickets are moving fast. If you can't attend in person, you can also attend via webcast.