From Adaptive Reuse to Adaptive Architecture: Call for Papers

The organizers of an international symposium at Carleton University, set for May 2026, have issued a call for papers on the theme: From Adaptive Reuse to Adaptive Architecture.

The deadline for abstract submissions is March 26, 2025. See the full call here.

The co-convenors are:

Dr. Federica Goffi, Professor of Architecture, Carleton University, author of the call for papers

Dr. Mariana Esponda, Professor of Architecture, Carleton University

Dr. Mario Santana, Professor in Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering, Carleton University

This international call invites contributions from architectural historians, theorists, conservation scholars, researchers, designers, and practicing architects to draw out the connections between architecture, its imagination, and the qualities of sustainable environments as places aspiring to be socially just, inclusive, and equitable.

The symposium invites papers supporting the redefinition of the boundaries between architectural design and adaptive architecture to explore meaningful theories of alterations of new or existing buildings, arguing that all past is present and that all making is a remaking.

The symposium will take place from May 21 to 22, 2026 at the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism at Carleton University.