The City We Want
June 10–12, 2020
Under the title of “The City We Want,” the 6th edition of the International Congress of Architecture and Society will present the city as its main theme in order to reflect and debate on its reality and future from different perspectives.
The event will be held on June 10, 11 and 12, 2020 in Pamplona’s Baluarte space, and will gather architects, historians and experts from fields as diverse as economics, sociology, architecture and public management from the five continents, to debate the role of cities in specific aspects such as sustainability and climate change, urban equity, mobility and health.
José María Ezquiaga, architect with a PhD, urban planner and sociologist, will be the director of the sixth edition. Beyond the specific objective of promoting the links between the architecture and the social scope, sustainable development and the rational use of material and energy resources, the event seeks to analyze the role of cities as engines of economic development, redistribution and inclusion. Cities must be capable of meeting great environmental and social challenges. The decisive battle around sustainability and climate change will take place in cities
Architecture and Society Foundation
The Architecture and Society Foundation was founded in 2008 by Francisco Mangado, with the intention of making citizens aware that architecture is an element that establishes conditions in our life in society. With a clear cultural and analytical aim, since 2010 the foundation has organized five international congresses that have brought together more than a dozen Pritzker prize winners (considered to be the Nobel Prize for Architecture), like Renzo Piano, Herzog & De Meuron, Norman Foster and Rem Koolhaas, with themes, among others, like Less Architecture More City (2018), Climate Change (2016), Necessary Architecture (2014), What is Common (2012), and More for Less (2010).
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