Breakout Session | International call: the formation of the INTBAU Technical Committee
This session will serve as an international call to collaboratively build a structured database: a platform for learning, access to new research, information exchange, dissemination, and discussion, while also providing practical implementation tools to advance traditional architecture today.
The breakout session will highlight the practical, legal, and technical dimensions essential for implementing traditional architecture and urban design. The Technical Committee’s work will complement INTBAU’s educational initiatives, recognising that training architects to design according to time-tested principles is not sufficient unless planning and building regulations are also reformed to acknowledge and approve traditional techniques, urban patterns, and passive environmental strategies.
The topics outlined below are proposed starting points for discussion during the session. The aim is not to produce final solutions at the Congress, but to establish the foundation of the Technical Committee — marking the first step in a long collaborative journey.
- Centralisation and sharing of building and planning regulations, with advocacy for traditional urban practices
- Creation of an online database on passive environmental management, construction physics, and traditional structural studies
- Development of an international directory of traditional building craftspeople
About Georgia Cristea
Living and practicing in London, UK, Georgia is a RIBA accredited Conservation Architect (CA), Guardian of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, Events Coordinator of the Traditional Architecture Group (host to INTBAU UK), and Education and Projects Manager of INTBAU Romania.
