Day 1 | 22 October – Practice Open Doors

This is a unique opportunity to step inside the studios, ateliers, and academic spaces in London shaping traditional architecture and craft today. Featuring leading firms and hands-on workshops, this curated day of visits offers exclusive insight into the practices driving the future of tradition.

The day will feature practice and studio visits in both the morning and afternoon. Time slots, duration, and locations will vary depending on the host. Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, so be ready to book early! A selection form will be circulated to delegates after registration.

Confirmed host institutions include:

ADAM Architecture

Art Workers’ Guild

Create Streets

The Georgian Group

The King’s Foundation

Kingston University (in the Wren Room at Temple Bar)

Pick Everard

Purcell Architecture

Richard Griffiths Architects

Stanhope Gate

Traditional Architecture Group

Please note: tickets for the Open Doors Day and for the Conference days are sold separately.

Day 2 | 23 October – Conference

Venue: Chelsea Old Town Hall

9:30 – 10:30 Registration and coffee

10:30 – 10-40 Opening remarks

10:40 – 11:40 INTBAU Network presentation (PechaKucha style)

11:40 – 12:40 Networking lunch and viewing of INTBAU Chapter and Professional Member Global Exhibition

12:40 – 13:40 Keynote address and Q&A: Simon Jenkins.

13:40 – 15:10 Panel Discussion – BUILDING: Craft & Construction

We will hear from practitioners who have dedicated their lives to the craft skills that make traditional architecture possible. Focus will be on the aesthetic and the practical aspects of making buildings and places, from the fine detail of a stone carving to the on-site realities of volume housebuilding. Full details.

Coffee break

15:40 – 16:00 Talk on Tradition in Modern Society: Robert Adam

16:00 – 17:30 Panel Discussion – ARCHITECTURE: Design & Practice

Hear from architects working on new traditional architecture in different contexts around the world. We will learn about the projects and elements of practice they have most enjoyed, alongside the challenges they have overcome to see designs become built realities.

17:30 – 17:45 Closing remarks

18:30 – 20:30 Evening Reception & Publication Launch: 25 Years of INTBAU

Venue: Garrison Chapel

Join us at the Garrison Chapel, one of the King’s Foundation’s iconic spaces, for a celebratory evening reception marking the launch of ’25 Years of INTBAU.’ This special publication reflects on the network’s journey—its founding, growth, and global impact—while spotlighting forward-looking contributions from INTBAU Chapters around the world.

Attendance is free but places are limited — RSVP required (first come, first served).

Day 3 | Friday, 24 October – Conference

Venue: Chelsea Old Town Hall.

9:00 – 9:30 Coffee

9:30 – 11:00 Panel Discussion – URBANISM: Place-making & Place-mending

Panellists will discuss their work to design new places and to intervene sensitively in existing places. Case studies will include ‘brownfield’ (previously developed, now vacant) sites, historic centres, and areas for post-disaster reconstruction.

Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30 Keynote address and Q&A: Salma Samar Damluji.

12:30 – 13:30 Networking lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Breakout sessions 1, 2 & 3**

14:30 – 15:15 Breakout sessions 4, 5 & 6**

Coffee break

16:00 – 16:45 Breakout sessions 7, 8 & 9**

16:45 – 17:30

** About the Breakout sessions: INTBAU 25: Progress in Tradition received nearly 40 proposals for breakout sessions from across the world, spanning Latin America to South Asia. The selected sessions will explore Progress in Tradition through hands-on workshops, community-led projects, and forward-thinking initiatives in building, architecture, and urbanism. Places in breakout sessions will be assigned based on preferences indicated via a delegate form.

Breakout sessions:

– A Stone Free Movement: Reviving Earth Architecture as a Global Low-Carbon Solution. By Hasan Naseef.

– Genius Loci and Corbusier’s pack donkey. The unique character of place as a cornerstone of traditional building. By Robert Tomlinson.

– Towards an architecture… school! By Nadia Naty Everard.

– Railway buildings out of service in Portugal: Rehabilitation and new uses. By Antonio Borges.

– International Call the formation of the INTBAU Technical Committee. By Georgia Cristea.

– The Medina of Sousse: Islamic urban design, sustainability and cosmology. By Soraya Hosni.

– Cuauhnáhuac: Reviving a Community Through Traditional Urbanism. By Nadia Samir.

Mapping what we love: how local people read and shape place. By Create Streets.

Wellness by Design: Transforming Health Outcomes Through Architecture and Urban Space. J. Timothy McCarthy

Optional Day 4 | 25 October – Special Tour of Nansledan

An exclusive guided tour of Nansledan, the award-winning urban extension to Newquay, delivered in partnership with the Duchy of Cornwall and the project’s architectural team at ADAM Architecture.

This special visit offers a unique opportunity to explore a living example of traditional urbanism in action.

Please note: participants are responsible for arranging their own travel and accommodation between London and Newquay. INTBAU will provide guidance on recommended train routes and logistics to help you plan your journey.