INTBAU turns 25 in 2025. On this special occasion, the organisation is inviting a global audience to London to take part in a full programme focused on the present and future state of traditional building, architecture, and urbanism.
From 22 to 24 October, the World Congress will celebrate the foundation and achievements of INTBAU and lay the groundwork for constructive discussions about the role and responsibilities of tradition in the coming decades of the built environment.
When it was founded in 2000, INTBAU was needed to bring together the small number of practitioners who were working in isolation across the globe. Twenty-five years later, conditions have changed and continue to evolve, and the number of educational programmes and built projects embracing tradition is growing exponentially.
INTBAU 25: Progress in Tradition will chart this change across the fields of learning, practice, and teaching.
At a time when much discussion about buildings and places focuses on what is broken, failing, unbuilt, or impossible, INTBAU’s World Congress will provide reasons for optimism about the built future. It will highlight people, and large- and small-scale projects around the world, that are creating better places to live, rooted in tradition to support the health and happiness of communities and of the shared planet.
In the memorable words of Gustav Mahler:
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”
Every healthy, living tradition is a work in progress. INTBAU invites all to join the World Congress in London in October and to leave more optimistic, more aware, and more determined to play a role in preserving this essential fire.
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