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Location: Seville , Spain School of ArchitectureContact: Carlos Plaza
Email: congreso.mexicoespana@ahau.es
Website: https://ahau.es/congreso/mexico-y-espana-cinco-siglos-de-arquitectura-para-una-historia-en-comun/
The Forum for the History and Criticism of Modern Architecture and the Association of Historians of Architecture and Urbanism (AhAU) invite anyone interested in researching topics that could enrich the history of architecture between Mexico and Spain on the international stage to submit their scientific contributions to the International Forum/Congress.
The histories of Mexico and Spain have been intertwined since 1519. Their complex history since the early 19th century has led the historiography of architecture in both countries to follow largely separate paths. However, now more than ever, the historical ties between Mexico and Spain require new and more articulated interpretations, thus contributing, together, to their great shared challenges.
From their relationships within the Hispanic world in the modern age to their current role in the Ibero-American cultural space within the global world, Mexico and Spain have witnessed countless mutual transfers of architectural culture that reveal connected and shared cultural coordinates, but also significant differences, specificities, and individual particularities.
The objective of the Mexico and Spain Forum/Congress: Five Centuries of Architecture for a Common History is to research aspects that will enrich the history of architecture between Mexico and Spain for a common history. The event unites the scientific meetings of the Association of Historians of Architecture and Urbanism, based in Spain, and the Forum on the History and Criticism of Modern Architecture, based in Mexico, organized jointly for the first time.
The intellectual exchange, institutional collaboration, and sharing of knowledge among Spanish, Mexican, and other researchers on the Mexico-Spain issue seek to construct new and more articulated questions based on old and new interpretative problems raised in the papers, favored by the ample space dedicated to debate in the sessions, which is a hallmark of the scientific meetings of both institutions.
Far from being directed solely at specialists already recognized in their comparative studies between Mexico and Spain, the objective of the Congress/Forum is to connect historiographies and encourage relational studies between both cultural realities on each topic, and also by researchers currently specialized in one or another architectural culture, theme, or historical period, thus inviting individual and national researchers to broaden their horizons toward a common history.
The breadth of intellectual horizons is fostered through 10 thematic sessions that promote a relational approach and bidirectional interpretations between Spain and Mexico, transcending national and center-periphery perspectives. They connect the historiography of both countries, favoring comparative and intersecting histories based on historiographical problems, themes, personalities, or specific works considered central to each session, or by including aspects of the other's architectural culture in a theme developed primarily in one of the two settings. The sessions address topics within each historical period that aim to showcase both the shared parameters and the diversity of architectural culture achievements, in turn forming an overall diachronic reading that encompasses five centuries of cultural relations in the field of architecture at all levels.
Ultimately, research on aspects of the history of architecture between Mexico and Spain over five centuries aims to enrich the history of both countries and contribute to a shared history and future as part of the contemporary commitment to the history of architecture.
View paper submission guidelines and 10 thematic sessions on the conference website.
Important dates
June 15, 2025. Call for papers launched.
September 30, 2025. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF THE PROPOSED COMMUNICATION ABSTRACT.
October 31, 2025. Resolution on the selection of accepted proposals. Notification of main, alternate, and unsuccessful proposals.
November 15, 2025. DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION OF SPEAKERS AT THE CONGRESS.
November 30, 2025. Submission of revised proposals with any comments.
February 28, 2026. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ACCEPTED COMMUNICATIONS.
March 29, 2026. Revised communications with possible comments sent to the proposers.
April 30, 2026. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF FINAL REVISED TEXTS FOR THE BOOK.
October 28, 2026. Opening of the Forum/Congress.
October 29-30 , 2026. Forum/Congress to be held and book to be published.
