From
29
Jan
Seminars and Conferences
Critic|All Conference
The Critic|all Conference is a place and an event.
A place because it is an academic meeting point for researchers, teachers and architects interested in architectural culture and criticism, and an event because the forum that takes place during those days generates a fruitful knowledge, where the intellectual and scientific impulse is higher than the sum of the valuable individual contributions.
The aim is to set a preliminary platform to launch an item, to call a theme, to forge some early reflections which allow the settling and binding of the topics that organize the sessions of each edition of the conference.
Although its environment is linked to the activities of the Architectural Design Department of Madrid School of Architecture ETSAM-UPM, it has a clear international vocation.
Therefore, since 2020 started a new phase in which each edition is organized in collaboration with a partner university.
The sixth edition of the conference will be co-organized with the Department of Architecture and Design-DAD of the Politecnico di Torino, hosted at Castello del Valentino.
The main events will be the two key-note lectures:
Thursday 29 January 17:00 – 19:00 Key-note Lecture | Room 1V
“The Dance in the Machine”, Helen Thomas. Founder and editor of Women Writing Architecture
Friday 30 January 2026 - 17:00 – 19:00 Key-note Lecture | Salone d’Onore
“Iconophobia. Architecture and the Politics of Representation”, Pippo Ciorra. Senior Curator, MAXXI Architettura
More information and the full program are available online here.
A place because it is an academic meeting point for researchers, teachers and architects interested in architectural culture and criticism, and an event because the forum that takes place during those days generates a fruitful knowledge, where the intellectual and scientific impulse is higher than the sum of the valuable individual contributions.
The aim is to set a preliminary platform to launch an item, to call a theme, to forge some early reflections which allow the settling and binding of the topics that organize the sessions of each edition of the conference.
Although its environment is linked to the activities of the Architectural Design Department of Madrid School of Architecture ETSAM-UPM, it has a clear international vocation.
Therefore, since 2020 started a new phase in which each edition is organized in collaboration with a partner university.
The sixth edition of the conference will be co-organized with the Department of Architecture and Design-DAD of the Politecnico di Torino, hosted at Castello del Valentino.
The main events will be the two key-note lectures:
Thursday 29 January 17:00 – 19:00 Key-note Lecture | Room 1V
“The Dance in the Machine”, Helen Thomas. Founder and editor of Women Writing Architecture
Friday 30 January 2026 - 17:00 – 19:00 Key-note Lecture | Salone d’Onore
“Iconophobia. Architecture and the Politics of Representation”, Pippo Ciorra. Senior Curator, MAXXI Architettura
More information and the full program are available online here.
29 and 30 January 2026
Castello del Valentino - Viale Mattioli 39, Torino