CAAD Futures Foundation

The Foundation

CAAD Futures was set up under Dutch law in 1985 with three founding members; Tom Maver, Rik Schijf, and Harry Wagter with the purpose of promoting, through international conferences and publications, the advancement of Computer Aided Architectural Design in the service of those concerned with the quality of the built environment with initial capital provided by the Housing Ministry of the Netherlands Government. 

Many decades later, no longer based in the Netherlands, the Foundation continues to play a major global role in advancing the field and documenting progress in research with its biennial conference.  We work in collaboration with the several regionally focused groups that have been established over these years to support and cultivate a richly diverse research community. 

The mission of the CAAD Futures foundation continues to be:

• to promote research interactions and collaborations between researchers, including PhD students and their supervisors;

• to provide a platform for communication among researchers in the field of CAAD;

• to play an active role in the dissemination of such progress to the scientific architectural community and the architectural practice.

Next Conference

The CAAD Futures 2025 conference will take place in Asia, at the University of Hong Kong. 

The CAAD Futures 2027 conference will take place in the Americas, and the 2029 conference will take place in Europe.

Hosting CAAD Futures 

If you are interested in hosting CAAD Futures 2027 at your institution, please send a proposal no later than April 30 to the CAADFutures Board Chair, Mine Özkar. Proposals should be limited to five to six pages and provide details on the following: (1) organizing team and chair; (2) proposed conference theme/topic; (3) host institution, location, and event venue; and (4) preliminary budget.

Proposals will be evaluated on the basis of factors including the contemporary relevance of the proposal's topic and its alignment with CAADFutures; the proposed team's and chair's experience; the accessibility and quality of the proposed venue; and the rigor and clarity of the budgetary elements including the number of expected participant, costs, projected funding, and conference fees. Note: authors of shortlisted proposals might be asked to provide additional details.

Board members

The current board members of the CAAD Futures Foundation are:

• Mine Özkar, Chair. Professor of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye (ozkar@itu.edu.tr).

• Christiane M. Herr, Vice-Chair. Professor, SUSTech School of Design, China.

• Daniel Cardoso Llach, Vice-Chair. Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, United States.