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, and to provide a platform for communication among researchers in the 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 2023 conference will take place at TU Delft in The Netherlands, 5-7 July 2023. It is planned to run in hybrid mode. With the title INTERCONNECTIONS: Co-computing beyond boundaries, CAAD Futures 2023 will reflect on the role of Computation to interconnect in and for Architectural Design. The theme is organized in three main streamlines: Interconnections across Knowledge Domains; Interconnections across Scales; and Interconnections across Questions. Watch the teaser.
Planning ahead, the CAAD Futures 2025 conference will take place in Asia. If you are in Asia and are interested in hosting the conference in 2025 at your institution, please email any board member.
Board members
The current board members of the CAAD Futures Foundation are:
Gabriela Celani, Chair. Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Campinas, Brazil (celani@unicamp.br).
Mine Özkar, Vice-Chair. Professor of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.
Christiane M. Herr, Vice-Chair. Professor, SUSTech School of Design.