International Conference on New Trends in Architecture and Interior Design

Dear Colleagues,

I am honored to invite and send you this call for papers on behalf of the Congress Organization Board of the 12th International Conference on New Trends in Architecture and Interior Design 2026 (12th ICNTAD’26), to be held in Barcelona, Spain  between 10-12 April 2026.

The conference will focus on a broad range of topics related to new trends in architecture and design. The conference organizers call for papers and presentation proposals that are relevant to the conference themes. Given the conference’s theme, papers with any of the following or related subjects would be appropriate for presentation:

• Criticism of sustainability/unsustainability
• The architecture of philosophy/architecture without philosophy
• Professional settlement of interior architecture
• Human contact to space with furniture
• Intangible skin of space: lighting design
• Tangible skin of space: material
• Ideology in architecture or architecture of ideology
• Spaces without space: virtual spaces
• The artistic value of space
• Architecture without architect
• Cultural codes / architecture
• Artificial intelligence: The designer’s new role
• Rethinking design education in the digital age

The 12th International Conference on New Trends in Architecture and Interior Design Conference 2026 (12th ICNTAD’26), aims to bring together experts from several institutions, such as universities, administrative organizations, architects, engineers and designers, within the framework of conference topics of building, architecture, interior design, product, material, etc. High-level academicians, professionals and design students from around the world will explore the intersection of design, architecture and best practices with leaders from the design profession. We also positively encourage the participation of early-career scholars and postgraduate researchers.

We eagerly anticipate your presence at our congress, scheduled for 10–12 April 2026, with the aim of achieving a successful scientific congress and leaving a lasting impression on your memory.

Regards

Prof. Dr. Burçin Cem ARABACIOĞLU
Conference Chair

10 – 12 April 2026 – Barcelona, SPAIN

* The papers will be selected by the organizing committee to be published in LivenARCH+ – LIVable ENvironments and ARCHitecture+ Journal, with the evaluation to be made in line with the referee opinions. The selected papers will be organized according to the writing rules of the relevant journal and the selected papers will be recommended to be published as articles in line with the referee evaluations.