ARCC-EAAE 2026 International Conference
LOCAL SOLUTIONS FOR GLOBAL ISSUES
April 8-11, 2026 | Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Hosted by Kennesaw State University
Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 30th Apr 2026, 09:00:11pm PDT
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Daily Overview |
| 8:30am - 10:00am |
H9: Historical Persperctive and Grounded Practices 9 Location: Pittman Session Chair: Jinoh Park, University of Arkansas Beyond the Spectacle: Reclaiming Vernacular Planning through Quanzhou’s PuJing Temple System 1: Cornell University, United States of America; 2: National University of Singapore, Singapore Reimagining Heritage: Adaptive Reuse of Atlanta’s 1922 Carnegie Library Emphasizing Sustainability, Health, and Community Connectedness 1: Perkins&Will, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America; 2: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America; 3: SPIKE Studio Pahlavani Playground: Participatory Urban Repair in Zahedan’s Informal Settlements (Iran, 2020–2021) University of Cincinnati, United States of America |
P9: Pedagogies of Engagements 9 Location: Ardmore Session Chair: Kelly Riedesel, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Social Cohesion | Playful Artful Temporary Artifacts Kennesaw State University, United States of America Emergent Collaboration Through Rule-Based Fabrication University of Texas at San Antonio, United States of America Analog Precision In Localized Resilient Fabrication University of Texas at San Antonio, United States of America |
T9: Technologies of Place 9 Location: Centennial Session Chair: Michael Kleiss, University of Maryland Deployment Control of Reconfigurable Polyhedral Structures for Designing Emergency Shelters 1: Clemson University, Clemson, SC; 2: Clemson University, Clemson, SC; 3: University of Nevada, Las Vegas; 4: University of Maryland, College Park, MD Streamlining the Architectural Design Process of High-Performance Buildings with Analytical Target Cascading Clemson University, United States of America AI, Urban Informality, and the Politics of Spatial Recognition Kent State University, United States of America |
W9: Design for Health and Wellbeing 9 Location: Candler Session Chair: Soo Jeong Jo, Louisiana State University Could Spatial Distributions on School Campuses be Correlated with Children’s Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior? 1: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America; 2: University of Porto, Portugal; 3: University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil 8:50am - 9:10am Preserving Women’s Social Networks in Informal Housing Redevelopment: Local Strategies for Gender-Equitable Urban Futures University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America 9:10am - 9:30am Environmental Design Factors in Telehealth Spaces: A Spatial Response to the Global Crisis of Unequal Healthcare Access 1: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa; 2: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 9:30am - 9:40am Prediction of Overall Thermal Comfort of Radiant Heating Systems Using Experimental Local Comfort Data- A Machine Learning Approach 1: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States of America; 2: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; 3: Azad University of Tehran, Iran; 4: Center for the Built Environment at UC Berkeley, United States of America |
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CB_11_1: Coffee Break 1 Location: Breakout Hallway |
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
W10: Design for Health and Wellbeing 10 Location: Pittman Session Chair: Traci Rider, North Carolina State University, United States of America Streets of Heat and Hazard: A Pre-Relocation Architectural Analysis of White Horse Road through Adolescent Eyes Clemson University, United States of America Illuminating Spaces Between: The Compressed, Quiet + Sacred Urban Typologies of Tokyo 1: University of Calgary, Calgary, AB; 2: sinclairstudio Inc., Calgary, AB Data Centres and Their Integration to Local Environments in Three Distinct Areas of Metro Atlanta Kennesaw State University, United States of America |
T10: Technologies of Place 10 Location: Ardmore Session Chair: Jeffrey Collins, Kennesaw State University From Local Prototype to Global Paradigm: Recrafting Housing with New Technology 1: LTU and houm PLLC, United States of America; 2: Three Squared Inc and houm PLLC, United States of America; 3: Royal Development, United States of America Towards a Fungal Architecture? A Study on the Acceptability of Mycelium through Focus Groups with Construction Professionals University of Liège, Belgium Growing Bricks: Mycelium as Building Material Oklahoma state university, United States of America |
T11: Technologies of Place 11 Location: Centennial Session Chair: Arief Setiawan, Kennesaw State University Soft Shells: Carbon-Absorbing Concrete Structures through Fabric Formwork Thomas Jefferson University, United States of America Embedding Structural Behavior Through Stitching in Fabric Formwork for Thin Concrete Shells Clemson University, United States of America From Hanging to Standing: Fabric-Formed Catenary Arches as Scalable Concrete Building Components 1: Clemson University, United States of America; 2: Clemson University, United States of America; 3: Clemson University, United States of America; 4: University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
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| 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
PL3: Closing Ceremony: AI and the Built Environment / Best Paper and Poster Awards Location: Mercer Salon I Title: AI and the Built Environment: Local Applications of a Global Technology Speakers:
Moderator:
Description This plenary examines the expanding role of artificial intelligence across the architecture and construction ecosystem. |
L3/P3: Lunch 3 Location: Mercer Salon |
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| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Tour_1: Atlanta's Beltline |
Tour_2: Portman's Atlanta |
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