The Architecture and Society International Congress presented fifteen speakers of international acclaim in the fields of architecture and economic and social thought. Fifteen ways of addressing the issues in question and of offering solutions that rise to the challenge of building architecture with common sense and commitment to the forging of a well-constructed, eco-efficient society.

The conferences were presented and moderated by ten eminent national figures from architecture and other realms of knowledge, and the main conclusions of the forum were summarized in fifteen interviews conducted by five relators of national and international renown.

Speakers:  Alejandro Aravena, David Chipperfield, Víctor López Cotelo, Jacques Herzog, Carlos Jiménez, Diébédo Francis Kéré, Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal, Giancarlo Mazzanti, Rahul Mehrotra, Mohsen Mostafavi, Glenn Murcutt, Renzo Piano, Sauerbruch Hutton, Mark Wigley and Slavoj Žižek.

Moderators: Luis Fernández-Galiano, José María Fidalgo Velilla (congress directors), Francisco Javier Conde de Saro, Carlos Ferrater, Ángela García de Paredes, Juan Miguel Hernández León, José Miguel Iribas, Francisco Mangado, Carlos Solchaga, and Isabel Tocino Biscarolasaga.

Relators: Estrella de Diego, Antón García Abril, Richard Ingersoll, Llàtzer Moix, and Vicente Verdú.