Since 1982 PLEA has organised international conferences and events across the globe. This page provides access to details of recent conferences and a comprehensive list of all conferences held to date.
NEXT Conference
2024@Wroclaw, Poland
(Re)thinking resilience
25-28 June 2024
PAST Conferences
2022@Chile
Will cities survive? The future of sustainable buildings and urbanism in the age of emergency
22-25 November 2022
2020@A Coruña, Spain
Planning Post Carbon Cities
1-3 September 2020
2018@Hong Kong, China
Smart and Healthy within the 2-degree Limit
10-12 December 2018
2017@Edinburgh, UK
Passive Low Energy Architecture – Design to Thrive
3-5 July 2017
2016@Los Angeles, USA
Cities, Buildings, People: Towards Regenerative Environments
11-13 July 2016
2015@Bologna, Italy
Architecture in (R)evolution
9-11 September 2015
2014@Ahmedabad, India
Sustainable Habitat for Developing Societies
16-18 December 2014
2013@Munich, Germany
Sustainable Architecture for a Renewable Future
10-12 September 2013
2012@Lima, Peru
Towards an Environmentally Responsible Architecture
7-9 November 2012
2011@Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Architecture and Sustainable Development
13-15 July 2011
2009@Québec, Canada
Architecture, Energy and the Occupant’s Perspective
22-24 June 2009
2008@Dublin, Ireland
Towards Zero Energy Building
22-24 October 2008
2007@Singapore
Sun, Wind and Architecture
22-24 November 2007
2006@Geneva, Switzerland
Clever Design, Affordable Comfort: A Challenge for Low Energy Architecture and Urban Planning
6-8 September 2006
2005@Beirut, Lebanon
Environmental Sustainability: The Challenge of Awareness in Developing Societies
13-16 November 2005
2004@Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Built Environments and Environmental Buildings
19-22 September 2004
2003@Santiago, Chile
Rethinking Development: Are We Producing a People-oriented Habitat?
9-12 November 2003
2002@Toulouse, France
Design with the Environment
2001@Florianópolis, Brazil
Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Development of the Built Environment
7-9 November 2001
2000@Cambridge, UK
Architecture, City, Environment
2-5 July 2000
1999@Brisbane, Australia
Sustaining the Future: Energy-Ecology-Architecture
1998@Lisbon, Portugal
Environmentally Friendly Cities
1997@Kushiro, Japan
Sustainable Communities and Architecture: Bioclimatic Design in Cold Climates
1996@Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Building and Urban Renewal
1995@New Delhi, India
Sustainability through Climate Responsive Architecture
1994@Dead Sea, Israel
Architecture of the Extremes
1992@Auckland, New Zealand
Architectural Responses to Climate Change
1991@Sevilla, Spain
Architecture and Urban Space
1990@Halifax, Canada
Bioclimatic Design in Architecture and Planning
1989@Nara, Japan
Global Environment and Architecture in the Post-industrial Age
1988@Porto, Portugal
Energy and Buildings for Temperate Climates
1986@Pécs, Hungary
Passive and Low Energy Architecture in Housing
1985@Venice, Italy
Architecture and Regionalism
1984@Mexico
Passive and Low Energy Ecotechniques Applied to Housing
1983@Crete
Passive and Low Energy Architecture
1982@Bermuda
Passive and Low Energy Alternatives
1981@Miami
Meeting to inaugurate PLEA
Other Events
1999: Symposium on Urban Futures, Melbourne, Australia
1995: PLEA Session at ISES Conference, Harare, Zimbabwe
1995: Teachers in Architecture (Co-sponsored with TIA), Firenze, Italy
1993: PLEA Session at ISES Conference, Budapest, Hungary
1993: Solar Energy and Buildings (Co-sponsored with the Academy of Athens & the European Commission), Athens, Greece
1991: PLEA Study Tour, Arizona, USA