Jan. 21, 2008
The latest circular about the next Open Building conference and Design Competition was posted!

Dec. 21, 2007
A new conference on Open Building "Education for Open Architecture", which will be held October 19-22, 2008 at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, USA, was announced! This conference will be 2008 annual CIB W104 Commission meeting.

Aug. 20, 2007
CIB W104 is now preparing for a Booklet including many Open Building examples from all over the world. While waiting for the publication, we provide a part of the booklet on this website. (Responsible Person: Prof. JIA Beisi)

Aug. 06, 2007
Information on the New Conference on Sustainable Northern Shelter in a World of Diminishing Resources

Jun. 26, 2007
CALL FOR PAPERS:International Conference of CIB and Tokyo Metropolitan University, Building Stock Activation 2007, Nov. 5-8 2007, Tokyo, Japan
→Conference Website
→Call for Papers in English
→Call for Papers in Japanese

Jun. 25, 2007
A Happy New Year !
Added the Announcement on a New CIB WC Construction Materials Stewardship.

Oct. 17, 2006
An International Conference "Building Stock Activation 2007", which is co-hosted by CIB and 4-Met Center of Tokyo Metropolitan University led by Prof. Seiichi FUKAO (W104 Member), will be held in November 2007 in Tokyo. This conference is inviting many papers concerned with Activation or Regeneration of Existing Building Stock. More Information is available at www.4-met.org/bsa07/

Aug. 30, 2006
Added a new link to the "SOLIDS" which is one of the latest Residential Open Building under development by Het Oosten.

Aug. 12, 2006
Watch out!! CIB World Congress 2007 has officially been moved to the week of 14-18 May 2007!
→ Download: Notification of Change of Dates by CIB (PDF File)
→ Download: Brochure of CIB World Building Conference 2007 (PDF File)

Aug. 12, 2006
Added Downloadable Papers to the "Bibliographies" page.

Aug. 7, 2006
Added new information on the Japanese edition of "Residential Open Building" to the "Publications" page.

Aug. 1, 2006
New information on the book "Homeworks®: A New American Townhouse" written by Professor Stephen Kendall was added to the "Publications" page.

Jul. 31, 2006
New information on World Building Congress May 21-25 2007 in Cape Town, South Africa was added.
Please look for all details at the official CIB World Conference Website: www.cib2007.com
PLEASE NOTE THE DEADLINE OF ABSTRACTS!! SEPTEMBER 1, 2006.

Jul. 18, 2006
Added new information on Professor Habraken's most recent book "Palladio's Children" to the "Publications" page.

Apr. 05, 2006
Two pioneering projects on Residential Open Building will be presented at the Adaptabels2006 Conference in Eindhoven. See the FLYER on these two case studies.

Feb. 22, 2006
The deadline of Abstracts for CIB W104 Annual Conference "Adaptables2006" was extended to February 28!
Paper due is by April 15.
Check www.adaptables2006.nl for instructions in formatting papers!

Jan. 26, 2006
The deadline of Abstracts for CIB W104 Annual Conference "Adaptables2006" was extended to February 1. Please check the Website and send in an abstract!

Nov. 25, 2005
The announcement of the ADAPTABLES 2006 conference was put in the "Conferences" page.

Oct. 14, 2005
New information on the CIB Encouraged Journal "Open House International" was added to the "Other Information" page.

Oct. 05, 2005
Added a new link to the "adaptables '06" website.

Sep. 26, 2005
CIB W104 11th Meeting Timetable (the Latest Version) (PDF, 39KB) has been uploaded.

Aug. 26, 2005
CIB W104 11th Meeting Timetable (PDF, 36KB) has been uploaded.

Aug. 09, 2005
CIB W104 official website "http://open-building.org/" has started.

Nov. 12, 2004
CIB W104 tentative website uploaded.