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Growing capacities of the Internet-WWW as a digital graphical medium are rapidly opening doors towards professional communication particularly fostering the dialogue within disciplines relying on those resources. It is now feasible to incorporate through virtual congresses and related events a vast group of, formerly, non-participants to events relying on physical presence. Specifically, as ibero-american architects, we must make appropriate use of advantages brought upon us by the joint effort of telecommunications and informatics that allow the challenging of, until now, insurmountable difficulties on cohesive collective professional links, derived from faulty communications and physical isolation typical to our subregion. This paper aims to provide an updated frame to the subject of virtual congresses on architecture, illustrating it with a germinal and pioneering experience: “ICVA- I Virtual Congress on Architecture 1999-2000” with an iberoamerican projection in the vicinity of a thousand registrations, and of the important experiences and conclusions thereof derived. |