CICA was represented by five architectural critics and theorists at the Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura BA09 which took place from October 3rd to 12th 2009 in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. These and the titles of their contributions presented in the main program from October 6th to 9th of in the Centro Cultural Recoleta were:

Trevor Boddy, Vancouver (Canada): Vancouverism – New Architecture and City-Building
Carlos Eduardo Comas, Porto Alegre (Brazil): The Foreign Gaze – Portzamparc, Siza, Brazil
Manuel Cuadra, Frankfurt / Kassel (Germany): Dealing with multiple identities in Frankfurt am Main
Shane O'Toole, Dublin (Ireland): Designing for Democracy – Ireland’s Civic Architecture, 1994-2009
Rasmus Wærn, Stockholm (Sweden): Prefab as a Model of Society – On Prefabrication in Scandinavia

At the mesa redonda or roundtable with Argentinean CICA-members participated:
Alfonso Corona Martínez, Buenos Aires
Manuel Cuadra, Frankfurt / Kassel
Ariel Hendler, El Clarín, Buenos Aires
Luis Grossman, La Nación, Buenos Aires
Jorge Glusberg, Buenos Aires, director of the Bienal, finally was absent due to an accident.