The Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture

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The Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture (JSA) affords a continuing opportunity for professional and intellectual deliberation within the architectural community. Since 1992, the JSA held six conferences, each with over 1500 participants from around the world. Each conference was devoted to a contemporary theme and participants were all experts on a diversity of topics.

Below you can browse through the material from past conferences, Click on conference theme for more information.
In addition, the videotaped proceedings of all past conferences are available through the archive.

2004: Material & Craft

16-18 May 2004

Cecil Balmond, Shigeru Ban, James F. Carpenter, Bob Cather, Peggy Deamer, Andrew Hall, Ross Lovegrove, Bruno Miglio, Peter Ross, Moshe Safdie and Michael Arad discuss their use of a specific material or realization of a certain theme based on examples of their own work.

2000: Reinventing Space

11-14 June 2000

Cecil Balmond, Charles Jencks, Daniel Libeskind, Thom Mayne, Enrique Norten, Carme Pinos, Wolf Prix, Robert A. M. Stern, Bernard Tschumi and Ken Yeang explore how traditional formalities and cultural and economic preconceptions can be transcended to produce buildings in tune with new social and environmental attitudes.

1998: Megaform as Urban Landscape

21-23 June 1998

Henri Ciriani, Mels Crouwel, Kenneth Frampton, Steven Holl, Ricardo Legorreta, M.J. Long, Fumihiko Maki, Richard Meier, Axel Schultes, Manuel de Sola-Morales, and Rafael Vinoly address the issue of how today's urban landscape may be modified and mediated through the generation and application of large building types, city halls, convention centres, museums, airports and hybrid commercial institutions of all kinds.

1992-1996: Technology, Place & Architecture

A 288-page generously illustrated volume, published by Rizzoli International, documents the1992, 1994, and 1996 sessions of the Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture. As the first published record of these seminal conferences it offers readers an unprecedented window into the thoughts and strategies of today's leading architects and urban planners.