The Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture biennial conference series provides a continuing opportunity for professional and intellectual deliberation within the architectural community. Established in 1992, there have been five conferences, each attended by over 1,500 participants from around the world.

Below are options to browse through the material on past conferences.
In addition, the videotaped proceedings of all past conferences are available for loan locally or purchase worldwide.
 
Click on conference theme for a more detailed description.

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.

Reinventing Space: Beyond the Boundaries of the Twentieth Century
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.

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.