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. Divided into sections covering each seminar, the book includes essays by twenty-two architects and five theorists, with particular emphasis on the1996 seminar, Technology, Place & Architecture. That year the seminar was dedicated not only to the impact of new technology on architectural form but also to architecture's capacity to mediate between advanced technique and the more rooted phenomena of topography, climate, and place. The 1994 seminar, Architecture, History & Memory focused on the ways in which contemporary architecture deals with the built and remembered past; in 1992 participants addressed the theme The Public Building: Form & Influence. Each section includes the architects' edited presentations illustrated with photographs, plans and drawings. The book also features essays by critics, biographies of all of the participants, a project list, and, in the 1996 section, informal discussions between architects and theorists. Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia University, 1996 and 1998 seminar chairman, is the publication editor. Arthur Spector and Lynne R. Rosman are co-editors.

Contents:

1996 - Technology, Place & Architecture
Introduction: Kenneth Frampton Presentations: Raimund Abraham, Enric Miralles, Glenn Murcutt, Jean Nouvel, Patricia Patkau, Renzo Piano, Alvaro Siza, Peter Walker Commentary: Stanford Anderson, Robert Oxman, Kaarin Taipale

1994 - Architecture, History & Memory
Introduction: Julian Beinart Presentations: Dimitris Antonakakis, A.J. Diamond, Balkrishna V. Doshi, James Ingo Freed, Arata Isozaki, Antoine Predock Commentary: Stanford Anderson, Kenneth Frampton, Joseph Rykwert

1992 - The Public Building: Form & Influence
Introduction: Julian Beinart Presentations: Henry N. Cobb, Charles Correa, Romaldo Giurgola, Herman Hertzberger, Ram Karmi & Ada Karmi-Melamede, Jose Rafael Moneo, Richard Rogers, Moshe Safdie Commentary: Stanford Anderson, Kenneth Frampton, Josep Rykwert