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Activities » Public Lectures
CSBE occasionally organizes public lectures on issues related to architecture and the built environment. These lectures have been held in association with, and through support from, cultural organizations including Darat al-Funun / the Khalid Shoman Foundation, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, and the Goethe Institute / Jordan.
The speakers for these lectures are usually from outside Jordan. They include architects and scholars from the Arab world and also ones of an international stature. These public lectures aim at keeping the Jordanian public abreast of developments relating to the built environment that are taking place beyond the boundaries of Jordan, on both the regional and international levels.
The contents of some of the public lecture series are being published on the CSBE web site. The published materials include the discussions that the lectures create, and also hyperlinks to additional suggested readings. The site also allows and encourages readers to provide questions and comments. (For additional information concerning the publishing of the public lectures, please see the CSBE E-publishing program).
October 2, 2012
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture: New Challenges and Directions
Farrokh Derakhshani
Director, The Aga Khan Award for Architecture
October 11, 2011
Binding of Architecture and Engineering
Hanif Kara
Structural engineer and the Pierce Anderson Lecturer in Creative Engineering at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design
June 14, 2010
A Tucson Rainwater Harvesting Odyssey 1980 - Ongoing
Richard Brittain
Assistant Research Professor, School of Architecture, University of Arizona, Tucson
October 8, 2008
The Forms of Public Spaces in Historic Cairo and Its Current Transformation
Tareq al-Murri
Conservation Architect, Diwan Architecture & Patrimoine, Egypt
April 2, 2008
Urban Art and the Dream of Cities
Nadim Karam
Architect, urban artist, painter and sculptor
December 11, 2007
The Politics of Urban Planning: Beirut-Cairo via Amman
Robert Saliba
Associate professor at the American University of Beirut
November 11, 2007
Public Space & Public Sphere: A Tale of Two Cities: Amman & Beirut
Rami Daher
Conservation Architect, Urban designer, university professor
February 13, 2007
Public Sphere by Public Space? Dimensions of the Public Sphere in late Ottoman Damascus and Bilad al-Sham
Stephan Weber, Orient Institute, Beirut
April 21, 2002
Riyadh Architecture in One Hundred Years
Saleh al-Hathloul
Deputy Minister for Town Planning, Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Saudi Arabia
(The lecture was organized in association with the Architectural Section of the Jordan Engineers Association)
October 20, 2001
Architecture for a Changing World: Twenty Years of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Suha Ozkan
Secretatry General, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture
May 30, 2001
Creating Landscapes in Water-scarce Environments: A Case Study of Tucson, Arizona
Margaret Linvingston
Assistant Professor, School of Landscape Architecture, University of Arizona
December 6, 2000
Modern Architecture in Lebanon, a Critical Survey
George Arbid
Architect and educator, Beirut
May 17, 2000
The Rehabilitation of the Old City of Aleppo
Omar Hallaj
Architect, SURADEC, Aleppo
April 19, 2000
Deconstructing the Reconstruction of Beirut: 1990 - 2000
Robert Saliba
Planner, lecturer, and researcher, Oxford Brookes University
February 26, 2000
E-topia: The Future of the City in the Digital Age
William J. Mitchell
Dean, School of Architecture and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MI
Last updated July, 2010
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