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A two-day
seminar on traditional Islamic arts
was held at the Royal Cultural Center in Amman. The seminar was
organized by the Institute of Islamic
Arts at al-Balqa' Applied University in Salt in
cooperation with the Visual Islamic
and Traditional Arts (VITA) Program at the the
Prince of Wales' Institute of
Architecture in London. The seminar, in which
Jordanian and British scholars and experts participated,
discussed subjects including Islamic ornament, principles of
Islamic art and architecture, art of the Islamic city, and the
evolution of Arabic calligraphy. The seminar also included a
presentation on the project for the reconstruction of the
twelfth century Minbar of Saladin in al-Aqsa Mosque in
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The Second Jordanian Architectural
Conference entitled Architecture
and Environment: Towards Sustainable Environmental Architecture
was held at the Royal Cultural Center in Amman. The
Jordan Architects Society
and the Architectural Engineering Division in the
Jordan Engineers Association
(JEA) organized the conference. The conference included
36 papers presented by participants from more than 20 countries.
Topics discussed in the conference included Islamic architecture
and the environment, architecture and the balance between
environmental and economic issues, globalization and heritage,
technology and the environment, as well as sustainable and green
architecture. For additional information, see the JEA web site
at http://www.jea.org.jo.
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In connection
with the Second Jordanian Architectural Conference (for
information on the conference see details above), the Jordan
Architects Society in coordination with the United
Nations Development Program (UNDP) organized a
three-day specialized course entitled Strategies
of Environmental Management.
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A six-day
intensive course entitled The Use and
Conservation of Stone in Buildings was offered in
Amman. The course was organized by the Center
for the Study of the Built Environment (CSBE), the
Conservation and Restoration Center
in Petra (CARCIP), and the Institut
francais d'Archeologie du Proche - Orient (IFAPO), in
association with the Bavarian State
Conservation Office (BLfD). The course, which
included lectures by specialists from France, Lebanon, Germany
and Jordan, discussed issues including the physical properties,
construction technologies, deterioration, and conservation of
stone. The course consisted of lectures and also of visits to
historical sites and to stone cutting establishments. For
additional information on the course, see the activities section
of this web site. Also, full documentation of this course will
be placed on this web site in the near future.
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The
Engineers Training Center (ETC) of the Jordan
Engineers Association (JEA) offered a 27-hour course
on the architectural details of
buildings in Jordan.
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