Julian Beinart

Beinart’s teaching and research is about the form and design of cities. He has been a Sir Herbert Baker Rome Scholar, Program Chairman and President of the International Design Conference in Aspen, one of the founders of the Laboratory for Architecture and Urban Design in Italy, American editor of Space and Society/Spazio e Societa, a Fellow of the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute in California, and research director of a Mellon Foundation study of architectural education in the USA. In the 1960s, he produced jazz concerts and directed design courses in five African countries as part of a wider study of popular art exhibited at the ICA in London and the subject of a short BBC film. His research has been sponsored by the Carnegie, Oppenheimer and Farfield Foundations, as well as by the National Endowment for the Arts. His work and writing have been published widely and he has lectured in Europe, the USA, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Recently he has participated in conferences