[Press Release] Moscow Architectural Institute (MARCHI) and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design will meet in Jerusalem next week for a week-long seminar on urban design and creating new ideas to improve the design of new and old cities.
An open day for the public will take place on Tuesday January 31 from 9:30 to 19:00 at the Graduate School, Urban Design Program, Bezalel Gallery, Yaffo 23/Jerusalem.
Representatives from both Bezalel Academy and MARCHI will speak on a variety of urban design and architecture-related subjects including: “The Cross-Cultural City”; “Russian Palestine – Monuments of Russian Architecture in Jerusalem”; “Russian Influence on Israeli Modern Space”; and a keynote lecture on “Russian Architecture Between East and West”; among others.
East Meets West – An Urban Design Collaboration Between Moscow and Jerusalem
Bezalel Gallery, Yaffo 23/Jerusalem
9.30am: Greetings
Prof Yaara Bar-On, Deputy Vice President, Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design
Prof Dmitry Shvidkovsky, Rector, MARCHI
Jerusalem Municipality representative
10:00 – 13:00
The Cross-Cultural City
Prof. Michael Turner, Bezalel
Russian Palestine – Monuments of Russian Architecture in Jerusalem: History and problems of adaptation
Dr Tatyana Krasheninnikova, Architect, Deputy Director Kremlin Museum and Prof Alexey Krasheninnikov, Director, Center for Advanced Studies, URBANISTICA
Architectural Avant-Garde: Heritage at Risk or Cultural and Economic Resource?
Prof Natalia Dushkina
Russian Influence on Israeli Modern Space
Architect Yossi Klein
14:00 – 16:00
Sacred Topography: Historical context and current of the city
Dr Doron Bar
New Jerusalem – Monastery in Moscow as an image of the Holy Land
Prof. Natalia Blagovidova and Alexander Rudnev, MARCHI
Jerusalem and Moscow – A personal quest
Architect Daniel Mintz
17:00 – 18:00: Keynote Lecture
Russian Architecture Between East and West
Prof. Dmitry Shvidkovsky, Rector, MARCHI
18:00
Opening of the exhibition of MARCHI Diploma Projects.
Greetings: Dr Alexander Kryukov, Director, Russian Cultural Center
