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 on the 600th
anniversary of Seoul, the Prince of Wales’ Forum in Los
Angeles, the Eurodisney conference in Paris, the new capitals
conference in Taipei, the 50th anniversary of Chandigarh, and
has been a member of the Habitat Advisory Panel. In 1992 and
1994, he was co-chairman of the first two Jerusalem Seminars
in Architecture, published by Rizzoli.
Research/projects:
He currently heads Cambridge International Design Associates,
an urban design consultancy based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Since 1986, he has designed plans in Jerusalem (with Spector/Amisar)
for the Israel Museum, the Binyanei Ha'ooma Convention Center,
and the Central Government Precinct, and has been a member
of the international advisory committee for the city. Other
international projects include the St. Petersburg (Russia)
master plan competition, studies of the long-term effects
of hosting the Olympic Games (presented in Seoul 1988 and
Olympia 1994), and various projects in Southern Africa. Among
recent work is collaboration in three projects in the UAE,
as well as Palestine, Jordan and Sicily, and the winning entry
in the Chung Hsin village provincial capital competition in
Taiwan. In the USA, he has worked on the site selection and
design of the US Air Force Memorial in Washington, proposals
for the Dade County transportation corridor and Miami International
Airport, plans for the land surrounding Alliance airport in
Ft. Worth (the first non passenger airport in the world),
and the proposed basketball arena in Dallas.
