1994

• The Geddes Vision of a Region as City—The Example of Palestine, paper read at Social Utopias of the Early Twentieth Century—Bauhaus, Kibbutz and the Vision of a New Society, symposium at the Bauhaus in Dessau, 28 August - 4 September 1994, organized by the Goethe-Institut, Tel Aviv, and the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, Tel Aviv
  
• A Polis for Palestine—Patrick Geddes’s Theory of the City and his Masterplan for Tel Aviv, paper read at 1994 International Style Architecture Conference, Tel Aviv, 22 - 28 May 1994, organized by the UNESCO and the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo

1995

• From Edinburgh to Palestine—Patrick Geddes as City Designer, guest lecture at the Department of Art History, Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University, 14 March 1995
• Patrick Geddes and Palestine, lecture for Views from the Outlook Tower, Patrick Geddes Centre for Planning Studies, The University of Edinburgh, 17. Mai 1995
• The Region-City—Similarities and Differences between Patrick Geddes’s and Lewis Mumford’s Ideas of Regionalism, paper read at Patrick Geddes—Lewis Mumford Symposium, Manifesto—The Edinburgh Festival for Architecture and Design, 5 November 1995

1996

• Patrick Geddes’s Hebrew University—A Temple of Life for Jerusalem and the Region of Palestine, paper read at The Real and Ideal Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Art - Fifth International Seminar on Jewish Art, The Centre of Jewish Art, The Hebrew University Jerusalem, 16 - 23 June 1996
• Biopolis—Patrick Geddes und die Stadt des Lebens, guest lecture at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 11 December 1996

1997

• The Return of the Muses—The City as Museion, paper read at Structures & Practices, annual conference of the Association of Art Historians, Courtauld Institute, London, 4 - 6 April 1997
• The City and the Pursuit of History, guest lecture in series Dundee Conservation Lectures 1997-98, School of Town & Regional Planning, University of Dundee, Dundee, 18 November 1997

1998

• Artur Glikson, Thinking Machines and the Planning of Israel, paper read at The City after Patrick Geddes, an international symposium at the University of Edinburgh, Department of Architecture, 8 - 10 May 1998

1999

• The Metaphysical Imperative in Urban Design around 1900, paper read at symposium Modernity and the Spirit of the City, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, 26 March 1999, and as guest lecture at Department of Art History, Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University, 27 April 1999

2000

• Theories of the Region around 1900: Patrick Geddes and Others, guest lecture, Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2 February 2000
• Genius Loci—Locus Genii: Embracing the Spirit of the City, paper read at Body & Soul, annual conference of the Association of Art Historians, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 6 - 9 April 2000

2001

• The Heart of the City—From CIAM 6 to CIAM 10, the British contribution to the critique of the functionalist city, paper read at invited research symposium Team 10 Project, Faculty of Architecture, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands, 5 November 2001

2002

• Everywhere at any Time: Lewis Mumford, Ludwig Hilberseimer, and the Genealogy of the Modern City, paper read at 55^th Annual Meeting Society of Architectural Historians, Richmond, Virginia, 17-21 April 2002
• People and Things, Grids and Cities—Diagrammatic Approaches to Urban Realities, c. 1900-c. 1950, paper read at the colloquium Architecture and Knowledge—The Mundaneum and European Antecedents of the World Wide Web, held at the Mundaneum, Archive and Museum, Mons, Belgium, 24-25 May 2002

2003

• Architecture without Qualities—Reflections on the Architecture of Ernst L. Freud (1892, Vienna-1970, London), paper read at the symposium Ernst A. Plischke and the Austrian Avant-Garde in Emigration, held at the Architektur Zentrum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 21 March 2003
• Talking Squares—Grids and Grilles as an Architectural Tools for Analysis and Communication, paper read at the conference Team 10, between Modernity and the Everyday, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands, 5-6 June 2003
• At Home with Ernst L. Freud, paper read at the conference Architektur und Assimilation. Die jüdischen Baumeister Berlins, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 10-13 September 2003
• Noble Savage or Cosmopolite—Who is it that wants to live mobile?, paper read at the symposium Where or What is Home?—Mobile Architecture versus Permanent Dwelling, University of California Santa Barbara, October 11, 2003

2004

• Analysis of an Architect—Ernst L. Freud and the Idea of the Inconspicuous Home, paper read at Work in Progress series, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, February 6, 2004
• The Case of Ernst L. Freud—Inconspicuous Architecture as (Auto)biography, paper read at 57^th Annual Meeting Society of Architectural Historians, Rhode Island, April 2004
• The Architecture & Environment Undergraduate Emphasis at the Department of History of Art and Architecture, UCSB, talk at the American Institute of Architects Santa Barbara Chapter, Santa Barbara, California, October 20, 2004

2006

• “The Limits of Community”— Non-Radical Modernism in Architecture from the 1920s, keynote lecture at International Colloquium Making a New World—Reforming and Designing Modern Communities in Interwar Europe, Faculty of Arts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, June 9-10, 2006

2007

• Searching for Shangri La—Architecture and the Quest for Sustainability, paper read at the International Colloquium on Sustainable Architecture, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal, June 15-16, 2007

2008

• Ceremony and Etiquette—Diplomacy and Tact: On the Modern Bourgeois Interior in Weimar Germany, paper read at Staging the Modern Interior, 10^th Dorich House Annual Conference, Modern Interiors Research Centre, Kingston University, London, United Kingdom May 15-16, 2008

2009

• What then is sustainable Architecture?, roundtable contribution at Beyond Environmentalism: Culture, Justice, and Global Ecologies, American Cultures & Global Context, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 22-23, 2009
• Umwelt—The World surrounding or opposing us?, paper read at  the symposium Words in Postwar Architectural Discourse, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, June 19-20, 2009
• Toward an History of Environmental Architecture, paper read for the Study Centre Seminars, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 6, 2009