The article analyses decade-long experience of papers and presentations at the conference of junior researchers „K.Seselgis Readings“ in a period from 1999 to 2009. The importance of the main guiding principles of sustainable development in architecture and urban design is underlined. Presented in prominent documents of the European Union as European Urban Charter, Leipzig Charter, European Landscape Charter, Bristol Convention and the other documents, these principles should find their reflection in research works carried out by junior researchers in architecture and urban design in Lithuania as well as in the other countries of the European Union. This makes the value and forms the character of the conferences “K.Seselgis Readings” During decade-long history of the conferences the highest number of articles has been presented by researchers from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and from Kaunas University of Technology. The conference is open to researchers from all schools of architecture in Lithuania and in foreign countries.

Article in Lithuanian