Jean-Louis Cohen: “Architecture in Uniform”
Jean-Louis Cohen will present his fascinating book that offers a new perspective on the architectural history of the Second World War, which in previous accounts has most often been viewed as a hiatus between peaceful periods of production. Jean-Louis Cohen contends instead that during the years between the bombings of Guernica in 1937 and of Hiroshima in 1945, specific advances were fundamental to the process of modernization and led to the definitive supremacy of modernism in architecture.
Jean-Louis Cohen is also the curator of "Moment - Le Corbusier's Secret Laboratory" opening at Moderna Museet Stockholm January 19 2013.
Time: Thu 2013-01-17 15.15 - 16.30
Location: KTH School of Architecture, room A5
Jean-Louis Cohen is the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at the Institute of the Fine Arts at New York University. Trained as an architect and historian in Paris, Jean-Louis Cohen has taught in Europe and North America. From 1998 to 2003 he directed the Institut francais d’architecture and since 1999 the Musee des Monuments Francais. Cohen’s research activity has chiefly focused on twentieth-century architecture and urban planning. In particular, he has studied German and Soviet architectural cultures, colonial situations in North Africa and interpreted extensively Le Corbusier’s work and Paris planning history He has been a curator for numerous exhibitions in Europe and North America. His research has focused on twentieth-century architecture and urban planning in France, Russia, Germany, and North Africa, resulting in numerous exhibitions and publications on both sides of the Atlantic. Among his many books are Le Corbusier and the Mystique of the USSR; Scenes of the World to Come; Casablanca, Colonial Myths and Architectural Ventures; and Above Paris.