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Jean-Louis Cohen, Amerikanizm, Russian architecture, Soviet Union, United States, USSR
13 November 2019 to 26 July 2020
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Jean-Louis Cohen, Amerikanizm, Russian architecture, Soviet Union, United States, USSR
Join us for a conversation with Jean-Louis Cohen about his new work on how the world is shaped by the flow of ideas across countries and cultures.
20 April 2021, 12pm to 1pm
Building a new New World with Jean-Louis Cohen
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Join us for a conversation with Jean-Louis Cohen about his new work on how the world is shaped by the flow of ideas across countries and cultures.
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Jean-Louis Cohen fonds
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The Jean-Louis Cohen fonds, 1968 – 2023, documents the projects and activities of historian, curator, professor, and architect Jean-Louis Cohen (1949 – 2023). Cohen’s research focus was largely modern architecture and transnational architectural exchange, particularly between and among the United States, Europe, and the former Soviet Union in the 20th century. Through physical and digital records, this fonds documents his academic, publishing, and curatorial work along with his professional activities within architectural research and heritage organizations, as well as his architectural practice.
1968 - 2023
Jean-Louis Cohen fonds
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The Jean-Louis Cohen fonds, 1968 – 2023, documents the projects and activities of historian, curator, professor, and architect Jean-Louis Cohen (1949 – 2023). Cohen’s research focus was largely modern architecture and transnational architectural exchange, particularly between and among the United States, Europe, and the former Soviet Union in the 20th century. Through physical and digital records, this fonds documents his academic, publishing, and curatorial work along with his professional activities within architectural research and heritage organizations, as well as his architectural practice.
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1968 - 2023
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544 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, plans, portraits ; 24 cm
Montréal, Québec : Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2020], New Haven, Connecticut ; London, England : Distributed by Yale University Press, ©2020
Building a new New World : Amerikanizm in Russian architecture / Jean-Louis Cohen ; [translated by Luba Markovskaia].
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544 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, plans, portraits ; 24 cm
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Montréal, Québec : Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2020], New Haven, Connecticut ; London, England : Distributed by Yale University Press, ©2020
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1 item : color illustrations ; 92 cm or smaller
Construire un nouveau Nouveau Monde : l’amerikanizm dans l’architecture russe = Building a new New World : Amerikanizm in Russian architecture : exhibition products, 2019-2020.
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Construire un nouveau nouveau monde : l'amerikanizm dans l'architecture russe / Jean-Louis Cohen.
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544 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 24 cm
Paris : Éditions de la Villette, [2020], ©2020
Construire un nouveau nouveau monde : l'amerikanizm dans l'architecture russe / Jean-Louis Cohen.
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544 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 24 cm
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Paris : Éditions de la Villette, [2020], ©2020
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223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Paris : Flammarion, ©1995.
Scenes of the world to come : European architecture and the American challenge 1893-1960 / Jean Louis Cohen.
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223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
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Paris : Flammarion, ©1995.
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Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. In Building a new New World, Jean-Louis Cohen traces the concept of “Amerikanizm” and its impact on Russia’s built environment from early czarist interest in(...)
Building a new New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture
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Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. In Building a new New World, Jean-Louis Cohen traces the concept of “Amerikanizm” and its impact on Russia’s built environment from early czarist interest in Revolutionary America, through the spectacular World’s Fairs of the nineteenth century, to department stores, skyscrapers, and factories built in Russia using American methods during the twentieth century. Visions of America also captivated the Russian avant-garde, from El Lissitzky to Moisei Ginzburg, and Cohen explores the ongoing artistic dialogue maintained between the two countries at the mid-century and in the late Soviet era, when the Cold War induced a strategic competition. Tracing the many journeys of Russian writers, politicians, and planners through the American territory, foregrounding the constant streams of cultural and technological transfer from the U.S.A. to Russia, and revealing the parallel fascination among Russian and American intellectuals with the ongoing pursuit of land occupation and development within their respective borders, this study of Amerikanizm in the architecture and urban design of Russia makes a timely contribution to our understanding of modern architecture and its broader geopolitics.
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December 2019
CCA Publications
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Les représentations idéales de l’Amérique, à la fois comme horizon prometteur et comme menace, ont joué un rôle déterminant dans la formation de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme russes de la Révolution américaine à la dissolution de l’Union soviétique. Jean-Louis Cohen retrace l’origine du concept d’"amerikanizm" et son impact sur l’environnement bâti de la Russie de(...)
Construire un nouveau Nouveau Monde : L’amerikanizm dans l’architecture russe
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Les représentations idéales de l’Amérique, à la fois comme horizon prometteur et comme menace, ont joué un rôle déterminant dans la formation de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme russes de la Révolution américaine à la dissolution de l’Union soviétique. Jean-Louis Cohen retrace l’origine du concept d’"amerikanizm" et son impact sur l’environnement bâti de la Russie de l’intérêt précoce de l’intelligentsia pour l’Amérique révolutionnaire et la découverte des expositions universelles du XIXe siècle jusqu’aux grands magasins, aux gratte-ciel et aux usines construits en Russie selon les méthodes américaines au cours du XXe siècle. Les images de l’Amérique ont également captivé l’avant-garde russe, d’El Lissitzky à Moïsseï Guinzbourg, et Cohen explore la relation spéculaire entretenue entre les deux pays au milieu du siècle dernier et à la fin de l’ère soviétique, dans une concurrence stratégique aiguisée par la Guerre Froide. Dans cette première grande étude de l’américanisme dans l’architecture russe, la trame tissée par Jean-Louis Cohen entrecroise les trajectoires d’écrivains, d’hommes politiques et d’urbanistes russes à travers le sol américain, met en avant le flux constant de transferts culturels et technologiques des États-Unis vers la Russie, et révèle la fascination parallèle des intellectuels russes et américains face à la poursuite inexorable de l’occupation et l’exploitation du territoire au sein de leurs frontières respectives. Construire un nouveau Nouveau Monde : L’amerikanizm dans l’architecture russe apporte une contribution opportune à notre compréhension de la géopolitique des édifices et des formes urbaines.
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December 2019
CCA Publications