This event, open to the public, brings together in conversation some of the people that were collaborating with Jean-Louis Cohen on several of his unfinished projects.
6 April 2024, 1pm to 6pm
Unfinished Business: A Tribute to Jean-Louis Cohen
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This event, open to the public, brings together in conversation some of the people that were collaborating with Jean-Louis Cohen on several of his unfinished projects.
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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Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
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14 June 1995 to 14 September 1995
Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960
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Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
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The armies of World War Two represented only the tips of colliding icebergs, the belligerent nations which had mobilized and transformed themselves for a global “war of production” of unprecedented scale. Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War documents the extensive contribution of architecture to the war between the bombings of Guernica(...)
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13 April 2011 to 18 September 2011
Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War
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The armies of World War Two represented only the tips of colliding icebergs, the belligerent nations which had mobilized and transformed themselves for a global “war of production” of unprecedented scale. Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War documents the extensive contribution of architecture to the war between the bombings of Guernica(...)
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ARCH240283
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Anymore Technology? Participants: Bernard Cache, Alain Fleischer, Mark Goulthorpe, Greg Lynn, Marc Mimram, Yannis Tsiomisi Moderator: Jean-Louis Cohen
1999-06-25
Copy of video recording of Anymore conference Tape 1
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Anymore Technology? Participants: Bernard Cache, Alain Fleischer, Mark Goulthorpe, Greg Lynn, Marc Mimram, Yannis Tsiomisi Moderator: Jean-Louis Cohen
1999-06-25
ARCH240284
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Anymore Technology? Participants: Bernard Cache, Alain Fleischer, Mark Goulthorpe, Greg Lynn, Marc Mimram, Yannis Tsiomisi Moderator: Jean-Louis Cohen
1999-06-25
Copy of video recording of Anymore conference Tape 2
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Anymore Technology? Participants: Bernard Cache, Alain Fleischer, Mark Goulthorpe, Greg Lynn, Marc Mimram, Yannis Tsiomisi Moderator: Jean-Louis Cohen
1999-06-25
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Anymore Technology? Participants: Bernard Cache, Alain Fleischer, Mark Goulthorpe, Greg Lynn, Marc Mimram, Yannis Tsiomisi Moderator: Jean-Louis Cohen
1999-06-25
Copy of audio recording of simultaneous translations of Anymore conference Tape 9
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Anymore Technology? Participants: Bernard Cache, Alain Fleischer, Mark Goulthorpe, Greg Lynn, Marc Mimram, Yannis Tsiomisi Moderator: Jean-Louis Cohen
1999-06-25