Jean-Louis Cohen   Questioned on the appropriation of existing forms in OFFICE’s projects, Kersten Geers has affirmed in 2017: “We are interested in references, but we use them ‘lightly’.” This modest statement provides an initial orientation for the analysis of the wo

Jean-Louis Cohen   Over the past twenty years, the work of Álvaro Siza has taken on a new dimension, for both its geographic and thematic reach. His field of action had long ago surpassed Portugal’s frontiers – take for instance his participation at the Venice Biennale

Jean-Louis Cohen   If there is a blind spot in the astonishingly vast literature dedicated to Le Corbusier, it is certainly his relationship to landscape, which provided him with scenes to observe, stimulation for invention, horizons against which to set his projects,

Jean-Louis Cohen   In Principes de géographie humaine, published in 1921, geographer Paul Vidal de la Blache evoked “[the] arches and the domes, all of this marvelous flowering which has alternately expressed Egyptian and Hellenistic art, that of Rome, and that of Byza

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Cada nueva historia se mide con las anteriores, y esta no es una excepción. De hecho, Jean-Louis Cohen menciona a sus predecesores, y en pocos casos con simpatía: hasta los años 1970, las historias de Sigfried Giedion, Bruno Zevi, Henry-Russell Hitch

Jean-Louis Cohen   After the Maxéville workshops closed down, and while he was still head of the CIMT (Compagnie Industrielle de Matériel de Transport), Jean Prouvé had the opportunity, for around twelve years, to express his ideas about the world and his work method b

Jean-Louis Cohen   La II Guerra Mundial fue un periodo de barbarie en el que, sin embargo, se desarrollaron innovaciones aprovechadas por la arquitectura posterior; una muestra en el CCA de Montreal recupera este singular periodo.

Jean-Louis Cohen   In the 1980s, dissidents fighting the late Communist regime in Poland nicknamed the group of men who had fortified in power “Beton” or concrete. In the same area of Europe, the industrial system created in Eastern Germany beginning in the 1960s to de

Jean-Louis Cohen   A skyscraper inscribes its geometric outline into the night sky of the metropolis. Its facade is punctuated by the rectangular openings of its tiers of windows, while its base plunges down into a checkerboard of streets lit by the beams of automobile

Jean-Louis Cohen   Cuando doy clases en Nueva York cada invierno, tengo la costumbre de alojarme en una de las Silver Towers, tres rascacielos de hormigón construidos en 1967 por el estudio de I.M. Pei para los profesores de la Universidad de Nueva York. Desde el apart

Jean-Louis Cohen     2013  
Thames & Hudson   - 403 Pages 

Jean-Louis Cohen Staffan Ahrenberg   From Painting to Architecture

Jean-Louis Cohen   London  2012  
Phaidon   - 528 Pages 

Jean-Louis Cohen   Designing and Building for the Second World War

Jean-Louis Cohen   La planète comme chantier