

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
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,
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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