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Beatriz Colomina on Jean-Louis Cohen

“Almost born in a concentration camp”I GOT TO KNOW JEAN-LOUIS IN THE SUMMER OF 1986 when we were both invited to a conference on the historical avant-garde in architecture at the Wissenschaftskolleg in West Berlin. I was young and writing the second chapter of my dissertation, a piece of which I presented there. He seemed much older, more accomplished, less lost, or rather, not lost at all. I think he had acted beyond his years from a very young age. At a certain point, the even older generation entered into a debate about whether one should engage in research on architects who had collabo...

Somehow liminal spaces are effective in creating feelings of unease and disorientation, as a Youtube short film has recently explored.

The Art Nouveau artistic movement opposed historicism, favoring originality and a return to handicrafts.