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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...

Casablanca has been reinvented over and over again - by Hollywood as the backdrop for a classic flick, by the French as a modern metropolis with an Oriental flair. An architectural and historical exploration of the port city with Christian Hauck

“He sought to make a difference in the world, in small gestures as well as grand ambitions, and he succeeded brilliantly,” writes Gwendolyn Wright of the late architect, author, and academic.

The distinguished architectural historian, curator, author, and professor died unexpectedly in France.