Jean-Louis Cohen, New York College Institute of Tremendous Arts Professor in Historical past of Structure, handed away all of a sudden. He was 74 years previous.
Information of his demise was shared on-line by Isabelle Regnier, an everyday contributor to Le Monde about structure, and different sources.
Jean-Louis Cohen est parti. Encyclopédie vivante, du Corbusier, du constructivisme russe, de Frank O. Gehry, entres autre, l’homme était d’une érudition exceptionnelle, très sympathique par ailleurs, en première ligne pour défendre la trigger du patrimoine moderne. RIP pic.twitter.com/us916XgbFT
— Isabelle Regnier (@IsabRegnier) August 7, 2023
Cohen was born in Paris in 1949. A skilled architect and historian, Cohen studied on the École Spéciale d’Structure, the Unité Pédagogique no. 6, and Architecte DPLG; all in Paris. In 1985, Cohen earned his PhD in artwork historical past from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. After a collection of appointments in academia and the French authorities, Cohen left Paris in 1994 to hitch NYU as Sheldon H. Solow Professor in Historical past of Structure.
All through his tenure at NYU, Cohen held visiting instructing appointments at Princeton University, TU Delft, and the University of Sydney, amongst others, whereas lecturing at different prestigious establishments around the globe. A polyglot, Cohen’s analysis centered on the cities of Paris, Berlin, Moscow, New York, Algiers, and Casablanca. Amongst Cohen’s lengthy listing of accomplishments and publications, he’s broadly thought of one of many world’s preeminent specialists on Le Corbusier. He’s been known as “undoubtedly France’s most authoritative and knowledgeable historian of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism.”
So far, Cohen has written quite a few acclaimed books, together with exhaustive monographs on Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe; and arranged lectures and exhibitions on various topic issues starting from Soviet constructivism, the radical Italian architect Bruno Zevi, Oscar Niemeyer’s work in Brazil, international and French modernism, and a lot extra.
Most lately, Cohen supplied commentary to AN concerning the Vkhutemas exhibition at The Cooper Union.
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