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Brave New World : Russian Modernist Architecture by Jean-Louis Cohen
Category: Architecture
This fascinating book charts the dazzling trajectory of Russian avant-garde architecture during the brief but intense period of design and construction that took place from c. 1922 to 1935. Fired by the radical new language of Constructivist artists, such architects as Konstantin Melnikov, Moisei Ginsbu ...Show more
CASABLANCA COLONIAL MYTHS & ARCHITECTURA by COHEN JEAN-LOUIS ELEB MONIQUE
Category: Architecture
France by Jean-Louis Cohen
Category: Architecture | Series: Modern Architectures in History
France, arguably more than any other Western nation, played a central role in the emergence and development of modernism across a variety of disciplines, with its architects in particular creating some of the most iconic buildings of the twentieth century. Yet few histories have attempted to grapple wit ...Show more
Frank Gehry: The Masterpieces by Jean-Louis Cohen
Category: Architecture
An authoritative compendium on the main masterpieces of Frank Gehry, including 480 illustrations and photographs, produced in collaboration with Cahiers d'Art. Experimenting with a range of materials from cheap mass-produced items to space-age titanium, and using 3D computer modeling as an architectural ...Show more
In the Temple of the Self: the Artist's Residence As a Total Work of Art - Europe and America 1800-1948 by Margot Th. Brandlhuber (Editor); Elizabeth Prettejohn (Text by); Michel Draguet (Text by); Jean-Louis Cohen (Text by); Ludger Derenthal (Text by); Alice Cooney (Text by); Michael Buhrs (Editor)
Category: Interior Design
From Louis Comfort Tiffany to Kurt Schwitters: an immersive appreciation of the home as art. As locuses of creativity, the homes of artists reflect the intellectual worlds of their creators. Starting with the Villa Stuck in Munich - the aesthetic, conceptual cosmos and life's work of the aristocrati ...Show more
Infinite Span - 90 Years of Brazilian Architecture by SERAPIAO / WISINK; Gorelik Adrián (Text by); Jean-Louis Cohen (Text by); Ana Luiza Nobre (Text by)
Category: Architecture
In architecture, a span is something to be conquered, a challenge to be overcome. But span, or v o in Portuguese, also means a project or an action that ends in failure: something that was done in vain. In Brazil, modernization was touted as a leap over the country's history, cast as "backwardness," and ...Show more
Le Corbusier by Cohen Jean-Louis
Category: Architecture
Architectural poetry in the machine age "Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of volumes brought together in light." --Le CorbusierBorn Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) adopted his famous pseudonym after publishing his ideas in the review L'Esprit Nouveau in 1920 ...Show more
Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes by Jean-Louis Cohen (New York University Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
Category: Architecture
In June 2013, The Museum of Modern Art presents the largest exhibition ever produced on Le Corbusier's prolific oeuvre, encompassing his work as architect, interior designer, artist, city planner, writer and photographer. Over a six-decade career, this towering figure of modern culture constantly observ ...Show more
Le Corbusier - An Atlas of Modern Landscapes by Jean-Louis Cohen
Category: Architecture
In June 2013, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, presents the largest exhibition ever produced on Le Corbusier’s prolific oeuvre, encompassing his work as architect, interior designer, artist, city planner, writer and photographer. Over a six-decade career, this towering figure of modern culture consta ...Show more
Le Corbusier: Big Architecture by Jean-Louis Cohen; Peter Gossel (Editor)
Category: Architecture
Architectural poetry in the machine age "Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of volumes brought together in light." --Le Corbusier Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) adopted his famous pseudonym after publishing his ideas in the review L'Esprit Nouveau in 1 ...Show more
Le Corbusier Le Grand by Jean-Louis Cohen
Category: Architecture
A spectacular visual biography of one of the greatest architects of the 20th century.