Art History Lecture: "Architecture in Uniform," with Jean-Louis Cohen

Jean-Louis Cohen will speak on “Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War.” This lecture will offer a new perspective on the architectural history of the Second World War, which in previous accounts has most often been viewed as a hiatus between peaceful periods of production. Cohen contends instead that during the years between the bombings of Guernica in 1937 and of Hiroshima in 1945, specific advances were fundamental to the process of modernization and led to the definitive supremacy of modernism in architecture.

Cohen is the Sheldon H. Solow Chair for the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He has been curator for numerous exhibitions in Europe and North America and has published scores of books, including<em> Le Corbusier: an Atlas of Modern Landscapes</em>, <em>Scenes of the World to Come; European Architecture and the American Challenge 1893-1960, </em>and <em>Casablanca, Colonial Myths and Architectural Ventures.</em>