Architectural historian, France First trained as an architect, Jean-Louis Cohen subsequently earned a doctorate from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. In 1994 New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts awarded him the architectural history chair created for Henry- Russell Hitchcock and later occupied by Reyner Banham and Richard Pommer. Cohen stopped teaching between 1979 and 1983 to expand and manage France’s government research funds for architectural history, theory, and technology. An articulate writer, popular lecturer, commentator for the French media, and leader of research teams, Cohen has greatly contributed to expanding the knowledge and understanding of Western architecture and urbanism in the first half of the 20th century. His initial expertise on Soviet avant-garde architecture led him to study Le Corbusier’s personal and theoretical effect in the Soviet Union as well as the career of French modernist and pro-Soviet architect André Lurçat. Cohen’s studie...