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Jean-Louis Cohen

    July 20, 1949 – August 7, 2023
    Urban textures - Yves Lion
    Globalization and sovereignty : rethinking legality, legitimacy, and constitutionalism
    Light French Recipes
    Building a new New World
    Regulating Intimacy
    The Future of Architecture Since 1889
    • The Future of Architecture Since 1889

      • 638 pages
      • 23 hours of reading

      Truly far-ranging -- both conceptually and geographically -- The Future of Architecture Since 1889 is a rich, compelling history that will shape future thinking out this period for years to come. Jean-Louis Cohen, one of today's most distinguished architectural historians and critics, gives an authoritative and compelling account of the twentieth century, tracing an arc from industrialization through computerization, and linking architecture to developments in art, technology, urbanism and critical theory. Encompassing both well-known masters and previously neglected but significant architects, this book also reflects Cohen's deep knowledge of architecture across the globe, and in places such Eastern Europe and colonial Africa and South America that have rarely been included in histories of this period.It is richly illustrated not only with buildings, projects and plans, but also with publications, portraits, paintings, diagrams, film stills, and exhibitions, showing the immense diversity of architectural thought and production throughout the twentieth century.

      The Future of Architecture Since 1889
    • Regulating Intimacy

      A New Legal Paradigm

      • 306 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Focusing on the regulation of intimate relationships, this innovative work by Jean Cohen offers a fresh perspective aimed at easing the longstanding conflicts among lawmakers, judges, activists, and academics. By proposing a new approach to intimacy regulation, the book seeks to address the cultural tensions that have emerged over the past thirty years, providing a thoughtful analysis that could reshape the discourse surrounding personal relationships and their legal implications.

      Regulating Intimacy
    • Building a new New World

      • 450 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the U.S.S.R.

      Building a new New World
    • Light French Recipes

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      With the help of Dr. Cohen's quick-and-easy recipes, you'll savor French meals and still fit into your jeans tomorrow. Traditional French cuisine is famous for ultra-rich, high-calorie dishes, which are off-limits to the figure-conscious dieter. In this book, Dr. Jean-Michel Cohen, an international best-selling author and nutritionist, takes one hundred classic French dishes and serves them up in health-conscious recipes that taste as good as the originals but at a fraction of the calorie count. With Dr. Cohen's simple step-by-step recipes, even beginner cooks can create delicious French meals. From the famous onion soup to cheese souffle, a Nicoise salad to boeuf bourguignon, and from crepes Suzette to a layered mille-feuille dessert, these recipes-for starters, main courses, and desserts-will impress your dinner companions and get your body beach-ready at the same time. General advice on how to lighten your own favorite recipes makes this cookbook a valuable reference for life-long healthy and enjoyable meals. The whole family (not just dieters) will relish these appealing dishes.

      Light French Recipes
    • Sovereignty and the sovereign state are often seen as anachronisms; Globalization and Sovereignty challenges this view. Jean L. Cohen analyses the new sovereignty regime emergent since the 1990s evidenced by the discourses and practice of human rights, humanitarian intervention, transformative occupation and the UN targeted sanctions regime that blacklists alleged terrorists. Presenting a systematic theory of sovereignty and its transformation in international law and politics, Cohen argues for the continued importance of sovereign equality. She offers a theory of a dualistic world order comprising an international society of states and a global political community in which human rights and global governance institutions affect the law, policies and political culture of sovereign states. She advocates the constitutionalisation of these institutions, within the framework of constitutional pluralism. This book will appeal to students of international political theory and law, political scientists, sociologists, legal historians and theorists of constitutionalism.

      Globalization and sovereignty : rethinking legality, legitimacy, and constitutionalism
    • Yves Lion, geboren 1945 in Casablanca, gehört zu den bedeutendsten Architekten Frankreichs. Seit dreißig Jahren spielt Lion in der französischen Architektur und auch der Architekturdebatte eine eminente Rolle. Dieses Buch des führenden Architekturhistorikers Jean-Louis Cohen versucht zum ersten Mal eine Zusammenschau seines Wirkens. Thematisch geordnet spannt Cohen einen großen Bogen und beschreibt über drei Jahrzehnte hinweg Leitmotive und Schwerpunkte in Lions Arbeit, darunter seine Auseinandersetzung mit urbanistischen Themen, dem Wohnungsbau oder seinen Diskurs u. a. mit James Stirling, Charles Jencks, Aldo van Eyck oder Bernard Tschumi. Illustriert wird Cohens Essay durch Abbildungen der Bauten Lions, die ausführlich dokumentiert werden. Dazu gehören die Oper in Nantes, die Botschaft Frankreichs in Beirut oder das Maison européenne de la Photographie in Paris. Jean-Louis Cohen, geboren 1949 in Paris, ist Architekt und Autor vieler Publikationen, darunter Mies van der Rohe und Paris: L’Architecture 1900–2000. Er hat an verschiedenen Universitäten wie Paris VIII und New York University unterrichtet.

      Urban textures - Yves Lion
    • 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 1920. The few buildings he was able to design during the 1920s, when he also spent much of his time painting and writing, brought him to the forefront of modern architecture, though it wasn`t until after World War II that his epoch-making buildings were constructed, such as the Unité d`Habitation in Marseilles and the Church of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp. About the Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Architecture Series

      Le Corbusier : 1887-1965 : the lyricism of architecture in the machine age
    • The few buildings Le Corbusier was able to design during the 1920s, when he also spent much of his time painting and writing, brought him to the forefront of modern architecture, but it wasn't until after World War II that his master works were constructed.

      Le Corbusier
    • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

      • 191 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a pivotal figure in twentieth-century architecture, especially for those committed to the modernist tradition. This book features in-depth scholarly essays alongside opulent photographs and plans that trace the multifaceted development of his work, covering his early Berlin buildings, villa projects, his role at the Bauhaus in the 1930s, and his postwar American projects. Jean-Louis Cohen, a respected international historian of architecture, was the director of the Institut français d’architecture until 2003 and is currently a professor at New York University. His broad perspective ensures that the book serves as a reliable and comprehensive introduction to Mies van der Rohe's influential body of work.

      Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
    • Paris moderne 1914-1945

      Art, Design, Architecture, Photography, Literature, Cinema, Fashion

      This broad survey of modernism—the most scintillating creative era in Paris—spans all domains: architecture, art, design, entertainment, fashion, film, literature, photography. The lives and works of artists in every creative discipline transformed Paris into a crucible of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century. Profiles of eighty-eight influential artists, designers, photographers, architects, writers, and personalities—including Gabrielle Chanel, Eileen Gray, Jean Prouvé, Pablo Picasso, Tamara de Lempicka, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Brassaï, Man Ray, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos, Walter Benjamin, Josephine Baker, Jean Renoir, Gertrude Stein, and more—highlight the boundless creative energy and optimism that permeated the City of Light at this key historical juncture. Richly illustrated alphabetical entries with cross-references to related topics are complemented by six thematic essays on cinema, fashion, graphic design, habitation, painting, and urban planning. A portfolio of original contemporary photographs—from the historic center to the suburbs of Paris—reveals traces of modernism in dozens of buildings and their interiors that are rarely open to the public. This catalog—published to accompany an exhibition at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai in summer 2023—sketches a panorama of human invention across the vast creative landscape of Paris from 1914 to 1945.

      Paris moderne 1914-1945