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February 21, 2019

Industry Events > Industry Events

Third Thursday Visiting Architect Presentation: Preston Scott Cohen

3:30 PM
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art: Hudson Auditorium | 12345 College Blvd Overland Park, KS 66210 Map

Join JCCC faculty moderator Jonathan Miller (Professor and Chair of Architecture) for an engaging program featuring acclaimed architect Preston Scott Cohen:

February 21, 2019
3:30-4:30 p.m. • Hudson Auditorium
FREE, no tickets or reservations required

Preston Scott Cohen is the Gerald M. McCue Professor in Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), where he was the Chair of the Architecture Department between 2008 and 2013. He is the principal of Preston Scott Cohen Inc., an internationally renowned architecture firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, celebrated for its innovative geometry and its original approach to integrating buildings with their environments.

Cohen’s most important building to date is the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building, which received first prize in an international design competition in 2003 and was completed in 2011. Other important recent projects completed or under construction include the Sarmiento Performing Arts Center in Bogota, Colombia (2015-2021), and the Congregation Beth Shalom Synagogue, Overland Park, Kansas (2018-21). The relationship between art and architecture can be conceived to generate mutual support or friction. Cohen asks whether architecture is capable of renewing the critical function of art in the museum context and beyond.

Above, left: Interior detail of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building
Above, center: Preston Scott Cohen
Above, right: Exterior detail of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building

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