The MSD-AAD Building Experts Lecture Series Presents: Preston Scott Cohen
Preston Scott Cohen, Inc., Cambridge, MA, is an internationally renowned architecture firm led by principals Preston Scott Cohen and Carl Dworkin. The work of the firm is recognized for its deployment of unusual geometries and for its original approach to integrating new buildings with their urban and natural environments.
Among the firm’s most celebrated buildings are the Taubman College at the University of Michigan, Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building, the Taiyuan Museum of Art in China, the Goldman Sachs arcade in New York, the Hefei International School, and the Xining City Center. Projects currently in design or under construction include the Sarmiento Performing Arts Center in Bogotá, the Beth Shalom Synagogue in Overland Park, Kansas, and a 75,000 m2 multi-use development in Boston.
Awards and honors include Cohen’s induction as an Academician at the National Academy of Art, the Award in Architecture from American Academy of Arts and Letters, five Progressive Architecture Awards, and First Prizes in eight international architectural competitions around the world.
Cohen is author of Lightfall, The Return Of Nature, Contested Symmetries and numerous theoretical and historical essays. His work has been widely published and exhibited and is held in numerous museum collections, internationally.
The Master of Science in Design: Advanced Architecture Design (MSD-AAD) program at the Weitzman School of Design is hosting six Building Expert talks by practitioner-educators whose design work and buildings serves as exemplary in the discipline of architecture. The six talks will be delivered by three Western and three Eastern architects. Each presenter will describe one building from concept to built form. Speakers include Preston Scott Cohen, Nader Tehrani, Patrik Schumacher, Xu Weiguo, Rosanna Hu and Zhu Pei.
If you require any accessibility accommodation, such as live captioning, audio description, or a sign language interpreter, please email news@design.upenn.edu to let us know what you need. Please note, we require at least 48 hours’ notice. If you register within 48 hours of this event, we won’t be able to secure the appropriate accommodations.
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