BIOGRAPHY

Born in Asheville , NC , in 1961
Presently he is the Gerald M. McCue Professor of Architecture and Director of the Master of Architecture Degree Programs at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and second holder of the Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair at the University of Toronto .

 
EDUCATION

1985 Master of Architecture, Harvard University , Graduate School of Design
1983 Bachelor of Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design
1982 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Harvard University Graduate School of Design
2003-present Gerald M. McCue Professor of Architecture
2003-present Director of the Master of Architecture Degree Programs
2001-present Professor of Architecture
1995-2001 Associate Professor of Architecture
1992-95 Assistant Professor of Architecture
1989-92 Design Critic in Architecture

University of Toronto
2004 Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair

University of California Los Angeles
2002 Perloff Visiting Professor

Princeton University School of Architecture
1997 Visiting Associate Professor of Architecture

Rhode Island School of Design European Honors Summer Program
1993-98 Visiting Faculty, Rome , Italy

Ohio State University
1989 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE

2003-08
Tel Aviv Museum of Art (23,000 sq. m, $45 Mio new building)

2003-05
Hikari Hathaway House Bridgehampton, NY

2003
Inge Hoffman Studio Cambridge , MA (construction: 2004)

2003-05
Adam Lindemann House Rye , NY (construction: 2005)

2001-04
Arnold and Elise Goodman House Pine Plains, Dutchess County , NY (construction completed January 2004)

2001
Queens Museum of Art (competition)
Eyebeam Atelier, Museum of Art and Technology $40 Mio. facility in Manhattan
(short listed for first and second stage of invited competition)
Arnold and Elise Goodman House Dutchess County , NY (construction November 2001 – Spring 2002)

2000
Yenching Wu Residence Fresno , CA
In collaboration with Cameron Wu
Temporary Museum of Modern Art Long Island City , NY
Temporary facility for MoMA , New York , during construction of its new Manhattan facility (short listed with three others: Winka Dubbledam, Asymptote and Michael Maltzan)
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego , CA (RFP for addition)

1999
Eric Wolf House “Torus House” Columbia County , NY

1998
Sollors/Cagidemetrio House Cambridge , MA

1997
Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati , OH (invited for first stage competition submission)
Illinois Institute of Technology Campus Center Chicago , IL (invited for preliminary competition submission)
Boscarino House “House on a Terminal Line” Montague , NJ

1996
Addition to the Prado Madrid , Spain (competition)

1995
Duplex 20eme Arrondissement, Paris , France (proposal)

1994
Patterns for Head Start Facilities East Windsor , NJ (competition)

1992
Muss Residence Miami Beach , FL

3600 sq. ft. condominium interior (construction completed 1992)

1991-2
Ray House “Cornered House” Longboat Key, FL
2800 sq. ft. suburban house

1990
Bitterman House Siesta Key, FL
3000 sq. ft. suburban house

1987-92
Cohen House Longboat Key, FL
3700 sq. ft. house (construction documents completed 1993)

1987-89
Wydra House Addition Sussex County , NJ
1200 sq. ft. (construction completed in 1989)

1980-82
Cohen House Austin, TX
2700 sq. ft. house (construction completed 1982)

1981
Central Supply Inc. New York , NY
3000 sq. ft. office interior (construction completed fall 1982)
Edelman Public Relations New York , NY
Office interior (construction completed 1982)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1988-89 Prentice and Chan Ohlhausen Architects, New York , NY
1985-87 Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer - Associates, New York , NY
1984 Peter Eisenman, Architect, New York , NY
1980 Albert Ledner, Architect, New Orleans , LA
1979 Kinney and Stone, Architects, Austin , TX
1978 Contects Consultants and Architects, Austin , TX

EXHIBITIONS

2004
Thomas Erben Gallery New York , NY “ New Building , Tel Aviv Museum of Art (TAMA), and other forms” (solo) Whitney Museum of Art New York , NY “Architecture by Numbers” Michael Hays, Curator
Tel Aviv Museum of Art Tel Aviv , Israel “Herta and Paul Amir International Architectural Competition: New Building, Tel Aviv Museum of Art”

2003
National Building Museum Washington , DC “Up Down Across: Elevators, Escalators, and Moving Sidewalks” Abbott Miller, Curator
Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia , PA , and Yale University School of Architecture Gallery New Haven , CT “Intricacy” Greg Lynn and Claudia Gold, Curators (catalogue)
University of Venice , Department of Architectural Design Venice , Italy “Recent Lines” Agostino De Rosa, Curator (solo)

2002
UCLA, School of Architecture Gallery Los Angeles , CA “Palendromic Paraboloids, Paraboloidal Palendromes”
Galerie Markus Richter Berlin , Germany
PCC - Elga Wimmer New York , NY “Project 2”
Max Protetch Gallery New York, NY; National Building Museum , D.C.; Vitra Design Museum Berlin; Deutsches Architekturmuseum , Frankfurt; Netherlands Architecture Institute ; and Biennale di Venezia -International Exhibition of Architecture Venice, Italy (catalogue)

2001
Thomas Erben Gallery New York , NY “Toroidal Architecture” (solo)
Eyebeam Atelier, Museum of Art and Technology New York , NY “Eyebeam Atelier Architectural Design Competition” (catalogue)
Archilab 3rd International Architectural Conference, Orleans , France (catalogue)
Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh , PA “Architecture in the Digital Era” Joseph Rosa, Curator (catalogue)

2000
Columbia University New York , NY “Preston Scott Cohen: Regular Anomalies” (solo)

1999
Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest , Hungary “Perspektiva” Laszlo Beke and Miklos Peternak, Curators (catalogue)
The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY; MAK Vienna, Austria; Armand Hammer Museum of Ar t and UCLA Los Angeles, CA; Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN “The Un-Private House” Terence Riley, Curator (catalogue)
International Exhibition of Architecture 1999 Glasgow, Scotland “ Home ” Deyan Sudjic and Tulga Beyerle, Curators (catalogue)

Philadelphia Art Alliance Philadelphia , PA “Drawing the Line”

1998
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute “1998 Progressive Architecture Awards”
Gallery Joe Philadelphia, PA “24 Hrs: Drawings”

1997
GSD Gallery Cambrigde , MA “Tafuri's Ricerca: Drawing as Research”

1996
VI Venice Biennale International Exhibition of Architecture Venice , Italy “The Architect as Seismograph” - one of four representing the UnitedStates in the “Emerging Voices” group exibition (catalogue)
GSD Cambridge , MA “Currents: Scott Cohen - Addition to the Prado Museum ” (solo)
Architectural Association London , UK “ Preston Scott Cohen: Recent Projects”

1995
Patterns for Head Start East Windsor , NJ (catalogue)

1994
GSD Cambridge , MA “Currents: Scott Cohen - Stereotomic Permutations”

1993
Boston Center for the Arts Boston , MA “The Drawing Show”

1992
Architectural League of New York New York , NY “On Hold” (lecture and exhibition)

1990
GSD Cambridge , MA “Currents: Scott Cohen - House on Siesta Key”

1989
Griffin McGear Gallery New York , NY “Form; Being; Absence” Clemson Performing Arts Center Competition with Doug Graf, Jeff Kipnis and Hiroshi Maruyama

1989
Wexner Center for the Arts University Gallery for Fine Art, Ohio State University “Recent Work: Faculty of the Department of Architecture”

1988
GSD Gallery Cambridge , MA “Twelve GSD Alumni” (catalogue)
Rhode Island School of Design Providence , RI “RISD Alumni Exhibition” (catalogue)

1986
Eisenman Studios at the GSD Cambridge , MA “Investigations in Architecture 1983-85: Scott Cohen” (catalogue)

1985
Biennale Di Venezia Third International Exhibition of Architecture - Venice Project, Venice , Italy “Preston Scott Cohen, USA ” (catalogue)
Harvard Graduate School of Design Cambridge , MA “Annual Exhibition”

1983
Urban Design Institute: Les Ateliers d'Ete Cergy-Pontoise , France “Projects for Cergy-Pontoise: Scott Cohen” (catalogue)

Woods-Gerry Gallery , Rhode Island School of Design Providence , RI “Scott Cohen: Projects 1979-83” (solo)

AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS

2004
“Forward” Jorge Silvetti, Lectures at Harvard
“Circulatory Anomalies” OZ Journal of Architecture

2003
“ Tel Aviv Museum of Art” 32 New York Beijing
“Geometric Sublimation” The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful Sylvia Lavin and Helene Furjan, Editors
“The Synagogue and the Architect” Flemington Jewish Community Center National

 2002
“Permutations of Descriptive Geometry” (forthcoming textbook)
“The Synagoge and the Architect” Flemington Jewish Community Center National Design Competition Phyllis Lerner, editor
“Casa Torus” ViA Arquitectura Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de la Comunidad Valenciana, May

2001
“Bona Fide Modernity” Assemblage 41 (with Robert Levit)
“Toroidal Architecture - Contemporary Design Techniques” Architectural Design London
“Temporary MoMA - Goodman House - Museum of Art and Technology” Architecture and Urbanism (A&U) May
“Contested Symmetries and Other Predicaments in Architecture” Princeton Architectural Press
“Regular Anomalies” Newsline Vol.13, No.1, Columbia University

2000
“The Tubular Embrasure at the Sacristy of San Carlo ai Catinari in
Rome ” AA Files London , June
RA - Revista de Arquitectura Pamplona , Spain , Fall
“Terminal Lines” Architecture and Urbanism (A&U) Tokyo , Japan , February
“Torus House” Global Architecture - GA Houses Project 2000 Tokyo , Japan

1999
“Torus House” Arch+ Berlin , Germany , No. 148, October

1989
“The Anamorphic Imperative” RISD Works

1996
“Stereotomic Permutations” Architectural Design and Appendix 3 Spring

1995
“Stereotomic Permutations: Two Projects” Space: Art and Architecture April
“Scott Cohen Interviews Eric Owen Moss” Eric Owen Moss: The Box Princeton Architectural Press 1995 (editor and contributor)

1994
“Stereotomic Permutations” Architecture New York July, and
Los Angeles Forum for Architecture December

1993
“Cornered House” GSD News and Harvard Architectural Review 9 Rizzoli

1990
“Two Houses” Assemblage 13 MIT Press, December, pp. 72-87

1989
“Work by Recent GSD Alumni, 1980-88: House on Longboat Key” Steelcase
Design Gallery New York and GSD Gallery Cambridge , MA (exhibitions and catalogues)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2004
Sylvia Lavin “The Three Faces of Tel Aviv” Tel Aviv Museum of Art exhibition catalogue
Lisa Richon “A love affair with geometry: Preston Scott Cohen, the new holder of the Frank Gehry chair at U. of T. ” Toronto Globe and Mail January 8, p. R3
Mary Alice Thring “Gehry Chair Redefines Space and Form: Preston Scott Cohen's Geometric Vision” University of Toronto Magazine January 7
Elizabeth Harrison Kubany “Preston Scott Cohen wins competition for addition to Tel Aviv Museum of Art” Architectural Record January
Suzanne Stephens with Ian Luna Imagining Ground Zero Rizzoli & Architectural Record 2004

2003
“Winning Competition: Tel Aviv Museum of Art by Preston Scott Cohen” Currents Architecture and Urbanism (A&U) December
“Safe Design Takes on Risk” Matters of Design Interior Design October
Esther Zandberg “New Building: Tel Aviv Museum of Art” Haaretz July 10
Branco Kolarevic Architecture in the Digital Age Spon Press, London
Giorgio Bersano Residenze Unifamiliari Maggioli Editore, Santarcangelo di Romagna (RN)
Mark Pasnik Architecture in Detail Rockport Publishers

2002
Mark Dery “Curvature of the Spline” I.D. April, pp. 55-59
Brian Carter and Annette Lecuyer All American: Innovations in American Architecture Thames and Hudson , London
Marc Kristal “Measuring the Competition” Metropolis November
Christopher Hawthorne “Aftershocks: A New World Trade Center ” Metropolis June
Darcy Cosper “Push the Design Envelope Please” Architecture April

2001
Philip Nobel “ Preston Scott Cohen” Artforum Best of 2001, December
“ Preston Scott Cohen at Thomas Erben Gallery” Time Out Reviews, December
Aric Chen “Silicon Gallery” Metropolis July
Yolanda Fernandez NEO 2 July/August
Pascal Terracol “Archilab 2001” Pixel Magazine June/July
Michelle Howry “Housing New Medis” I.D. June, p.86
“ Orleans Archilab, 2001” Bauwelt June
Hashim Sarkis “On the Brink: The Recent Work of Scott Cohen” Architecture and Urbanism (A&U) Tokyo , Japan , May
Violaine Binet “Maison Passion” Vogue Paris , May
James Russell “What About Bolbs?” Details April, p. 88
“Buildings by Preston Scott Cohen and NOX in ‘Folds, Blobs and Boxes' on View in Pittsburgh ” Architectural Record March, p. 42
Michael Perlmutter “New Houses” Magazine for Modern Architecture (MAMA) Stockholm , Sweden
“ Preston Scott Cohen” Visionaire 34 New York , NY , January
Matthew DeBord, “Fearful Symmetry” Artbyte January
Irene Cheng “ Preston Scott Cohen: Domestic Bliss” Surface January
Hashim Sarkis “Scott Cohen and the Rule of Error” Newsline Vol.13, No.1, Columbia University

2000
Jessie Scanlon “Uncommon Edifices” Wired September
“Houses and Housing” DBZ-Deutsche Bauzeitschrift Guetersloh , Germany
Yahuda Safron “Guide for the Perplexed” Lotus 104
Terence Riley “ Preston Scott Cohen” 10x10 Phaidon Press
Sabine Pollak “The End of the Familiar Home?” Architektur Fachmagazin Vienna , Austria
Ulrich Weinzierl “Drawing the Curtain” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung February 24
Herbert Muschamp “Modern Chooses Architect” The New York Times February 10
Herbert Muschamp “The Modern is Considering a Temporary Site in Queens ” The New York Times January 26
Michael Hays “Terminal Desire (A Note on Scott Cohen's Recent Projects)”
Architecture and Urbanism (A&U)

1999
Michael Hays ”Torus House at Old Chatham , New York ” Domus 1999
Terrence Riley “The Un-Private House” Museum of Modern Art New York Felicity Scott “House Arrest” Review of the Un-Private House Exhibition Documents 16 pp. 58-89, Fall
Kuhnert, Nikolaus “Blobs and Boxes” Arch+ Berlin Jo Denbury “Predictomania: How are we Really Going to Live in the Future” Elle Decoration London , July 1999
Roberta Smith “Drop-Dead Beauty and Luxe, With an Intimate Index of Change” New York Times July 2
Andrea Codrington “Home Peep Show” Metropolitan Home July/August
Joseph Giovannini “House Rules” Elle Décor France , June/July
Jane Withers “The Future of Home” Harper's Bazaar June
Julie Iovine “The Last Gasp for the American Living Room” The New York Times January 28

1998
Edward Sozanski “Review: Drawing Exhibition” Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia , PA

1996
Dan Sherer “An Unsettling Conversation: Manfredo Tafuri and Operative Criticism” La Critica Operativa atti del Convenio Internazionale Promosso dai Departimento di Progettazione del Architettura Polytechnico di Milano Guido Canella, Editor “La Bienal Internacional de Architectura” El Pais Madrid , Spain
Michael Weinstock “Scott Cohen's Projections” AA Files June

1995
“ Temples to Laughter and Reason” World Architecture Fall

1994
“ Temples ” Competitions Fall

1993
“The Drawing Show” Art New England exhibition review, Fall

1991
Dan Sherer “The Politics of Formal Autonomy” Assemblage 15 MIT Press, August, pp. 99-103

1990
Robert Somol “ No Place Like Home: Domesticating Assemblages” Assemblage 13 MIT Press, December, pp. 60-71

1985
“Scott Cohen” Retrospective: RISD Architecture Degree Projects

HONORS / AWARDS

 2004
Progressive Architecture Award for “ Tel Aviv Museum of Art”

2003
First Prize, Herta and Paul Amir International Competition for “ New Building : Tel Aviv Museum of Art” (one of three invited international participants)

2000
Progressive Architecture Award for “Torus House” (Eric Wolf House)

1998
Progressive Architecture Award for “House on a Terminal Line” (Boscarino House)
Tozier Faculty Research Grant Harvard University

1996
Junior Faculty Research Grant Harvard GSD

1995
William F. Milton Grant

1994
Citation: Patterns for Head Start Facilities Competition
Honorable Mention: Temple to Laughter and Reason Competition

1992
Young Architects Award Architectural League of New York

1983
Scholarship Urban Design Institute Les Ateliers de Cergy-Pontoise, France

COLLECTIONS

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco , CA Fogg Museum of Art Harvard University , Cambridge , MA
Heinz Architectural Center Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh , PA
Adam Lindemann New York , NY
Martin Z. Margulies Key Biscaine, FL
Museum of Modern Art New York , NY
SF Museum of Modern Art San Francisco , CA
Jorge Silvetti Boston , MA
Philipp Stolberg Berlin , Germany

LECTURES AND SYMPOSIA

 2004
“‘Ruled Surfaces' The Shape of Things To Come: Post-Eisenman Architecture” Smyposium; Cohen, Eisenman, FOA, Jones, Leeser, Kipnis, Lynn and Somol Ohio State University Columbus , OH
“Recent Anomalies” Architectural League of New York Emerging Voices Series
“Preservation as a Dynamic Process in Architecture” Fitch Colloquium on Preservation Columbia University New York , NY
“Tel Aviv Museum of Art Competition” Boston Society of Architects Boston , MA
“Recent Anomalies” University of Toronto Toronto , Canada
“Recent Anomalies” Architectural Association London , UK
“New Building: Tel Aviv Museum of Art” Tel Aviv Museum of Art Tel Aviv , Israel
“Non-Orientable Architecture” Harvard Design School Boston , MA
“New Work” CCAC and SFMOMA San Francisco , CA

2003
“Contemporary Houses in the US : 1990 to the Present” Symposium on Densely Packaged Housing Technische Universitat Muenchen Munich , Germany
“New Work” Princeton University School of Architecture Princeton , NJ
“Intricacy” Symposium with Peter Eisenman, Office Da, Greg Lynn, Fabian Marcaccio and Ed Mitchell Yale University School of Architecture, New Haven, CT
“Recent Work” Yale University School of Architecture, New Haven , CT
“Recent Work” Cooper Union School of Architecture, New York , NY
“Recent Work” Auburn University School of Architecture, Auburn , Alabama
“Tubes and Cords” (“Intricacies” Symposium with David Reed, Greg Lynn) Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , PA

2002
“Minimal Surfaces” University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia , PA
“Recent Lines” Sci-Arc Los Angeles , CA
“Geometry and Instrumentality” Toshiko Mori Inaugural Celebration
“Drawing Connections Between Art and Architecture” Symposium Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA
“New Projects” University of North Carolina Charlotte , NC
“The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful” Symposium/Roundtable UCLA School of Architecture , Los Angeles , CA
“Palendromic Symmetry” UCLA School of Architecture , Los Angeles , CA

 2001
“Vicissitudes of Organicism” (“Mies, In Effect” Symposium with Detlef
Mertins and Michael Hays) Whitney Museum of Art and MoMA New York
“Building Between Plans, Projective Representation and other Beginnings
for Architectural Education” Conference on Architectural Education University of Puerto Rico
“Folds, Blobs, and Boxes” Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh , PA
(Symposium with Joan Oakman, Greg Lynn and Sulan Kolatan) “Surrogate Canons” Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta , GA

2000
“Contested Symmetries” Menú de Disoluciones Congreso Internacional de Arquitectura ITESM Querétaro Campus and City of Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico
“Contested Symmetries” University of Florida Gainesville , FL
“Regular Anomalies” Columbia University New York , NY
“Domestic Exports” Catholic University of America Washington , DC
“Models for the Contemporary Museum ” Mint Museum of Art Charlotte , NC
“Regular Anomalies” Harvard GSD Cambridge , MA
“Regular Anomalies” University of Michigan Ann Arbor , MI
“Regular Anomalies” Syracuse University Syracuse , NY
“Architecture Inverts” Ohio State University Columbus , OH

1999
“Needless Functionalism” University of Arkansas Fayettville , AR
Moderator Progressive Architecture Awards Symposium Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute “Terminal Lines” University of Toronto Canada

1998
“In Lieu of Concinnitas” Progressive Architecture Awards Symposium Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

1997
Chairman's Symposium: Tafuri's Drawing as Research. Paper delivered:
“Piero della Francesca, Desargues and Monge”
“The Verge of Anamorphosis” Princeton University School of Architecture
“Projects” System and Detail Lecture Series, Salzburg , Austria

1996
Chairman's Symposium: The Beginning of the Architect's Education. Paper delivered: “The Preoccupation with Estrangement in Contemporary Architectural Thought”
“Recent Projects” RISD Department of Architecture Providence , RI
“Paradoxical Forms of Descriptive Geometry” Architectural Association
London , UK

1995
ACSA Annual meeting, design session moderator, Seattle , WA

1994
“Digital Design Culture” Symposium and Projects Conference MIT School of Architecture and Planning
“Modeling Sciagraphy” lecture University of British Columbia Vancouver , BC

1993
“Reading Buildings” lecture University of Texas at Austin

1992
“Defamiliarizing the Suburban House” lecture Washington University St. Louis, MO
“The Suburban House Rendered Oblique” lecture, Symposium on Design and Technology (with Dagmar Richter, Neil Denari and Shayne O'Neil), ACSA Technology Conference University of California San Diego , CA

1991

“Keys to Deciphering” lecture, Department of Architecture and Urban Design University of Kansas Lawrence , KS
“Recent Work” lecture Kansas City Chapter of the AIA Kansas City , MO

1990
“Three Houses” Visitors Lecture Series GSD Cambridge , MA ,

1986
“Investigations in Architecture” Symposium Harvard GSD Cambridge , MA

JURIES

1986 - present
Guest Juror: University of Florida, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, University of Toronto, Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of British Columbia, Tulane University, University of Michigan, Syracuse University, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Kentucky, Ohio State University, University of Washington, University of Miami, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Kansas, MIT, and University of Texas

COMPETITION JURIES

2004
Young Architects Forum, Architectural League of New York

2002
Housing the Disabled, Chicago

2001
North Carolina AIA Awards Flemington Jewish Community Center Design Competition for a synagogue in Flemington, New Jersey; Preston Scott Cohen, Laurie Hawkinson, Enrique Norten, and Stanley Tigerman; jurors

1996
Federal Plaza Ideas Competition, Los Angeles , CA

FILMS AND OTHER MEDIA
National Public Radio (on World Trade Center ideations, January 2002)
National Public Radio (with Christopher Lydon , Fall 2000)
Charlie Rose (Terry Riley on the “Un-Private House” Exhibition, 1999)
Michael Blackwell, film “Folds Blobs and Boxes” 2001

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