Paulo Mendes da Rocha's dissident tropicalismo - Artforum International

THE FOLLOWING REVIEW was written between my visit to the opening of the “Constructed Geographies” exhibition in Portugal two months ago, and the recent death of its senior curator, Jean-Louis Cohen, at the age of seventy-four. For the architecture world, the loss of this formidable scholar and teacher is a calamity; for me, it has come as a particular blow. Professor Cohen was my primary master’s thesis advisor at the Institute of Fine Arts over a decade ago, and has remained the north star of my historical and critical firmament ever since. His final exhibition stands as a testament to his

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