“Almost born in a concentration camp”I GOT TO KNOW JEAN-LOUIS IN THE SUMMER OF 1986 when we were both invited to a conference on the historical avant-garde in architecture at the Wissenschaftskolleg in West Berlin. I was young and writing the second chapter of my dissertation, a piece of which I presented there. He seemed much older, more accomplished, less lost, or rather, not lost at all. I think he had acted beyond his years from a very young age. At a certain point, the even older generation entered into a debate about whether one should engage in research on architects who had collaborated
Casablanca has been reinvented over and over again - by Hollywood as the backdrop for a classic flick, by the French as a modern metropolis with an Oriental flair. An architectural and historical exploration of the port city with Christian Hauck
“He sought to make a difference in the world, in small gestures as well as grand ambitions, and he succeeded brilliantly,” writes Gwendolyn Wright of the late architect, author, and academic.