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Published: Dec 23, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3917/clara.hs5.0003

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Maurizio Cohen
Université libre de Bruxelles, School of architecture La Cambre Horta

Abstract

Everything is very quiet
Everyone has gone to sleep
I’m wide awake on memories
These memories can’t wait
These memories can’t wait
David Byrne/Jerry Harrison, 1979


End of 2013. The 'History, Theory, Criticism' teaching unit offers a group of courses that form part of the Master's Options programmes of the ULB La Cambre Horta Faculty of Architecture. This academic year, I am offering students the chance to conduct interviews with architects chosen from among those who began working in the 1950s and 1960s. The initial idea is to confront the younger generation with a little-known era and to question the practices, ambitions, successes and disappointments of past decades, professional careers, theoretical and sometimes - more simply - cultural and human concerns. At the heart of these interviews, the students will try to tell the stories of these authors, favouring a narrative approach while trying to reveal their choices, positions and opinions on architecture. At the same time, they will allow each person's story to emerge, their own retrospective perspective.

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No. 5 (2018): [Special issue] Memories Can't Wait. Conversations between architects and students
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Author Biography

Maurizio Cohen, Université libre de Bruxelles, School of architecture La Cambre Horta

Maurizio Cohen (Milan, 1964), an architect who graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico di Milano (1989), has been working in Belgium since 1993. He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture of the Free University of Brussels and at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Liège, where he teaches - among others - the following courses: "Theory and design of architecture", "History of architecture in Belgium in the 20th century", "Conservation of modern heritage", "Architecture, city and cinema". He is affiliated with the ALICE and hortence research laboratories of the Faculty of Architecture of the Free University of Brussels and with the LHAC research laboratory of the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Nancy (ENSAN). Member of the Belgian section of Docomomo (Documentation et Conservation du Mouvement moderne). Since 1993, he has published several books, texts and articles on modern and contemporary architecture and is also an exhibition curator. He is currently working on the group of architects from Liège, E.G.A.U., and is participating in the writing of the guides to modern architecture initiated by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.