AUP | Center for Writers and Translators | Past Events: Vincen Cornu

By invitation of the Center for Writers and Translators and in conjunction with AUP’s new major in Urban Studies, Paris architect Vincen Cornu will give a talk based on the most recent in the Cahiers Series, In the Thick of Things: an Architect Observes. Discussing everything from vernacular architecture to the experience of discovering a city, from modest grain barns in Spain to the work of some of the most renowned of architectural innovators – Le Corbusier, Scharoun, Siza, Kahn and others – he will give an overview of some of the inspirations behind his work and of the challenges facing architects today.

Vincen Cornu

Vincen Cornu, architect, was born in 1954 in Poitou. He has completed projects of various scales and types including schools, museums, houses, collective housing, urban projects, and furniture. He is the designer of more than forty museum exhibitions, including for shows by Cézanne, Corot, Delacroix, Matisse, Monet, Munch, Picasso, Poussin, Seurat, Turner, Whistler, and on the Vikings. Since 1994 he has taught at the Ecole d’Architecture de Paris (la Villette). He lives and runs his own architecture practice in Paris.

"In the Thick of Things" (The Cahier Series, vol.11. Sylph Editions, December 2009)