About Bernard Kohn
Born 1931. Bernard Kohn is a French and American architect.
Bernard Kohn (born 1931) is a French-American architect, educator and urban planner.
Personal life Kohn was born to a Jewish family. His parents immigrated from France to the United States in 1940s due to the impending threat of Nazi invasion. After moving, he studied at Syracuse University, Columbia University, and at the University of Pennsylvania under the tutelage of Louis Kahn.
Work Kohn taught at the Urbanism Department of Yale University and is associated with the New Urbanism movement. He worked in the United States and in India after being inspired by Sir Patrick Geddes before returning to France in 1969, where he worked at the Ministry of Cultural Affairs as a pedagogy consultant.
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Who is Bernard Kohn?
Indian architect
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Bernard Kohn was born in 1931.
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Bernard Kohn is an architect.
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Bernard Kohn is French and American.
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