ACCLAIMED ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN TO SPEAK

Jean-Louis Cohen, an internationally renowned expert in modern architecture, will give this year's Barbara Miller Lane Lecture. Titled "Urban Form and Nationalisms: French/German Convergences and Conflicts, 1871-1955," the talk will be delivered Monday, Feb. 28, from 5 to 6:30 p.m., in Thomas 110. A reception will follow the lecture; admission is free.

The Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Cohen was awarded the 1996 Prix du livre d'Architecture by the Academie d'Architecture in Paris, and was appointed Scholar at the Getty Center for the Arts and Humanities, 1993. Cohen has curated numerous exhibitions at Paris' Centre Georges Pompidou and has written extensively on European and American architecture.

Presented by the Growth and Structure of Cities Program, this event is the fourth in a series of Barbara Miller Lane Lectures that offers a forum for innovative research on the relationship among history, culture, architecture and urban form. This endowed series was established in 2000 to honor Lane's role as founding director of the Growth and Structure of Cities Program at Bryn Mawr. The Cities Program was the first undergraduate major in the country to combine anthropology, art and architecture, city planning, economics, geology, history, political science and sociology. Now in its 35th year, the program continues to be unique in its interdisciplinary, multicultural approach.

Barbara Miller Lane is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Emeritus Professor in the Humanities and Katharine McBride Professor of History of Art and Cities at Bryn Mawr College. She was recently awarded an Emeritus Fellowship by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support her research.

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