Lotte Cohn practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Lotte Cohn as German Israeli architect (1893-1983).
Lotte Cohn was born at Charlottenburg in 1893. Her recorded nationality is Germany. She trained at Technische Universität Berlin.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
She is recorded as architect.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Germany shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Lotte Cohn died in 1983, aged 90. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Technische Universität Berlin
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