In order to examine all the ways in which architects were mobilized and participated - in one way or another - in the war effort of the different warring parties, no less than seventeen themes guide the visitor through the innovations aimed at vanquishing the enemy, killing it, or defending oneself from it. A book by Jean-Louis Cohen, the exhibit curator, accompanies the exhibit and was published under the same title by Hazan and the Canadian Centre for Architecture, where the exhibit was first put on view. 447.įrom April 24th to September 8th, 2014, the Cite de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris is presenting an original exhibit on architects during WWII. Planning and Constructing for WWII," Montreal/Paris, The Canadian Centre for Architecture/Hazan, p. 8 Catalogue: Jean-Louis Cohen, "Architecture in Uniform. Planning and Constructing for WWII," the exhibit at the Cite de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine runs from April 24 - Sept. What were architects working on during WWII, and how did this affect the history of their discipline? Returning to this question, the current exhibition at the Cite de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine shows both how this period inscribed itself in the long history of architecture and how it brought on consequences for the twentieth century.
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