BIOGRAPHY OF STUART COHEN Stuart Cohen holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from Cornell University where he studied with Colin Rowe. Before returning home to Chicago in 1973 to open his own architectural practice and teach, he worked in New York City for Richard Meier and Associates and for Philip Johnson and John Burgee. Cohen’s work and the work of his firm has been published and exhibited nationally and internationally, receiving awards for design excellence from Progressive Architecture magazine, Interiors magazine, the American Institute of Architects and the American Wood Council. He was selected by Town and Country Magazine as one of the top fifty residential architects in the country and included in Architectural Digest’s AD100, their choice of the top 100 residential architects in the world. He was selected for inclusion in 40 under 40, forty architects under the age of forty, in 1979 and he was one of twenty architects chosen to represent the United States at the 1980 Venice Biennale. As an educator Cohen was a faculty member at the University of Illinois, Chicago from 1973 to 2002 and has been a visiting professor and guest lecturer at universities throughout the country. In 1998, he received the Excellence in Education Award from AIA Illinois. Cohen is the author of one book and numerous articles on architecture, was the Chicago correspondent for Progressive Architecture magazine in the 1980’s and book review editor for the Journal of Architectural Education. For alist of exhibitions and publications of his work and writings see below. In 1985 Cohen was elected to Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects in recognition of his contributions in the areas of design and education. For a list of exhibitions and publications of his work see Press/Awards