Preston Scott Cohen is the principal designer at Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. In addition to his architectural design practice, Cohen is the Gerald McCue Professor of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he was Chair of the Department of Architecture from 2008 to 2013. His buildings aim to exemplify an expanding repertoire of architectural form, a goal directly related to the first year curriculum that he coordinated at the GSD for a period of twenty years.
Cohen is author of Lightfall (Rizzoli 2017), The Return Of Nature, Sustaining Architecture in the Face of Sustainability, with Erika Naginski (Routledge 2014), Contested Symmetries (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001) and numerous theoretical and historical essays.
Cohen has held faculty positions at Princeton University (1997), Rhode Island School of Design (1993), and Ohio State University (1989). He was the Frank Gehry International Chair at the University of Toronto (2004) and the Perloff Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (2002).
