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SLIDESHOW: Image 1/16 Previous Next Posted 05.09.11 | PERMALINK | ESSAY

Mirko Zardini & Jean-Louis Cohen: Architecture in Uniform



A team of camouflage artists at work at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. From Robert P. Breckenridge, Modern Camouflage: The New Science of Protective Concealment, 1942. [Courtesy of Jean-Louis Cohen]

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ABOUT THE ESSAY

Architecture in Uniform
On Places, selections from Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War, the new exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, curated by Jean Louis Cohen.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mirko Zardini is the Director and Chief Curator of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
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Jean-Louis Cohen is the Sheldon H. Solow Chair in the History of Architecture at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.
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