PRESTON SCOTT COHEN is the Gerald M. McCue Professor in Architecture and Chair of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Professor Cohen is the coordinator of the first-year design studios and teaches the foundation course in projective and topological geometry, advanced studios, and design thesis. His firm’s recent commissions include a Student Center for Nanjing University in Xianlin, China; a public arcade in Battery Park City in New York; and the Fahmy residence in Los Gatos, California. Cohen has received first prizes in the international competitions for the Taiyuan Art Museum, Taiyuan, China; the Robbins Elementary School, Trenton, New Jersey; and the Amir Building, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. He also is known for the Goodman House in Duchess County, New York; the Torus House in Columbia County, New York; and his competition proposal for the Eyebeam Museum of Technology, New York. Cohen is the author of Contested Symmetries and Other Predicaments in Architecture. His numerous awards include the Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, three Progressive Architecture Awards, and The Visionary Award from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. His work is in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University.