Mark Cousins (writer)

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Mark Cousins (8 October 1947–26 September 2020[1][2]) was a British cultural critic and architectural theorist. He studied Art History at Merton College, Oxford and was a research student at the Warburg Institute. From 1993 he was the Director of General Studies and Head of the Graduate Program in Histories and Theories at the Architectural Association.[3] He was also Visiting Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and Southeast University, Nanjing.

He co-founded the London Consortium along with Paul Hirst, Colin MacCabe, and Richard Humphreys.

He was the author of Michel Foucault, co-written with Athar Hussain (London: Macmillan, 1984); The Ugly, a series of articles published at AA Files (1995, 1996); the Introduction to the Penguin Edition of The Unconscious by Sigmund Freud (London: Penguin:2005). Cousins gave the Friday Lectures at the Architectural Association for over thirty years.[1]

Selected Articles[]

  • 'Technology and Prosthesis', Hurly-Burly Issue 5, March 2011, pp. 191–199. ISSN 2101-0307
  • Introduction, The Unconscious, Sigmund Freud. London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2005. ISBN 978-0141183886.
  • 'The Insistence of the Image: Hitchcock's Vertigo', in Adams, Parveen (ed.) Art: Sublimation or Symptom. London: Karnac Books. 2003, pp.3-26. ISBN 978-1855759145
  • 'The Ugly', AA Files, 28, Autumn 1994, pp 61–64. ISBN 978-1-907896-23-1
  • 'The Ugly', AA Files, 29, Summer 1995, pp 3–6. ISBN 978-1-907896-23-1
  • 'The Ugly', AA Files, 30, Autumn 1995, pp. 65–68. ISBN 978-1-907896-23-1
  • 'Lo feo', Analysart, 17. Caracas: Instituto de Estudios Avanzados, 1999. (Spanish Translation of The Ugly).
  • 'La Arquitectura y sus Pasados', RevistArquis 2, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2012. (Spanish Translation) ISSN 2215-275X
  • 'In the Midst of Psychoanalysis', New Formations 7, Spring 1989, pp. 77-87.
  • 'The Logic of Deconstruction.' Oxford Literary Review, vol. 3, no. 2, 1978, pp. 70–7. ISSN 0305-1498

References[]

  1. ^ a b Dillon, Ryan; Morris, Mark; Macshane, Denis (21 October 2020). "Mark Cousins: Architectural theorist who captivated experts and enthusiasts alike". Independent. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Obituaries". University of Oxford Gazette. 151 (5292): 99. 5 November 2020.
  3. ^ Architectural Association PhD Programme Archived 26 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine

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