Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. is a full service firm with a team of six architectural designers and two project architects.

Commissions encompass projects of diverse scales and types including houses, educational facilities, cultural institutions and urban designs for private owners, institutions, government agencies and corporations.

PRESTON SCOTT COHEN, Principal

Preston Scott Cohen is the Chair of the Department of Architecture and the Gerald M. McCue Professor of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

He is the author of Contested Symmetries (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001) and numerous theoretical and historical essays on architecture.

His work has been widely published and exhibited and is in numerous collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard.

He lectures regularly in prestigious venues around the world.

Cohen’s work has been the subject of numerous theoretical assessments by renowned critics and historians including Sylvia Lavin, Antoine Picon, Michael Hays, Nikolaus Kuhnert, Terry Riley, Robert Somol, Hashim Sarkis and Rafael Moneo.

He was the Frank Gehry International Chair at the University of Toronto (2004) and the Perloff Professor at UCLA (2002).

He has held faculty positions at Princeton, RISD, and Ohio State University.

AMIT NEMLICH

Specializes in Design and managing public buildings projects of large scale. Work experience in projects in Israel and abroad. Involvement in all phases of design process from architectural conceptual design stage to project realization on the construction site.
Projects design and management to make contemporary architecture, of complex formal and structural qualities feasible. Coping with advanced technologies and original solutions so that the application is within budget and time frame.

Professional experience

2005-2011
Israeli architect of the new wing of the Tel Aviv Museum of art- Architect of record, project architect and Partner of all phases of design, coordination, permitting, and site supervision (18,000 sqm built). American architect: Preston Scott Cohen.

2009-2014
Israeli architect of the new memorial and heritage museum of the Israeli Police-
(3,500 sqm built area of Musial building and open theatre and landscape of 16,000).
American architect: Preston Scott Cohen.

2007-2011
Preston Scott Cohen, Incproject
architect responsible for projects in China including:
Student center in the city of Nanjing- complete (15,000 sqm built)
Art Museum in the city of Tai Yuan- under construction (30,000 sqm built)
Datong city public library- CD phase (20,000 sqm built)

2000-2005
Ada Karmi-melamede architects, Open University campus in Ra’anana- project architect in charge. Planning, execution, monitoring and coordinating site work (34,000 sqm built).

1999-2000
Kaizer-Lakner architects and town planners-architect on teams of planning residential commercial and town planning (“TaBa”)

1998-1999
Yuval Geni architects-intern in the planning teams of residential and hospitals projects.

Teaching

2011-
The Technion, Israel institute of technology, Second year Studio

Education

1995-2000
The Technion, Israel Institute of technology. B.a. Arc.

1997-1998
École dArchitecture de Paris-La-Villette.