Alexis Cohen

Biography Alexis Cohen is trained as an architectural historian and works in the fields of cultural heritage, architecture, and planning. As a Senior Associate at ERA Architects, Alexis works with complex project teams using historical research, analysis, and community engagement to inform the conservation of evolving historic sites and urban environments. Alexis contributes to and manages a range of small- and large-scale public- and private-sector projects involving heritage evaluation, building character analysis, conservation plans, heritage interpretation/commemoration, and collaborative exhibitions and publications. Alexis' research and publishing interests focus on architecture's role in forming cultural memory and shaping the public's relationship to the past. Current research and collaborative project work includes the adaptive reuse of Toronto's house-form buildings at Mirvish Village and the Dragon Centre Stories project with ThinkFresh. She is also a member of ERA's team working on the Centre Block Rehabilitation Project.

Academic Credentials BA (Hons), MA, PhD

Expertise history

Profession , historian

Chapter OAHP