Jean-Louis Bourgeois

Jean-Louis Bourgeois (Born 1940) is an author and the son of artist Louise Bourgeois and art historian Robert Goldwater. Bourgeois studied architecture and literature at Harvard University and later worked at ArtForum before becoming an expert in the production and history of mud brick architecture. He is the author of the volume "The spectacular vernacular: the adobe tradition" (with photographs taken by his late wife Carollee Pelos) which established him as one of the foremost experts in the world on the subject. He owns a home in Djenne, Mali and has actively been involved in architectural conservation efforts there including the preservation of the world's largest adobe structure the Great Mosque of Djenne, and has written extensively on the subject While living in Djennê, Bourgeois became active in local politics, including opposition to the Talo Dam project, and became a fixture in the city's cultural and political life. Bourgeois has been adopted by the reigning King of Djenne as a son. He appeared in the biopic on his mother Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine. Bourgeois owns an adobe house in Taos, New Mexico and has written on the Southwestern American Indian Adobe tradition