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Parc de la Villette. Paris, 1982-1998. An award-winning project noted for its architecture and new strategy of urban organization, La Villette has become known as an unprecedented type of park, one based on “culture” rather than “nature.”. The park is located on what was one of the last remaining large sites in Paris, a 125-acre expanse ...
Apr 21, 1994 · Exhibition. Apr 21–Jul 5, 1994. An exhibition of the work of the architect Bernard Tschumi is the second in the Museum’s Thresholds series devoted to thematic explorations of contemporary issues in architecture and design. Thresholds/Bernard Tschumi: Architecture and Event explores the tension between the rational systems by which buildings are necessarily designed and the constant ...
Bernard Tschumi: Parc de la Villette SuperCrit #4. Bernard Tschumi – Vectors & Envelopes. Bernard Tschumi / Zenith de Rouen: Source Books in Architecture. Chronomanifestes 1950-2010. Cinegram Folie: Le Parc de la Villette. ECAL by Tschumi. Event-Cities. Event-Cities 2. Event-Cities 3: Concept vs. Context vs. Content.
Bernard Tschumi (born 25 January 1944 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is an architect, writer, and educator, commonly associated with deconstructivism. Son of the well-known Swiss architect Jean Tschumi and a French mother, Tschumi is a dual French-Swiss national who works and lives in New York City and Paris.
Bernard Tschumi is widely recognized as one of today’s foremost architects. First known as a theorist, he drew attention to his innovative architectural practice in 1983 when he won the prestigious competition for the Parc de la Villette, a 125-acre cultural park based on activities as much as nature.
Jul 28, 2014 · The Centre Pompidou is playing host to architect and theorist Bernard Tschumi, and is presenting Europe's first major retrospective of Tschumi's work, with some three hundred and fifty drawings, sketches, collages and models, which have not been shown previously. The exhibition puts the spotlight on the architect as theorist, cultural key ...
During the 1970s, through drawings and written texts, Bernard Tschumi insisted that there is no architecture without event s, without actions or activity. His early work recognized that buildings respond to and intensify the activities that occur within them, and that event s alter and creatively extend the structures that contain them.
