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Sep 15, 2014 · Speaking candidly, Tschumi explains how a visit to Chicago when he was seventeen years old sparked a life-long passion for architectural design - something that had been somewhat...
- James Taylor-Foster
Sep 10, 2014 · It is in Chicago that I decided to become an architect. It was the weight, the sheer gravity, the strength, the density. Chicago was very different – we’re talking about 1961-62, before the Loop and that whole area had been developed.
Jan 6, 2024 · In his interviews he repeatedly describes a decisive moment his life, looking down from Chicago’s highest building as a 17-year-old exchange student and being transfixed.
- Petra Krimphove
May 23, 2022 · Deconstructivism was built on intellectual rigour and a desire for exploration that contemporary architects do not share, says French-Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi in this exclusive interview...
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.
May 11, 2022 · The Swiss architect used deconstructivist concepts of disorder and contrast to develop radical theories about how to inject ideas of movement, spectacle and event into architecture – what...
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My father, Jean Tschumi was a successful architect who designed several major buildings in Europe, including the Nestlé Headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland and the headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva. I was only 18 when he died. When you say Chicago and New York you mean skyscrapers, right?
