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An essential resource on the work of Bernard Tschumi Architects, with a focus on how concept, context, and program intersect with intuition in singular and unexpected ways. Highlights of this volume include circular building projects, works with suspended gardens and floating rectangular masses, superposed structures created via surrealist tactics, an immense educational research complex in France that hovers between building and urban design, a museum in China made from intersecting conic shapes, and a project for a cultural center in Italy that is structured as an investigation into courtyards and facades. The book features nearly 30 projects developed over the last fifteen years and highlights Tschumi’s longstanding interest not only in producing conceptual clarity, but in questioning architecture itself.
List of contents
Contents
Introduction
A. Circles
B1. Superposition - Concepts
B2. Superposition - Contexts
C. Analogical Reference
D. Typological Urbanism
E. Envelopes/Facades
F. Displaying Concepts
Project Teams, Project List, Bibliography
About the author
Bernard Tschumi is an internationally recognized architect, writer, and educator. Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, he has completed influential buildings in numerous cities worldwide, including Parc de la Villette in Paris, the Acropolis Museum in Athens, and the Binhai Science Museum in Tianjin.
