Bernard Tschumi

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Bernard Tschumi (born January 25, 1944 in Lausanne , Switzerland ) is an architect and architectural theorist with French and Swiss citizenship. He lives and works in the USA and France .

Life

Tschumi, son of the Swiss architect Jean Tschumi studied at the ETH Zurich until 1969 . From 1970 to 1979 he taught at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and from 1976 also at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York and at Princeton University .

He built several smaller experimental modular buildings, which he calls Folies , in the USA , England and the Netherlands before he emerged as a prize winner in the international competition for the Parc de la Villette in Paris in March 1983 . In 1986 he took second place in the international competition to build the Tokyo Opera House.

In 2012, Bernard Tschumi was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design in New York .

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Awards and honors

  • 1985: Awarded by the Revue Progressive Architecture (New York) for the "Parc de la Villette"
  • 1996: Grand prix national de l'architecture
  • 1997: Honorary member of the Association of German Architects BDA
  • 2005: IOC / IAk AWARD

buildings

Blue Tower, Lower East Side, New York

Exhibitions

Tschumi exhibited his drawings in the following cities:

  • 1979: London
  • 1978: New York
  • 1983: Toronto
  • 1984: Berlin (IBA)
  • 1985: Milan (Triennale)
  • 1985: Paris (IFA)

Publications

  • 1994: Manhattan Transcripts , Academy Editions
  • 1994: Architecture and Disjunction , Cambridge MIT Press
  • 1994: Event Cities , 1 and 2, Cambridge MIT Press

literature

  • Gilles Deleuze : Foucault. Translated and edited by Seán Hand, foreword by Paul Bove. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis MN 1986, ISBN 0-8166-1675-2 .
  • Denis Hollier: Against Architecture. The Writings of Georges Bataille. Betsy Wing (trans.). The MIT Press, Cambridge MA et al. 1989, ISBN 0-262-08186-5 , ( October book ).
  • Libero Andreotti, Xavier Costa: Situacionistas. Arte, política, urbanismo = situationists. Art, Politics, Urbanism. Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, ​​Barcelona 1996, ISBN 84-89698-19-8 .
  • Simon Sadler: The Situationist City. MIT Press, Cambridge MA 1998, ISBN 0-262-19392-2 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "T" / Tschumi, Bernard, NA 2012 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 17, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
personal data
SURNAME Tschumi, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne , Switzerland