| Description |
776 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Why concepts? -- Part A. Space event movement -- Photoessay -- Manifestoes, 1975 - -- Advertisements for architecture, 1976-78 -- Questions of space, 1975 -- Import/export : Joyce's garden, 1976-77 -- Sequences, essay, 1981 -- Screenplays, 1978 -- Violence of architecture, essay, 1981 -- The Manhattan transcripts, 1977-81 -- Parc de Villette, Paris, France, 1982-98 -- Abstract mediation and strategy, essay, 1987 -- Fireworks, Paris, France, 1992 -- Events : the turning point, essay, 1991 -- Disjunction and event, essay, 2010 -- Part B. Program : juxtaposition/superimposition -- Photoessay -- Program, essay, 1981 -- Crossprogramming, essay, 1994 -- Program and distanciation, essay, 1987 -- The multiplicity of architecture, essay, 2010 -- Programmatic dissociations, Opera House, Tokyo, Japan, 1986 -- Transprogramming, The National Library of France, Paris, France, 1989 -- Mixing passages, unstable images, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1989 -- Combination (from madness and the combinative), essay, 1991 -- Bridge-city - crossprogramming, master plan and transit hub, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1988-2009 -- Linear cities, Kansai Airport, Osaka, Japan, 1988 -- Edge-city, Chartres Business Park, Chartres, France, 1991 -- Strategy of the in-between, Le Fresnoy National Studio for Contemporary Arts, Tourcoing, France, 1991-97 -- The arcitectural project of Le Fresnoy, essay, 1999 -- Deviations from the normative, Alfred J. Lerner Hall Student Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1994-99 -- Deviations from the normative, essay, 2001 -- Sequence of voides, Museum of Modern Art expansion, New York, NY, 1997 -- Zero-degree architecture, School of Architecture, Paris/Marne-la-Vallée, France, 1994-99 -- Strange attractors, School of Architecture, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 1999-2003 -- Part C. Vectors & envelopes -- Photoessay -- Vectors and envelopes, essay, 2003 -- Red vector, pedestrian bridge, La Roche-sur-Yon, France, 2007-10 -- Immaterial representation, Glass Video Pavilion, Groningen, The Netherlands, 1990 -- Urban glass house, study for Time Magazine, 1999 -- Between two envelopes, Rouen Concert Hall and Exhibition Complex, Rouen, France, 1998-2001 -- Concept and material recontextualized, Limoges Concert Hall, Limoges, France, 2003-07 -- Phagocyte, Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 2000 -- Manufacturing time, Vacheron Constantin Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, 2001-04 -- Carving and wrapping, ECAL School of Art, Lausanne/Renens, Switzerland, 2005-07 -- Wood curves, glass box, Museum for African Art, New York, NY, 2000 -- Double envelope, Electronic Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, NY, 2001 -- Vertical museum sketchbook, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sāo Paulo, Brazil, 2001 -- Part D. Concept/context/content -- Photoessay -- Concept/context/content, essay, 2004 -- Conceptualizing context, the Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece, 2001-09 -- Lattice superimposition, Factory 798, Beijing, China, 2003-04 -- Contextual free form, Richard E. Lindner Athletics Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2001-06 -- Code as generator, BLUE residential tower, New York, NY, 2004-07 -- Whose context?, Tri-towers of Babel, a project for New York City, 2002 -- Part E. Concept-form -- Photoessay -- Concept-form, essay, 2010 -- Elliptic city, IFCA master plan, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2005- -- Repetition, topo/typo, Sheikh Zayed National Museum, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., 2007 -- Media zone, Abu Dhabi media zone master plan, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., 2008 -- Ceci n'est pas une dune, Dubai Opera House, Dubai, U.A.E., 2005 -- Circle/square superimposition, OCT-LOFT master plan and museum, Shenzen, China, 2011 -- Point d'orgue, Carnal Dome Le Rosey International School, Rolle, Switzerland, 2009- -- Alésia doubles, Alésia Muséoparc, Alésia, France, 2002- -- Formless filters, Paris Zoo de Vincennes, Paris, France, 2009- -- Afterword -- Architecture concepts, essay, 2012 |
| Summary |
An autobiographical look at the work of a seminal modernist architect. This is the first comprehensive treatment of the architecture of Bernard Tschumi. Part monograph, part architectural theory, and part story, the book narrates a three-decade journey through a personal history of architecture and architectural ideas, intertwining theory, practice, and hypothetical projects with forty built works |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references |
| Subject |
Tschumi, Bernard, 1944-
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Tschumi, Bernard, 1944- -- Themes, motives.
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Architecture -- Philosophy.
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Modern movement (Architecture)
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| LC no. |
2012935257 |
| ISBN |
0847837971 (hbk.) |
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9780847837977 (hbk.) |
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