Bernard Tschumi

Details

Nationality

Swiss-French

Classifications

Holder

Individual

Source of authority

Reason

Subject

Human centred

Mode of transmission

Text drawing

Knowledge type

Propositional

Epistemic cluster

Western philosophical

Notes

'Advertisements for Architecture' (1975) juxtaposes the ruined Villa Savoye with 'Sensuality has been known to overcome even the most rational of buildings... Architecture is the ultimate erotic act' and a second image ('To really appreciate architecture you may even need to commit a murder'); the chapter reads Tschumi as not critiquing individual buildings but the canon's existence, its foundation in beauty, and its projection into the future. His Parc de la Villette disaggregates and homogenises the uses-brief on a logical process bearing no relation to the buildings' actual programmes.

Connections

• associated with Deconstructivism

Referenced by

• Edward Casey associated with

Sources

1. Bernard Tschumi. Architecture and Disjunction. MIT Press, 1994.
2. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 15 of 19