Born in Lausanne, Bernard Tshumi (1944) is
unanimously considered one of the key interpreters
of deconstructionism.
Born into the art (his father was Jean Tschumi, 1904-1962),
he graduated from EHT in Zurich in 1969, has dual nationality (Swiss and
French) and lives and works in Paris and New York.
In the seventies he taught at the Architectural Association
of London, then at Princeton and Cooper Union; from 1988 to 2003 he was Dean of
the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University in New York.
In addition to teaching, the first part of his career
focused on criticism and issues in architecture, coming up with a
multidisciplinary approach (borrowing from music and film) “in which
certain members of the French structuralist movement, such as Focault, Bataille
and Derrida, played an important role” (Jetzer).
This is the time of his important essays Manifestoes (1978), The
Manhattan Transcripts (1981) and Architecture and Disjunction (1994).
Applying these eclectic, innovative positions, Tschumi won
the 1983 competition for a general plan for Parc du XX Siècle at Villette in
Paris, completed in 1998.
The Parc is one of the best-known deconstructionist
architectural projects, a complex work rich in constructive tension, in
which “the concepts of repetition, discontinuity, break-up,
fragmentation, transformation and superimposition so important in his studies
are finally given concrete form in a large-scale project” (Carbone).
Tschumi then addressed various urban planning issues,
working on masterplans and competitions with his studio. The many projects he
has worked on in the past fifteen years include the National Contemporary Art
Centre in Lille (1998); Alfred Lerner Hall at Columbia University in New York
(1999); the Faculty of Architecture at Marne-la-Vallée (2001) and the
University of Florida in Miami (2003); the general headquarters of Vacheron
Constantin in Geneva (2005); the Limoges Concert Hall (2007); the Blue Tower in
New York (2004-06); and the Museum of the Acropolis in Athens (2009).
Bernard Tshumi selected works
-Zoo, Parigi (Francia), 2014
- Progetto Carnal Dome, Rolle (Svizzera), 2013
- Progetto di masterplan Mediapolis, Singapore, 2008
- Blue Tower, New York (USA), 2007
- Concert Hall, Limoges (Francia), 2006
- Sede Vacheron Constantin, Ginevra (Svizzera), 2005
- Interfaccia Flon transport system, Losanna (Svizzera),
2002
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- Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, San Paolo (Brasile), 2001
- Facoltà di Architettura, Marne-la-Vallée, Parigi
(Francia), 2001
- Stazione, Flon, Losanna (Svizzera), 2001
- Progetto Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh (USA), 2000
- Museo d’Arte Africana, New York (USA), 2000
- Alfred Lerner Hall - Columbia University, New York
(USA), 1999
- Parc de la Villette, Parigi (Francia), 1998
- Centro nazionale d’arte contemporanea, Le Fresnoy,
Tourcoing (Francia), 1997
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