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Bernard Tschumi’s

Parc De La VilletteParis, France 1982-1998

Asad Siddiqui


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About Bernard Tschumi

Tschumi’s Background:• Born in 1944 in Lausanne, Switzerland• Architectural Education in 1969 from ETH in Zurich

Tschumi’s Teaching Career:• Architectural Association, London• Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York• Princeton University• Cooper Union•

Columbia University, Dean of Graduate School of Architecture from 1988-2003

Tschumi’s Architectural Accomplishments:• France’s Grand Prix National d’Architecture in 1996• Numerous American Institute of Architects awards• National Endowment for the Arts awards• College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects - Member• Royal Institute of British Architects, London - International Fellow• Collège International de Philosophie, France - Fellow•

Officer in Légion d’Honneur and Ordre des Arts et des Lettres at Académie d’Architecture , France• Acropolis Museum was honored as a finalist for European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture and AIA Honor Award


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(from http://www.tschumi.com/projects/3/)


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(from interview of Tschumi by Samuel Medina, http://architizer.com/blog/interview-bernard-tschumi-paints-the-town-red/)


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(“Point de folie – Maintenant l’architecture” Essay by Jacques Derrida, accompanying the portfolio Bernard

Tschumi, La Case Vide: La villette 1985 (London: Architectural Associates, 1986) essay trans. Kate Linker.Reprinted in Architecture Theory since 1968 edited by K. Michael Hays.)


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(“Madness and the Combinative,” Priecis V, Columbia University, New York, 1984. Quoted in Architecture

Theory since 1968 edited by K. Michael Hays.)


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(“Cinegramme Folie: Le Parc de la Villette ,” Princeton Architectural Press, Princeton, 1987. Quoted in

Architecture Theory since 1968 edited by K. Michael Hays.)


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