16 Facts About Bernard Tschumi

Son of the well-known Swiss architect Jean Tschumi and a French mother, Tschumi is a dual French-Swiss national who works and lives in New York City and Paris.

Bernard Tschumi studied in Paris and at ETH in Zurich, where he received his degree in architecture in 1969.

Bernard Tschumi has taught in the UK and the USA; at Portsmouth University in Portsmouth and the Architectural Association in London, the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, Princeton University, the Cooper Union in New York and Columbia University where he was Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation from 1988 to 2003.

Bernard Tschumi studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland where he received an architecture degree in 1969.

Bernard Tschumi established his practice in 1983 in Paris with the Parc de La Villette competition commission.

In 1988, he opened Bernard Tschumi Architects, headquartered in New York City.

Since the 1970s, Bernard Tschumi has argued that there is no fixed relationship between architectural form and the events that take place within it.

Bernard Tschumi adapted Eisenstein's diagrammatic methodology in his investigations to exploit the interstitial condition between the elements of which a system is made of: space, event, and movement.

Bernard Tschumi positioned his work to suggest alternatives to this endgame.

Bernard Tschumi claimed that architecture by nature is fundamentally useless, setting it apart from "building".

Bernard Tschumi used this essay as a precursor to a later eponymous series of writings detailing the so-called limits of architecture.

Bernard Tschumi's winning entry for the 1982 55-hectare Parc de la Villette competition in Paris became his first major public work and made possible an implementation of The Manhattan Transcripts and The Screenplays.

Bernard Tschumi designed the Tokyo National Theater and Opera House in 1986, importing notational techniques from experimental dance and musical scores, and using the design process itself to challenge habitual ways of thinking about space, in contrast to earlier static, two dimensional representational techniques which delineated the outline of a building but not the intensity of life within it.

In those projects, Bernard Tschumi suggested that habitual routines of daily life can be challenged by a spectrum of design tactics ranging from shock to subterfuge.

Bernard Tschumi, well known for his radical theories on post-structuralist architecture in the 1960s and '70s, won the commission for the New Acropolis Museum in a competition.

Bernard Tschumi's work has been criticized for sacrificing human needs for intellectual purposes.