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BERNARD TSCHUMI
1944-…
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Bernard Tschumi was born in
1944 and he is an architect,
writer, and educator, mostly
associated with deconstruction
movement in architecture. Son
of the well-known architect
Jean Tschumi, born of French
and Swiss parentage, he works
and lives in New York City and
Paris. He studied in Paris and at
ETH in Zurich, where he
received
his
degree
in
architecture in 1969.
He does not believe in a
building-user relationship in his
designs, once saying "Any
relationship
between
a
building and its users is one of
violence, for any use means
the intrusion of a human body
into a given space, the
intrusion of one order into
another."
Tschumi
in
Architecture and Disjunction
(2001, p. 122).
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Tschumi, Bernard, Architecture
and Disjunction. (Cambridge,
MIT Press, 1994).
Throughout his career as an
architect,
theorist,
and
academic, Bernard Tschumi's
work
has
reevaluated
architecture's role in the
practice of personal and
political freedom.
Since the 1970s, Tschumi has
argued that there is no fixed
relationship
between
architectural form and the
events that take place within it.
The ethical and political
imperatives that inform his
work
emphasize
the
establishment of a proactive
architecture
which
nonhierarchically engages balances
of
power
through
programmatic and spatial
devices. In Tschumi's theory,
architecture's role is not to
express an extant social
structure, but to function as a
tool for questioning that
structure and revising it.
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