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Columbia GSAPP celebrates Parc de la Villette

01 February 2024

Columbia GSAPP celebrates Parc de la Villette

Columbia GSAPP celebrates the 40th anniversary of Parc de la Villette.

 

Featuring Bernard Tschumi with Andrés JaqueMichael Bell (Bell-Seong Architecture), Mario Gooden (Mario Gooden Studio), Jerome Haferd (Brandt:Haferd), Laurie Hawkinson (Smith-Miller+Hawkinson), Mimi Hoang (nARCHITECTS), Steven Holl (Steven Holl Architects), Wonne Ickx (PRODUCTORA), Jimenez Lai (Bureau Spectacular), Jing Liu (SO – IL), Reinhold MartinBart-Jan PolmanGalia Solomonoff (SAS), Mark Wigley, and additional guests.

Students design pavilions for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games at the Parc de la Villette

07 July 2023

Students design pavilions for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games at the Parc de la Villette

The Parc de la Villette will be a major venue for the Olympic and Paralympic Games of Paris 2024. Organized by the Ministry of Culture and the French National Olympic and Sports Committee, twenty architecture schools across France will create temporary pavilions (“Archi-Folies”) to host various activities for French sporting federations during the 2024 Games. On July 7, students presented their initial designs. The models and drawings will be on view until July 20 at the École d’architecture Paris-Malaquais.

 

For more information: https://www.culture.gouv.fr/Actualites/Archi-Folies-le-monde-de-la-culture-et-le-monde-du-sport-se-mobilisent

Inauguration of the Biology-Pharmacy-Chemistry Center, Paris-Saclay University

18 April 2023

Inauguration of the Biology-Pharmacy-Chemistry Center, Paris-Saclay University

Designed by Bernard Tschumi urbanistes Architects and Groupe-6, the new Biology-Pharmacy-Chemistry Center for the Université Paris-Saclay was inaugurated on April 18, 2023. The 74,000 square-meter (800,000 square-foot), €283 million complex is a major scientific center for the university and is one of the largest educational projects in France. The complex was completed in late 2022 and welcomed its first students and researchers soon after.

 

To watch a short video (in French) about the event by Le Figaro: https://video.lefigaro.fr/figaro/video/paris-saclay-le-plus-grand-centre-de-recherche-academique/

T-shirts commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Parc de la Villette competition

25 March 2023

T-shirts commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Parc de la Villette competition

The competition for the Parc de la Villette was decided on March 25, 1983, after two days of deliberation. Bernard Tschumi was selected by an international jury from over 470 teams from 70 countries. His winning scheme, derived from the disjunctions and dissociations of our time, proposed an urban strategy for a new type of park based on cultural invention, education, and entertainment.

 

To celebrate the 40th anniversary, Bernard Tschumi Architects is releasing two t-shirts featuring iconic drawings from the project. The silkscreened white shirts depict either a grid of red folie transformations or a single exploded folie. The images represent some of the park’s key concepts: combination and fragmentation.

 

To purchase a t-shirt, visit: https://7dba1b.myshopify.com/

New monograph on Jean Tschumi’s Le Cèdre (1956)

15 March 2023

New monograph on Jean Tschumi’s Le Cèdre (1956)

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new book devoted to Jean Tschumi’s building for insurance company Mutuelle Vaudoise. Join the authors Giulia Marino and Franz Graf along with historian Jacques Gubler and Bernard Tschumi for an event on March 16, 2023 at the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (MUDAC), Lausanne.

The MVA Headquarters remains an important reference for the development of Modernist corporate architecture and identity in Switzerland and Europe. The book charts the building’s history to inform upcoming restoration work.

For more info:

https://news.epfl.ch/news/epfl-publishes-monograph-on-le-cedre-a-jewel-of-sw/
https://www.infolio.ch/livre/le-cedre-jean-tschumi-1951-1956/

Lecture on Program & Context in Budapest

10 March 2023

Lecture on Program & Context in Budapest

Bernard Tschumi delivers a lecture for the Association of Hungarian Architects’ International Convention of Architecture in Budapest.

 

For more information: https://artifexkiado.hu/termek-cikk/mesz-nemzetkozi-epiteszkongresszus-2023

Miami FIU School of Architecture celebrates 25 years with lecture by its architect Bernard Tschumi

06 February 2023

Miami FIU School of Architecture celebrates 25 years with lecture by its architect Bernard Tschumi
Bernard Tschumi delivers a lecture on February 9, 2023 at Miami FIU’s School of Architecture to celebrate its founding and the building that he designed after an international competition in 1999. The school is a combination of five buildings interconnected by walkways, bridges, and courtyards to foster interaction among students and faculty. Rectilinear volumes made of precast concrete panels contrast with twisted volumes clad in colorful ceramic tiles. The circulation spaces, along with the visual and material juxtapositions, help contribute to a dynamic environment for studying architecture.

For more information: https://carta.fiu.edu/academics/school-of-architecture/soa25/
First guided visit to Saclay-Métro BPC

15 November 2022

First guided visit to Saclay-Métro BPC
The complex of buildings designed by Bernard Tschumi Urbanistes Architectes and by Groupe-6 for the University of Paris-Saclay Biology-Pharmacy-Chemistry is nearing completion.

A visit organized by the AMO National Association of Architects and Clients took place on October 20, 2022, guided by Bernard Tschumi and by Nathalie Pierre (Groupe-6) with Caroline Paul, Maxime Jourdain (Université-Paris-Sud) and Guillaume Lecoeur (Bouygues).

Photo: Raphaël de Bengy
Architectural Association Mark Cousins Annual Lecture

21 October 2022

Architectural Association Mark Cousins Annual Lecture
Bernard Tschumi returns to the AA in London to deliver the inaugural Mark Cousins Annual Lecture. This newly established event commemorates the legacy of Mark Cousins, the school’s influential history and theory tutor. The talk reflects on the role of history as interpreted by historians and architects within architectural education along with issues of context in the firm’s projects. For more info: www.aaschool.ac.uk
Début Chantier/Groundbreaking of the Centre Sciences & Entrepreneurship

11 October 2022

Début Chantier/Groundbreaking of the Centre Sciences & Entrepreneurship
Bernard Tschumi Architects is pleased to announce the groundbreaking of the Center for Sciences and Entrepreneurship (CSE) for the Swiss international Institute Le Rosey. The CSE is a new state-of-the-art facility with five levels of classrooms, laboratories, and programs to support student innovation, including a Maker’s Lab, Start-up Incubator Space, and Pitch Room all organized around a grand atrium with a sculptural spiral staircase. The CSE joins the Carnal Hall completed by Bernard Tschumi Architects for the campus in 2014; it is planned to open 2025. For more info: http://www.tschumi.com/projects/94/
Remembering Queen Elizabeth II at the Parc de la Villette

09 September 2022

Remembering Queen Elizabeth II at the Parc de la Villette
In 1992, Queen Elizabeth II toured some of Paris’s Grands Projets including the Parc de la Villette as part of an official state visit. Here, Bernard Tschumi is pictured explaining the concepts of the new urban park to the royal guest.
Contextualizing Concepts at the University of Pennsylvania, Weitzman School of Design

31 August 2022

Contextualizing Concepts at the University of Pennsylvania, Weitzman School of Design
Bernard Tschumi delivered the opening lecture of the Fall 2022 semester at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. The talk, “Contextualizing Concepts,” explored several of the office’s projects via the lens of context and how an architectural concept can be both derived from and materialized through a particular site.

To watch the lecture: https://youtu.be/Eh9qAUXSK1Y
Binhai Science Museum receives Special Mention in Architizer A+ Awards

10 June 2022

Binhai Science Museum receives Special Mention in Architizer A+ Awards
The Binhai Science Museum in Tianjin received a Special Mention in Architizer’s A+ Awards in the category of Architecture +Metal category.

For more information: https://winners.architizerawards.com/2022/Plus/details-10/architecture-metal-7/

Lecture on Site-Specific Concepts in Beirut

26 May 2022

Lecture on Site-Specific Concepts in Beirut
Bernard Tschumi delivered a public video lecture on Site-Specific Concepts for the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, Université de Balamand. The presentation focused on the juxtaposition and dialogue between the old and new, and how contextual constraints can lead to architectural invention.
Dezeen Deconstructivist Architecture series

03 May 2022

Dezeen Deconstructivist Architecture series
Bernard Tschumi Architects is featured in many articles in Dezeen’s series examining the legacy of the 1988 Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. The influential show with projects by Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman, Daniel Libeskind, Frank Gehry, and Coop Himmelb(l)au introduced a group of radical designers who shared not so much a style as a dissatisfaction with the status quo and an interest in the 20th-century avant-garde. Dezeen features numerous interviews with several of the original architects.

For more information: https://www.dezeen.com/tag/deconstructivism
Talk for Dallas Architecture Forum

20 January 2022

Talk for Dallas Architecture Forum
As part of the Dallas Architecture Forum’s lecture series, Bernard Tschumi presents old and new projects.
BTA Designs Hyperbolic Paraboloid Tent for the Parc de la Villette

01 January 2022

BTA Designs Hyperbolic Paraboloid Tent for the Parc de la Villette
In conjunction with the opening of spaces for circus arts located in the northwest of the Parc de la Villette (1982-1998), Bernard Tschumi Architects designed a ticket tent situated on the podium of Folie L4 (originally a music venue). The tent needed to have an iconic presence and meet strict functional and budgetary requirements, while taking into account contextual constraints.

The HyperTent is the smallest project ever carried out by Bernard Tschumi Architects.

For more information, visit: http://www.tschumi.com/projects/91/
Jean Tschumi at MoMA

30 October 2021

Jean Tschumi at MoMA
Three drawings by Jean Tschumi are currently on view in The Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection galleries. An exterior perspective and two interior views of the Nestlé Headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland are displayed in a section devoted to transparency in architecture. The works are part of a gift of Jean Tschumi’s drawings to the Museum by Bernard Tschumi in 2009.

For more information: https://www.moma.org/calendar/galleries/5381
Bernard Tschumi lecture for Mextrópoli Festival

11 September 2021

Bernard Tschumi lecture for Mextrópoli Festival
On the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Bernard Tschumi delivers a virtual talk for the 2021 Mextrópoli Festival of Architecture and the City in Mexico City. The presentation includes, among other things, the office’s counter-project for Ground Zero, The Tri-Towers of Babel (2002) and issues of context.

To watch the lecture (with a conversation with architect Enrique Norten and Miquel Adrià, organizer), visit: https://youtu.be/5xAJ1na-P_c
Jean Tschumi retrospective at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine

16 June 2021

Jean Tschumi retrospective at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine
A retrospective exhibition of the work of Jean Tschumi (1904-1962) opened in Paris at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine on May 12th and will remain on view through September 19th. The exhibition of this master architect and designer, now considered a critical link in the transmission of International Style modernism from the United States to Europe in the 1950s and 60s, is made possible by a gift of over 300 drawings by Jean Tschumi to the museum by his son, Bernard Tschumi. The exhibition was realized under the direction of Stéphanie Quantin-Biancalani and Jean-Baptiste Minnaert.