Bernard Tschumi Architects Selected to Design New Performing Arts Building for Le Rosey
16 July 2010
Bernard Tschumi Architects has won an international invited competition to design a new center for the performing arts at Institut Le Rosey, the renowned boarding school in Switzerland. The new building will be named Carnal Hall after the school’s founder, Paul Carnal. more

Legion of Honor
07 July 2010
The Minister of Culture Frederic Mitterrand awarded Bernard Tschumi the Legion of Honor at the rank of Officer in a ceremony at the Ministry in Paris, France.

New Acropolis Museum Celebrates First Anniversary
25 June 2010
More than two million people have visited the new Acropolis Museum during its first year of operation, according to figures presented by the museum to mark the first anniversary since its public opening on June 20, 2009.

Architecture Festival, Rome
10 June 2010
Tschumi lectures on current works, including the New Acropolis Museum as part of the Architecture Festival at MAXXI (The National Museum for 21st Century Art).

Exhibition of Early Works in Paris
07 June 2010
“Archi & BD” (Architecture and Comics – the City, Illustrated) presents to a large audience relations between architecture and comic strips. Among works exhibited are one excerpt from the Manhattan Transcripts and one Advertisement for Architecture by Bernard Tschumi. June through November at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris.

Public and Private, New York
18 May 2010
Bernard Tschumi and Thom Mayne present recent work on the subject of public and private at the New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation Forum at the McGraw Hill Auditorium. Robert Campbell moderates.

Tschumi Lectures in Paris
31 March 2010
Bernard Tschumi gives a talk on recent museums, including the Acropolis Museum, at the Fondation Suisse/Pavillon Le Corbusier à la Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.

New Website
01 March 2010
Bernard Tschumi Architects launches a new website designed by New York-based Project Projects.

Renovation of the Paris Zoo
24 February 2010
Presentation by the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, with Valérie Pécresse, Ministre de l’Enseignement Superior et de la Recherche , Bertrand-Pierre Galey, Directeur général du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Chantal Jouanno, Secrétaire d’Etat chargée de l’Ecologie, Yves Gabriel, Président-directeur général de Bouygues Construction (representing Chrysalis), and Lyne Cohen-Solal, Adjointe au Maire de Paris. Project by the Chrysalis Group, Jacqueline Osty Associés, landscape architecture, Bernard Tschumi urbanistes Architectes, with Véronique Descharrières (BTuA), Synthése Group.

Now or Never, Harvard
23 February 2010
Bernard Tschumi lectures at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design on the topic, “Architecture: Now or Never.”

1970s Recollection and Rebellion
18 February 2010
Bernard Tschumi appears in a panel discussion on the decade in architecture at the Barbican Gallery in London with Peter Cook, Ron Arad, Charles Jencks, and Brett Steele. Event Details.

La Roche-sur-Yon Opens in Formal Ceremony
06 February 2010
A public ceremony inaugurates a footbridge in la Roche-sur-Yon, France designed by Bernard Tschumi Architects and Hugh Dutton Associates. The bridge's cylindrical structure aims to express the loads and stresses on the bridge while creating an original and contemporary statement for a town promoting the arrival of TGV train service to the coast.

MoMA Acquires Jean Tschumi Drawings
20 January 2010
Bernard Tschumi has donated forty-three drawings by his father, Swiss architect Jean Tschumi (1904-1962), to the Architecture and Design Department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA). more

Acropolis Museum Visitors
05 September 2009
The Acropolis Museum receives 500,000 visitors in its first two months open to the public.

New Acropolis Museum Opens
20 June 2009
The New Acropolis Museum opens in a formal ceremony for dignitaries and VIPs.

Alesia Contruction Begins
01 May 2009
Construction begins on an Interpretive Center in Alesia, France. The location of the museum marks an archaeological site and battlefield where Julius Caesar defeated the Gauls in 52 BC.

La Roche-sur-Yon Consturction Update
01 April 2009
Installation of a footbridge begins in La Roche-sur-Yon, France. Designed with Hugh Dutton Associates, the bridge is expected to open in late 2009.

Bordeaux-Cenon Construction Continues
08 March 2009
Construction continues on a cultural center and performance venue in Bordeaux-Cenon, France, to open in early 2010.

New Acropolis Museum to Open
01 February 2009
The new Acropolis Museum will open in an invitation-only formal ceremony for world leaders, dignitaries, and special guests on June 20th. A press preview will be held on June 19th. The museum will open to the general public for the first time on Sunday, June 21st, allowing visitors to see the full collection of the Acropolis treasures in one location.