“Good architecture must be conceived, erected, and burned in vain. The greatest architecture of all is the fireworks: it perfectly shows the gratuitous consumption of pleasure.” more

The fireworks at Parc de la Villette in Paris in 1992 expanded an earlier-developed theme of fireworks as an architectural manifesto. The fireworks display, which lasted half an hour, took place on June 20, 1992, and was witnessed by more than 100,000 people. The display became a three-dimensional and fleeting version of the organizational principle of the park: namely, the superimposition of systems of points, lines, and surfaces. A system of notation (like a partition) defines the event in space and time. back

Credits

SCHEDULE
Fireworks Installation, 1992
TEAM
Lead Designer: Bernard Tschumi
Key Personnel: Claudia Busch back

Program: Performance, Theoretical