Bernard Tschumi spoke at the Bartlett School of Architecture on September 28, 2016 as part of the 2016-17 International Lecture Series.
Advertisements for Architecture by Bernard Tschumi in Barcelona![Advertisements for Architecture by Bernard Tschumi in Barcelona]()
October 21, 2016
The Centre de Cultura Contemporània in Barcelona is exhibiting Bernard Tschumi’s 1976-78 Advertisements for Architecture in 1000m2 of Desire, a major exhibition on architecture and sexuality.
Acropolis Museum named one of ten best museums in the world.![Acropolis Museum named one of ten best museums in the world.]()
October 20, 2016
Visitors voted Acropolis Museum in Athens among the top 10 institutions in the world according to the 2016 TripAdvisor’s Travelors’ Choice Awards.
Rouen Concert Hall: Rouen Concert Hall among most significant buildings in the last 125 years ![Rouen Concert Hall: Rouen Concert Hall among most significant buildings in the last 125 years]()
October 20, 2016
The magazine Architectural Record just celebrated Bernard Tschumi’s Rouen Concert Hall as one of the top 125 buildings of the last 125 years!
On the Ramps...![On the Ramps...]()
May 14, 2016
This May, the 2016 graduating class of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation celebrated with a special procession through the ramps of Columbia’s Lerner Hall student center (Bernard Tschumi Architects, 1994-1999).
Forthcoming: Bernard Tschumi Architects Retrospective Exhibition in Shanghai![Forthcoming: Bernard Tschumi Architects Retrospective Exhibition in Shanghai]()
January 29, 2016
On March 12, 2016, Bernard Tschumi/Architecture: Concept and Notation, the retrospective exhibition, will open at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, China. Featuring more than 35 projects, both built and unbuilt, the 10,000-square-foot display includes recent Chinese projects and a Chinese-language catalogue. The exhibition will remain open until June 19. The retrospective was first shown at Paris’s Centre Georges Pompidou in Spring-Summer 2014, and then at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, Switzerland in Spring-Summer 2015.
Eight Talks by Tschumi
January 25, 2016
Bernard Tschumi will be giving the following talks in early 2016:
March 12, 2016: Power Station of Art (Shanghai)
March 17, 2016: Design for Tianjin Academic Forum (Tianjin)
March 30, 2016: Rio Salado Foundation Lecture, Arizona State University (Phoenix, AZ)
April 25, 2016: Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels)
Other recent lectures:
October 17, 2015: Monterey Design Conference (Monterey, CA)
November 4, 2015: Cornell College of Art, Architecture and Plannning (Ithaca, NY)
November 14, 2015: Roland Barthes Colloquium, Collège de France (Paris)
December 6, 2015: Colloquium « Représenter l’Irreprésentable », Passage de Retz (Paris)
March 12, 2016: Power Station of Art (Shanghai)
March 17, 2016: Design for Tianjin Academic Forum (Tianjin)
March 30, 2016: Rio Salado Foundation Lecture, Arizona State University (Phoenix, AZ)
April 25, 2016: Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels)
Other recent lectures:
October 17, 2015: Monterey Design Conference (Monterey, CA)
November 4, 2015: Cornell College of Art, Architecture and Plannning (Ithaca, NY)
November 14, 2015: Roland Barthes Colloquium, Collège de France (Paris)
December 6, 2015: Colloquium « Représenter l’Irreprésentable », Passage de Retz (Paris)
In Process: Tianjin Exploratorium Under Construction![In Process: Tianjin Exploratorium Under Construction]()
January 11, 2016
Construction of a new 400,000-square-foot science and technology museum is currently under way in Tianjin, China. Called the Exploratorium, BTA’s design celebrates the historical and contemporary industrial achievements of the Tianjin Binhai region. Located in a former industrial neighborhood, the museum is a key part of a new cultural district that will include art facilities, theaters, and a city library, the latter designed by the Dutch firm MVRDV. So as to display rockets, helicopters, and other extremely large equipment, the Exploratorium features spectacular conical interior spaces, the largest of which is nearly twice the size of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum rotunda by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Exploratorium will open to the public in mid-2017.
Parc Zoologique de Paris celebrated with 2015 Femmes Architectes Award![Parc Zoologique de Paris celebrated with 2015 Femmes Architectes Award]()
January 11, 2016
On January 11 ARVHA, the Association for Research on Cities and Housing, celebrated the Parc Zoologique de Paris’ design by honoring Véronique Descharrières, partner at Bernard Tschumi urbanistes Architectes, Paris, in the category “Original Work.”
The authors of the Paris Zoo are:
Architecture: Bernard Tschumi urbanistes Architectes with Véronique Descharrières
Landscape: Atelier Jacqueline Osty
Renovations: Synthèse Architectes
The authors of the Paris Zoo are:
Architecture: Bernard Tschumi urbanistes Architectes with Véronique Descharrières
Landscape: Atelier Jacqueline Osty
Renovations: Synthèse Architectes
Completed: Vacheon Constantin Extension in Switzerland![Completed: Vacheon Constantin Extension in Switzerland]()
December 01, 2015
Late October 2015 saw the completion of a 200,000-square-foot expansion of the Vacheron Constantin Headquarters and Manufacturing Center outside of Geneva, adjacent to the landmark building designed by BTA and completed in 2005. The new two-story building greatly increases production and office space for Switzerland’s oldest watchmaking company. The structure continues the architectural vocabulary of the original building, featuring a curved metal roof unfurling over a glass curtain wall, while establishing a distinct presence through its low profile and angular shape.
Saved: Jean Tschumi's Sandoz Laboratories![Saved: Jean Tschumi's Sandoz Laboratories]()
November 01, 2015
The first building by Jean Tschumi (1904-1962) in Orleans, France has been saved by a coordinated international preservation effort. Designed and built between 1947 and 1953, the pharmaceutical center had been slated for demolition but was preserved by a three year-long effort led by local residents and Bernard Tschumi with the support of major French and international architects and historians, including Herzog and De Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel, Claude Parent, Christain de Portzamparc, Odile Decq, Rudy Ricciotti, Barry Bergdoll, and Kenneth Frampton, among others. With its impressive concrete structure, Jean Tschumi’s building is being restored and repurposed as an “incubator center” for digital technologies, demonstrating the adaptive re-use of significant 20th-century structures.
Bernard Tschumi Drawings and Prints Escape Five-Alarm Fire![Bernard Tschumi Drawings and Prints Escape Five-Alarm Fire]()
October 23, 2015
On Monday October 19, 2015, at about 3 a.m., 250 New York City firefighters were called to battle a five-alarm fire at 221 West 17th Street in Manhattan – a vacant building under construction adjacent to BTA’s headquarters. The fire raged for four hours, engulfing the building’s fourth, fifth and sixth floors before being extinguished just before 7 a.m.
For safety concerns, the building housing Bernard Tschumi’s office and loft was evacuated for over 24 hours. Tschumi’s archive of original drawings and prints, assembled for the architect’s retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in 2014 and recently returned from a subsequent exhibition at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, had been stored less than eight feet from the inferno!
We are happy to report that the office and drawings were undamaged by the fire and that no one was injured in the blaze.
For safety concerns, the building housing Bernard Tschumi’s office and loft was evacuated for over 24 hours. Tschumi’s archive of original drawings and prints, assembled for the architect’s retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in 2014 and recently returned from a subsequent exhibition at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, had been stored less than eight feet from the inferno!
We are happy to report that the office and drawings were undamaged by the fire and that no one was injured in the blaze.
Bernard Tschumi Architects Receives Lignum Award![Bernard Tschumi Architects Receives Lignum Award]()
October 08, 2015
Bernard Tschumi Architects received the prestigious Lignum Award, honoring the best buildings in Switzerland using wood, for Carnal Hall at Le Rosey. Carnal Hall features the first philharmonic concert hall of its size which repurposes modest, utilitarian Oriented Strand Board (OSB) wood—typically used on construction sites—to achieve world-class acoustics on budget.
Tschumi Pavilion Celebrates 25th Anniversary![Tschumi Pavilion Celebrates 25th Anniversary]()
September 23, 2015
On Saturday, September 26th, Bernard Tschumi will visit Groningen, The Netherlands to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Tschumi Pavilion. Originally designed in 1990 as a temporary structure for “What a Wonderful World,” a local art and architecture festival, the popular pavilion has become an important forum for the city, hosting a series of site-specific installations by contemporary artists.
Image: Shift Architecture Urbanism/René de Wit
Image: Shift Architecture Urbanism/René de Wit
On Show![On Show]()
September 16, 2015
Following the most recent version of Bernard Tschumi’s retrospective at SAM Basel, a comprehensive version of the original Centre Pompidou exhibition will be opening at the Shanghai Power Station in March 2016. Tschumi’s work is also featured in the following exhibitions:
Homage to Le Corbusier, Villa “Le Lac” Le Corbusier (through September 27, 2015)
A History, Art, Architecture and Design, From the 1980’s to Today (through January 11, 2016)
Homage to Le Corbusier, Villa “Le Lac” Le Corbusier (through September 27, 2015)
A History, Art, Architecture and Design, From the 1980’s to Today (through January 11, 2016)
WHO Geneva Headquarters by Jean Tschumi to be Expanded![WHO Geneva Headquarters by Jean Tschumi to be Expanded]()
June 15, 2015
Berrel Berrel Kräutler has won the major competition after being selected from over 250 firms, including Rudy Ricciotti, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Kengo Kuma, Henning Larsen, David Adjaye, and WORKac. The winning design for the World Health Organization Headquarters expansion is connected by passageway to the Main Building, the competition-winning design by Jean Tschumi completed in 1966. The building features many applications similar to that of Tschumi’s original building, and opens the complex to its natural surroundings.
Bernard Tschumi Retrospective Opens at the Swiss Architecture Museum ![Bernard Tschumi Retrospective Opens at the Swiss Architecture Museum]()
May 15, 2015
Bernard Tschumi. Architecture: Concept and Notation, the first European retrospective exhibition of the work of architect, educator, and theorist Bernard Tschumi, is now on view at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, Switzerland through August 23, 2015. The exhibition opened with a special preview on Friday, May 8 and a conversation between Tschumi and Basel-based architect Jacques Herzog on Monday, May 11.
The Basel showing , directed by Hubertus Adam, is an edited version of the larger exhibition of the same name organized by the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France in 2014 under co-directors Frédéric Migayrou and Aurélien Lemonier.
The Basel showing , directed by Hubertus Adam, is an edited version of the larger exhibition of the same name organized by the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France in 2014 under co-directors Frédéric Migayrou and Aurélien Lemonier.
Bernard Tschumi Architects wins the 2015 Architizer A+ Award for the Le Rosey Concert Hall![Bernard Tschumi Architects wins the 2015 Architizer A+ Award for the Le Rosey Concert Hall]()
April 14, 2015
The Le Rosey Concert Hall was voted by the Architizer Jury as best among the Hall/Theater category. Located in Rolle, Switzerland, the state of the art philharmonic hall responds to major sustainability goals with measures including natural mechanical ventilation and use of recycled OSB compressed wood.
The Piranesi Prix de Rome 2015 for Career Achievement awarded to Bernard Tschumi![The Piranesi Prix de Rome 2015 for Career Achievement awarded to Bernard Tschumi]()
March 20, 2015
Bernard Tschumi Architects is pleased to announce that the Piranesi Prix de Rome 2015, recognizing career achievement in architecture, has been awarded to Bernard Tschumi by the Accademia Adrianea di Architettura e Archeologia and the Ordine degli Architetti della Provincia di Roma.
The award ceremony took place in Rome on Friday, March 20th, 2015 at the Casa dell’Architettura Acquario Romano. The event included a keynote lecture presented by Bernard Tschumi, focused specifically on the Acropolis Museum in Athens (2009) and on the issues surrounding the relationship between theory and design in Tschumi's professional and academic work.
The previous recipients of the Piranesi Prix de Rome are David Chipperfield, Peter Eisenman, Rafael Moneo and Guido Canali.
The award ceremony took place in Rome on Friday, March 20th, 2015 at the Casa dell’Architettura Acquario Romano. The event included a keynote lecture presented by Bernard Tschumi, focused specifically on the Acropolis Museum in Athens (2009) and on the issues surrounding the relationship between theory and design in Tschumi's professional and academic work.
The previous recipients of the Piranesi Prix de Rome are David Chipperfield, Peter Eisenman, Rafael Moneo and Guido Canali.
Architectural Concepts: Red is Not a Color published in Chinese ![Architectural Concepts: Red is Not a Color published in Chinese]()
February 01, 2015
Bernard Tschumi’s Architectural Concepts: Red is Not a Color(Rizzoli, 2012) is now available in Chinese. It is published by the Publishing House of the Electronics Industry.