Bernard Tschumi
Bernard Tschumi
Bernard Tschumiis an architect, writer, and educator, commonly associated with deconstructivism. 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...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth25 January 1944
CountrySwitzerland
Bernard Tschumi quotes about
eye bricks-and-mortar shelter
The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
regret father architecture
I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret
views architecture stage
My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.
appreciate may needs
To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.
mean order space
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.
architecture building cathedrals
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.
architecture form
Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.
excess delight prohibition
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.