Bernard Tschumis

Parc De La Villette
Paris, France 1982-1998

Asad Siddiqui

About Bernard Tschumi

Tschumis Background:

Born in 1944 in Lausanne, Switzerland

Architectural Education in 1969 from ETH in Zurich

Tschumis Teaching Career:

Architectural Association, London

Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York

Princeton University

Cooper Union

Columbia University, Dean of Graduate School of Architecture from 1988-2003

Tschumis Architectural Accomplishments:

Frances Grand Prix National dArchitecture in 1996

Numerous American Institute of Architects awards

National Endowment for the Arts awards

College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects - Member

Royal Institute of British Architects, London - International Fellow

Collge International de Philosophie, France - Fellow

Officer in Lgion dHonneur and Ordre des Arts et des Lettres at Acadmie dArchitecture, France

Acropolis Museum was honored as a finalist for European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture and AIA Honor Award

(from http://www.tschumi.com/projects/3/)

(from interview of Tschumi by Samuel Medina, http://architizer.com/blog/interview-bernard-tschumi-paints-the-town-red/)

(Point de folie Maintenant larchitecture Essay by Jacques Derrida, accompanying the portfolio Bernard
Tschumi, La Case Vide: La villette 1985 (London: Architectural Associates, 1986) essay trans. Kate Linker.
Reprinted in Architecture Theory since 1968 edited by K. Michael Hays.)

(Madness and the Combinative, Priecis V, Columbia University, New York, 1984. Quoted in Architecture
Theory since 1968 edited by K. Michael Hays.)

(Cinegramme Folie: Le Parc de la Villette, Princeton Architectural Press, Princeton, 1987. Quoted in
Architecture Theory since 1968 edited by K. Michael Hays.)