the ppt consists of projects by deconstrutivist architect bernard tshumi.

1. History of architecture
Architecture of Bernard Tschumi
Of spaces and events.
Prashant chavan
S.Y.BArch

2. Bernard Tschumi
Bernard Tschumi is widely recognized as one of
today‟s foremost architects. First known as a
theorist,
In the 1970s he taught at the Architectural
Association school in London and during this
period he developed the „strategy of
disjunctions‟, a theory based on his belief that
contemporary culture and architecture were
best expressed by fragmentation as opposed to
the classical ideal of unity.
Tschumi often references other disciplines in his
work, such as literature and film, proving that
architecture must participate in culture‟s
polemics and question its foundations.

3. Glass video gallery-1990
• The video gallery was the first work to
deal with the concept of the
envelope. It is about the movement
of the body as it travels through the
exhibition space and about the
enclosure, which is made entirely out
of glass held by clips, including its
vertical supports and horizontal
beams.

4. Glass video gallery
• The resulting structure gives priority
to the image. The monitors inside
provide unstable facades, while the
glass reflections create mirages that
suggest limitless space. At night, the
space becomes an ensemble of
mirrors and reflections

5. Bridge City Lausanne, 1988
• Programmatic and spatial
transformations are the basis of the
intervention. Instead of adopting the
conservative strategy of concentrating
only on the lower level of the valley, the
project takes advantage of Lausanne's
existing bridge typologies by radically
extending them

6. Bridge city-1988
The concept of the
urban generator not only creates
the possibility of new spatial links
within the existing city, but also
encourages
unpredictable programmatic
factors or new urban events, that will
inevitably appear in coming
decades
Along the valley's north-south axis, the
inhabited bridge-cities use
the program to link two parts of the city
that conflict in both scale and
character.

7. Bridge city
Each bridge accommodates two
categories of use: in the core
element, public or commercial use,
and at the deck level, pedestrian
traffic and related uses

8. Acropolis museum-2001-2009
• Located at the foot of the
Acropolis, the site
confronted with sensitive
archeological
excavations, the
presence of the
contemporary city and its
street grid, and the
Parthenon itself.

9. Acropolis museum
Combined with a hot climate in an
earthquake region, these conditions
moved us to design a simple and
precise museum with the
mathematical and conceptual clarity
of ancient Greece.

10. Acropolis museum- Plans

11. Acropolis museum-section and
views

12. Parc de la Villette- 1982-1998
• During the early 1980s, after President
Mitterand took office, Paris was undergoing
an urban redevelopment as part of city
beautification, as well as making Paris a
more tourist influenced city. In 1982-3, the
Parc de la Villette competition was
organized to redevelop the abandoned
land from the meat market and
slaughterhouses that dated back to 1860
• La Villette has become known as an
unprecedented type of park, one based on
“culture” rather than “nature.”
• Unlike other entries in the competition,
Tschumi did not design the park in a
traditional mindset where landscape and
nature are the predominant forces behind
the design [i.e. Central Park]. Rather he
envisioned Parc de la Villette as a place of
culture where natural and artificial [man-
made] are forced together into a state of
constant reconfiguration and discovery.

13. Parc de la Villette
• A system of dispersed “points”—the red
enameled steel folies that support
different cultural and leisure activities—is
superimposed on a system of lines that
emphasizes movement through the park
• La Villette could be conceived of as one
of the largest buildings ever constructed
— a discontinuous building but a single
structure nevertheless, overlapping the
site‟s existing features and articulating
new activities
• It opposes the landscape notion of
Olmstead, widespread during the 19th
century, that “in the park, the city is not
supposed to exist.”
• Instead, it proposes a social and cultural
park with activities that include workshops,
gymnasium and bath facilities,
playgrounds, exhibitions, concerts,
science experiments, games and
competitions

14. Parc de la Villette
He designed a number of small experimental
constructions that he called „follies‟, playing on
the double meaning of the French word folie as a
state of mental imbalance into the pavilion.

15. Bibliography
• http://www.tschumi.com/projects/17/#
• http://www.archdaily.com/61898/new-acropolis-museum-bernard-tschumi-architects/
• http://www.tschumi.com/projects/2/
• http://www.tschumi.com/projects/3/
• http://www.archdaily.com/92321/ad-classics-parc-de-la-villette-bernard-tschumi/
• http://www.artfact.com/artist/tschumi-bernard-i8y5fdnmw6
• http://www.tschumi.com/bernard-tschumi/

16. Thank you