In this extended interview, - shot in the Wine Suit of the Hotel Danieli, Venice- between Bernard Tschumi and Paul Finch for The Architectural Review, the well-know Swiss architect of Parc de la Villette, Parc Zoologique de Paris and the author of the Manhattan Transcripts speaks about his education , work and critical position.

Bernard Tschumi explains how a visit to Chicago when he was seventeen years old sparked a life-long passion for architectural design - something that had been somewhat repressed due to his father Jean Tschumi who was, at that time, one of the world’s most highly respected architects. His admiration of British architect and theorist Cedric Price led to the start of a career that saw his proposals for Paris’s Parc de la Villette foreshadow the age of Deconstructivism. Tschumi discusses his interest in the city and the interview end with his take on the future of the profession, Tschumi also offers advice to students and young practices and why he's pessimistic about the future of architecture.

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Bernard Tschumi (1944) is Principal of Bernard Tschumi Architects, New York and Paris. A theorist, author, educator, and architect, he is known for books including The Manhattan Transcripts and Architecture and Disjunction and built projects including the Parc de la Villette, the Acropolis Museum, Le Fresnoy Center for the Contemporary Arts, and the Vacheron-Constantin Corporate Headquarters, among others.

Tschumi was awarded France’s Grand Prix National d’Architecture in 1996 as well as numerous awards from the American Institute of Architects and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is an international fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in England and a member of the Collège International de Philosophie and the Académie d’Architecture in France, where he has been the recipient of distinguished honors that include the rank of Officer in both the Légion d’Honneur and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects.

A graduate of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Tschumi has taught architecture at a range of institutions including the Architectural Association in London, Princeton University, and The Cooper Union in New York. He was dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University from 1988 to 2003 and is currently a professor in the Graduate School of Architecture.

Tschumi’s work has been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam, the Pompidou Center in Paris, as well as other museums and art galleries in the United States and Europe.

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Published on: September 15, 2014
Cite: " Bernard Tschumi Interview" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/bernard-tschumi-interview> ISSN 1139-6415
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