Bernard Tschumi Team wins Competition for A new centre of excellence in Biology-Pharmacy-Chemistry for Paris-Sud University

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Consortium led by Bouygues Construction. Architects.- Bernard Tschumi urbanistes Architectes (BTuA: Bernard Tschumi, Véronique Descharrières) and Bernard Tschumi Architects (BTA New York: Bernard Tschumi, Joel Rutten) Groupe-6 for the research spaces of the METRO site Baumschlager Eberle (BE) for the IDEEV site.
Client
University Paris-Sud / Paris Saclay
Dates
Preliminary Design.- 2015; Competition Winner.- 2018; Completion.- 2022
Area
Surface area.- 88,000 m² (1,000,000 sq. ft.) for the whole site including 74,000 m² (800,000 sq. ft. ) for the Metro site and 14,000 m² (160,000 sq. ft.) for the IDEEV site.
Budget
Construction costs.- € 283 M
Programme
Education, Public Buildings, Master Plan

Bernard TSCHUMI

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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