Event-Cities 5
Regular price
€44.99
A01=Bernard Tschumi
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
architect
architect gifts
architectural history
architecture
architecture book
architecture books
architecture coffee table books
architecture criticism
architecture gifts
art
art history
arts
Author_Bernard Tschumi
automatic-update
biographies
biography
business
business books
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=AM
Category=AMX
cities
coffee table books
coffee table decor
contemporary architecture
COP=United States
critical theory
culture
Delivery_Pre-order
design
economics
engineering
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
essays
film
food
geography
history
history books
history of architecture
innovation
Language_English
marketing
money
PA=Not yet available
philosophy
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Forthcoming
sociology
softlaunch
technology
trains
translation
urban
wine
work
Product details
- ISBN 9780262549370
- Dimensions: 165 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Nov 2024
- Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
An essential resource on the work of Bernard Tschumi Architects, with a focus on how concept, context, and program intersect with intuition in singular and unexpected ways.
Event-Cities 5 is the fifth and final volume in the MIT Press series documenting recent built and unbuilt projects by renowned architect Bernard Tschumi. This volume expands on the theoretical preoccupations that have shaped Tschumi’s work in practice and pedagogy. In this volume, Tschumi embarks on what he calls a “poetics” that addresses both the rational elaboration of work and the irrational eruption of inexplicable elements in architectural projects. How do chance, intuition, and analogy, among other elements, intersect with the logical play of concept, context, and program to generate innovative and informed design?
Highlights of this volume include circular building projects, works with suspended gardens and floating rectangular masses, superposed structures created via surrealist tactics, an immense educational research complex in France that hovers between building and urban design, a museum in China made from intersecting conic shapes, and a project for a cultural center in Italy that is structured as an investigation into courtyards and facades. The book features nearly 30 projects developed over the last fifteen years and highlights Tschumi’s longstanding interest not only in producing conceptual clarity, but in questioning architecture itself.
Event-Cities 5 is the fifth and final volume in the MIT Press series documenting recent built and unbuilt projects by renowned architect Bernard Tschumi. This volume expands on the theoretical preoccupations that have shaped Tschumi’s work in practice and pedagogy. In this volume, Tschumi embarks on what he calls a “poetics” that addresses both the rational elaboration of work and the irrational eruption of inexplicable elements in architectural projects. How do chance, intuition, and analogy, among other elements, intersect with the logical play of concept, context, and program to generate innovative and informed design?
Highlights of this volume include circular building projects, works with suspended gardens and floating rectangular masses, superposed structures created via surrealist tactics, an immense educational research complex in France that hovers between building and urban design, a museum in China made from intersecting conic shapes, and a project for a cultural center in Italy that is structured as an investigation into courtyards and facades. The book features nearly 30 projects developed over the last fifteen years and highlights Tschumi’s longstanding interest not only in producing conceptual clarity, but in questioning architecture itself.
Bernard Tschumi is an internationally recognized architect, writer, and educator. Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, he has completed influential buildings in numerous cities worldwide, including Parc de la Villette in Paris, the Acropolis Museum in Athens, and the Binhai Science Museum in Tianjin.
