Avant-garde theorist and architect Bernard Tschumi is equally
well known for his writing and his practice. Architecture and
Disjunction, which brings together Tschumi's essays from 1975 to
1990, is a lucid and provocative analysis of many of the key issues
that have engaged architectural discourse over the past two decades
-- from deconstructive theory to recent concerns with the notions
of event and program.The essays develop different themes in
contemporary theory as they relate to the actual making of
architecture, attempting to realign the discipline with a new world
culture characterized by both discontinuity and heterogeneity.
Included are a number of seminal essays that incited broad
attention when they first appeared in magazines and journals, as
well as more recent and topical texts.Tschumi's discourse has
always been considered radical and disturbing. He opposes modernist
ideology and postmodern nostalgia since both impose restrictive
criteria on what may be deemed "legitimate" cultural conditions. He
argues for focusing on our immediate cultural situation, which is
distinguished by a new postindustrial "unhomeliness" reflected in
the ad hoc erection of buildings with multipurpose programs. The
condition of New York and the chaos of Tokyo are thus perceived as
legitimate urban forms.
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