How concept, context, and content interact in architecture;
provocative examples from recent projects by Bernard Tschumi. In
Event-Cities 3, Bernard Tschumi explores the complex and productive
triangulation of architectural concept, context, and content. There
is no architecture without a concept, an overriding idea that gives
coherence and identity to a building. But there is also no
architecture without context-historical, geographical, cultural-or
content (what happens inside). Concept, context, and content may be
in unison or purposely discordant. Against the contextualist
movement of the 1980s and 1990s, which called for architecture to
blend in with its surroundings, Tschumi argues that buildings may
or may not conform to their settings-but that the decision should
always be strategic. Through documentation of recent
projects-including the new Acropolis Museum in Athens, a campus
athletic center in Cincinnati, museums in Sao Paolo, New York, and
Antwerp, concert halls in France, and a speculative urban project
in Beijing-Tschumi examines different ways that concept, context,
and content relate to each other in his work. In the new Acropolis
Museum, for example, Tschumi looks at the interaction of the
concept-a simple and precise museum with the clarity of ancient
Greek buildings-with the context (its location at the base of the
Acropolis, 800 feet from the Parthenon) and the content, which
incorporates archaeological excavations on the building site into
the fabric of the museum. Through provocative examples, Tschumi
demonstrates that the relationship of concept, context, and content
may be one of indifference, reciprocity, or conflict-all of which,
he argues, are valid architectural approaches. Above all, he
suggests that the activity of architecture is less about the making
of forms than the investigation and materialization of concepts.
General
Imprint: |
MIT Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
The MIT Press |
Release date: |
April 2005 |
First published: |
April 2005 |
Authors: |
Bernard Tschumi
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Dimensions: |
229 x 171 x 47mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
637 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-262-70110-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Architecture >
Theory of architecture
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LSN: |
0-262-70110-3 |
Barcode: |
9780262701105 |
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