Architecture and Disjunction

Name: Architecture and Disjunction
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ISBN: 9780262700603

ISBN-10: 0262700603

ISBN-13: 9780262700603

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

Authors: Bernard Tschumi

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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…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/28/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 278
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Bernard Tschumi is Principal of Bernard Tschumi Architects, New York and Paris. He was dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture from 1988 to 2003.



Sources and Acknowledgments


Introduction


I. Space (essays written in 1975 and 1976)


The Architectural Paradox


Questions of Space


Architecture and Transgression


The Pleasure of Architecture


II. Program (essays written between 1981 and 1983)


Architecture and Limits


Violence of Architecture


Spaces and Events


Sequences


III. Disjunction (essays written between 1984 and 1991)


Madness and the Combinative


Abstract Mediation and Strategy


Disjunctions


De-, Dis-, Ex-


Six Concepts


Notes