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Event-Cities 3 Concept vs. Context vs. Content

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ISBN-10: 0262701103

ISBN-13: 9780262701105

Edition: 2005

Authors: Bernard Tschumi

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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…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 4/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 6.81" wide x 9.09" long x 1.97" tall
Weight: 3.278
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.

Introduction: Concept, Context, Content
New York, Urban Glass House, 2000: Vision Glass
A Tactical Indifference
Angouleme, Exhibition Center, 2000: Concept Decontextualized
Geneva, Vacheron Constantin Headquarters, 2001--2004: Manufacturing Time
Strasbourg, Concert Hall, 2003: Megaspan
B Reciprocity and Conflict
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Science Center, 2000: Phagocyte
Limoges, Concert Hall, 2003--: Concept Recontextualized
Vendee, International Sports Center, 2001: Double Content
C Contextualizing Concept
Rome, Italian Space Agency, 2000: Fractal Cantilever
Antwerp, Museum aan de Stroom, 2000: Fractal Matrix
Sao Paulo, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001: A Vertical Museum Sketchbook
Troy, Electronic Media and Performing Arts Center, 2001: Double Envelope
D Conceptualizing Context
New York, Museum for African Art, Version 1, 2000--2002: Wood Curves, Glass Box
New York, Museum for African Art, Version 2, 2003--2004: The Tower versus the Museum
Cincinnati, Athletic Center, 2001--: Contextual Free Form
Athens, New Acropolis Museum, 2000--: Paradoxes, Paraboxes
E Context Becoming Concept
Nice, Sophia-Antipolis Campus, 2004: Camouflage
F Large Scale: Concepts Becoming Contexts
Paris, Expo 2004, 2001: Virtual City of Images
Toronto, Downsview Park, 2000: Natural Artifice
New York, Tri-Towers of Babel: Questioning Ground Zero, 2002: Whose Context?
Beijing, Factory 798, 2003--: Superposition
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