Bernard Tschumi

Bernard Tschumi is an architect based in New York and Paris. First known as a theorist, he exhibited and published The Manhattan Transcripts and wrote Architecture and Disjunction, a series of theoretical essays. Major built works include the Parc de la Villette, the New Acropolis Museum, Le Fresnoy Center for the Contemporary Arts, MuséoParc Alésia, and the Paris Zoo. He was the Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University from 1988–2003. His most recent book is Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color (Rizzoli, 2012), a comprehensive collection of his conceptual and built projects. His drawings and models are in the collections of several major museums, including MoMA in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which featured a major retrospective, with an important bilingual catalogue entitled Bernard Tschumi, Concept and Notation, in spring 2014.