Praxis
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Praxis
（Event-cities / Bernard Tschumi, [1]）
MIT, c1994
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Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 21-July 5, 1994
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work presents an original selection of Bernard Tschumi's most recent architectural projects, which are at the centre of polemics on architecture and cities today. Tschumi has already expanded the field of contemporary architectural theory through his writings. Now, with "Event-Cities", he enlarges some of his earlier concerns to address the issue of cities and their making. He explores contemporary architecture through its confrontation with the major programmes defining the edge of the 21st century - airports, business centres, multipurpose railroad "cities," downtown areas and multimedia art centres - as well as video installations and domestic environments. Using different modes of notation ranging from rough models to sophisticated computer-generated images and testing various means to inscribe the movement of bodies in space, Tschumi reveals the complexities of the architectural process and the rich texture of architectural events that define the nature of urban reality.
This book unfolds a new type of architectural documentation, far removed from the glossy picture books that have become the major means of presenting architectural projects - a "project discourse" that may be as extensive and precise as any theoretical or critical text.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Planning strategies: Parc de la Villette fireworks, 1992 - cities of pleasure
- Chartres Business Park, 1991- Edge City
- Rotterdam railway tunnel site, 1988 - continuous/discontinuous lines. Part 2 Architectural urbanism: Kansai international airport, 1988 - linear cities
- Lausanne bridge-city, 1988 - typological displacements - crossprogramming
- Kyoto Centre and railway station, 1991 - disprogramming. Part 3 Urban Architecture: Tokyo Opera, 1986 - a mode of notation-programmatic dissociations
- Strasbourg County Hall, 1986 - old and new - the logic of fragments
- Paris, Library of France, 1989 - transprogramming
- Karlsruhe Centre for Art and Media (ZKM), 1989: - unstable images
- Tourcoing Le Fresnoy, 1991 - strategy of the in-between
- The Hague Villa, 1992 - domesti-city. Part 4 Transient events: Groningen Glass Video Gallery, 1990 - immaterial representation
- Paris, Pompidou Centre, "Art et Publicite" Exhibition Design, 1990 - Mediation I
- Tourcoing Le Fresnoy, "BTA" Exhibition, 1993 - mediation II.
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