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Summary: Poseur's Dud Theories
Review: If the architecture of Frank Gehry, has been described as a movie composed entirely of special effects, then Tschumi's is like special effects that don't quite come off. Herbert Muschamp, the modernist cheerleader who is the architecture critic for the NY Times, began his review of Tschumi's Lerner Student Center at Columbia University by saying "By now, everyone knows that Bernard Tschumi's new Lerner Hall is a dud." And City Journal described his work as ""an agitated, irrational mix of limestone, brick, metal, and glass... giving the impression of a building on the edge of a nervous breakdown." Journalist Robert Locke has written, ""Tschumi's theoretical writings, the basis of his reputation, are a tangled mess that alternately induces dizziness and puzzlement as to whether the author actually knows what philosophy is, or merely heard it described by someone in a bar once ...... The worst of this stuff is so self-evidently empty as to defy attack". - It only remains for you to ask yourself whether you are one of those fools who will be taken in by this confidence trickster who has ruined the cities we live in, or whether you will move on to more intelligent reading. [Hint: Try Louis Kahn. it's a good start!]
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Summary: Poseur's Dud Theories
Review: If the architecture of Frank Gehry, has been described as a movie composed entirely of special effects, then Tschumi's is like special effects that don't quite come off. Herbert Muschamp, the modernist cheerleader who is the architecture critic for the NY Times, began his review of Tschumi's Lerner Student Center at Columbia University by saying "By now, everyone knows that Bernard Tschumi's new Lerner Hall is a dud." And City Journal described his work as ""an agitated, irrational mix of limestone, brick, metal, and glass... giving the impression of a building on the edge of a nervous breakdown." Journalist Robert Locke has written, ""Tschumi's theoretical writings, the basis of his reputation, are a tangled mess that alternately induces dizziness and puzzlement as to whether the author actually knows what philosophy is, or merely heard it described by someone in a bar once ...... The worst of this stuff is so self-evidently empty as to defy attack". - It only remains for you to ask yourself whether you are one of those fools who will be taken in by this confidence trickster who has ruined the cities we live in, or whether you will move on to more intelligent reading. [Hint: Try Louis Kahn. it's a good start!]
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Summary: Event Cities 2 - Five Design Devices of Benard Tschumi
Review: In Event Cities 2, Benard Tschumi lists out his five design devices or strategies applied in his "in-between" architecture.The first device is using space, event and movement as beginning of analysis. The famous Parc de la Villette is a typical example. The second one is using the concept of "movement vector" to organize space. Vector can be applied as landscape in an office building in Geneva or as infrastructure in railaway station in Lausanne. The third one is to explore the relationship between soild and void in his design. The fourth one is to activate the movenment vector is this void. The fifth "envelope" strategy is to explore the potential of building envelope as animated and integrated in-between space, instead of just building skin. Through the explanation of the above strategies in Event-Cities 2 by Tschumi, all the complex ideas behind his recent design projects from 94 to 99 can be well-organized and easily understood by both design professionals and students.
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Summary: Event Cities 2 - Five Design Devices of Benard Tschumi
Review: In Event Cities 2, Benard Tschumi lists out his five design devices or strategies applied in his "in-between" architecture. The first device is using space, event and movement as beginning of analysis. The famous Parc de la Villette is a typical example. The second one is using the concept of "movement vector" to organize space. Vector can be applied as landscape in an office building in Geneva or as infrastructure in railaway station in Lausanne. The third one is to explore the relationship between soild and void in his design. The fourth one is to activate the movenment vector is this void. The fifth "envelope" strategy is to explore the potential of building envelope as animated and integrated in-between space, instead of just building skin. Through the explanation of the above strategies in Event-Cities 2 by Tschumi, all the complex ideas behind his recent design projects from 94 to 99 can be well-organized and easily understood by both design professionals and students.
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Summary: so,so
Review: less than expected, and bit old. (especially in the case of la villet.) i do not want pay my money to buy dozens-years-old and thousands times represented project!
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