Bernard Tschumi Quotes

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• Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.
• Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given…
• To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.
• Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
• I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret
• When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer…
• I wear the same black suit. I have five of them. I pair them with a red scarf. I was wearing a red scarf when…
• I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts. But…
• Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.
• The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
• The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
• I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints.

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