Bernard Tschumi Quotes

• Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

  Bernard Tschumi

  Architecture, Form

  Bernard Tschumi (2012). “Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• 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 space, the intrusion of one order into another.

  Bernard Tschumi

  Mean, Order, Space

  Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.122, MIT Press

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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.

  Bernard Tschumi

  Architecture, Building, Cathedrals

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• To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

  Bernard Tschumi

  Appreciate, Needs, May

  Bernard Tschumi, Todd Gannon, Laurie A. Gunzelman (2003). “Bernard Tschumi/Zenith de Rouen: Source Books in Architecture”, p.18, Princeton Architectural Press

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• The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

  Bernard Tschumi

  Eye, Bricks And Mortar, Comfort

  Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.247, MIT Press

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• My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

  Bernard Tschumi

  Views, Architecture, Stage

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• Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

  Bernard Tschumi

  Excess, Delight, Prohibition

  Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.66, MIT Press

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• I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

  Bernard Tschumi

  Regret, Father, Architecture

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