Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building…A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

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

Architecture Stage Views
Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.
BERNARD TSCHUMI

Architecture Form Knowledge
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

Building Intrusion Mean Order Space
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
BERNARD TSCHUMI

Delight Excess Prohibition
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
I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret
BERNARD TSCHUMI

Architecture Father Regret
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

Bricks Comfort Eye Mortar
To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.
BERNARD TSCHUMI

Appreciate May Murder Needs

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