Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building…A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.
BERNARD TSCHUMIMy 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.
More Bernard Tschumi Quotes
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To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.
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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.
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Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
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I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret
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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.
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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.
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Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.
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