YSOA (Free subscription) | yesterday
Recently, I got a job to conduct the First Year Digital Prototyping & Frabrication Workshop. It was a short 5 days intensive 10am -6pm workshop, where through out this phase, it give the first years an opportunity to learn and communicate their ideas through digital modelling and frabrication. Approximately, there were about 7 of us tutors where each of us had our own group of students. I had 2...
A Daily Dose of Architecture (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
On Wednesday evening I attended a party at Vitra celebrating the publication of a long overdue monograph on architect Jean Tschumi, written by Jacques Gubler and published by Skira . Jean Tschumi: Architecture at Full Scale documents the brief career of the Swiss architect who eschewed his Beaux Arts training in favor of "the polemical field of modernity and its technological expression."...
Elginism (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The Architectural Record argues that the New Acropolis Museum represents the most powerful case yet for the reunification of all the surviving Parthenon Sculptures in Athens. From: Architectural Record New Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece Bernard Tschumi Architects presents a case for bringing the Elgin Marbles back to Athens in its design for the New Acropolis Museum. By Suzanne Stephens After all...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
I know that Simon Jenkins is fundamentally on the same side as I am, and I'm sure it wasn't he who chose to put that offensive phrase in his headline ( A banana republic police HQ maybe, but not a home for the Elgin marbles , 23 October). But his piece did contain more than its fair share of anti-Greek prejudice. The Greeks were "foolish" to turn down the offer of a loan of the Elgin marbles...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
The New York Review of Books, our content partner, Is teasing its new site by giving us a peak at their brand new blog section today. As usual it is filled with fabulous authors and great thinkers: Charles Rosen, Martin Filler, Jonathan Freedland, Jonathan Raban, Stephen Greenblatt, Istvan Deak, Perry Link, Garry Wills, and Ronald Dworkin. Read excerpts from their pieces below, and see what Arianna...
Curbed (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
It's been a while since we've checked in on Blue , our favorite Bernard Tschumi-designed pile of pixelated glass. Eagle-eyed local blogger Lo-Down noticed that unit 2A is up for resale. The listing gives us an opportunity to wonder aloud whether the glow of LES starchitecture has faded since the heady days of 2007. The seller and broker of apartment 2A would answer with a resounding no: they're asking...
boiteaoutils (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
L'enjeu Capital(es) Les métropoles de la grande échelle A huge event on October 1st and 2nd will take place at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Including the following personalities who will take part of 2 hours debats : Pier Vittorio Aureli (DOGMA), Peter Eisenman, Luca Galofaro (IaN+), Vittorio Gregotti et Bernard Tschumi . Andrea Branzi, Adriaan Geuze (West 8), Neven Sidor (Grimshaw...
Elginism (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
New Acropolis Museum architect Bernard Tschumi talks about the aims of the project and how it was designed to hold the Elgin Marbles. Listen audiovisual presentation at Pidgeon Digital.
Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
‘It is Greek because it is ecumenical.’ With this grandiose statement and the inevitable assertion of Greece’s claim to the Elgin marbles, Greece’s Minister of Culture opened the new Acropolis Museum in June. The museum is a magnificent exhibit in itself. Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi has taken columns, rectangles and triangles and presented them in a stunning mixture of...
Information Processing (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
I'm off to Athens and Crete next week. The main purpose of the trip is to attend a meeting on quantum gravity, but I'm also looking forward to visiting this new museum: See also this slideshow . Now that they have an appropriate place for them, will the Greeks get the Elgin Marbles back from the British? NYTimes : ... For more than 30 years, Greece has been working, through diplomacy and public relations...
BLDGBLOG (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
Just a quick note that the next few posts will simply be announcements for some upcoming talks and panels... This weekend in Lund, Sweden, Sir Peter Cook and Abelardo Gonzalez will be hosting the 2009 ASAE conference, the theme of which is Communicating Architecture . ASAE is an annual symposium at the School of Architecture , Lund University, Sweden. It celebrates the beginning of the academic year....
Archinect (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
First Archinect went back to the Future , but at least wasn't under four feet of water in a Tribeca basement . Also, Bernard Tschumi: responds to a recent Op-Ed. Instead of Lady Gaga , how about electro boy ? Costs of business rise , even in a recession? Who cares ? In the school blogs we hear from JDawson in India , jk3hl in Copenhagen and Evan on the Continent . Ray Kappe here and here . Is this...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
Designing a museum figures nowadays as a rite of passage in the careers of many celebrity architects. New York's Bernard Tschumi faced an unusually stern test in this vein after winning a competition in 2001 to build the New Acropolis Museum. For starters,...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
Bernard Tschumi, architect of the new Acropolis Museum in Athens, just sent us a personal response to the Archinect Op-Ed "The Acropolis Museum; An Unhappy Fit" by Jan Lepicovsky. We are happy to publish it, and you can read his response here .
Hrag Vartanian (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
At a Kill the Alarm concert at the Blender/Gramercy Theatre: http://yfrog.com/7gl1ej # At a loft party on the LES with a gréât vire of the Bernard Tschumi Blue building. # A very sad day // RT @TylerGreenDC @collegeart: A Titan of Modern Dance, Merce Cunningham, dies: http://bit.ly/JzFlW # RT @artfagcity: Bookforum.com relaunches. http://www.bookforum.com/ # Canada Wins & Religious...
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