This event will be conducted in-person in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium and through Zoom. 

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Bernard Tschumi presents a selection of projects and ideas from his distinctive architectural practice and trajectory, reflecting on the evolution of his work and the influence of The Cooper Union during the early stages of his career.

The  lecture will be followed conversation with Michael Young, Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union.

Bernard Tschumi is an architect based in New York and Paris. First known as a theorist, he exhibited and published The Manhattan Transcripts and wrote a series of theoretical essays collected in Architecture and Disjunction. Major built works include the Parc de la Villette in Paris; the Acropolis Museum in Athens; Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing, France; concert halls in Rouen and Limoges, France; architecture schools in Marne-la-Vallée, France and Miami, Florida; Binhai Science Museum in Tianjin, China; and large educational centers for Paris-Saclay University and for Institut Le Rosey near Geneva. Tschumi is Dean Emeritus at Columbia University’s GSAPP, where he served as Dean from 1988 to 2003. He is the author of many publications including Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color and the five-volume Event-Cities series. His drawings and models are in the collections of major museums including The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which each presented a major retrospective of his work in 1994 and 2014.

This event is supported by The YC Foundation, Inc., New York.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is Required.