Monday, December 7, 2009

Bernard Tscumi's Manhattan Transcripts



Architecture is not simply about space and form, but also about event, action, and what happens in space. He proposed to transcribe an architecture interpretation of reality and its purpose was to transcribe things normally removed from conventional architectural representation, namely the complex relationship between spaces and their use, between the set and script, between “type” and “program, between objects and events.

The dominant theme is a set of disjunctions among use, form and social values; the non-coincidence between meaning and being, movement and space, man and object was the starting condition of the work. His aim was to offer different reading of architecture in which space, movement and events were independent, yet stood in a new relation to one another, so that the conventional components of architecture were broken down and rebuilt along different axes.

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