Bernard Tschumi.When confronted with an urbanistic program, an architect may either (a) design a masterly construction, an inspired architectural gesture (a composition); (b) take what exists, fill in the gaps, complete the text, scribble scribble - To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way. "Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table." "It was working fine until one of the allocation routines scribbled on low core. in the margins (a complement); (c) deconstruct de·con·struct tr.v. de·con·struct·ed, de·con·struct·ing, de·con·structs 1. To break down into components; dismantle. 2. what exists by critically analysing the historical layers that preceded it, even adding other layers derived from elsewhere--from other cities, other parks (a palimpsest palimpsest (păl`ĭmpsĕst'): see manuscript. ); or (d) search for an intermediary--an abstract system to intermediate between the site, as well as all given constraints, and some other concept, beyond city or program (a mediation) ... It was clear that the elements of the program were interchangeable, and that budget priorities could be altered, or even reversed, at least over the course of one generation. Hence the concern, reinforced by recent developments in philosophy, art and literature, that the park propose a strong conceptual framework while simultaneously suggesting multiple combinations and substitutions. BERNARD TSCHUMI, BERNARD TSCHUMI ARCHITECTS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Taken from Cinegramme Folie folie /fo·lie/ (fo-le´) [Fr.] psychosis; insanity. folie à deux (ah-ddbobr´ , Le Parc de la Villette The Parc de la Villette is a park in Paris at the outer edge of the 19th arrondissement, bordering Seine-Saint-Denis. It was designed by Bernard Tschumi. At 25 hectares, these former slaughterhouse grounds constitute the largest park in the city of Paris and its second largest . Princeton Architectural Press, 1987 |
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