Friday, October 17, 2008

Tschumi

Bernard Tschumi describes five architectural theories that seem to have inspired him and relate to his own work. Tschumi's La Villette is a perfect case study for these characteristics and he uses them to make his argument. I think his work at La Villette definitely pushes the idea of order where there is no real program that dictates it which means there is no beginning and end to the work. Disjunction is particulary obvious in the repetitive patterns of La Villette as well as the framing that is associated with the ambiguous structure that makes up the forms.
Notation as Tschumi writes, architecture is more than just mathematical logic because it encompasses a culture that utilizes the building. I can understand how the forms La Villette take on the idea that certain facts are not actually connected because he is pushing this order and disjunction in this project. I mean i think their must be some logic in the way he designed and constructed the red forms but I agree that they evoke a kind of endless composition where it doesn't really appear to be a finished product.

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