Tschumi le Fresnoy Architecture In-Between

by Tschumi, Bernard; Fleischer, Alan; Guiheux, Alain

• ISBN13: 9781580930246
• ISBN10: 1580930247
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: The Monacelli Press

Summary

Conceived for new art forms of the twenty-first century, Bernard Tschumi's Le Fresnoy, the National Studio for Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing, France, is part experimental art laboratory, part multimedia production center, part school, part cinema and exhibition and performance space. This highly celebrated building defies categorization, encouraging crossovers between architectural programs and art forms. A huge, technologically advanced roof covers both existing and recent construction, housing the renovated spaces of a former entertainment complex built in the 1920s. In Tschumi's remarkable building, the "in between" or residual spaces located between the existing tiled roofs and the new, hovering steel structure punctuated by glass "clouds" becomes a place where artists can take cover. Much as Tschumi invented a new concept of urban park with his Parc de la Villette in Paris, he brings to Le Fresnoy an innovative concept about the spaces generated by collisions between forms, programs, and the varied systems of contemporary culture. A group of essays by authors including Sylviane Agacinski, Alain Guiheux, Alan Fleischer, and Sylvia Lavin, among others, provides a theoretical and historical context. Extensive photographs and illustrations document the design, construction, and completion of this most polemical of new buildings.

Author Biography

Bernard Tschumi is the principal of Bernard Tschumi Architects in Paris and New York and the former dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Well known as one of the few architects today to bridge theory and practice successfully, he is also the author of Event Cities and Architecture and Disjunction.

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(8)
Bernard Tschumi
Le Fresnoy: Why That? Why There?	17	(16)
Alain Fleischer
The Architectural Project of Le Fresnoy	33	(45)
Bernard Tschumi
Le Fresnoy: Chronicle of a Construction Site	78	(11)
Veronique Descharrieres
Critical Workshop	89	(16)
Alain Guiheux
The Architecture of Le Fresnoy at the Crossroads of Three Programs	105	(14)
Alain Pelissier
"Radical Architecture"	119	(26)
Dominique Rouillard
In-Between	145	(14)
Sylviane Agacinski
The Screen of Contemporaneity: Space-Machines, Project-Machines, Building-Machines; Invitation to a Voyage in the Architecture of Bernard Tschumi	159	(16)
Joseph Abram
Inter-Objective Criticism: Bernard Tschumi and Le Fresnoy	175	(13)
Sylvia Lavin
Credits	188