Bernard Tschumi is an architect based in New York and Paris. First known as a theorist, he exhibited and published The Manhattan Transcripts (1981) and wrote Architecture and Disjunction, a series of theoretical essays (MIT Press, 1994). In 1983, he won the prestigious competition to design the Parc de la Villette, a 125-acre public park containing dramatic buildings, walkways, bridges, and gardens at the northeast edge of Paris. Since then, he has made a reputation for groundbreaking designs that include the New Acropolis Museum; Le Fresnoy Center for the
Contemporary Arts; the Vacheron-Constantin Corporate Headquarters; The Richard E. Lindner Athletics Center at the University of Cincinnati; schools of architecture in Marne-La-Vallée, France and Miami, Florida, and a 17-story residential tower in New York, among other projects. Currently, several major urban design projects are under way under his leadership: the Independent Financial Centre of the Americas in the Dominican Republic, a new Media Park in Singapore and, most recently, the Abu Dhabi Media Zone. Tschumi’s work has been widely exhibited, with solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Venice Biennale, the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam, among others, as well as art galleries in the United States and Europe.
He served as Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in New York from 1988 to 2003. His latest books are Tschumi on Architecture: Conversations with Enrique Walker, published by The Monacelli Press and a biography and monograph by Gilles De Bure, Bernard Tschumi, published in English (Birkhäuser) and French (Norma) editions in summer 2008.