Bernard Tschumi quotes

“To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.”
-- Bernard Tschumi

Source : Bernard Tschumi, Todd Gannon, Laurie A. Gunzelman (2003). “Bernard Tschumi/Zenith de Rouen: Source Books in Architecture”, p.18, Princeton Architectural Press

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“Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.”
-- Bernard Tschumi

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“Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.”
-- Bernard Tschumi

Source : Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.122, MIT Press

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“Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.”
-- Bernard Tschumi

Source : Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.66, MIT Press

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“I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret”
-- Bernard Tschumi

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“My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.”
-- Bernard Tschumi

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“The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.”
-- Bernard Tschumi

Source : Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.247, MIT Press

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“Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.”
-- Bernard Tschumi

Source : Bernard Tschumi (2012). “Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color”, Rizzoli International Publications

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“I appreciate what I have a lot more than I did when I was younger.”

“It is not arrogance to appreciate what Allah has blessed you with; arrogance is to ascribe those blessings to yourself.”

“My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.”

Source : "Interview: Ahmet Zappa" by Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

“If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go”

“A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.”

“What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.”

“Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and ­irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by A.L. Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

“A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may come to the topmost position of a brahmana.”

“The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.”

“I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.”