Bernard Tschumi Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Bernard Tschumi:

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-tschumi-quotes/#7569462c

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
~Bernard Tschumi


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-tschumi-quotes/#09e1b055

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.
~Bernard Tschumi


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-tschumi-quotes/#fb289667

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-tschumi-quotes/#9b031f84

I wear the same black suit. I have five of them. I pair them with a red scarf. I was wearing a red scarf when I won the first architectural competition of my career.
~Bernard Tschumi


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-tschumi-quotes/#979103c3

Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.
~Bernard Tschumi


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-tschumi-quotes/#3f88924a

I feel very comfortable in New York, in a city where there is no such thing as 'nationality.'
~Bernard Tschumi


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-tschumi-quotes/#8de48f1e

I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints.
~Bernard Tschumi


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-tschumi-quotes/#feb82a82

I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts. But I found that after the arm was put back together I could draw better than before. I have no idea why.
~Bernard Tschumi


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-tschumi-quotes/#4c822e19

When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer have that image, and I mourn it.
~Bernard Tschumi


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-tschumi-quotes/#01d5a033

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-tschumi-quotes/#093094af

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