Mar. 10: Department Lecture at ETH Zurich with Tom Avermaete

Mar. 11: Notation(s) workshop at ETH Zurich with Carlotta Daro

Mar. 12: Conversation Dialogue at ETH Zurich with Laurent Stalder

 

Mar. 12: Lecture at EPFL with Pier Vittorio Aureli

 

 

For more info:

https://arch.ethz.ch/en/news-und-veranstaltungen.html

 

https://www.epfl.ch/campus/art-culture/museum-exhibitions/archizoom/lecture-by-bernard-tschumi/

 

 

 

 

 

« Jean Tschumi Designer »

Musée cantonal de design et d'arts appliqués contemporains (mudac)

27.02 → 26.04.2026

The Mudac inaugurates its new exhibition space, Le carré, with Jean Tschumi Designer. This exhibition, produced in collaboration with the Artistic Commission of Vaudoise Assurances, focuses on a particular aspect of the great Swiss architect's work: his furniture designs for Le Cèdre, the headquarters of Vaudoise Assurances in Lausanne, which he designed and constructed between 1952 - 1956. The re-edition of the furniture has been produced by Big-Game and noted manufacturer Girsberger.

 

« Des Cèdres à Dorigny, bâtir l’école d’architecture »

Archizoom EPFL in collaboration with ACM EPFL Archives

04.03 → 29.09.2026

The exhibit tells the story of the birth and evolution of the Lausanne School of Architecture—which Jean Tschumi was a founder of in 1943 and its first director—and puts into perspective the conditions of architectural education, its relationship with engineering, and the role of archives in building an institutional memory that sheds light on both the discipline of architecture and its teaching.

 

For more information:

https://mudac.ch/en/exhibitions/jean-tschumi-designer/

 

https://www.epfl.ch/campus/art-culture/museum-exhibitions/archizoom/des-cedres-a-dorigny-batir-lecole-darchitecturefrom-cedres-to-dorigny/

 

 

 

 

Work-in-progress: Sneak peek of Grid House, a project designed by Bernard Tschumi at the invitation of the late landscape architect Kongjian Yu. Floating above the ground and made of bamboo wood, it is one of several residences developed with ecological aims and sensitive insertion into the surrounding natural conditions for the Wangshan Yinlu Resort in Jinhua, China, landscape planned by Kongjian Yu and Turenscape.

 

Photo: Dasso Group

 

 

 

 

Excerpts, a conversation between Peter Eisenman and Bernard Tschumi, at Cornell University AAP NYC on Roosevelt Island on October 21, 2025. The event inaugurated a series of talks hosted by Peter Eisenman and Cynthia Davidson.

 

For more info: https://aap.cornell.edu/aap-nyc/

Photo: Savio Wu

 

 

 

 

Designed and constructed between 1991-1997, Le Fresnoy is among the case studies revisited by The Architectural Review as an important reference in the history of adaptive reuse.

 

Bernard Tschumi's innovative design—an experimental arts center and school near Lille, France—famously repurposed a 1920s leisure complex by covering it with a giant metal canopy. The strategy of the big roof protected and supported the existing buildings while generating novel juxtapositions and movement vectors, including the creation of an in-between space of suspended catwalks.

 

Article: Isabelle Regnier | Photos: Fabrice Fouillet

For more info: https://www.architectural-review.com/ar-1523

 

 

 

 

 

The Center for Sciences and Entrepreneurship at Institut Le Rosey (Rolle, Switzerland) is nearing completion!

 

Opening this summer, the building will host five levels of classrooms, laboratories, and programs to support student innovation, all organized around a grand atrium.

 

The circular structure enters a dialogue with its surroundings and shares a material palette with the adjacent Carnal Hall, a metallic domed concert hall also designed by Bernard Tschumi Architects and realized in 2014.

 

For more info: https://www.tschumi.com/projects/94

 

 

 

 

 

Bernard Tschumi launches Event-Cities 5 at architecture schools this Spring.

The presentations are held in libraries and highlight the important role of publications in Tschumi’s practice.

 

January 24: Columbia University GSAPP, New York, NY

February 28: SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, CA

March 24: Harvard GSD, Cambridge, MA 

 

The exhibition explores Tschumi’s practice as a theoretician and builder. It was designed around five specific themes, ranging from the concept of “movement” to that of “doubles”. In each space, unexpected “poetics” result from the “fortuitous encounter” between the calculated abstraction of architectural concepts and the lived reality of cultural or climatic contexts.

 

Bernard Tschumi – Poétiques

Until January 26, 2025

Palais de l’Institut de France, Pavillon Comtesse de Caen

27, quai de Conti, Paris

 

For more info: https://www.academiedesbeauxarts.fr/exposition-poetiques-de-bernard-tschumi

 

 

 

 

 

Bernard Tschumi and Groupe-6 architectes are pleased to announce Paris-Saclay University’s Henri Moissan Center received a Special Prize from the Prix Versailles as one of the World’s Most Beautiful Campuses 2024. The award ceremony, held at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris on December 2, celebrated the world’s finest contemporary architecture projects in categories including museums, airports, and sports venues. The prize recognizes international contributions of creativity, sustainability, and innovation.

 

For more information: https://www.prix-versailles.com/2024

 

 

 

 

 

Event-Cities 5: Poetics (MIT Press, 2024) is the fifth and final volume in the series documenting recent built and unbuilt projects by Bernard Tschumi. The 640-page book, which expands on preoccupations that have shaped Tschumi’s theory and practice, is now available online and in bookstores.

 

In this volume, Tschumi embarks on what he calls a “poetics,” addressing both the rational elaboration of work and the irrational eruption of inexplicable elements in his architectural projects. How do chance, intuition, and analogy intersect with the logical play of concept, context, and program to generate innovative and informed design?

 

The book features nearly thirty projects developed over the last fifteen years and demonstrates Tschumi’s longstanding interest not only in producing conceptual clarity but also in questioning architecture itself.

 

For more info and to purchase: https://www.tschumi.com/publications/73

 

 

 

 

 

On October 24, the AIA New York/Center for Architecture honored Bernard Tschumi as part of its Common Bond gala celebrating design excellence, advocacy, and preservation. The annual event welcomed one thousand attendees and raised nearly $1.2 million to support its mission, programs, and educational scholarships.

 

For more info: https://www.centerforarchitecture.org/support/gala/

 

 

 

 

 

Bernard Tschumi participates in the event: “The Grands Projets of the ‘Mitterrand Years’: Agreements and Controversies in Political and Architectural Circles.”

 

The Parc de la Villette is one of the "Grand Projects" of Francois Mitterand. This roundtable proposes to revisit the political, administrative, communicative and architectural apparatus put in place for their realization, as well as their reception and posterity.

 

For more info: https://rdv-histoire.com/

 

 

 

 

 

The Académie des Beaux-Arts (France) has awarded the Grand Prix d’Architecture 2024 to Franco-Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi.

 

The Grand Prix d’Architecture de l’Académie des beaux-arts (Charles Abella Prize) is an international prize awarded to an architect for his or her entire career. Along with its distinctions awarded in other disciplines, the Academy intends this prize to salute an exemplary trajectory in the architectural field.

 

An exhibition dedicated to the work of Bernard Tschumi will take place from December 5, 2024 to January 26, 2025 at the Pavillon Comtesse de Caen of the Academy of Fine Arts (Palais de l’Institut de France). The Prize will be presented to him on December 4, 2024 under the Dome of the Palais de l’Institut de France.

 

The Prize has been previously awarded to Alvaro Siza, Henri Ciriani, and Christian de Portzamparc. For more info: https://www.academiedesbeauxarts.fr/bernard-tschumi-laureat-du-grand-prix-darchitecture-2024

 

 

 

 

 

Bernard Tschumi receives an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Patras School of Architecture. As part of the ceremony, Tschumi delivered a lecture and presented a small exhibition of past projects.

 

The visit to Greece coincides with the 15th anniversary of the inauguration of the Acropolis Museum. A series of newspaper articles and an interview with Tschumi reflect on the celebrated museum.

 

 

 

 

 

For the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the French Ministry of Culture asked the 20 national schools of architecture and landscape (ENSA) to each create temporary pavilions at the Parc de la Villette. The structures, designed and built by students, will host various sports federations. They are made of sustainable materials like wood and straw in order to be recycled and repurposed at the end of the event.

 

For more information:

https://www.culture.gouv.fr/en/dossier-actualites/Dossiers/culture-at-the-heart-of-the-games-2/archi-folies-2024

 

https://www.lavillette.com/manifestations/archi-folies-2024/

 

 

 

 

 

Columbia GSAPP celebrates the 40th anniversary of Parc de la Villette!

 

Featuring Bernard Tschumi with Andrés Jaque, Michael Bell (Bell-Seong Architecture), Mario Gooden (Mario Gooden Studio), Jerome Haferd (Brandt:Haferd), Laurie Hawkinson (Smith-Miller+Hawkinson), Mimi Hoang (nARCHITECTS), Steven Holl (Steven Holl Architects), Wonne Ickx (PRODUCTORA), Jimenez Lai (Bureau Spectacular), Jing Liu (SO – IL), Reinhold Martin, Bart-Jan Polman, Galia Solomonoff (SAS), Mark Wigley, and additional guests.

 

For more info: https://www.arch.columbia.edu/news/lavillette40

 

 

 

 

 

The Parc de la Villette will be a major venue for the Olympic and Paralympic Games of Paris 2024. Organized by the Ministry of Culture and the French National Olympic and Sports Committee, twenty architecture schools across France will create temporary pavilions (“Archi-Folies”) to host various activities for French sporting federations during the 2024 Games. On July 7, students presented their initial designs. The models and drawings will be on view until July 20 at the École d’architecture Paris-Malaquais.

 

For more information: https://www.culture.gouv.fr/Actualites/Archi-Folies-le-monde-de-la-culture-et-le-monde-du-sport-se-mobilisent

 

 

 

 

 

Designed by Bernard Tschumi urbanistes Architects and Groupe-6, the new Biology-Pharmacy-Chemistry Center for the Université Paris-Saclay was inaugurated on April 18, 2023. The 74,000 square-meter (800,000 square-foot), €283 million complex is a major scientific center for the university and is one of the largest educational projects in France. The complex was completed in late 2022 and welcomed its first students and researchers soon after.

 

To watch a short video (in French) about the event by Le Figaro: https://video.lefigaro.fr/figaro/video/paris-saclay-le-plus-grand-centre-de-recherche-academique/

 

 

 

 

 

The competition for the Parc de la Villette was decided on March 25, 1983, after two days of deliberation. Bernard Tschumi was selected by an international jury from over 470 teams from 70 countries. His winning scheme, derived from the disjunctions and dissociations of our time, proposed an urban strategy for a new type of park based on cultural invention, education, and entertainment.

 

To celebrate the 40th anniversary, Bernard Tschumi Architects is releasing two t-shirts featuring iconic drawings from the project. The silkscreened white shirts depict either a grid of red folie transformations or a single exploded folie. The images represent some of the park’s key concepts: combination and fragmentation.

 

To purchase a t-shirt, visit: https://7dba1b.myshopify.com/

 

 

 

 

 

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new book devoted to Jean Tschumi’s building for insurance company Mutuelle Vaudoise. Join the authors Giulia Marino and Franz Graf along with historian Jacques Gubler and Bernard Tschumi for an event on March 16, 2023 at the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (MUDAC), Lausanne.

The MVA Headquarters remains an important reference for the development of Modernist corporate architecture and identity in Switzerland and Europe. The book charts the building’s history to inform upcoming restoration work.

For more info:

https://news.epfl.ch/news/epfl-publishes-monograph-on-le-cedre-a-jewel-of-sw/
https://www.infolio.ch/livre/le-cedre-jean-tschumi-1951-1956/