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.
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