[Ar.Pramod Gupta]

Deconstructivism Architecture - Bernhard Tschumi

Decon follies (like Tschumi’s pavilions at La Villettein Paris) seek to promote dislocation, not provide cosy shelter. Decon is mostly paper architecture, in which many of designs published in magazines are clearly unbuildable: girders projecting at weird angles into air, beams that pierce space like pins in a voodoo doll, and columns without function seem to violate laws of gravity.

The designs create non-sensual sculptures for an irrational world. “Making things fit doesn’t make sense anymore,” the Swiss-born Tschumi said.

[Ar.Prasoon Bansal]

Works of Bernhard Tschumi
Parc de la Villette, Folies, 1986