17 Quotes by Bernard Tschumi

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

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

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

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.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

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.

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