The Manhattan Transcripts Project, New York, New York, Introductory panel to Episode 2: The Street (Border Crossing)
Bernard Tschumi
French and Swiss, born Switzerland 1944
1980
An introductory 1980 photographic panel by Bernard Tschumi, laminated in vivid red, that seeks to present the urban street as a staged sequence of events rather than a fixed backdrop.
A flat, intense red field is punctured by grainy black halftone silhouettes of buildings, awnings, and signage, reading like a cinematic still stripped to bold graphic contrast.
Part of The Manhattan Transcripts, this work helped recast architectural representation as choreography and narrative, opening up design to filmic, event-based, and deconstructivist approaches.
Medium
Photographic reproduction with colored synthetic laminate
Dimensions
20 x 20" (50.8 X 50.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchase and partial gift of the architect in honor of Lily Auchincloss
Accession
4.1995
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