The Manhattan Transcripts Project, New York, New York, Introductory panel to Episode 1: The Park
Bernard Tschumi
French and Swiss, born Switzerland 1944
1980
A photographic reproduction surfaced with red synthetic laminate that introduces Bernard Tschumi’s Manhattan Transcripts and tries to translate the event of the city—Central Park and its edges—into a graphic, cinematic argument about architecture.
You are struck by a high‑contrast aerial view flattened into two vibrating tones—acid red and dense black—so the park’s organic textures and the rectilinear skyline read as a disorienting diagonal split across the square support.
This piece helped recast architectural representation as narrative and performance, using photography and montage to link program, movement, and urban experience in ways that influenced later conceptual and multimedia architectural practice.
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
2.1995
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