The Manhattan Transcripts Project, New York, New York, Episode 4: The Block
Bernard Tschumi
French and Swiss, born Switzerland 1944
1980-81
A sheet from Bernard Tschumi’s The Manhattan Transcripts—ink and cut-and-pasted gelatin silver photographs on tracing paper—intended to stage and analyze how events, movements, and human actions produce and transform architectural space.
Tschumi’s Transcripts reframed architectural drawing by privileging actions and sequences over static form, introducing filmic montage and narrative logic into design and helping to pave the way for event-focused and deconstructivist approaches in architecture.
Medium
Ink and cut-and-pasted gelatin silver photographs on tracing paper
Dimensions
19 x 31" (48.3 x 78.7 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchase and partial gift of the architect in honor of Lily Auchincloss
Accession
9.1995.1
Art Terms
Exhibitions
