The Manhattan Transcripts Project, New York, New York, Episode 1: The Park
Bernard Tschumi
French and Swiss, born Switzerland 1944
1976-77
Three gelatin silver photographs arranged as numbered panels that juxtapose a cropped park photograph, a schematic map, and a fragment of ornament to suggest how events, plans, and forms overlap in the city.
Across a wide white field three small, numbered squares sit in a row—an off‑center, high‑contrast fragment of a scene with standing figures, a crisp networklike diagram of streets and nodes, and a dashed box holding a textured close‑up of carved detail—prompting you to read them as a connected sequence.
Part of Tschumi’s Manhattan Transcripts, this work helped reframe architectural representation as event and narrative, influencing architects to use photography, diagrams, and sequencing to stage space rather than only describe it.
Medium
Gelatin silver photographs
Dimensions
Each: 14 x 18" (35.6 x 45.7 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchase and partial gift of the architect in honor of Lily Auchincloss
Accession
3.1995.1-24
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