Parc de la Villette, Le Case Vide, Paris, France (Axonometric of folly)

Bernard Tschumi

1984

An axonometric rendered in pen, ink, gouache, and airbrush that stages Tschumi’s “folly” as an architectural prop—empty pavilions arranged to organize movement and events across the Parc de la Villette.

The drawing helped make architecture into a performative idea—prioritizing program, circulation, and event over traditional form—and became a touchstone for theory-driven, late‑20th‑century practice that treated buildings as choreographed sets rather than fixed monuments.

Art Terms

Architectural drawing Architecture Drawing Gouache Ink Built environment Choreography

Exhibitions

Visionary Architecture

1960

Le Corbusier: Architectural Drawings

1978

Preliminary Drawings

1970

Sculptors' Drawings

1986