Rashni Parichha | Book Review | Red is Not A Colour

BERNARD TSCHUMI RED IS NOT A COLOUR Rashni Parichha 001010201011 Design Methodology Department of Architecture Jadavpur University

INTRODUCTION You still frequently get asked,"Why are the folies red?

Why not yellow or orange ? And why not different colors for different events and meanings?" At first you just refused to answer the question . You said, " I never answer that question." Then you got bored with that so you said, "because RED IS NOT A COLOUR ." Right ?

It's mysterious ". You left it at that.Then you started to do other projects , and you were not going to use red in them. Otherwise , people wouldn't hire you because they thought that your buildings were going to be red.

But not only that. That's not the real reason .

You started to think that each project has a concept. The issue is how to reinforce the concept.

You decided that the use of colour would be a means of reinforcing the concept. So at Le Fresnoy, where you had a new roof over the old roof but also the walkways - all those vectors of movement - those got bright , artificial colors. Now the color of the material has a color ; the concrete has a color, the wood has a color , and the bricks have a color, but this specific color is intentionally artificial. So when you answered , "red is not a color," you meant to be more than provocative . For you, it is about what makes ARCHITECTURE CONCEPTS .

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S-E-M (SPACE - EVENT - MOVEMENT)

Robert Wilson , New York

Nazi rally , Nuremberg , Germany

Oskar Schlemmer Ballet at Bauhaus

Busby Berkley Spectacles

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NEUTRAL SPACE

ADVERTISEMENTS FOR ARCHITECTURE

CULTURE & SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP Rashni

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PARC DE LA VILLETTE / FIREWORKS You have always been fascinated by fireworks . One day you are asked to design fireworks for a summer festival at the Parc de la Villette . You ask yourself : can one extend the concepts and themes of the park up into the air?

Could architecture be turned into a kind of three - dimensional , ethereal piece of performance art ?

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CONCEPT / CONTEXT / CONTENT Are the concepts of buildings replicable regardless of the context ?

-Bernard Tschumi

Disney Hall , Los Angeles

Guggeinheim Museum , Bilbao

Boston City Hall , Boston

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La Tourette , France

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CONCEPT / CONTEXT / CONTENT

Villa Rotonda , Vicenza

"May be the assumed perfection of the Villa Rotonda made it become generic . Or perhaps the first Guggenheim museum was specific to its context , but when decontextualized and repeated in places like L.A. or Abu Dhabi it became generalized , meaning specific to Frank Gehry but still standardized in the sense of an identifiable or signature brand ."

-Bernard Tschumi

Villa Rotonda ,Chiswick

Circular parking

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CONCEPT / CONTEXT / CONTENT What is a concept and what is it for ?

Etymologically derived from the latin word "concipere" , a concept is about grasping or holding onto the real.

Concepts are what allow us to apprehend reality . Conceptualizing a situation or event means extracting the potential of its circumstances .

-Bernard Tschumi •

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(i) indifference (ii) reciprocity (iii) conflict •

How do concept and content relate? -

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How do context and content relate? -

(i) indifference (ii) reciprocity (iii) conflict Conceptualizing context Contextualizing concept Form follows function >> Form follows content >> Concept follows content Rashni

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"Architecture is not so much of a knowledge of form , but a form of knowledge."

- Bernard Tschumi

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