The Manhattan Transcripts

by Bernard Tschumi

Through a set of theoretical drawings developed between 1976 and 1981. Bernard Tschumi argues that the disjunction between spaces and their use, objects and events, being and meaning is no accident today. But when this disjunction becomes an architectural confrontation, a new relation of pleasure and violence inevitably occurs. 'They found the Transcripts by accident ... a lifetime's worth of urban pleasures - pleasures that they had no intention...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312512864
• ISBN13: 9780312512866
• Release Date: February 1982
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 83 Pages