Rem Koolhaas & Bernhard Tschumi
A Conversation moderated by Stephan Trüby
with an introduction by Marc Angélil and Philip Ursprung

Date: wednesday, 18. may 2011
Time: 19:00
Place: ETH Campus Hönggerberg Auditorium HIL E1, E3 und E4

Rem Kohlhaas and Bernard Tschumi not only belong to the most influential architects but also to the most influential theorists of architetcure of present time. Their biographies show striking similarities: Both were born 1944, both have a broad interest in film (Kohlhaas even worked as a screenwriter before he became an architect); both were in Paris during may 1968, both moved to Manhattan beginning of the seventies and discovered at the same time New York City as subject of an intellectual dispute about the city of present time; and both oevres stand for something what could be called “performative turn” in architecture: They do not only reflect upon the “stone” of architecture, but also the “meat” of architetcure: functions, acts, programms, actions within the built space. Never before, they discussed about the shared interest and different approaches. Moderated by Stephan Trüby (ZHdK) and with an intruduction by Marc Angélil and Philip Ursprung (both ETH Zurich), they will do on the 18th of may in Zurich.

No entrance fee.

http://www.arch.ethz.ch/darch/pdf/aktuell/DARCH_KoolhaasTschumi_12042011.pdf

A cooperation of the departement architecture of the ETH Zurich
with the postgraduate-programm MAS Spatial Design
an the SNF-Project Re/Occupation (both Zurich University of the Arts).