Bernard Tschumi Drawings, Le Fresnoy — Paris Exhibition

5 October 2017 · Paris

Two framed architectural drawings by Bernard Tschumi hang side by side on a white gallery wall, both from his Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains project in Tourcoing, 1991–1997. The left work — a sequence study on a dark ground — layers horizontal bands of plan and section fragments across a black field. The right, a maquette study on white, holds the same building in a looser, more exploratory hand. Together they show how the same structure reads differently depending on what stage of thinking produced the drawing.