I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

- Bernard Tschumi

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for…

- Bernard Tschumi

Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusi…

- Bernard Tschumi

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

- Bernard Tschumi

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

- Bernard Tschumi

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks…

- Bernard Tschumi

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

- Bernard Tschumi

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

- Bernard Tschumi