Events
Island Editions Conversation Series: Bernard Tschumi + Peter Eisenman
In celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners, hosted by architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55) and critic Cynthia Davidson.
Across the fall and spring semesters, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design, its evolution, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public and registration is required.
Please join us on Tuesday, October 21, at 7 p.m. for Excerpts: A Conversation between Peter Eisenman and Bernard Tschumi.
Speaker Bio
Bernard Tschumi
Founder and Principal, Bernard Tschumi Architects
Bernard Tschumi is an architect based in New York and Paris. First known as a theorist, he exhibited and published The Manhattan Transcripts and wrote a series of theoretical essays collected in Architecture and Disjunction. Major built works include the Parc de la Villette in Paris; the Acropolis Museum in Athens; Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing, France; concert halls in Rouen and Limoges, France; architecture schools in Marne-la-Vallée, France, and Miami, Florida; Binhai Science Museum in Tianjin, China; and large educational centers for Paris-Saclay University and for Institut Le Rosey near Geneva. Tschumi is Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia University’s GSAPP, where he served as Dean from 1988 to 2003. He is the author of many publications, including Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color and the five-volume Event-Cities series. His drawings and models are in the collections of major museums, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which each presented a major retrospective of his work in 1994 and 2014, respectively.
Peter Eisenman
Founder and Principal, Eisenman Architects; Visiting Critic, Cornell AAP
Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55), an internationally recognized architect and educator, is founder and design principal of Eisenman Architects, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).
Award-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquarters building in Tokyo; and in Berlin, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.
Eisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many books are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli, 2008), which examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book, Rewriting Alberti (MIT Press, October 2025), with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Mario Carpo, and Daniel Sherer, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday, November 6.
Eisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University, a M.S. in architecture from Columbia University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Pratt Institute, Syracuse University, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan; and an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.