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Tschumi to leave Columbia University
As from June 2003 – in other words at the end of the next academic year – Bernard Tschumi will no longer be head of the School of Architecture at Columbia University. “fifteen years is an architectural generation. It is time for a new person to take over, and for the school to enter a new phase in its evolution” stated the Swiss architect who has been living in the US since 1976 and who after becoming head at the New York university in 1988, radically transformed it. Thanks to him it has become an international model and a reference for the entire nation and, above all, the school owes to him its economic turnaround, going from a deficit of 250 000 dollars to a budget of 1 million dollars.
Many leading contemporary architects have passed through its lecture theatres in a teaching capacity such as Tadao Ando, Ben van Berkel, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Zaha Hadid, Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Frank Gehry.
Tschumi’s aim now is to dedicate more time to his own practice, based in New York and Paris, closely following the projects underway – such as the three new museums in New York, Athens and San Paolo – without however completely abandoning teaching.
