Virtuael Book

In 2001, the International Bureau of Exhibitions confirmed France as the site for the 2004 World Expo, whose theme would be "Image--Images." France had not hosted an exhibition of this scale since 1937. A competition was held, and Bernard Tschumi Architectes was chosen as the Chief Architect of the 51-hectare site and as architect for several of the individual Expo buildings. Virtuael documents the development of the project, a project which will forever remain in its virtual state, as the Expo was cancelled in 2002. Here we have a master plan which includes gates, bridges, pavilions, kiosks, and an agora, and which leads to a peculiarly contemporary question, or perhaps the answer to the question: What would be, architecturally speaking, the "image of the image"? Published on the occasion of an exhibition at La Galerie d'Architecture, Paris. Essays by Anne Save de Beaurecueil, Véronique Descharrières, Luca Merlini and Bernard Tschumi. Paperback, 8.5 x 8.5 in./448 pgs / Illustrated throughout.Read More