Glass Ramps/Glass Wall: Deviations from the Normative

by Bernard Tschumi, Hugh Dutton, Jesse Reiser

Tschumi's Alfred Lerner Hall is a turbulent mixture of the conventional and the innovative. In the words of Jesse Reiser, Alfred Lerner Hall 'signals a crucial turning point in Tschumi's oeuvre. While a legacy of built and unbuilt works beginning with the Manhattan Transcripts prioritised the programmatic as an irreducible condition to architecture, Lerner Hall inverts this logic, foregrounding physicality instead.' Glass Ramps/Glass Wall documents in full the making of this complex building, from early concept sketches to structural diagrams and final construction photos.

96 pages, Paperback

First published July 8, 2004

About the author

Bernard Tschumi is an architect, writer, and educator, commonly associated with deconstructivism.