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برنارد چومی Bernard Tschumi was born in Switzerland and studied architecture at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (Eidgenossi Technical University) in Zurich. Between 1970 and 1979 he worked at the Architectural Association in London. In 1975 he organized an exhibition "A Space, a Thousand Words" in New York and not long after moved from London to New York, where he wrote the "Manhattan Transcripts", promultaging the idea 'form follows fiction' (rather than the traditional modernist rubric of 'form follows function'). His work came to the attention of landscape architects, and the world, with his competition-winning design for Parc de la Villette, in Paris, France. The landscape architecture competition attracted 460 teams from 41 countries, and Tschumi won. Many of the other competitors were aghast: they did not see Tschumi's work as a buildable spatial design. They were wrong: it has been built. Some parts are very successful and others look more fatuous and dated with every passing year. Alfred Lerner Hall Alfred Lerner Hall is the student center or students' union of Columbia University. It is named for Al Lerner, who financed part of its construction. Situated on the university's historic Morningside Heights campus in New York City, the building, designed by deconstructivist architect Bernard Tschumi, then dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, opened in 1999, replacing the previous student center, Ferris Booth Hall, which stood from 1960-1996. It attempts to both conform to its context of neoclassical McKim, Mead, and White buildings as well as break out of their mold. In so doing, Lerner Hall features redbrick cladding and proportions that hold the street wall of university buildings along Broadway, but reveals a vast glass wall to the campus fabricated by Eiffel Constructions Metalliques, descendant of the firm that built the Eiffel Tower. Behind the wall are a series of escalating ramps that give the building a unified sense of space and are meant to act as a social meeting place much like the steps of Low Memorial Library. Parc de la Villette The Parc de la Villette is a park in Paris at the outer edge of the 19th arrondissement, bordering the Boulevard Périphérique, which is a ring road around Paris, and the suburban department of Seine-Saint-Denis. At 55 hectares (of which 35 hectares are green space), these grounds constitute the largest fully- landscaped park in the city of Paris and a green space second in size to only the Père-Lachaise cemetery. Acropolis Museum The Acropolis Museum is an archaeological museum focused on the findings of the archaeological site of the Acropolis of Athens. The museum was built to house every artifact found on the rock and on its feet, from the Greek Bronze Age to Roman and Byzantine Greece. It also lies on the archaeological site of Makrygianni and the ruins of a part of Roman and early Byzantine Athens. The museum was founded in 2003 while the Organisation of the Museum was established in 2008. It opened to the public on June 21, 2009. Nearly 4,000 objects are exhibited over an area of 14,000 square metres.The Organisation for the Construction of the new museum is chaired by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Professor Emeritus of Archaeology, Dimitrios Pandermalis. THE NEW ACROPOLIS MUSEUM Florida International University Florida International University, commonly referred to as FIU, is a public research university located in Miami, Florida, in the United States, with its main campus at University Park. Florida International University is classified as a Research University with high research activity by the Carnegie Foundation, and is a first-tier research university as designated by the Florida Legislature. Founded in 1965, FIU is the youngest university to be awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the country's oldest academic honor society. Florida International University offers 191 programs of study with more than 280 majors in 23 colleges and schools. FIU offers many graduate programs, including architecture, business administration, engineering, law, and medicine, offering 82 master's degrees, 20 doctoral degrees, and 2 professional degrees.FIU is the 15th-largest university in the United States, and the 4th-largest university in Florida For Fall 2009, total enrollmen was 40,151 students and 2,974 full-time faculty with 152,080 alumni around the world Vacheron Constantin Vacheron Constantin is a Swiss manufacture of prestige watches and a brand of the Richemont group. It currently employs around 400 people worldwide, most of whom are based in the manufacturing plant; a modern building in Geneva. The brand is established in almost 80 countries around the world, distributed through 15 boutiques that sell no other brand, as well as a network of over 500 carefully selected points of sale. Previous Vacheron Constantin owners include Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius XI, the Duke of Windsor and Harry Truman. University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati is a coeducational public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, part of the University System of Ohio. The 2007 rankings from The Center at Arizona State University place the University of Cincinnati as a "Public University Ranking in the Top 25 among Publics", tied for the 37th best public research university and 70th overall research university in the United States.[3] The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classifies UC as a Research University-Very High Research Activity. UC has an annual enrollment of approximately 35,000 students—thus making it one of the 100 largest universities in the U.S. It offers nearly 600 programs of study, ranging from two-year Associate's degrees to doctoral and post-doctorate education. With an economic impact of over $3 billion per year, it is the largest single employer in Greater Cincinnati. Concert Hall, Limoges, France (2007) Norfolk Street in the Lower East Side of New York City (2007) LeFresnoy, Tourcoing Interface Flon, Lausanne.

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