Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Parc de la Villette; Porte de la Villette

Preferred Title: 
Parc de la Villette; Porte de la Villette
Image View: 
General view, from near south entrance to park, where it meets the theater
Creator: 
Bernard Tschumi (Swiss architect, born 1944)
Location: 
site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Location Note: 
avenue Jean-Jaurès
Date: 
1982-1987 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Modernist, Modern
Work Type 1: 
park (recreation area)
Classification: 
architecture
Material: 
corrugated aluminum; steel
Technique: 
construction (assembling)
Subjects: 
architectural exteriors; contemporary (1960 to present); Boats and boating; parks (recreation areas); Transportation; park pavilion
Description: 
[Chairs by Philippe Starck.] The Parc de la Villette was developed as part of an urban renewal plan on the site the former national meat market and slaughterhouse. Tschumi won a competition for the design of Paris' largest park in 1982. Related to his theoretical work on 'event space', his proposal for a distinctly urban park called for the deployment of a number of abstract, programless structures, dubbed 'follies'. It was intended that the bright red structures would then house various events and groups related to the activities of the park. (Source: Galinsky [website]; http://www.galinsky.com/)
Collection: 
Archivision Base Collection
Identifier: 
2A1-TB-PV-A2
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.