Bernard Tschumi, one of the most interesting figures of the contemporary architecture theory, has a fascination for the violent, ephemeral fireworks as a way of representing, staging and experimenting an explosive relation of space and time. A kind of sky choreography, in which different levels, rhythms and moments collide in their multiplicity and simultaneity, creating an event in which the pleasure is in the tension (and not in the unity).

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Friday 6 November [6:30pm] Bedford Square, WC1B 3ES

In the vocabulary of the   is a radical restructuring, the creative reuse of pre-existing artistic elements in a new ensemble. In 1974, the then-avant garde deconstructivist architect Bernard Tschumi, together with a group of tutors and students at London's Architectural Association, used Guy Fawkes Night as an opportunity to stage a detournement-inspired fireworks display that was meant to make "a point about the pleasure of architecture and the beauty of its uselessness." Tschumi has a thing about fireworks: they were used to inaugurate the 35 architectural follies of his 1982 design for Parc de la Villette, and he returned to the Paris park as the choreographer of a pyrotechnic event in 1991. "Yes," wrote Tschumi in the essay Fireworks, which accompanied the 1974 spectacle, "just as all the erotic forces contained in your movement have been consumed for nothing, architecture must be conceived, erected and burned in vain. The greatest architecture of all is the fireworker's: it perfectly shows the gratuitous consumption of pleasure." With Fireworks 2009, the AA's restaging of Tschumi's fireworks display 35 years

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