Many of my early projects were first shown in art galleries. I started by integrating the idea of movement and events in the definition of architecture. I like to quote Orson Welles the filmmaker, who once said, ‘I don’t enjoy cinema, I enjoy making cinema.’ Most of my work has been involved with questioning what architecture really is. “I was really more interested in the making of architecture. “I never looked at it as a path to success,” he says. Winning the international competition in 1983 to build the Parc de la Villette, Tschumi’s idea for the new unprecedented social and cultural park was based on activity instead of nature, where its many buildings, gardens, bridges and fields served as the staging ground for concerts, exhibitions, sporting events and more. He relates, “I would like people in general, and not only architects, to understand that architecture is not only what it looks like, but also what happens in it.” His buildings respond to and intensify the activities that occur within them, and the combination of spaces, movements and events change and creatively extend the structures that contain them. This has remained central to his work, where architecture must originate from ideas and concepts before becoming form, and cannot be dissociated from the events and movements of the living beings that inhabit it. He believed that there was no architecture without events, actions or activity. In fact, long before his first completed project, the contemporary of Zaha Hadid and Rem Koolhaas was already widely known for his theoretical drawings and written texts, like The Manhattan Transcripts developed in the late 1970s, in which he transcribed aspects normally removed from conventional architectural representation, like the complex relationship between spaces and their use. Tschumi has always been interested in concept and experience. Over the course of his 40-year career, the award-winning Swiss-French architect Bernard Tschumi, an integral part of the architectural landscape of France, has proven that architecture isn’t simply about space and form, but also about event, action and what happens in space.