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The book includes the first comprehensive documentation of the drawings for the award-winning Parc de la Villette (including many previously unpublished drawings), his project for the expansion of the Museum of Modern Art, two architectural schools, a concert and exhibition hall, a student center, a railway station, a department store, and other urban projects. Tschumi suggests that architecture can accelerate the events of everyday life through new forms of organization. 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Event-Cities C4 follows directly from the work of\u003ci\u003eEvent-Cities 3\u003c\/i\u003e, which examined the interaction of architectural content, concept, and context. This volume takes the interaction a step further, looking at a series of projects for which program or context are insufficient as a generative conceptual strategy, hence requiring a different approach. Tschumi has said, \"Over the past years, there is one word I have almost never used, except in order to attack it: 'form.'\" In \u003ci\u003eEvent-Cities 4\u003c\/i\u003e, Tschumi introduces the \"concept-form\": a concept generating a form, or a form generating a concept, so that one reinforces the other. The concept may be programmatic, technological, or social. The form may be singular or multiple, regular or irregular. 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In the new Acropolis Museum, for example, Tschumi looks at the interaction of the concept--a simple and precise museum with the clarity of ancient Greek buildings--with the context (its location at the base of the Acropolis, 800 feet from the Parthenon) and the content, which incorporates archaeological excavations on the building site into the fabric of the museum. Through provocative examples, Tschumi demonstrates that the relationship of concept, context, and content may be one of indifference, reciprocity, or conflict--all of which, he argues, are valid architectural approaches. 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