Menage a Trois: Seduction

The first installment of Ménage à Trois in New York City will be concerned with "Seduction."

Bernard Tschumi, architect, professor and former Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Presentation, will open the conversation series and will be joined by two other guests yet unknown.

Ménage à Trois is an unconventional conversational format concerned with the built environment, moderated with live audiovisual techniques. It brings together three professionals or intellectuals from different disciplines and a heterogeneous audience seeking to distort the boundaries between them.

These conversations operate under specific rules. Ménage à Trois selects a theme and invites an architect to discuss it. This first guest consequently invites an interlocutor of his/her interest, who is not an architect. This second guest proceeds similarly, inviting a third interlocutor from yet a different discipline. The topic initially proposed is enriched or challenged in unexpected encounters of different vocabularies and disciplinary outlooks.

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