ABSTRACT
The theme of all really contemporary architecture Tschumi asserted, will be a series of disjunctions between use, form, and social values. This chapter began by emphasizing the disjunctions between use, form, and social values in Tschumi’s ‘A Manifesto of a Different Type’ as well as the achievements of his way of architectural thinking, which the author has entitled Tschumism. The technological and spatial innovativeness associated with hypercritical space is supplanting the idle life-size areas of the world associated with human spatial practices prior to the advent of critical space. The chapter considers Paul Virilio’s grey ecology project in conjunction with the fissures and instability of hypercritical space, the incoherence of global hypermovement, and the disjointedness of dynamic hyperevents. Virilio suggests that his is essentially a response to historic changes in our natural surroundings and to ecology in the twenty-first century, and that there is nothing inherently opposed to green ecology in his grey ecology.
