Anarchitecture

Anarchitecture

Author: Lebbeus Woods

Publisher: Academy Press

Published: 1992-10-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781854901484

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Study of Woods' visionary architecture which is concerned with the cultural regeneration of society.


Lebbeus Woods, Architect

Lebbeus Woods, Architect

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Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780942324846

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Lebbeus Woods, Architect brings together drawings from the past 40 years by one of the most influential designers working in architecture. Beyond architects, Woods (1940-2012) has been hailed by designers, filmmakers, writers and artists as a significant voice in recent history; his works resonate across many disciplines for their conceptual depth, imaginative breadth and ethical potency. Woods worked cyclically, returning often to themes of architecture's ability to transform, resist and free the collective and the individual. As an architect whose work lies almost solely in the realm of the proposed and the unbuilt, his contributions to the field opened up new avenues for exploring and inscribing space. The publication centers on transformation as a recurring theme. The organization of the images of works is thematic rather than chronological.


Slow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods Blog

Slow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods Blog

Author: Lebbeus Woods

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 2015-12-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781616893347

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In the fall of 2007, Lebbeus Woods (1940–2012), long admired for his visionary architecture and mastery of drawing, began a blog. Part forum and part public journal, the eclectic mix of articles, drawings, anecdotes, poetry, interviews, and photographic essays explored topics ranging from architectural theory and criticism to education and politics. Amassing more than three hundred entries by its end in the summer of 2012, it is regarded by many as the most comprehensive and accessible archive of Woods's prodigious creativity. Slow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods Blog, an edited volume of the blog's centerpiece entries, stands as a fragmentary essay on the nature of architecture that will be dear to architects, students, and thinkers everywhere.


Pamphlet Architecture 15: War and Architecture

Pamphlet Architecture 15: War and Architecture

Author: Lebbeus Woods

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9781568980119

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War and Architecture is a timely and moving response by architect Lebbeus Woods to the bombing of Sarajevo. With text in both English and Croatian, accompanied by the author's exquisitely drawn, hauntingly beautiful proposals, the book is both dedicated and addressed to the citizens of this ravaged city. Lebbeus Woods has long been fascinated by the intimate ties between architecture and violence. He identifies the two predominant patterns for rebuilding cities following catastrophic destruction: restoring the city exactly to its previous, "historical" state; or "erasing" the remains of the city to construct a new utopia. These, he argues, are twin forms of denial. Woods draws an analogy to the process of biological and emotional healing, presenting architectural forms that act as "injections," "scabs," "scars," and "new tissue," within the complex organism of a city. "Only by facing the insanity of willful destruction," he argues, "can reason begin to believe again in itself."


Lebbeus Woods

Lebbeus Woods

Author: Tracy Myers

Publisher: Carnegie Museum of Art

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13:

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Edited by Tracy Myers. Essays by Tracy Myers, Karsten Harries and Lebbeus Woods. Foreword by Richard Armstrong.


Radical Reconstruction

Radical Reconstruction

Author: Lebbeus Woods

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 2001-03-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781568982861

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Lebbeus Woods is widely regarded as the most exciting and original architectural visionary today. His body of theoretical work and extraordinary drawings have served as inspiration for architects, artists, and legions of students. Radical Reconstruction, now available in paperback for the first time, contains projects that address the relationships between architecture and war, political revolution/reaction, and natural disasters. These projects define new approaches to the reconstruction of buildings and urban fabric damaged by unpredictable and largely uncontrollable forces of both human and natural origin.


OneFiveFour

OneFiveFour

Author: Lebbeus Woods

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 2011-02-16

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780910413800

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Lebbeus Woods is a true visionary, whose drawings are among the richest and passionate as any in the history of architecture. For his first monograph, OneFiveFour, Woods painstakingly drew a book of two-page spreadsthat weave text, architectural elements, math, and physics into a unique vision of a new humanism for the information age. The powerful immediacy of the art makes it one of the most influential books we have ever published. Critic Michael Sorkin says it best: "In the mesmerizing, astonishingly wrought images of Lebbeus Woods...we are plunged into unfamiliar territory, a world of architecture beginning again....His ever-expanding discourse of the almost impossible is aninspiration not just to build, but to think."


The Storm and the Fall

The Storm and the Fall

Author: Lebbeus Woods

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 2004-02-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1568984219

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By any measure, Lebbeus Woods is one of the most original architects working today. His body of theoretical work focuses on buildings of crisis, whether marred by major earthquakes, suffering the effects of economic embargo, or damaged by war. Since the destruction of the World Trade Center, his designs have taken on new meaning and significance. In The Storm and the Fall, Woods brings his visions to a new depth, moving them from feverishly rendered drawings to three-dimensional space. The book focuses on two recent Woods installations - one at the Houghton Gallery at New York's Cooper Union, the other at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris - that address the role of today's architecture. The Storm critiques the geometric box that rules most building designs and proposes instead a dynamic field of potential energy, represented by a complex array of vectors. The Fall crystallizes a built space in the midst of collapse, witnessing a moment too brief to inhabit - except in imagination. Both pieces are explored in Woods's powerful sketches, renderings, models, and constructions, exposing the mutations that enable them to be. A postscript of his hopeful design for a new World Center relates even more of his ideas, and essays by Anthony Vidler and Paul Virilio offer insights into the significance of the work.


Earthquake!

Earthquake!

Author: Lebbeus Woods

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-11-06

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13:

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This first title in the new RIEA Concepts series edited by Lebbeus Woods himself. Earthquake! explores the potential landscapes produced by architecture working in harmony with seismic forces to create new post-biblical relationships between the human and the natural.