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Lebbeus Woods: Exquisite Experiments, Early Years
Aleksandra Wagner (Edited by), A Wagner (Author), Neil Spiller (Edited by)
9781119984306, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 8 March 2024
136 pages
27.4 x 21.6 x 1 cm, 0.567 kg
American architect Lebbeus Woods (1940–2012) remains a quiet hero not only among his colleagues, but also for architectural students intrigued by the ideas and fluent beauty of his powerful graphic verve, as well as of his writing. His projects from the mid-1980s until the end of his life have been widely published. However, this AD, in collaboration with the Estate of Lebbeus Woods, explores the earlier period beginning in the late 1960s when Woodswas honing his draughtsmanship and theoretical positions while experimenting with a variety of themes and different modes of expression. When he burst onto the international architectural scene with a solo exhibition and accompanying catalogue (Lebbeus Woods: Origins) at the Architectural Association, London, in 1985, some wondered how anyone could emerge so fully formed, from nowhere. Working against the logic of ‘nowhere’, this issue charts his early trajectory through the largely unpublished drawings and texts, linking them with what came after. Aiming to generate new scholarship, its roster of international interdisciplinary critics and commentators offer a new understanding of Woods’s work and of his formative years, also shining a light on how we might think about the ‘early work’ of any architect’s career. Contributors: Joseph Becker, Aaron Betsky, Peter Cook, Mark Dorrian, Riet Eeckhout, Kevin Erickson, Joerg Gleiter, Sharon Irish, Eliyahu Keller, Lawrence Rinder, Ashley Simone, Ben Sweeting.
About the Editors 5 Introduction 6 A Fecund Lucidity Self-Portrait with Burned Weapon 14 The Wound That Does Not Heal Inventing the World 22 In and Around Illinois, 1960-75 From Experimental Epistemology to Experimental Architecture 30 Framing the Sky, Etching Clay 38 Walls of the Midwest Lebbeus — A Postmodernist? 48 Early Scenes of Shopping and Dwelling Attuned Rigour 58 Between Pictorial and Material Conditions Magical Transubstantiations 68 A Voyage to Italy Myth and Measure 74 Drawings of the 1970s Post-Apocalypse 84 The 'Ring' Cycle In Place of Light 92 On Early Writings Polymorphic Matters 102 Architecture, Change and Imagination Exit Velocity 110 Einstein Tomb Catalytic Moments, Friendships and Journeys 118 'The notion of "early years" – a search for modes of thought and for techniques that would make such thoughts readable – has an aura of excitement and discovery, combined with a youthful productivity of output' — Neil Spiller and Aleksandra Wagner From Another Perspective The Samizdats 128 Subversive Polemic Contributors 134
Neil Spiller and Aleksandra Wagner
Spadework for a Palace
Neil Spiller and Aleksandra Wagner
Mark Dorrian
Sharon Irish
Ben Sweeting
Kevin Erickson
Aaron Betsky
Riet Eeckhout
Aleksandra Wagner and Neil Spiller
Lawrence Rinder
Jörg H Gleiter
Eliyahu Keller
Ashley Simone
Joseph Becker
Peter Cook
Neil Spiller
Subject Areas: Architecture [AM]
