Lebbeus Woods: Exquisite Experiments, Early Years
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Lebbeus Woods: Exquisite Experiments, Early Years

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Lebbeus Woods: Exquisite Experiments, Early Years

About this book

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 Working against the logic of 'nowhere', this issue charts his early trajectory through the largely unpublished drawings and texts, linking them with what came after.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.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781119984306
eBook ISBN
9781119984320

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. About the Editors
  6. Introduction: A Fecund Lucidity Spadework for a Palace
  7. Self-Portrait with Burned Weapon: The Wound That Does Not Heal
  8. Inventing the World: In and Around Illinois, 1960–75
  9. From Experimental Epistemology to Experimental Architecture
  10. Framing the Sky, Etching Clay: Walls of the Midwest
  11. Lebbeus – A Postmodernist?: Early Scenes of Shopping and Dwelling
  12. Attuned Rigour: Between Pictorial and Material Conditions
  13. Magical Transubstantiations: A Voyage to Italy
  14. Myth and Measure: Drawings of the 1970s
  15. Post-Apocalypse: The ‘Ring’ Cycle
  16. In Place of Light: On Early Writings
  17. Polymorphic Matters: Architecture, Change and Imagination
  18. Exit Velocity: Einstein Tomb
  19. Catalytic Moments, Friendships and Journeys
  20. From Another Perspective: The Samizdats Subversive Polemic
  21. Contributors
  22. What is Architectural Design?
  23. Architectural Design
  24. Forthcoming AD Titles
  25. EULA