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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 Working against the logic of 'nowhere', this issue charts his early trajectory through the largely unpublished drawings and texts, linking them with what came after.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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Editors
- Introduction: A Fecund Lucidity Spadework for a Palace
- Self-Portrait with Burned Weapon: The Wound That Does Not Heal
- Inventing the World: In and Around Illinois, 1960–75
- From Experimental Epistemology to Experimental Architecture
- Framing the Sky, Etching Clay: Walls of the Midwest
- Lebbeus – A Postmodernist?: Early Scenes of Shopping and Dwelling
- Attuned Rigour: Between Pictorial and Material Conditions
- Magical Transubstantiations: A Voyage to Italy
- Myth and Measure: Drawings of the 1970s
- Post-Apocalypse: The ‘Ring’ Cycle
- In Place of Light: On Early Writings
- Polymorphic Matters: Architecture, Change and Imagination
- Exit Velocity: Einstein Tomb
- Catalytic Moments, Friendships and Journeys
- From Another Perspective: The Samizdats Subversive Polemic
- Contributors
- What is Architectural Design?
- Architectural Design
- Forthcoming AD Titles
- EULA