Lebbeus Woods: Exquisite Experiments, Early Years

Lebbeus Woods: Exquisite Experiments, Early Years

Aleksandra Wagner, Neil Spiller
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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 book, in collaboration with the Estate of Lebbeus Woods, explores the earlier period beginning in the late 1960s when Woods was 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 Working against the logic of ‘nowhere’, this issue charts his early trajectory through the largely unpublished drawings and texts, linking them with what came after.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.

     

    Editors: Aleksandra Wagner, Neil Spiller

    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

    Format: Paperback

    Pages: 136

    ISBN: 9781119984306

    Publication Date: March 2024

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