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Lebbeus Woods
Tracy Myers
Lebbeus Woods
Karsten Harries
其他書名
Experimental Architecture
出版
Carnegie Museum of Art, the Heinz Architectural Center
, 2004
主題
Architecture / General
Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / General
ISBN
0880390433
9780880390439
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=k-JPAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Considered one of the most innovative experimental architects working today, Lebbeus Woods combines an extraordinary mastery of drawing with a penetrating analysis of architectural and urban form that is fed by his wide knowledge of fields ranging from philosophy to cybernetics. The resulting work is grounded in real-world conditions at the same time as it pushes far beyond the boundaries of conventional architecture; Woods' passionate provocations argue for a critical engagement with the world that opens it to tectonic possibility, not simply bricks-and-mortar resolution. Unlike rather cursory recent treatments of Woods' work,
Experimental Architecture
provides a variety of contexts for it. Tracey Myers' essay situates Woods within the long tradition of the architectural visionary, defining that term and incorporating an interview with Woods as a way of understanding his seemingly dichotomous sensibility. In his own essay, Woods traces the evolution of his conviction that it is architecture's responsibility to respond to changes that affect the human condition, and that this agility requires not only formal innovation, but the invention of new kinds of space. Karsten Harries examines Woods within the context of a tension he perceives within contemporary culture between the real and the imaginary.