The Architect: Lebbeus Woods
By:
Brad Hoepfner
I
honestly don’t think that I have ever written about an architect in particular
and I am fairly certain that I will not be able to remotely describe how the
famous architects of our recent history think or approach problems, but I think
writing about Lebbeus Woods would be very appropriate for this blog.
Lebbeus
Woods recently passed away this year on October 30, 2012. To give everyone a
little background information from Wiki, he studied architecture at U of I and
engineering are Purdue. Lebbeus even became a professor of architecture and
taught at Cooper Union in New York and in Switzerland.
Wood’s
designs were rarely constructed, but they were very influential to other
architects and students alike. Much of his work was put on display in museums
around the globe. Many of these designs did seem and look outrageous but he did
believe that many of these designs could have been built. Blogging even became
an important part of his life, encouraging debates and conversations about
architecture and other subjects.
Woods
is best known for his radical re-imaginings of cities in crisis: the order of
the existing being confronted by the order of the new. Woods stated, “the
interplay of metrical systems establishing boundaries of materials and
energetic forms is the foundation of a universal science (universcience) whose workers
include all individuals.” Woods was a great thinker and architect that worked
within our lifetime, please take a look at some of his work and try to consider
the way he thought about the city in crisis and what we could do in the future.
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