Lebbeus Woods, Architect
16 Feb - 02 Jun 2013
Lebbeus Woods
Quake City, from the series San Francisco Project: Inhabiting the Quake, 1995
graphite and pastel
Collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase
© Estate of Lebbeus Woods
Source: http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/exhibitions/509#ixzz2LiNRI3xQ
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Quake City, from the series San Francisco Project: Inhabiting the Quake, 1995
graphite and pastel
Collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase
© Estate of Lebbeus Woods
Source: http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/exhibitions/509#ixzz2LiNRI3xQ
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
LEBBEUS WOODS, ARCHITECT
16 February – 2 June 2013
Architect Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012) dedicated his career to probing architecture's potential to transform the individual and the collective. His visionary drawings depict places of free thought, sometimes in identifiable locations destroyed by war or natural disaster, but often in future cities. Woods, who sadly passed away last year as planning for this exhibition was under way, had an enormous influence on the field of architecture over the past three decades, and yet the built structures to his name are few. The extensive drawings and models on view present an original perspective on the built environment — one that holds high regard for humanity's ability to resist, respond, and create in adverse conditions. "Maybe I can show what could happen if we lived by a different set of rules," he once said. SFMOMA has collected Woods's work since the mid-1990s, amassing the broadest collection of his work anywhere; the exhibition will feature these holdings, as well as a selection of loans from institutional and private collections.
16 February – 2 June 2013
Architect Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012) dedicated his career to probing architecture's potential to transform the individual and the collective. His visionary drawings depict places of free thought, sometimes in identifiable locations destroyed by war or natural disaster, but often in future cities. Woods, who sadly passed away last year as planning for this exhibition was under way, had an enormous influence on the field of architecture over the past three decades, and yet the built structures to his name are few. The extensive drawings and models on view present an original perspective on the built environment — one that holds high regard for humanity's ability to resist, respond, and create in adverse conditions. "Maybe I can show what could happen if we lived by a different set of rules," he once said. SFMOMA has collected Woods's work since the mid-1990s, amassing the broadest collection of his work anywhere; the exhibition will feature these holdings, as well as a selection of loans from institutional and private collections.