Career Woods studied architecture at the University of Illinois and engineering at Purdue University and first worked in the offices of Eero...
System Wein with Christoph Kumpusch , 2005 is an experimental sketch of Vienna's 1st District, and shows how it might find a way to change, even radically, without rejecting its past. Visionary architect, Lebbeus Woods passed away last week. He was most well known for his experimental designs that depicted futuristic worlds and dytopic cityscapes. Similarly…
Oris • Interview: Lebbeus Woods
Note: This is a summary of a talk given at Postopolis!, taken in real-time, with minimal editing. Reader beware! Postopolis! was organised by BLDDBLOG, City of Sound, Inhabitat, Subtopia, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, and ran from May 29th-June 2nd 2007. Flickr group for photos here. YouTube videos uploaded here.…
Early drawing projects from the 1980s by experimental architect Lebbeus Woods.
[Image: “Lower Manhattan” (1999) by Lebbeus Woods, discussed extensively here]. Like many people, I was—and remain—devastated to have learned that architect Lebbeus Woods passed away la…
Pencil drawing of Aerial Paris (1989)
American architect was visiting professor at the Bartlett
The "Lebbeus Woods, Architect" exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art can be...
The American architect — who recently invited Woods to work on what would become his first built project — remembers a man of "very passionate beliefs and a deep philosophical commitment to Architecture".
Documentation of Lebbeus Woods at ROOM EAST, New York is featured on Contemporary Art Daily.
Here's the full commentary by Lebbeus Woods, worth a read. Thanks Ethel for the link. When rummaging though her extensive library, Aleksandra Wagner discovered a pattern book...
Lebbeus Woods. Terrain, project. 1999. Photocopy with felt-tipped marker, ink and colored pencil on paper with sanding mounted to board. Each: 19 3/8 x 23 3/8" (49.2 x 59.4 cm). Gift of the A+D Circle. 215.2003. © 2025 Lebbeus Woods. Architecture & Design
friedman benda presents an exhibition of radical drawings by the late visionary architect lebbeus woods in its los angeles gallery.
Defiantly non-conformist, anti-starchitecture architect Lebbeus Woods died on Tuesday, October 30. He was 72. Through a lifetime of work, the vast majority of it existing only on paper, Woods challenged the architectural establishment, railing against boring buildings and resisting the temptations of money and fame that turned architects like Zaha Hadid and Rem Koolhaas into celebrities.
Berlin's Tchoban Foundation museum for architectural drawing is showing an exhibition of futuristic sketches by late experimental architect Lebbeus Woods.
Lebbeus Woods. Four Sketchbooks. 1998-2000. Sewn linen book with felt-tipped pen on paper. Each: 4 1/4 x 6 1/4 x 3/4" (10.8 x 15.9 x 1.9 cm). Edgar Smith Purchase Fund. 214.2003.1-4. © 2025 Lebbeus Woods. Architecture & Design
the master of alternative architectures is framed by themes and ideas rather than chronology, all while showcasing his range of ideas and their deep roots in philosophy, fragmentation and the possibilities of the built form.
May 9, 1992 — The List Visual Arts Center presents an exhibition of drawings and models by Lebbeus Woods, an experimental architect who creates radically ...
Lebbeus Woods, is a revolutionary, experimental, and theoretical architect. He is regarded as one of the most original architectural visionary of recent times. He was born in 1940 in Lansing, Michigan and sadly passed away on October 30, 2012, in New York City. Woods' work is primarily focused on theorizing architecture in places in crisis.…
