Lebbeus Woods was educated at the Purdue University School of Engineering and the University of Illinois School of Architecture. He worked for Eero Saarinen and Associates and Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo Associates, then in private practice. Throughout his career, Woods has concentrated on theory and experimental projects since 1976. He is the cofounder and scientific director of RIEA.ch, an institute devoted to the advancement of experimental architectural practice and theory. Notable projects include Solohouse (1988), Berlin FreeZone (1991), Havana Projects (1995–96), projects for the reconstruction of Sarajevo (1993–96), and the Fall (La Chute) in Paris (2002).
His works are the subjects of many articles in architectural journals, books, and numerous monographs, including Anarchitecture: Architecture is a Political Act (London, 1992); Radical Reconstruction (New York, 1997), Earthquake! (Vienna, 2001), The Storm and the Fall (New York, 2004), Lebbeus Woods: Experimental Architecture (Pittsburgh, 2004), and System Wien (Stuttgart, 2005). He has received the Progressive Architecture Award for Design Research, the American Institute of Architects Award for Design, and the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design. His works are in private and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, MAK (Vienna), the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art (Paris), and the Getty Research Institute for the Arts and Humanities (Los Angeles). He has been a visiting professor at numerous schools, including SCI-ARC, The Bartlett in London, and Harvard and Columbia Universities. Currently he is professor of architecture at the Cooper Union in New York City.
Date |
October 26, 2011 |
time |
6:30 p.m. |
location |
AAP NYC, 50 W. 17th Street, 2nd Flr., New York City |
contact |
Brooke Moyse |
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