Boogertman + Partners | Home. Lebbeus Woods, visionary architect of imaginary worlds, dies in New York | Art and design. Lebbeus Woods, the cult experimental American architect, died on Tuesday in New York, aged 72. Born in Michigan in 1940, he worked for Eero Saarinen in the 1960s, but became best known for his conceptual work, which explored a kind of architecture "that gives us the opportunity to experience a type of space we haven't experienced before", through a vast body of intricate drawings and models. Dynamic compositions of splintered surfaces and twisted wiry forms, his fantastical scenes depicted alternative worlds, glimpses into a parallel universe writhing beneath the earth's crust. His dystopian visions were often set in disaster stricken cities – from Sarajevo to Zagreb, Havana to New York – and often adopted an almost medical metaphor, faceted accretions acting as "scabs" over the "wounds" of a building damaged by war and natural catastrophe.
"Architecture should be judged not only by the problems it solves," said Woods, "but by the problems it creates. " Lebbeus was a man of many gifts. AD Classics: Rothko Chapel / Philip Johnson, Howard Barnstone, Eugene Aubry and Mark Rothko Rothko Chapel / Philip Johnson, Howard Barnstone, Eugene Aubry (16) – ArchDaily.
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