SYMPOSIUM
Lebbeus Woods, († 2012) was a contradictory figurehead. As a challenging philosopher and writer, great visionary, gifted artist, fantastic teacher and excessive character he manifested his thoughts and visions in hundreds of manuscripts and fascinating pencil drawings of outstanding depth and gravity. Some of his companions invited to this symposium will reflect on his personality in relation to his overwhelming oeuvre and on how he influenced generations of students and confronted and stimulated the academic profession and discourse.
PROGRAMME
Introduction
Kristin Feireiss, Director, ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin.
Sergei Tchoban, Founder of the Tchoban Foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin.
Podium Discussion
Zvi Hecker, Zvi Hecker Architects, Berlin.
Christoph a. Kumpusch, Principal of c.a.k. Productions, New York.
Kimberli Meyer, Director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles.
Hani Rashid, Principal of Asymptote Architecture, New York / Professor of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Neil Spiller, Director of the Advance Virtual and Technological Architecture Research (AVATAR) Laboratory and Dean of Architecture, Design and Construction at the University of Greenwich, LondoN.
Moderator: Mark Morris, Director of Exhibitions at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Ithaca/NY.
The debate will be followed by cocktails and a film screening ["Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture", by Michael Blackwood (53 min.)].
Place.- ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory, Christinenstr. 18-19 (Pfefferberg), 10119 Berlin. Germany.
Date.- Saturday, 28 June 2014, 4:00pm
EXHIBITION
Bringing together a collection of the finest works of architectural theorist, draftsman, educator and architect, Lebbeus Woods (1940–2012), the Museum for Architectural Drawing presents Lebbeus Woods. ON-LINE, curated by his longtime friend and partner Christoph a. Kumpusch. The intensely rendered architectural and urban environments produced early on in Woods’ career are exhibited together for the first time. These ink and pencil drawings cover a wide range of Woods’ research and re-imagination of cities both real and fictive and support Woods’ longstanding desire to show the capacity of architecture as a transformative and eloquent force.
For the first time, Woods’ “4 Cities & Beyond” (1982–1983) projects - including “A City” (1987) and “Centricity” (1987–1988) – are brought together with depictions of “Region M” (1984), “Underground Berlin” (1988) and a design for a “Meta-Institute” (1994–1995). Figuratively floating above and between these locales are Woods’ delicate, metal-plated and cable-laced “Geomagnetic Flying Machines” (1988).
By focusing on the diverse characteristics of his line work, the show demonstrates Woods’ complete investment in drawing as the most forceful, evocative and uniquely architectural mode of communication.
Venue.- Tchoban Foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing. Christinenstrasse 18a, 10119 Berlin. Germany.
Dates.- 28th June – 3rd October 2014.
