ARCHITECTURAL COLOR SKETCHES | 1055
Lebbeus Woods (b. 1940), Parasitic Post-Apocalypse Architecture, c. 1987-2010 (via postopolis!; nytimes)
“Over the past thirty years, my thoughts have followed a single line, in many parallel ways. It can be summarized in a single question: what is the place of one person - any individual - in the complex, ever-changing landscape of the world? lt is a question without a fixed or universal answer. Still it must be asked. Answers, however provisional, must be attempted. This is particularly urgent for the apportioning and use of space, which every person needs, and which the work of architecture explicitly provides. The installations I have designed and made in collaboration with others explore the phenomena of change in material and spatial terms. They work within already strong sites in order to expose these sites’ latent dynamism and the forces hidden within their stability leading to inevitable transformation. The aim is not to disturb the stability, but to provide strategies for adaptation when transformation occurs. Even more, they celebrate change and the energies driving it, as the essence of existence.”
BLACK & WHITE SKETCHES | 028 | RENZO PIANO
The Menil Collection
Houston, U.S.A, 1982/1987
Renzo Piano
BLACK & WHITE SKETCHES | 070 | TADAO ANDO
Tadao Ando | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
completed bldg here
