- Paperback: 136 pages
- Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press (Jan 28 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0910413800
- ISBN-13: 978-0910413800
- Product Dimensions: 26.4 x 17.5 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 458 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #489,570 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Lebbeus Woods is a true visionary, whose drawings are among the richest and passionate as any in the history of architecture. For his first monograph, OneFiveFour, Woods painstakingly drew a book of two-page spreads that weave text, architectural elements, math, and physics into a unique vision of a new humanism for the information age. The powerful immediacy of the art makes it one of the most influential books we have ever published. Critic Michael Sorkin says it best: 'In the mesmerizing, astonishingly wrought images of Lebbeus Woods...we are plunged into unfamiliar territory, a world of architecture beginning again....His ever-expanding discourse of the almost impossible is an inspiration not just to build, but to think.'
About the Author
Lebbeus Woods has focused on theory and experimental projects since 1976. Now a professor at Penn State University, he won the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design in 1994.
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3.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
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Extraordinary Visions, Jun 5 2011
By John Young "Cryptome" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: OneFiveFour (Paperback)
Lebbeus Woods in OneFiveFour demonstrates magnificently the brilliant sensitivity and of hand-drawn visions in comparison to the vapid stupidity of computer-generated imagery. Woods captures the difficult, labor-intensive, built-nature of architecture rather than the all too deceptive manipulation of marketable pixels demanded by minds obsessed with ROI spreadsheets. His drawings require close examination for appreciation and knowledge of his understanding of structures in harmful chaos to counter the comforting illusions of craven professional architecture and its vulgar masters the legal and financial industries.These works tell the truth of our worldwide tormenting and tormented environment in which there is no safety and security only misleading promises of building codes and oversight of owners and their designers. CAD lies by its nature, Woods does not.
Woods' challenging visions should be essential continuing education for anybody licensed to savage the earth.
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Not quite what i expected, Aug 29 2011
By covalenz - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: OneFiveFour (Paperback)
This small book by Lebbeus Woods( the size is a plus compared to other publications of his opus) isn't his best publication.Woods is a really interesting subject, both his texts and draftings, explore the limits of architecture, and the concept behind projecting architecture.
This book does not show neither to a good extent.The text at the start is quite short, and the drawings... they look photocopied from some other anthologies already published.
There are better books of Lebbeus Woods around, this one is forgettable.
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