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Radical Reconstruction [Hardcover]

Lebbeus Woods (Author)
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Radical Reconstruction is an apt title. It takes us on a journey -- some paths are implied, some are explicit --that questions and reformulates architecture's constituent parts. One by one meaning, function, representation, abstraction, et al, are run through the mill and recast within the contexts of war and cataclysmic social and physical fracture... This book is a critique against the rhetoric of reductivism and minimalism. This is 'full on' maximist architecture. It is an acknowledgement that the practice of architecture exists within a beautiful complexity. -- Neil Spiller, Architectural Design

As an architect, Lebbeus Woods may never hit it big. But as an artist, he sure is hard to knock down. Woods has developed a cult following in recent years becasue of his apocalyptic vision, and, in Radical Reconstruction, he illustrates this vision with three projects set in areas of utter destruction: war-torn Sarajevo, bankrupt Havana, quake-ravaged San Francisco Harbor.... Over the course of 200 drawings, Woods's outlook becomes painfully clear, all sharp angles and impractical spaces. And you can see why--with the mind of a sci-fi writer and the eye of a comic book artist--he has become an underground hero of American architecture." -- Weekly Alibi, Albuquerque, Sept 2 1997

This book is a must. In the first instance because of the renegade character of the work presented, but principally for the erudite philosophical foundation that underpins each project. Rarely does architecture get anchored so extremely and so credibly in the ideological matrix of which it is part...In a discourse characterized by an increasing disbelief in social significance, Woods' work forms a radical but extremely welcome counterpoint. -- Tom Avermaete, Archis

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Lebbeus Woods is widely regarded as the most exciting and original architectural visionary today. His body of theoretical work and extraordinary drawings have served as inspiration for architects, artists, and legions of students.

Radical Reconstruction contains projects from the last five years that address the relationships between architecture and war, political revolution/reaction, and natural disasters. Three projects--for Sarajevo, Havana, and San Francisco--define new approaches to the reconstruction of buildings and urban fabric damaged by unpredictable and largely uncontrollable forces of both human and natural origin. Such transformations are not only of physical structures and spaces but, more significantly, of the ways of living they sustain. The majority of these renderings of dazzling color and creativity have never been published or exhibited before.

Lebbeus Woods has focused on theory and experimental projects since 1976. Currently a visiting professor at the Cooper Union in New York City, he has taught at SCI-Arc, Harvard, and Columbia. In 1994 he won the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design.

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Between 'no place like home" and "you can't go home again"-two mutually reinforcing statements that today affect only bodies endowed with rather old-fashioned psychic suffering-is where I spent August 1996 in Sarajevo. Read the first page
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3.0 out of 5 stars Nice to have, but save your money., Oct 28 2003
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One of the first architectural books I bought, because it was different. I didn't know who he was at first or if he was an architect. I thought comic would be a great branch into architecture. This books show many of this theoretical project that is base of a post-apocalypse society. This book displays his great hand work skills. He used mediums of color-pencil, ink sketches and some very powerful chip-board models. 85% of the book is artworks. There are some texts on this philosophy for his reasoning if you would believe it or not. I went to his lecture at SciArt and his new stuff is just as similar in style to his older works in his book. I no longer regard Wood as much of an architect or nor a artist. This book was good in time of my interest in the subject, but now it has no resourceful information.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Not his best, but still good, Nov 21 2001
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Lebbeus Woods is perhaps unequalled, and definitely the most imitated renderer in the architectural world. With that said, this book is just a shadow of his masterpiece, "Anarchitecture: Architecture as a Political Act"

I recommend this for thos who already know Woods and can't get enough of him, but as an introduction, definitely read Anarchitecture.

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1.0 out of 5 stars woods bites, Aug 10 2000
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lebbeus woods bites. Get real.
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