(Las) eBooks Lebbeus Woods: Anarchitecture: Architecture is a
Political Act (Architectural Monographs No 22)
By Lebbeus Woods
From the cover:Lebbeus Woods? architecture is one of continual research. His
drawings are propositions of new ways of living, rather than merely new ways of
building. His architecture is instructive: ??these projects propose new social
structures, implemented by new urban forms and architecture, intended to be
realised within existing cities,,? but it is never prescriptive, always urging
possibilities for social, cultural and political transformation.This Monograph
illustrates the range of Lebbeus Woods? ideas. The projects featured here are
from the past decade, but have been developed over a whole career, and include
the recent Zagreb Free Zone and Berlin Free Zone designs as well as the earlier
projects such as Four Cities and Centricity. Together with texts by the architect,
they show an architecture informed by science and politics; the free zones and
freespaces Woods designs become a ?second nature?, a terra nova. Peter
Noever, in his introduction to the architect?s work
