![“The building forms and their meanings are in a way romantic and fantastical—wind tunnels, transonic circuits, gas dynamics laboratories—-a kind of architecture for opening up and exploring new worlds. Even the more conventional industrial forms of steam plants and other support buildings reflect traces of the glow of a great adventure, experienced in this context of immensely consequential invention. All of it stayed with me, though was not to emerge—radically transformed—until many years later.”
Lebbeus Woods on ORIGINS
[PIC]: The Gas Dynamics Facility is most heavily involved with developing jet and rocket propulsion systems.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx7ueqDfAh1qzz5i6o1_1280.jpg)
“The building forms and their meanings are in a way romantic and fantastical—wind tunnels, transonic circuits, gas dynamics laboratories—-a kind of architecture for opening up and exploring new worlds. Even the more conventional industrial forms of steam plants and other support buildings reflect traces of the glow of a great adventure, experienced in this context of immensely consequential invention. All of it stayed with me, though was not to emerge—radically transformed—until many years later.”
Lebbeus Woods on ORIGINS
[PIC]: The Gas Dynamics Facility is most heavily involved with developing jet and rocket propulsion systems.
Here’s the full commentary by Lebbeus Woods, worth a read.
“When rummaging though her extensive library, Aleksandra Wagner discovered a pattern book of the old city of Prague. Similar to a dressmaker’s pattern book, it is meant to be cut up, very precisely, and assembled into a three-dimensional paper model. Designed and printed in the early 1970s, in Czechoslovakia, it is remarkable in several ways:
First: in that pre-computer era, all measurements of the actual architecture had to be made by hand—a formidable task in itself.”
More at Socks Studio + Lebbeus Woods BLOG
“They’ll tear down your building in twenty-five years. All that will remain are its ideas.” - Louis Sullivan
“….but what if it never gets built?” - anonymous
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“The usual answer is: a concept. Architecture is the built realization of a particular concept, or idea. This idea can be about construction, or the way people will use a building, or how the building fits into a physical, or a social, landscape.” -Lebbeus Woods
Lebbeus Woods on What is Architecture?
For its thirtieth birthday, the Princeton Architectural Press is re-editing some of its past book including the beautiful OneFiveFour by Lebbeus Woods which was first published in 1989.
More info: The Funambulist
As the area becomes more densely populated, the stair expands to become a network. The relationship between stair and building is ever changing. As new buildings are built and others disappear, portions of the stair become obsolete. The stair then becomes a spatial labyrinth of sorts. Particular lines along its path are only understood by those who inhabit its spaces on a day to day basis. Those unfamiliar with its paths would have no means of navigation through it.
HARRY MURZYN and DAVID VARON at Lebbeus Woods’ BLOG | The Barrios of Bogota /via @radarqnet
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” | Lebbeus Woods on Terrible Beauty
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