A two-part collection of drawings and sketches by the architect now joins the Getty Research Institute’s collection of materials related to Woods.
Together, the 52 drawings for Lebbeus Woods’s A-City and 4 Cities and Beyond projects (ca. 1982–1997) establish a complete vision for an alternate world.
Though fragmentary, each drawing shows the totality of Woods’s urbanistic fantasies, constituting a conceptual masterplan for the projects’ development.
A 30-page sketchbook that the architect kept during one of his many visits to Los Angeles illustrates both his working process and, through handwritten notes, his various lines of thinking on the city and on the production of cinema-stage representations.
“As a teacher who linked drawing to theory, Lebbeus Woods’s influence on generations of architects is difficult to overestimate,” says Maristella Casciato, senior curator of architecture at the Getty Research Institute.
Both the collections of drawings and the sketchbook are complemented by two significant holdings already in the GRI’s special collections: Lebbeus Woods Drawings for the Berlin Free Zone Project (1990) and Lebbeus Woods Journals, 1988–1997.
