Lebbeus Woods: Origins

“His cities can simultaneously gyrate and evoke a stillness, or simultaneously offer dreamed-of futures and suggest almost forgotten ruins.”
“The Craggy Optimist, Peter Cook,”Lebbeus Woods: ORIGINS, Mega II, pp.2-4

On September 27, 1985, American architect Lebbeus Woods (1940–2012), invited by Zaha Hadid (1950–2016) and curated by Alvin Boyarsky (1928–1990), then Director of the Architectural Association (AA) in London, presented a retrospective exhibition titled ORIGINS at the institution. The exhibition featured architectural drawings, original sketches, and design models from various stages of his career. Lebbeus Woods: Origins now out of print, was originally published to accompany the exhibition. Presented in a large format of 35.5 x 27.8 cm, it became the second volume in Mega, the AA’s significant exhibition publication series in the 1980s.