{"id":712079,"date":"2026-06-18T19:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712079\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T19:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:37:11","slug":"a83-stages-a-retrospective-on-lebbeus-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712079\/","title":{"rendered":"A83 stages a retrospective on Lebbeus Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Lebbeus Woods<\/a> exhibition is now on view at a83<\/a> in Lower Manhattan. The exhibition<\/a>, titled Undercurrents, displays two projects by Woods: Turbulence (1991\u201392) and The Storm (2001\u201302).<\/p>\n

Woods was born in 1940 and died in 2012. He taught at The Cooper Union for decades, and is known today for his fantastical and critical drawings<\/a> of postwar architecture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For the exhibition a83 collaborated with the Estate of Lebbeus Woods. The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Archive was also a partner.<\/p>\n

\"exhibitionThe exhibition features drawings, process sketches, photographs of Woods at work, and more. (Michael Vahrenwald)
\n\"AA drawing in the Turbulence series (Courtesy Estate of Lebbeus Woods)<\/p>\n

Drawings from the Turbulence series are located in a83\u2019s front gallery. The Storm drawings are placed to the rear.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two vitrines with drawings are placed in the center of the front gallery space. The vitrines contain process sketches, photographs of Woods at work, and exhibition ephemera.<\/p>\n

More drawings from the Turbulence series line the walls. The backroom restages The Storm<\/a>, a project Woods displayed at The Cooper Union\u2019s Houghton Gallery in 2002.<\/p>\n

\"StudentsStudents inside The Cooper Union\u2019s Houghton Gallery circa 2002 staging The Storm (Olivia Valentine\/Courtesy The Cooper Union Architecture Archive)<\/p>\n

The Storm at Houghton Gallery consisted of red wooden rods fabricated by Shandor Hassan and assembled by Alexander Gil and Amir Shahrokhi, suspended within a post-tensioned cable system.<\/p>\n

In the gallery\u2019s backroom red wooden rods line walls that were painted black. <\/p>\n

A large black box in the center of the backroom features a reconstructed scale model of The Storm exhibition at The Cooper Union\u2019s Houghton Gallery that visitors can peek into.<\/p>\n

\"aThe backroom features a scale model of The Storm viewers can peek inside.(Michael Vahrenwald)
\n\"\"The model makers made a precise replica of Houghton Gallery. (Michael Vahrenwald)<\/p>\n

Grouped together, visitors are immersed in drawings and models that demonstrate Woods\u2019s interest in conveying \u201cbuilt multiplicity,\u201d per a curatorial statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The exhibition posits \u201ca close reading of Woods\u2019 constructed fields\u201d and reveals \u201chow conceptual generators can translate across mediums,\u201d curators said. Woods\u2019s works touch on labor and cultural and environmental systems.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"(Courtesy Estate of Lebbeus Woods)<\/p>\n

On September 6, a83 will launch a new book about Woods that Clara Syme and Owen Nichols published in collaboration with AJ Artemel and the Estate of Lebbeus Woods, led by Aleksandra Wagner.<\/p>\n

Undercurrents is on view through September 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lebbeus Woods exhibition is now on view at a83 in Lower Manhattan. The exhibition, titled Undercurrents, displays…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-712079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}