On and off the Walls

Estate of Lebbeus Woods

REMEMBERING LEBBEUS WOODS

The visionary architect Lebbeus Woods passed awaypassed away last year as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was preparing a major exhibition of his beautiful, imaginative, transformative drawings. The places he depicted are sometimes recognizable, sometimes tragically altered, and frequently set in an unidentifiable future. His work is potent, poetic, enthralling, disturbing, and invigorating—offering alternatives to both personal and collective thinking about architecture and our relationship to it. Though he built little, he was considered among the most influential thinkers of his generation. SFMOMA began acquiring his work in the mid-1990s and has the largest single collection of his work. Lebbeus Woods, Architect will be on view at SFMOMA through June 2. sfmoma.org