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The legacy of Lebbeus Woods

‘Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture.I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms. [...]’
Starting with these disconcerting words, a manifesto was read in 1993 in the presence of both its author, Lebbeus Woods, and Serbian snipers in besieged Sarajevo. 
Three decades later, the rubble of devastated cities and the wounds of ongoing genocide shape the physical and emotional landscape through which we navigate as a species.
 A review of the experimental proposals of American architect and theorist Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012) may contain some of the keys to addressing the challenges we will face in architecture and urban planning and the antidote to the dystopia of real estate operations such as the so-called ‘Middle East Riviera’.

 



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