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Lebbeus Woods born 1940 in Lansing, Michigan, is a revolutionary, experimental and theoretical architect. He is regarded as the most original architectural visionary alive today. His work is primarily focused on theorizing architecture in places in crisis. He is the founder of the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture (RIEA) and is a Professor of Architecture at the Cooper Union School of Architecture. His most recent books are Radical Reconstruction (Princeton Architectural Press, 1997), The Storm and The Fall (Princeton Architectural Press, 2003), and System Wien (Hatje Cantz/MAK, 2005). He is a recipient of the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design and his works are in public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Cooper—Hewitt National Design Museum; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris; the Austrian Museum of Applied Art, Vienna; the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Getty Research Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
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