Slow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods Blog

Description

In the fall of 2007, Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012), long admired for his visionary architecture and mastery of drawing, began a blog. Part forum and part public journal, the eclectic mix of articles, drawings, anecdotes, poetry, interviews, and photographic essays explored topics ranging from architectural theory and criticism to education and politics. Amassing more thanv three hundred entries by its end in the summer of 2012, it is regarded by many as the most comprehensive and accessible archive of Woods's prodigious creativity. Slow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods Blog, an edited volume of the blog's centerpiece entries, stands as a fragmentary essay on the nature of architecture that will be dear to architects, students, and thinkers everywhere.

• Lebbeus Woods is the author of several PAPress books, including Radical Reconstruction, OneFiveFour, The Storm and the Fall, and two volumes in the Pamphlet Architecture series
• Woods's work is held in the collections of major international museums, including MoMA, the Whitney Museum, MAK Vienna, and the Getty Research Institute From 2012 to 2014 Lebbeus Woods, Architect, a traveling exhibition organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, made stops at SFMOMA, Michigan's'Broad Art Museum, and the Drawing Center in New York City

Clare Jacobson is a design writer, editor, and curator. She is the author of the PAPress book New Museums in Chinaand has written for numerous publications.

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