21 May 2002

Lebbeus Woods, archtitect and theorist, will have an exhibit of his work in October 2002 at the Cartier Foundation, a show curated by Paul Virillo entitled Unexpected Events, or C'est qui se passe, or shit happens.

The first three photos below show Woods, Deborah Natsios (Cartome administrator) and Alexis, a Woods associate for the Cartier exhibit, on May 18, 2002, at Woods' studio in downtown Manhattan, two blocks from notorious Ground Zero, once banally called World Trade Center.

The photos following those are from a Woods exhibit in March at Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York City where he is a professor.

Woods says the Cartier installation is to be constructed by guidance from a large model to be built in the exhibition space, without construction drawings, a process similar to that used in the Cooper Union exhibit in which Woods' rough sketches (sample below) were used by constructors.

Designing the Cartier Foundation installation

Woods describes the exhibit to Natsios and Alexis, utilizing construction drawings of the Cartier Foundation building.

Alexis, Natsios, Woods.

Woods' sketchbook.

Woods exhibit at Cooper Union in March 2002

Sample of Woods' sketch (about 11" x 8") from which the installation was constructed.

Other works in the Cooper Union show

A Woods design for The New Jerusalem: Sharing the Divided City, a book of designs, research and commentary edited by Michael Sorkin, due out in October 2002. Natsios/Young's contribution to the volume, Jerusalem Sky: http://cartome.org/jerusalem-sky/introduction.htm