TWO WORLDS
Two housing projects. Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis, was public (government operated) housing; Penn South in New York City was, and is, private. The latter succeeded, rather quietly; the former failed, spectacularly. The message, according to Michael Kimmelman’s article is that private enterprise works, whereas government doesn’t. It is a message that fits almost perfectly into [...]
WHY I BECAME AN ARCHITECT—Part 2
(above) Slide from my introductory lecture in ARCHITECTONICS, First Year Studio at The Cooper Union. It is revealing that the phenomenon and experience of light became important to me through art rather than direct experience. After all, the actual world is alive with light and its effects with a vividness that no work of art [...]
Posted at 9:27 pm on February 8, 2012 | 8 comments | Filed Under: Lebbeus Woods | Tagged: architecture, memoir, motivation | read on
