Lebbeus Woods, Architect

It’s fitting that before the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art hunkers down for its Snøhetta-designed facelift, it is showing a survey of 75 works by the late, visionary American architect, whose conceptual drawings and ­models often grafted spectacular new structures onto the existing urban fabric. His wildly imaginative – and undeniably human-centred – unbuilt works ventured beneath the earth’s core, examined seismic design and critiqued postwar development. In a concept for earthquake-prone San Francisco, a cluster of buildings creates a bridge. In war-ravaged Bosnia, a protective wall encloses the country while still letting people in. And in his foreboding Lower Manhattan illustration from 1999, he depicted the city, where he died just as Hurricane Sandy was on its way out, as sitting atop exposed rock, all its rivers dammed and excavated.  ­

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