[Image: Via Lebbeus Woods].
For a variety of reasons, I found myself looking back at Lebbeus Woods’s blog this morning, where I was captivated by this amazing cut-out paper model of the city of Prague.
The images themselves, “meant to be cut up, very precisely, and assembled into a three-dimensional paper model,” as Lebbeus explained, already resemble an avant-garde architectural proposal, to the extent that, embarrassingly, when I first saw the top image, I thought it was a project by John Hejduk.
[Images: Via Lebbeus Woods].
But, in addition to the images’ artistic complexity, I love this dry line from Lebbeus’s write-up, reflecting on the near-impossible task of explaining to someone else how they are meant to excise each piece and then assemble them all in the proper order: “the several pages of written instructions on the model’s assembly,” he deadpans, “would seem to have been as difficult to compose and they will be to follow.”
[Image: Via Lebbeus Woods].
Read—and see—more over at Lebbeus’s blog.
(Previously: Without Walls: An Interview with Lebbeus Woods and Lebbeus Woods, 1940-2012.)
I miss Lebbeus Woods blog… :,^( but even old, red, posts are still full of hidded treasures.
I’m reminded of a beautiful line from an old Survival Research Laboratories piece (http://www.srl.org/information/srl_info.html): “It’s as difficult to describe as it will be for an audience to look at.”