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The Fault is Ours
Behind the scenes
'What if, instead of being victimised by the earthquake, we used architecture to embrace it, allowing variations within our architectural programmes that are generated by seismic activity?'
Joseph Becker
Lebbeus Woods SHARD House, from the series San Francisco Project: Inhabiting the Quake 1995. Graphite and pastel on paper. Collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase. © Estate of Lebbeus Woods
The quote above comes from an interview with with San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator Joseph Becker, who some of you may remember from earlier this year when he delivered a lecture on architect Lebbeus Woods to a packed auditorium at CPIT.
It wasn't hard to guess why the auditorium was packed. In addition to many other achievements, Woods is renowned for his highly speculative project, Inhabiting the Quake, which investigated the way architecture could interact with, or operate within, seisemic events. Pretty relevant stuff.
In the new issue of Bulletin, senior curator Justin Paton speaks to Becker about Lebbeus Woods, and what Christchurch might learn from him - you can read the full interview online here, or pick up a copy of Bulletin here.
Lebbeus Woods Photon Kite from the series Centricity 1988. Graphite on paper. Collection SFMOMA, purchase through a gift of the Members of the Architecture + Design Forum, SFMOMA