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Lebbeus Woods
Personal blog · lebbeuswoods.wordpress.comdesignculture
Lebbeus Woods writes LEBBEUS WOODS, a personal blog at lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com about design and culture. Since 2010, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The blog of architect Lebbeus Woods, with commentary and posts on speculative and experimental architecture, including Zaha Hadid's design work. HN readers link specific posts as worth reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Actual construction. Her pure design work is even more gorgeous: https://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/zaha-hadids-dr... https://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/zaha-hadids-dr...
Comment linking /2009/03/27/zaha-hadids-drawings-2/
on “Zaha Hadid, Groundbreaking Architect, Has Died”Submitted Inevitable Architecture as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"Rules of the Game" is among his best posts. http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/the-design-game... And if you have the money, New City is well worth the price. http://www.amazon.com/The-New-City-Lebbeus-Woods/dp/06717681... I got a used copy (softcover / not in super condition) for $70 several years ago and the price has only gone up. Astounded to see that pristine copies are now going for $800, with hardb…
Comment linking /2009/11/30/the-design-game/
on “Kowloon Walled City”Submitted The next revolution? analogue computers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHe had a blog, while he was alive, which is still up and running: http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/ Very, very interesting work and commentary. NOTE: there is actually a lot more content on that blog than the (bad) navigation suggests. If you look at the right-hand "monthly archives" column, it looks like there is only 12 monthly headings going back to Sept. 2011 - but if you manually plug in a URL like: http://leb…
Comment linking /2008/11/
on “Kowloon Walled City”Submitted Einstein's Tomb, a giant sculpture floating through space as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAnd some interesting reads on his blog: http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/zahas-aquatic-c...
Comment linking /2012/02/17/zahas-aquatic-center/
on “Gravitational Lensing to Observe Ancient Earth”That blocked me also, but I have to recommend that people investigate the works of Lebbeus Woods as he was extremely creative and really pushed the boundaries in imagining new ways of conceiving of buildings. His blog is still up at https://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/ and any Internet search for his name will turn up dozens of interesting articles worth reading.
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on “Lebbeus Woods: Architect Who Dared to Ask ‘What If?’ (2013)”Not quite as astounding a vision as Lebbus Woods', but not bad. https://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/lower-manhatta...
Comment linking /2012/03/08/lower-manhattan-revisited/
on “80k megapixel panorama photograph of New York City”