Product Description: This first title in the new RIEA Concepts series edited by Lebbeus Woods himself. Earthquake! explores the potential landscapes produced by architecture working in harmony with seismic forces to create new post-biblical relationships between the human and the natural.

Product Description: Considered one of the most innovative experimental architects working today, Lebbeus Woods combines an extraordinary mastery of drawing with a penetrating analysis of architectural and urban form that is fed by his wide knowledge of fields ranging from philosophy to cybernetics...read more

Woods offer a glimpse of what a future city could look like if the buildings reflected science

Product Description: Artwork by Chris Burden, Kiki Smith, James Turrell. Contributions by Jan Hoet.

Radical Reconstruction contains projects from the last five years that address the relationships between architecture and war, political revolution/reaction, and natural disasters. Three projects—for Sarajevo, Havana, and San Francisco—define new approaches to the reconstruction of buildings and urban fabric damaged by unpredictable and largely uncontrollable forces of both human and natural origin. Such transformations are not only of physical structures and spaces but, more significantly, of the ways of living they sustain. The majority of these renderings of dazzling color and creativity have never been published or exhibited before. Lebbeus Woods has focused on theory and experimental projects since 1976. Currently a visiting professor at the Cooper Union in New York City, he has taught at SCI-Arc, Harvard, and Columbia. In 1994 he won the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design. Previous books on his work include "Pamphlet 15" OneFiveFour (Princeton Architectural Press, 1989, now out-of-print), and Anarchitecture: Architecture Is a Political Act

A collection of short stories by the author of Childhood's End and 2001: A Space Odyssey showcases the author's storytelling skills in such works as 'The Sentinel,' 'Guardian Angel,' 'The Songs of Distant Earth,' and 'Breaking Strain.' Reprint. (view table of contents)