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Lebbeus Woods 利布斯．伍兹
Models, Underground Berlin 「地下柏林」模型
1988
The American architect and theorist Lebbeus Woods began developing the Underground Berlin series in 1988. A commission from the Berlin gallery Aedes, the project first took the form of detailed drawings and models. Woods later revisited the series through a film synopsis, a natural step given its close connection to a rich, specific narrative.
As its title suggests, Underground Berlin centres on an intricate subterranean landscape that links East and West in the divided city. Walkways, alcoves, and angular, shard-like structures create new civic spaces for Berlin residents, who are no longer subject to the social and political realities above the surface. The system occasionally pierces the ground with sentry-like towers, ruptures in the existing city that represent a new way of living and interacting below.
Formally similar to the fractured ‘deconstructivist’ architecture emerging at this time, Underground Berlin layers an idealistic, science-fiction sensibility on top of its experiments in space and materiality. It became a significant point of transition in Woods’s imaginative, influential practice.
As its title suggests, Underground Berlin centres on an intricate subterranean landscape that links East and West in the divided city. Walkways, alcoves, and angular, shard-like structures create new civic spaces for Berlin residents, who are no longer subject to the social and political realities above the surface. The system occasionally pierces the ground with sentry-like towers, ruptures in the existing city that represent a new way of living and interacting below.
Formally similar to the fractured ‘deconstructivist’ architecture emerging at this time, Underground Berlin layers an idealistic, science-fiction sensibility on top of its experiments in space and materiality. It became a significant point of transition in Woods’s imaginative, influential practice.
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