Drawing, "Geomechanical Tower" from Centricity Series

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Drawing, "Geomechanical Tower" from Centricity Series

This is a Drawing. It was architect: Lebbeus Woods. It is dated 1987 and we acquired it in 1999. Its medium is color pencil on strathmore paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Memoriam for Lebbeus Woods .

It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program and Friends of Drawings and Prints Funds amd through gift of Drue Heinz.

This drawing depicts a multiple-story building using thin lines from the base of the building looking upward. Angled diagonally to the top lefft corner, the building shoots out of of the ground surrounded by triangles with sketched lines, resembling mini mountains. The core of the building is long and slim, the first story landing starting far up from the ground. Directly underneath the first story balcony is a blue, geodesic space with six visible glass walls, that encloses the middle of the building. It is the only color on the page, depicted using a sky-blue. From there, the drawing shows the underside of what looks to be balconies highlighting the multi-storied nature of the building. With the exterior walls of the building further inward, each story or 'deck' extends outward in a tiered, pagoda-like manner. At the top of the building is a construction crane, its hook extending all the way from the top to the glass enclosure.

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Its dimensions are

51 x 50.8 cm (20 1/16 in. x 20 in.)

It is signed

In graphite, lower right: Lebbeus Woods 1987

It is inscribed

In graphite along bottom margin: Nr. 43N9 u(?) - anfax....organ Cis R.-... a19 (?) [hard to decipher]; UL, Diop. 4 ar. [?]; UR, Geno - 1; on verso, center, in graphite, Centricity: Geomechanical Tower

Cite this object as

Drawing, "Geomechanical Tower" from Centricity Series; Architect: Lebbeus Woods (American, 1940 - 2012); USA; color pencil on strathmore paper; 51 x 50.8 cm (20 1/16 in. x 20 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program and Friends of Drawings and Prints Funds amd through gift of Drue Heinz; 1999-23-1

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2DFCV/
Accession Number 1999-23-1
Object ID 18668977