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“Energy takes many forms, each created by a system that contains it for a particular purpose. Architecture is one such system that contains energy by establishing stable boundaries, limits, edges. New energy – in the form of maintenance – must continually be added to the system of materials, or they will decay. Metaphysically speaking, new energy – in the form of human thought, emotion, activity – must continually be added to the system of boundaries, or they will lose their purpose and meaning.” Lebbeus Woods |
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 The exhibition which was conceived by Lebbeus Woods together with Christoph a. Kumpusch for the MAK addresses the subject of the urban structure of the City of Vienna. It develops the idea that the making of architecture can be understood as the organization of energy. The exhibition explores how energy relations in public and private city spaces might be represented tectonically in the form of drawings and installations; how existing energy relations in the city can be changed by the input of new energy in the form of highly temporary spatial interventions; how the future of the city need |
 not depend for creative energy input on the development of building projects requiring large capital investments and institutional approval, but rather on the redistribution of energy at the human scale of the street and the room.The visual language used by Lebbeus Woods in the exhibition is comprised of two-, three-, and four-dimensional lines (“vectors”) running along and across all walls of the gallery. Vector maps and vector-analytical drawings express the directionality and magnitude of forces that are active within or upon a system. The vectors, however, do not merely represent, but embody, energy. [back] |
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