Untitled (Sarajevo Wall Segment, 1993-1994)
1994/2018
Silkscreen print on Rives BFK
Paper size: 30.0 x 22.0 inches
Edition of 20 (6 APs)

Untitled (Sarajevo Wall Segment, 1993-1994) is a limited edition silkscreen print of a drawing by Lebbeus Woods from the “War and Architecture” series, which was originally shown at Storefront for Art and Architecture in 1994 as part of Lebbeus Woods: Freescape Projects. “Architecture must learn to transform the violence,” Woods would write later in War and Architecture (1997), “even as violence knows how to transform the architecture.”

The silkscreen is accompanied by an original copy of the newsprint that was disseminated publicly at the time of the exhibition opening. This edition is printed by Lower East Side Printshop, and is available for sale to benefit Storefront for Art and Architecture. It was made in collaboration with the Estate of Lebbeus Woods. Storefront is grateful to Aleksandra Wagner, the Executor of the Estate, for initiating the project.

Lebbeus Woods (1940–2012) dedicated his career to probing architecture’s potential to transform the individual and the collective. A trained architect and engineer, Woods reimagined modern environments by making drawings that ask us to renew our spatial imaginations. His eponymous constructions are jarring in their depiction of the violence and fragmentation that define today’s social, political, and geographical landscapes.

Rendered through intricate ink, color pencil and pastel drawings, as well as digital renderings and models, his works are in private and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, MAK, Vienna, and the Getty Research Institute for the Arts and Humanities, among others. For over two decades, Woods taught at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union. He received the Progressive Architecture Award for Design Research, Institute Honor of the American Academy of Architects, Daimler-Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, and the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2013, a retrospective, Lebbeus Woods, Architect, was curated by SF MoMA, and subsequently traveled to Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, and to Drawing Center, New York City.