Raimund Abraham and Lebbeus Woods | ANTI—Journey to Architecture: Dialogue of work pulse.me/s/3hMb6

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GROUND ZERO 2003 | The World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition, New York

Raimund Abraham [UN]BUILT

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Raimund Abraham, Megabridge, 1965

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Raimund Abraham, the house without rooms, 1974

In the early 1970s Raimund Abraham’s renewed interest in the typology of the house resulted in numerous projects exploring the ritual of dwelling. To explore the various psychological conditions intuited in the archetypal house, Abraham used words as well as images. In a poem he titled “Elements of the House,” he indicated often opposing sensations and feelings, natural elements and cycles, and spatial components to characterize his subject. With regard to the design for a House with Curtains, the open grid with blowing curtain walls gives physical form to “the wind,” “movement,” “transparencies,” and “dreams.” In the House without Rooms, what looks like the carved interior of a boulder embodies, “density,” “paralysis,” “isolation,” and “wombs.” Situated in barren landscapes, either imagined or from memory, both schemes are for houses that straddle the earth and the sky, and evoke life’s oppositions.

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“… I try
to manifest the presence
of the horizons
my eyes become earth
projected fragments
of a weightless body
without dimension
without possible modulation
in space or time.”

- Raimund Abraham 

From  Raimund Abraham [UN]BUILT on DOMUS

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“From earliest times, architecture has complied with that order of logical forms which is contained in the nature of each material. That is to say: each material can only be used within the limits imposed by its organic and technical possibilities.”

-Raimund Abraham

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Abraham’s [Un]built via Lebbeus Woods

The architect Raimund Abraham died tragically in an automobile accident in Los Angeles on March 4, 2010. He left behind an impressive, if not vast, body of work consisting of visionary urban projects, utopian houses, designs for projects never realized, as well as built projects of innovative design and uncompromised principles. It is a body of work instantly recognizable as by this singular architect, that serves as an inspiration for any architect, whatever his or her ideals, who aspire to a life of dedication to and passion for the art and discipline of architecture. It is very good news, therefore, that the book of the work and thought of Raimund Abraham, which he personally oversaw, originally published in 1996, has recently been published in a new, expanded edition, entitled [UN]BUILT, covering his works up to the present.

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