Exhibition

LEBBEUS WOODS: ZAGREB FREE ZONE REVISITED

Exhibition in the gallery Oris House of Arhitecture

Kralja Držislava 3

Zagreb, Croatia

31 March - 24 April 2021.

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The event recreates the original exhibition ZAGREB FREE ZONE by the American architect Lebbeus Woods (1940 – 2012), held at the Zagreb Museum of Arts and Crafts in the turbulent 1991. LEBBEUS WOODS: ZAGREB FREE ZONE REVISITED presents the very same large prints exhibited thirty years ago, while the current extensive monograph traces the original drawings, notebooks and models that followed, including the documents related to the planned construction of a Freespace structure in Zagreb.

In 1991 Lebbeus Woods wrote the words that still resonate strongly:

„...the Free-Zone itself is nothing more nor less than a series of shifting centers that disturb in a human way the great pool of electromagnetic energies comprising a global field of human and natural interactions. Each Freespace structure is an element in the Free-Zone network, a point on a global matrix of communication and the exchange of personal experience. The Freespace structures are mobile. They are moved from place to place in Zagreb, from street to street, from courtyard to a square, by transport helicopter; they are gypsy houses for individuals rooted only in... the strangely social isolation of their modernity.”

ONLINE OPENING: 13 April at 6 pm CET on Youtube Oris House of Arhitecture.

WITH THE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM:

Joseph Becker and Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art); Maristella Casciato (The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles); Steven Holl (Steven Holl Architects, New York); Peter Noever (Peter Noever Design, Vienna); Leo Modrčin, Lovorka Prpić and Fedja Vukić (Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb); Andrija Rusan (Oris House of Architecture); Sven Sorić (graphic designer, Zagreb), and Aleksandra Wagner (Executor of the Estate of Lebbeus Woods).

The exhibition is co-organized by the University of Zagreb Faculty of Architecture, by the Oris House of Architecture, and by the Estate of Lebbeus Woods, New York. Zagreb Museum of Arts and Crafts is the exhibition partner.

The catalogue LEBBEUS WOODS : ZAGREB FREE ZONE REVISITED can be purchased at the Oris House of Architecture. The catalogue editors are Leo Modrčin, Lovorka Prpić and Aleksandra Wagner.

The opening of the exhibition will be held in accordance with the recommendations for the prevention of COVID-19 disease during public events and gatherings, issued by the Croatian Institute of Public Health.

Exhibition hours: 9 am – 7 pm (Monday – Friday) 

                          10 am – 1 pm (Saturday)