Amazing architectural reveries from the Archigram pioneer
The artist Michael Webb, trained as an architect, operates at the
intersection of art and architecture and is widely known for creatively
exploring the outer limits of drawing techniques, including orthographic
and perspectival projection systems. He is a founding member of
Archigram, which formed at the Architectural Association in London in
the early 1960s. The legendary avant-garde group is known for their
fantastical projects that were often interpreted as critiques of
contemporary architectural theory and practice.
Two Journeys is the first comprehensive monograph on Webb's oeuvre and
assembles sixty years of the artist's work into a continuously evolving
narrative about the multifaceted relationships among the built
environment, landscape, and moving vehicles. He investigates these
relationships through the act of drawing using notions of time, space,
and speed, which are artfully mediated by the precision of mathematics
and tempered by abstraction.
Featuring nearly 200 drawings, this extensively visual monograph
includes essays by Kenneth Frampton, Michael Sorkin, Mark Wigley, and
Lebbeus Woods, whose critical perspectives alongside texts and
commentaries by Webb shed light on an extraordinary body of work.
