Lebbeus Woods was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1940. The son of a military engineer, he worked with Kevin Roche at Eero Saarinen and Associates before turning in the mid-1970s, to independent, conceptual work staged through drawings, models, and installations. He co-founded the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture and was a Professor of Architecture at the Cooper Union as well as a lecturer at the European Graduate School. The author of many books and subject of many exhibitions worldwide, his writings and drawings have inspired architects, film directors, story writers and creative minds of all sorts. Woods’ drawings are held in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Carnegie Museum of Modern Art; the Getty Research Institute; the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna; Tchoban Foundation, Berlin; and M+ Museum, Hong Kong.