Mon Apr-23 6pm @ EMPAC Theater:

MICHAEL WEBB: “True Green, Ice Cores, and the Representation of Infinity”_

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Michael Webb is an English Architect who studied architecture at the then Regent Street Polytechnic School of Architecture (now the University of Westminster) from 1953 to 1972. A project he designed during his fourth year at the Polytechnic found its way into an exhibition at MOMA New York entitled ‘Visionary Architecture’ in 1961.

He was invited in 1963 to join Archigram, collection of six young architects who were determined to rebel against what they believed to be the failure of architecture in Britain. The Archigram group sought to produce dynamic changes, both technological and social. For the last seventeen years a large exhibition of the group’s work has been touring world capitals; and in 2006 the group was awarded the Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Webb emigrated to the United States in 1965 where he has produced a series of abstract drawings, some of which comprise the Temple Island Study, which resulted in an eponymous book published by the AA in 1987; and the Drive-in House series. He has had one man shows at the Cooper Union where he now teaches, Columbia University, the Storefront Gallery in NY, the Architecture League in NY, the University of Manitoba at Winnipeg, and the Art Net Gallery in London.

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