The Getty Research Institute (GRI) in Los Angeles has acquired two collections of drawings and sketches by visionary architect Lebbeus Woods.

The GRI has acquired 46 drawings from Woods's A-City and 4 Cities and Beyond projects. The two speculative works offer beguiling pen and ink as well as color pencil visions for futuristic settlements that appear idyllic and tragic all at once. In addition to the above archival items, the GRI has also acquired a 30-page sketchbook that Woods kept while he visited Los Angeles between 1986 and 1988. The new collections will join two other archival holdings of Woods's work by the GRI: Woods's Drawings for the Berlin Free Zone Project and a series of journals made between 1988 and 1997

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