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DANIEL LIBESKIND
VIDEO / FILM
Daniel Libeskind | Interview | The Voices of a Site | Louisiana Channel |
“Architecture is the atmosphere, the story that has been created, and you’re part of it.” In this in-depth video, one of the most significant contemporary architects, the lauded Daniel Libeskind, shares the incredible story of his architectural journey, including the much-debated World Trade Center Master Plan. Growing up in the shadow of World War II, under the communist totalitarian government in Poland where there was still a pervasive anti-Semitism, the Jewish-born Libeskind had a strong sense of the need for liberty. His parents were survivors of the Holocaust, and though they had no higher education, they were intellectuals “educated through their life and their love.” America offered smiles and new opportunities, and in spite of having very little money, they managed, his father working as a printer, and his mother as a seamstress. When working on the World Trade Center Master Plan in New York City, Libeskind thought of his parents, who represented the people he was building for: “The people of New York, the real people, not the one per cent.” “Don’t have any goal, have a path.” After the genocide of the World War II, the assassination of Kennedy and the looming nuclear war, Libeskind experienced how the perception of human beings changed, which he feels has formed him: “There must be something more to reality than this fog of lies and illusions that have been build up by strong sources. There must be a freedom, and the freedom in the arts particularly.” Becoming an architect wasn’t in the cards, and he initially started began his career as a gifted accordion player with a brief detour to science. His four-five first buildings – such as the Jewish Museum in Berlin – were made possible because of architectural competitions. Only winning competitions, however, “is a ticket to oblivion,” and you have to be present in order to make it work, which is why he ended up moving to Berlin while building the Jewish Museum: “My career is based on anonymous competitions.” “Humanity has changed, how can we change with it without sacrificing what is most deeply human, which is some form of freedom and solidary with everything that exists.” When constructing the World Trade Center Master Plan, Libeskind decided to build as little as possible on the site, in order to leave it to the public – to the people. He wanted to transmit a raw memory, but still keep the balance between tragedy and the “paradoxical excitement and beauty of New York in this space.” Building in such an emotionally charged context, Libeskind was under constant attack from the press and more, and particularly the tower of One World Trade Center – the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere – was the subject of much controversy, but as Libeskind argues: “I’m a New Yorker, I believe in towers.” For this project, he needed to be a combination of a poet and a worker, and the Master Plan, as he sees it, is essentially about the beauty of life “and affirming in the face of tragedy, that life goes on in a meaningful way.” Finally, Libeskind argues that an important part of any building is memory, as this is “the earth you dig the foundations into.” Every site has been touched by something that we are not aware of, nowhere is a “tabula rasa,” and this is why you have to make an effort to listen to the earth and voices of the site. Daniel Libeskind (b. 1946) is a Polish-American architect and co-founder of Studio Daniel Libeskind. His buildings include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, the extension to the Denver Art Museum and the master plan for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in New York. Libeskind has taught at numerous universities worldwide, including the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University, and he is the recipient of multiple prizes. Among others the 1985 Stone Lion at the Venice Biennale and several RIBA awards | For more see https://libeskind.com/ | Daniel Libeskind was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at his studio in New York City | October 2016 | Camera Rasmus Quistgaard | Edited by Rasmus Quistgaard | Produced by Marc-Christoph Wagner | Copyright Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | 2018 | Supported by Dreyers Fond | YouTube
Daniel Liebeskind | 17 Vokabeln architektonischer Inspiration | TED |
Daniel Libeskind baut auf sehr große Ideen. Er nennt hier 17 Begriffe, die seiner Vision der Architektur zu Grunde liegen — roh, gewagt, gefühlsbetont, radikal — und Inspiration für jedes kühne kreative Streben bieten | YouTube
Daniel Libeskind | Emotion in Architecture | Out of Sync | Art in Focus |
World-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, shares passionately and with great enthusiasm his view on the importance of emotion in architecture. ”There is no story without emotion. I believe architecture is a storytelling profession. It tells a story. A story without emotion is just a report in the Wall Street Journal. But a story with emotion, that’s what makes us human” Daniel Libeskind (b 1946) is a Polish-American architect. Libeskind began his career as an architectural theorist and professor, holding positions at various institutions around the world. His practical architectural career began in Milan in the late 1980s, where he submitted to architectural competitions and also founded and directed Architecture Intermundium, Institute for Architecture & Urbanism. Libeskind completed his first building at the age of 52, with the opening of the Felix Nussbaum Haus in 1998. Prior to this, critics had dismissed his designs as „unbuildable or unduly assertive”. The first design competition that Libeskind won was in 1987 for housing in West Berlin, but soon thereafter the Berlin Wall fell and the project was canceled. Libeskind won the first four projects he entered into competition for. Daniel and his partner Nina Libeskind established Studio Daniel Libeskind in Berlin, Germany, in 1989 after winning the competition to build the Jewish Museum Berlin. A series of influential museum commissions followed, including the Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück; Imperial War Museum North, Manchester; Denver Art Museum; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Danish Jewish Museum; Royal Ontario Museum; and the Military History Museum, Dresden. In February 2003, Studio Daniel Libeskind moved its headquarters from Berlin to New York City when Daniel Libeskind was selected as the master planner for the World Trade Center redevelopment. The Studio has offices overlooking the World Trade Center site in New York. An international figure in architecture and urban design, Daniel Libeskind is renowned for his ability to evoke cultural memory in buildings. Informed by a deep commitment to music, philosophy, literature, and poetry, Libeskind aims to create architecture that is resonant, unique and sustainable. His architecture and ideas have been the subject of many articles and exhibitions, influencing the field of architecture and the development of cities and culture | Credits | Daniel Libeskind | filmed by Out of Sync | NYC April 2014 Interview | Jesper Bundgaard Camera and edit | Per Henriksen Producer | Out of Sync © Out of Sync 2016 |
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Daniel Libeskind | Between zero and infinity | November 15, 2017 |
SCI-Arc Media Archive | Hernan Diaz Alonso introduces Daniel Libeskind as artist, theorist and architect with multiple trajectories, operating between the discipline and the profession. Daniel Libeskind describes his decision to pursue architecture through drawing and models, discussing a variety of works including Micromegas (1979), Chamberworks (1983), the Reading and Memory machines (1985), and the Sonnets of Babylon (2014). He discusses the Potsdamer Platz (1991) and City Edge (1987) projects. Libeskind reviews some of his built work, including | Jewish Museum, Berlin (1989-2001) | Jewish Museum glass courtyard (2007) | Academy of the Jewish Museum (2010) | National Holocaust memorial, Ottawa (2015) |18.36.54 House, Connecticut (2008) | Sapphire apartment building, Berlin (2017) | Two 2011 projects at Keppel Bay, Singapore: the Reflections complex of six towers and eleven low-rise villa apartments; and the Corals mid-rise residential complex | Military history museum, Dresden (2011) | Ogden Center for Fundamental Physics, Durham University (2016) | Occitanie Tower, Toulouse (2022) | East Thiers Station, Nice (2019) | Lake Turkana center, Kenya (construction to start 2019) | He concludes with the World Trade Center master plan (2003) stressing the open, public spaces |
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HOMEPAGE
WIKIPEDIA
DANIEL LIBESKIND
VIDEO / FILM
Daniel Libeskind | Interview | The Voices of a Site | Louisiana Channel |
“Architecture is the atmosphere, the story that has been created, and you’re part of it.” In this in-depth video, one of the most significant contemporary architects, the lauded Daniel Libeskind, shares the incredible story of his architectural journey, including the much-debated World Trade Center Master Plan. Growing up in the shadow of World War II, under the communist totalitarian government in Poland where there was still a pervasive anti-Semitism, the Jewish-born Libeskind had a strong sense of the need for liberty. His parents were survivors of the Holocaust, and though they had no higher education, they were intellectuals “educated through their life and their love.” America offered smiles and new opportunities, and in spite of having very little money, they managed, his father working as a printer, and his mother as a seamstress. When working on the World Trade Center Master Plan in New York City, Libeskind thought of his parents, who represented the people he was building for: “The people of New York, the real people, not the one per cent.” “Don’t have any goal, have a path.” After the genocide of the World War II, the assassination of Kennedy and the looming nuclear war, Libeskind experienced how the perception of human beings changed, which he feels has formed him: “There must be something more to reality than this fog of lies and illusions that have been build up by strong sources. There must be a freedom, and the freedom in the arts particularly.” Becoming an architect wasn’t in the cards, and he initially started began his career as a gifted accordion player with a brief detour to science. His four-five first buildings – such as the Jewish Museum in Berlin – were made possible because of architectural competitions. Only winning competitions, however, “is a ticket to oblivion,” and you have to be present in order to make it work, which is why he ended up moving to Berlin while building the Jewish Museum: “My career is based on anonymous competitions.” “Humanity has changed, how can we change with it without sacrificing what is most deeply human, which is some form of freedom and solidary with everything that exists.” When constructing the World Trade Center Master Plan, Libeskind decided to build as little as possible on the site, in order to leave it to the public – to the people. He wanted to transmit a raw memory, but still keep the balance between tragedy and the “paradoxical excitement and beauty of New York in this space.” Building in such an emotionally charged context, Libeskind was under constant attack from the press and more, and particularly the tower of One World Trade Center – the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere – was the subject of much controversy, but as Libeskind argues: “I’m a New Yorker, I believe in towers.” For this project, he needed to be a combination of a poet and a worker, and the Master Plan, as he sees it, is essentially about the beauty of life “and affirming in the face of tragedy, that life goes on in a meaningful way.” Finally, Libeskind argues that an important part of any building is memory, as this is “the earth you dig the foundations into.” Every site has been touched by something that we are not aware of, nowhere is a “tabula rasa,” and this is why you have to make an effort to listen to the earth and voices of the site. Daniel Libeskind (b. 1946) is a Polish-American architect and co-founder of Studio Daniel Libeskind. His buildings include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, the extension to the Denver Art Museum and the master plan for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in New York. Libeskind has taught at numerous universities worldwide, including the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University, and he is the recipient of multiple prizes. Among others the 1985 Stone Lion at the Venice Biennale and several RIBA awards | For more see https://libeskind.com/ | Daniel Libeskind was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at his studio in New York City | October 2016 | Camera Rasmus Quistgaard | Edited by Rasmus Quistgaard | Produced by Marc-Christoph Wagner | Copyright Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | 2018 | Supported by Dreyers Fond | YouTube
Daniel Liebeskind | 17 Vokabeln architektonischer Inspiration | TED |
Daniel Libeskind baut auf sehr große Ideen. Er nennt hier 17 Begriffe, die seiner Vision der Architektur zu Grunde liegen — roh, gewagt, gefühlsbetont, radikal — und Inspiration für jedes kühne kreative Streben bieten | YouTube
Daniel Libeskind | Emotion in Architecture | Out of Sync | Art in Focus |
World-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, shares passionately and with great enthusiasm his view on the importance of emotion in architecture. ”There is no story without emotion. I believe architecture is a storytelling profession. It tells a story. A story without emotion is just a report in the Wall Street Journal. But a story with emotion, that’s what makes us human” Daniel Libeskind (b 1946) is a Polish-American architect. Libeskind began his career as an architectural theorist and professor, holding positions at various institutions around the world. His practical architectural career began in Milan in the late 1980s, where he submitted to architectural competitions and also founded and directed Architecture Intermundium, Institute for Architecture & Urbanism. Libeskind completed his first building at the age of 52, with the opening of the Felix Nussbaum Haus in 1998. Prior to this, critics had dismissed his designs as „unbuildable or unduly assertive”. The first design competition that Libeskind won was in 1987 for housing in West Berlin, but soon thereafter the Berlin Wall fell and the project was canceled. Libeskind won the first four projects he entered into competition for. Daniel and his partner Nina Libeskind established Studio Daniel Libeskind in Berlin, Germany, in 1989 after winning the competition to build the Jewish Museum Berlin. A series of influential museum commissions followed, including the Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück; Imperial War Museum North, Manchester; Denver Art Museum; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Danish Jewish Museum; Royal Ontario Museum; and the Military History Museum, Dresden. In February 2003, Studio Daniel Libeskind moved its headquarters from Berlin to New York City when Daniel Libeskind was selected as the master planner for the World Trade Center redevelopment. The Studio has offices overlooking the World Trade Center site in New York. An international figure in architecture and urban design, Daniel Libeskind is renowned for his ability to evoke cultural memory in buildings. Informed by a deep commitment to music, philosophy, literature, and poetry, Libeskind aims to create architecture that is resonant, unique and sustainable. His architecture and ideas have been the subject of many articles and exhibitions, influencing the field of architecture and the development of cities and culture | Credits | Daniel Libeskind | filmed by Out of Sync | NYC April 2014 Interview | Jesper Bundgaard Camera and edit | Per Henriksen Producer | Out of Sync © Out of Sync 2016 |
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Daniel Libeskind | Between zero and infinity | November 15, 2017 |
SCI-Arc Media Archive | Hernan Diaz Alonso introduces Daniel Libeskind as artist, theorist and architect with multiple trajectories, operating between the discipline and the profession. Daniel Libeskind describes his decision to pursue architecture through drawing and models, discussing a variety of works including Micromegas (1979), Chamberworks (1983), the Reading and Memory machines (1985), and the Sonnets of Babylon (2014). He discusses the Potsdamer Platz (1991) and City Edge (1987) projects. Libeskind reviews some of his built work, including | Jewish Museum, Berlin (1989-2001) | Jewish Museum glass courtyard (2007) | Academy of the Jewish Museum (2010) | National Holocaust memorial, Ottawa (2015) |18.36.54 House, Connecticut (2008) | Sapphire apartment building, Berlin (2017) | Two 2011 projects at Keppel Bay, Singapore: the Reflections complex of six towers and eleven low-rise villa apartments; and the Corals mid-rise residential complex | Military history museum, Dresden (2011) | Ogden Center for Fundamental Physics, Durham University (2016) | Occitanie Tower, Toulouse (2022) | East Thiers Station, Nice (2019) | Lake Turkana center, Kenya (construction to start 2019) | He concludes with the World Trade Center master plan (2003) stressing the open, public spaces |
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HOMEPAGE
WIKIPEDIA
DANIEL LIBESKIND
VIDEO / FILM
Daniel Libeskind | Interview | The Voices of a Site | Louisiana Channel |
“Architecture is the atmosphere, the story that has been created, and you’re part of it.” In this in-depth video, one of the most significant contemporary architects, the lauded Daniel Libeskind, shares the incredible story of his architectural journey, including the much-debated World Trade Center Master Plan. Growing up in the shadow of World War II, under the communist totalitarian government in Poland where there was still a pervasive anti-Semitism, the Jewish-born Libeskind had a strong sense of the need for liberty. His parents were survivors of the Holocaust, and though they had no higher education, they were intellectuals “educated through their life and their love.” America offered smiles and new opportunities, and in spite of having very little money, they managed, his father working as a printer, and his mother as a seamstress. When working on the World Trade Center Master Plan in New York City, Libeskind thought of his parents, who represented the people he was building for: “The people of New York, the real people, not the one per cent.” “Don’t have any goal, have a path.” After the genocide of the World War II, the assassination of Kennedy and the looming nuclear war, Libeskind experienced how the perception of human beings changed, which he feels has formed him: “There must be something more to reality than this fog of lies and illusions that have been build up by strong sources. There must be a freedom, and the freedom in the arts particularly.” Becoming an architect wasn’t in the cards, and he initially started began his career as a gifted accordion player with a brief detour to science. His four-five first buildings – such as the Jewish Museum in Berlin – were made possible because of architectural competitions. Only winning competitions, however, “is a ticket to oblivion,” and you have to be present in order to make it work, which is why he ended up moving to Berlin while building the Jewish Museum: “My career is based on anonymous competitions.” “Humanity has changed, how can we change with it without sacrificing what is most deeply human, which is some form of freedom and solidary with everything that exists.” When constructing the World Trade Center Master Plan, Libeskind decided to build as little as possible on the site, in order to leave it to the public – to the people. He wanted to transmit a raw memory, but still keep the balance between tragedy and the “paradoxical excitement and beauty of New York in this space.” Building in such an emotionally charged context, Libeskind was under constant attack from the press and more, and particularly the tower of One World Trade Center – the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere – was the subject of much controversy, but as Libeskind argues: “I’m a New Yorker, I believe in towers.” For this project, he needed to be a combination of a poet and a worker, and the Master Plan, as he sees it, is essentially about the beauty of life “and affirming in the face of tragedy, that life goes on in a meaningful way.” Finally, Libeskind argues that an important part of any building is memory, as this is “the earth you dig the foundations into.” Every site has been touched by something that we are not aware of, nowhere is a “tabula rasa,” and this is why you have to make an effort to listen to the earth and voices of the site. Daniel Libeskind (b. 1946) is a Polish-American architect and co-founder of Studio Daniel Libeskind. His buildings include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, the extension to the Denver Art Museum and the master plan for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in New York. Libeskind has taught at numerous universities worldwide, including the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University, and he is the recipient of multiple prizes. Among others the 1985 Stone Lion at the Venice Biennale and several RIBA awards | For more see https://libeskind.com/ | Daniel Libeskind was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at his studio in New York City | October 2016 | Camera Rasmus Quistgaard | Edited by Rasmus Quistgaard | Produced by Marc-Christoph Wagner | Copyright Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | 2018 | Supported by Dreyers Fond | YouTube
Daniel Liebeskind | 17 Vokabeln architektonischer Inspiration | TED |
Daniel Libeskind baut auf sehr große Ideen. Er nennt hier 17 Begriffe, die seiner Vision der Architektur zu Grunde liegen — roh, gewagt, gefühlsbetont, radikal — und Inspiration für jedes kühne kreative Streben bieten | YouTube
Daniel Libeskind | Emotion in Architecture | Out of Sync | Art in Focus |
World-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, shares passionately and with great enthusiasm his view on the importance of emotion in architecture. ”There is no story without emotion. I believe architecture is a storytelling profession. It tells a story. A story without emotion is just a report in the Wall Street Journal. But a story with emotion, that’s what makes us human” Daniel Libeskind (b 1946) is a Polish-American architect. Libeskind began his career as an architectural theorist and professor, holding positions at various institutions around the world. His practical architectural career began in Milan in the late 1980s, where he submitted to architectural competitions and also founded and directed Architecture Intermundium, Institute for Architecture & Urbanism. Libeskind completed his first building at the age of 52, with the opening of the Felix Nussbaum Haus in 1998. Prior to this, critics had dismissed his designs as „unbuildable or unduly assertive”. The first design competition that Libeskind won was in 1987 for housing in West Berlin, but soon thereafter the Berlin Wall fell and the project was canceled. Libeskind won the first four projects he entered into competition for. Daniel and his partner Nina Libeskind established Studio Daniel Libeskind in Berlin, Germany, in 1989 after winning the competition to build the Jewish Museum Berlin. A series of influential museum commissions followed, including the Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück; Imperial War Museum North, Manchester; Denver Art Museum; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Danish Jewish Museum; Royal Ontario Museum; and the Military History Museum, Dresden. In February 2003, Studio Daniel Libeskind moved its headquarters from Berlin to New York City when Daniel Libeskind was selected as the master planner for the World Trade Center redevelopment. The Studio has offices overlooking the World Trade Center site in New York. An international figure in architecture and urban design, Daniel Libeskind is renowned for his ability to evoke cultural memory in buildings. Informed by a deep commitment to music, philosophy, literature, and poetry, Libeskind aims to create architecture that is resonant, unique and sustainable. His architecture and ideas have been the subject of many articles and exhibitions, influencing the field of architecture and the development of cities and culture | Credits | Daniel Libeskind | filmed by Out of Sync | NYC April 2014 Interview | Jesper Bundgaard Camera and edit | Per Henriksen Producer | Out of Sync © Out of Sync 2016 |
YouTube
Daniel Libeskind | Between zero and infinity | November 15, 2017 |
SCI-Arc Media Archive | Hernan Diaz Alonso introduces Daniel Libeskind as artist, theorist and architect with multiple trajectories, operating between the discipline and the profession. Daniel Libeskind describes his decision to pursue architecture through drawing and models, discussing a variety of works including Micromegas (1979), Chamberworks (1983), the Reading and Memory machines (1985), and the Sonnets of Babylon (2014). He discusses the Potsdamer Platz (1991) and City Edge (1987) projects. Libeskind reviews some of his built work, including | Jewish Museum, Berlin (1989-2001) | Jewish Museum glass courtyard (2007) | Academy of the Jewish Museum (2010) | National Holocaust memorial, Ottawa (2015) |18.36.54 House, Connecticut (2008) | Sapphire apartment building, Berlin (2017) | Two 2011 projects at Keppel Bay, Singapore: the Reflections complex of six towers and eleven low-rise villa apartments; and the Corals mid-rise residential complex | Military history museum, Dresden (2011) | Ogden Center for Fundamental Physics, Durham University (2016) | Occitanie Tower, Toulouse (2022) | East Thiers Station, Nice (2019) | Lake Turkana center, Kenya (construction to start 2019) | He concludes with the World Trade Center master plan (2003) stressing the open, public spaces |
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