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Book Edge of Order

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Libeskind
  • Publisher : Clarkson Potter
  • Release : 2018-11-27
  • ISBN : 045149735X
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Edge of Order written by Daniel Libeskind and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning tour of the work of internationally known architect Daniel Libeskind and an investigation of a master artist's creative process. Daniel Libeskind is one of the foremost architects of our time, a self-proclaimed rebel celebrated for innovative, site-conscious designs, including the Jewish Museum Berlin and New York's World Trade Center Redevelopment. He has also emerged as one of architecture's most visible public ambassadors. In Edge of Order, Libeskind opens the door to his unique creative process, guiding us through a selection of his projects never before collected--both built and unrealized, major commissions and unexpected favorites--and revealing how he arrived at their designs through text and a rich array of visuals, including drawings, plans, and photographs. With a voracious appetite for culture and history, and an encyclopedic memory, Libeskind draws on everything from Greek mythology to Emily Dickinson to the Marx Brothers to explain the way he thinks about buildings and cities. Far more than a monograph, Edge of Order is both an essential document of Libeskind's remarkable career and an intimate portrait of an artist that will encourage creative people in any field to discover new points of inspiration.

Book Counterpoint  Daniel Libeskind

Download or read book Counterpoint Daniel Libeskind written by Daniel Libeskind and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Paul Goldberger, of international renown, documents all of Libeskind‘s high-profile projects such as the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Highly attractive object with exclusive graphic design.

Book Daniel Libeskind  Radix Matrix

Download or read book Daniel Libeskind Radix Matrix written by Daniel Libeskind and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Libeskind represents a unique attempt to provide a comprehensive critical analysis of Libeskind's architecture and philosophy. Libeskind serves as the mediator of his own work, exploring various projects through an illuminating juxtaposition of textual commentary with illustrations of competition models, concept drawings, and site photos of realized works. Essays by Jacques Derrida and Mark C. Taylor, among others, provide a critical analysis of Libeskind's architecture, identifying his place within the context of contemporary architecture and theory. The book concludes with a collection of Libeskind's most important essays, many of which are published here in English for the first time.

Book Daniel Libeskind

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  • Author : Daniel Libeskind
  • Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780789304964
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Daniel Libeskind written by Daniel Libeskind and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than twenty years Daniel Libeskind has been regarded as one of the world's leading architectural theoreticians and educators. Since 1973, he has taught at more than forty institutions, maintaining such distinguished positions as head of the Cranbrook Academy of Art's School of Architecture in Bloomfield, Michigan, founder and director of Architecture Intermundium in Milan, Italy, the Sir Bannister Fletcher Architecture Professor at the University of London in London, England, professor at the University of California, Los Angeles' School of Architecture and Urban Planning in Los Angeles, California, and the First Louis Kahn Professorship at Yale University. Throughout Libeskind's career, his approach to the profession of architecture and the development of the world's built environment has defied convention. He is one of the last heroes of the architecture world's avant-garde. And while he is the recipient of numerous awards and citations for his designs, Libeskind's architectural output has largely consisted of models, drawings, poetry, and ephemera. For years, Studio Libeskind sustained itself as a laboratory for the testing of his boundary-breaking ideas. In 1989 Libeskind competed for the commission to design what would become the Jewish Museum Berlin. He won. Since then, he relocated his office from Milan to Berlin, was nominated for the Pritzker prize for Architecture, and was commissioned to design the Felix Nussbaum Haus, a museum for the city of Osnabruck, Germany, which opened to critical acclaim in 1998. In 1999, he was awarded the Deutsche Architektur Preis (German Architecture Prize) for his Jewish Museum Berlin, a structure that received over 250,000visitors before it contained even a single work of art. Now, because he has been commissioned to design the extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England, the Imperial War Museum in Manchester, England, the Jewish Museum in San Francisco, California, the JVC University in Guadalajara, Mexico, and, most recently, the extension to the Denver Art Museum in Denved, Colorado, the world is encountering in built form the riveting design concepts of Daniel Libeskind. the first book to get inside Libeskind's extraordinary world, "The Space of Encounter" eschews the traditional monograph format as it tracks the architect's life's work, pulling the reader back to the 1980s and guiding him through an often mesmerizing array of ideas and projects extending into the year 2005. By revealing for the first time in book form his project proposal texts, excerpts from lauded speeches and lectures, interviews conducted with international newspapers and periodicals, in addition to his poems and correspondence, this book captures Libeskind at a major turning point in his career. Here, we learn of Libeskind's experience of being a radical educator to becoming a high profile, convincing and inspiring architect. Complementing his brilliantly insightful textual material are his forceful drawings and full-color images of his project models, finished projects, and projects in progress.

Book Breaking Ground

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  • Author : Daniel Libeskind
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780719566738
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Breaking Ground written by Daniel Libeskind and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Libeskind's iconic buildings around the world -- from the Jewish Museum in Berlin to the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, the V&A 'Spiral' to the most symbolic rebuilding project ever: the World Trade Center -- have sparked vigorous debate, not only for the way they look but for the ideas they contain. These are ideas that are important for all of us, and this is the story of those ideas -- a memoir of Libeskind's own life experiences, and of the events of history that have informed them. It is a book about the adventure life can offer each of us if we seize it, and about how we can all harness positively the powerful forces of tragedy, memory and hope.

Book Daniel Libeskind and the Contemporary Jewish Museum

Download or read book Daniel Libeskind and the Contemporary Jewish Museum written by Daniel Libeskind and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in conjunction with the opening of the Contemporary Jewish Museum building on June 8, 2008"--T.p. verso.

Book Jewish Museum

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  • Author : Daniel Libeskind
  • Publisher : Museum Building
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9788434312920
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Jewish Museum written by Daniel Libeskind and published by Museum Building. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed in the second half of the 90s, the Jewish Museum in Berlin opened in September 2011.The modern architectural elements of the Libeskind building comprise the zinc façade, (described as “An irrational and invisible matrix”), the Garden of Exile (which attempts “to completely disorient the visitor [and] represents a shipwreck of history”), the three Axes of the German-Jewish experience, and the Voids (which refer to “that which can never be exhibited when it comes to Jewish Berlin history: Humanity reduced to ashes”).Together these pieces form a visual and spatial language rich with history and symbolism. In the words of the architect: “The official name of the project is ‘Jewish Museum’ but I have named it ‘Between the Lines’ because for me it is about two lines of thinking, organization, and relationship. One is a straight line, but broken into many fragments, the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely.” In some way, Libeskind imagines the continuation of both lines throughout the city of Berlin and beyond.

Book Daniel Libeskind

Download or read book Daniel Libeskind written by Daniel Libeskind and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om arkitekten Daniel Libeskind født 1946

Book In the Unlikeliest of Places

Download or read book In the Unlikeliest of Places written by Annette Libeskind Berkovits and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annette Libeskind Berkovits thought her attempt to have her father record his life's story failed. But in 2004, three years after her father's death, she was going through his things and found a box of tapes—several years' worth—with his spectacular life, triumphs, and tragedies told one last time in his baritone voice. Nachman Libeskind's remarkable story is an odyssey through crucial events of the twentieth century. With an unshakable will and a few drops of luck, he survives a pre-war Polish prison; witnesses the 1939 Nazi invasion of Lodz and narrowly escapes; is imprisoned in a brutal Soviet gulag where he helps his fellow inmates survive, and upon regaining his freedom treks to the foothills of the Himalayas, where he finds and nearly loses the love of his life. Later, the crushing communist regime and a lingering postwar anti-Semitism in Poland drive Nachman and his young family to Israel, where he faces a new form of discrimination. Then, defiantly, Nachman turns a pocketful of change into a new life in New York City, where a heartbreaking promise leads to his unlikely success as a modernist painter that inspires others to pursue their dreams. With just a box of tapes, Annette Libeskind Berkovits tells more than her father's story: she builds an uncommon family saga and reimagines a turbulent past. In the process she uncovers a stubborn optimism that flourished in the unlikeliest of places.

Book Between Zero and Infinity

Download or read book Between Zero and Infinity written by Daniel Libeskind and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Breaking Ground

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  • Author : Daniel Libeskind
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Breaking Ground written by Daniel Libeskind and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a memoir, Libeskind--the iconoclast with the master plan for Ground Zero--has penned an autobiography of architecture, culture, and people.

Book The Language of Architecture

Download or read book The Language of Architecture written by Andrea Simitch and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVLearning a new discipline is similar to learning a new language; in order to master the foundation of architecture, you must first master the basic building blocks of its language – the definitions, function, and usage. Language of Architecture provides students and professional architects with the basic elements of architectural design, divided into twenty-six easy-to-comprehend chapters. This visual reference includes an introductory, historical view of the elements, as well as an overview of how these elements can and have been used across multiple design disciplines./divDIV /divDIVWhether you’re new to the field or have been an architect for years, you’ll want to flip through the pages of this book throughout your career and use it as the go-to reference for inspiration, ideas, and reminders of how a strong knowledge of the basics allows for meaningful, memorable, and beautiful fashions that extend beyond trends./divDIV /divDIVThis comprehensive learning tool is the one book you’ll want as a staple in your library./divDIV /div

Book Counterpoint

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Libeskind
  • Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
  • Release : 2008-11-18
  • ISBN : 1580932061
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Counterpoint written by Daniel Libeskind and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architect Daniel Libeskind, known for his dynamic, fractured compositions, is also recognized for introducing a new critical discourse to architecture. In an enormous variety of projects around the world—major cultural institutions, convention centers, universities, hotels, commercial centers, and residential work—he has manifested his commitment to expanding the horizons of architecture and urbanism. Counterpoint: Daniel Libeskind is the first comprehensive portrait of the work of Studio Daniel Libeskind, which was established in Berlin in 1989 and moved to New York in 2003 after winning the World Trade Center design competition. Drawn from a series of interviews with celebrated architecture critic Paul Goldberger, Counterpoint exemplifies Libeskind's multidisciplinary approach, which reflects a profound interest in philosophy, art, music, literature, theater, and film. Along with Memory Foundations, the master plan for the World Trade Center site, featured projects include the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Royal Ontario Museum, the extension to the Denver Art Museum, the MGM Mirage CityCenter in Las Vegas, a multi-building complex in Busan, South Korea, and projects in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Israel, Mexico, Japan, and China.

Book Welcome to the Hotel Architecture

Download or read book Welcome to the Hotel Architecture written by Roger Connah and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Departing from conventional genres of architectural writing, Roger Connah presents an original and wry reflection on the fickle but exciting role that language, semantics, and philosophy have played this century in relation to architecture. Welcome to The Hotel Architecture is a five-part "anti-epic" poem on the culture of architecture - its tribes and inventions, the spectacular and vernacular, and the processes through which names and movements are secured, erased, forgotten, and manipulated.

Book Daniel Libeskind

    Book Details:
  • Author : Antonello Marotta
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2013-06-30
  • ISBN : 1291474099
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Daniel Libeskind written by Antonello Marotta and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book in your hands is a complete, mature work of a scholar at this point aware of his own theoretical and expressive means. Perhaps the most complete and thorough essay produced to date on Daniel Libeskind, it provides a portrait intertwined with ramifications, packed with references, full of charm and altogether beautiful also from the point of view of the extraordinary wealth of illustrations. Much of the illustrative material has not been published before and is the result of vital collaboration between the author, Antonello Marotta and the attentive, enthusiastic Libeskind Studio. From The Preface by Antonino Saggio

Book Theatrum Mundi

Download or read book Theatrum Mundi written by Daniel Libeskind and published by AA Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Libeskind is admired for his capacity to bring new dimensions to the perception of architecture. In "Theatrum Mundi," 12 abstract colour plates present a premonition of the future in the form of a city besieged by an unknown infection. The plates are presented in an unusual accordian format to emphasize their circular relationship to one another.

Book On the Ruins of Babel

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  • Author : Daniel Leonhard Purdy
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2011-03-15
  • ISBN : 0801476968
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book On the Ruins of Babel written by Daniel Leonhard Purdy and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science—the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other disciplines within a single master plan emerged from this discourse. Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe described the architect as their equal, a genius with godlike creativity. For writers from Descartes to Freud, architectural reasoning provided a method for critically examining consciousness. The architect, as philosophers liked to think of him, was obligated by the design and construction process to mediate between the abstract and the actual. In On the Ruins of Babel, Daniel Purdy traces this notion back to its wellspring. He surveys the volatile state of architectural theory in the Enlightenment, brought on by the newly emerged scientific critiques of Renaissance cosmology, then shows how German writers redeployed Renaissance terminology so that "harmony," "unity," "synthesis," "foundation," and "orderliness" became states of consciousness, rather than terms used to describe the built world. Purdy's distinctly new interpretation of German theory reveals how metaphors constitute interior life as an architectural space to be designed, constructed, renovated, or demolished. He elucidates the close affinity between Hegel's Romantic aesthetic of space and Daniel Libeskind's deconstruction of monumental architecture in Berlin's Jewish Museum. Through a careful reading of Walter Benjamin's writing on architecture as myth, Purdy details how classical architecture shaped Benjamin's modernist interpretations of urban life, particularly his elaboration on Freud's archaeology of the unconscious. Benjamin's essays on dreams and architecture turn the individualist sensibility of the Enlightenment into a collective and mythic identification between humans and buildings.