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 ...
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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.
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This book was a gift to another person, who seemed very pleased to rweceive it.
peter c
Feb 3, 2011
The inside story of buildings
A page-turning account of the path of the man charged with the unique responsibility of a project which literally will be seen as rebuilding americas faith in itself after the most famous terrorist attrocity. Filled with personal (and political) insights into "public", yet intimate, buildings and how they come to be as they are.
Made me promise myself to read it again on a flight to New York to pay respects at Ground Zero.
