Daniel Libeskind

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Daniel Libeskind American architect, protagonist of international architecture and urban design. Great architecture for a new Renaissance The optimism, culture and eclecticism of Daniel Libeskind are revealed in an exclusive interview with Realtà Mapei International By Adriana Spazzoli and Tiziano Tiziani Shortly before the inauguration of his exhibition in Rome entitled Never Say the Eye is Rigid: Architectural Drawings of Daniel Libeskind, featuring 52 of his drawings on display for the first time ever, Daniel Libeskind told us about the guidelines that help make him feel more artistic and...

The interview with Daniel Libeskind carried out by Tiziano Tiziani, left, and Adriana Spazzoli, Operational Marketing & Communication Director for Mapei Group. ture. So I have always believed that it’s really a development together. It’s not just the architect that does something and the owner writes something, rather you have to do the project together to make everybody care for something to be built. The work of an architect in Europe and in America is completely different. For example, I know that in America architects usually choose the materials themselves. How well do you really want to...

One of the most evocative buildings in New York is the Flatiron Building, dating back to 1902. When you design a building nowadays the materials are obviously different. Sure, materials are different; we have a greater choice of materials today compared to when the Flatiron Building was built. In the past there were fewer possibilities with the materials available. Now we have new possibilities by using different materials, lightweight and with a very good effect on the environment. So I think this is the power of change. In the past a lot of things were still unknown. Now we have a clearer perception...

process. Of course there are different complexities, different cultures and different ways of doing things, and sure those differences should be caught. Culture and art are connected. What relationship do they have with architecture? Culture and art were around at the beginning of history and are resources for architecture. I think drawings from the beginning of history are the source of architecture. Now we have computers that are very quick and they offer new frontiers to the imagination, but the freedom that drawing offers the imagination hasn’t changed. Mapei’s style of communications also...

Never Say the Eye is Rigid: Architectural Drawings Inaugurated in Rome, in collaboration with Mapei, the first exhibition of Daniel Libeskind On Monday the 11th of March, at the Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery in Rome, an exhibition was opened to the public entitled Never Say the Eye is Rigid. Architectural Drawings of Daniel Libeskind. This is the first ever exhibition of the drawings of the great polish architect who became an American citizen in 1965. The exhibition, with Mapei as main sponsor, will be open to the public until the 30th of April and features 52 original drawings covering 8 different...

Above. Some of the sketches for the Memory Foundations project, in New York, in the Ground Zero area. in New York, at Ground Zero, to the intimacy that characterises his sketches of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the visitor is accompanied by Daniel Libeskind along a very personal path through some of his more famous works. For his 2004 memorial Breaking Ground: Adventures in Life and Architecture, Libeskind was highly eloquent in his approach that dealt with the theme of centrality in design and its creative process. “The physical act of drawing by hand”, explained Libeskind “is an extremely important...

The BIOGRAPHY Who is Daniel Libeskind? Daniel Libeskind is an international star in the field of architecture and urban design. He is renowned for introducing a new vision of architecture using a multi-disciplinary approach. His professional experience spans from buildings, for large cultural and private institutions, including museums and concert halls, right up to congress centres, universities, residences, hotels, shopping centres and villas. He has also created scenery for operas and runs a very active research department dedicated to industrial design. Libeskind, born in Poland in 1946,...

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Daniel Libeskind’s design for the extension to one of the most renowned military museums in the world In October 2011, after almost 7 years of extension and renovation work, the Museum of Military History of the German Armed Forces reopened to the general public. The building, located north of the ancient city centre of Dresden, was completely redesigned by the American architect Daniel Libeskind, and its structure is now traversed by a wedge of metal and concrete. The Museum is in the Albertstadt district of Dresden. The original nucleus was built in the XIXth century and, in 1994, became the...