ArchiTel Archives - Daniel Libeskind Jewish Holocaust Museum, Berlin @http://architel.tv

Trailer for a full one hour illustrated talk by Libeskind on the Jewish Holocaust Museum, Berlin. Recorded during the RAIA Challenge of Excellence architecture conference, Melbourne, March 1992.

Though he had been an architectural theorist and professor for many years, 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 cancelled. Libeskind won the first four projects he entered into competition for. The Jewish Museum Berlin, completed in 1999, was Libeskind's first major international success and was one of the first buildings designed after reunification. Today the museum is Germany's most visited. Libeskind has also designed cultural and commercial institutions, museums, concert halls, convention centers, universities, residences, hotels, and shopping centers. Critics often describe Libeskind's work as deconstructivist.

Producer Ron Brown, Editor Damian Jenkins.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Daniel-Libeskind
• Holocaust-Museum
• Berlin
• architecture
• architect
• design
• building
• construction
• engineering
• Jewish
• museum
• deconstructivism
• Judisches-Museum-Berlin
• post-modern

[parkerjwill]

Year that ends in three zeros?! That's deep. Way deep. LOL