a seminar on Daniel lebiskind for ready reffrence

1. DANIEL LIBESKIND Presented by : Tanveer Alam, B.Arch. Final Year 2014-15

2. INTRODUCTION
 Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish-
American architect, artist, professor and set
designer of Polish Jewish descent.
 Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with
his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect.
 Libeskind's work has been exhibited in major museums
and galleries around the world, including the Museum
of Modern Art, the Bauhaus Archives, the Art Institute
of Chicago, and the Centre Pompidou.
 Began his career as an architectural theorist and
professor.
 The Jewish Museum Berlin, completed in 1999, was
Libeskind's first major international success and was one
of the first buildings designed after reunification.

3. Lot of architectural students (especially the
pretentious ones), confuse the words
‘philosophy’, ‘theory’ and ‘speculation’. For the
Greeks, ‘philosophy’, was the “love of
knowledge’ and the result of an inquiry into
universal truths. ‘Theory’ is the result of an
inquiry of specific facts leading to the test of the
resultant supposition. What most pretentious
architects (Daniel Libeskind is a good example),
engage in is the more dubious practice of
‘speculation’, as in - “Hey, I wonder what would
happen if I made a building look like a crystal
rock formation?” Clearly this is often a very
dumb approach to design, so they use big words
to describe their speculations as either
“theories’ or “philosophies’ to make them sound
better than they are.
 As my aim is not to critique or appraise what
Daniel stands for but to discuss and analyse
what are the ideas behind his designs .
 While doing research I came across many
negative articles about the work which he
has done, and somehow I was even
convinced with the facts these articles
claimed ,but at the very same moment it
came to if he is being critiqued ,then there
must be something which he did is great.
 Finally ,I can only say that the projects which
are too powerful in terms of their philosophy
,overpower the ideas and theories of the
person who designed it, be it and hence
become the brand name od the designer.

4. DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - Classification
Deconstruction
Style
Layering Angular
Organic
(Curvilinear)
Chaos

5. DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS - angular
 Definition: essentially consists of complicated composition of hybrid
volumes with Acute angles.
Basic
Shape
Fragmentati
on
Transformati
on
Recombining

6. DENVER ART MUSEUM-Colorado,
Lines: Almost Straight Non-parallel lines.
USA

7. Corners: Acute angles.

8. Appearance of Original Basic Volumes: Disappear.

9. Articulation: through relation between Masses. Openings: Mainly by Subtraction .

10. PALAZZO DELL’EDILIZIA OF
ALESSANDRIA, Alessandria, Italy

11. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
Toronto, Canada

12. The Villa - Libeskind Signature
Series

13. JEWISH MUSEUM -BERLIN