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DANIEL LIBESKIND
Identity
If we look at the Jewish
museum, we can see how he
uses symbols and signs in his
process of drawing. Since he
creates symbols and signs, in the
case of Jewish museum, they are
abstracted because Libeskind is
very critical and tries to be
objective since it was a really
sensitive case. He did not want
to marginalize Jews and did not
want it to be clear; he wanted
the form to be subjective and
did not want to assign a
meaning.
What he did was that he took
the traces of the map of Berlin
as the first layer and then put a
distorted Jewish star and as the
third layer he put the names of
the people who died in the
holocaust. Libeskind juxtaposed
three layers and manipulated
the occurred geometries. He
was very critical and established
a balance to make the proposal
appeal to the authorities.
http://pixshark.com/jewish-museum-berlin-plan.htm
http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Yahudi_M%C3%BCzesi
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/berlin/jewish-museum-building
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Libeskind, Daniel. ‘Building’, in
Breaking Ground- Adventures in
Life and Architecture (NY:
Riverhead Books, 2004), pp. 77102.
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