Aedes Architecture Forum: Dialogue Concert Series #3

Chamberworks is a set of 28 drawings created by Daniel Libeskind during the years in which he served as the head of the Architecture Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in the early 1980s. The drawings explore the relationship between music and architecture. Christopher Dell conceives these as “a strategic performative approach to work constructively, and non-arbitrarily with indeterminacy. In this sense Formblocks serve as a lens through which the Chamberworks are musically read as scores.” On the occasion of Aedes Architecture Forum’s 40th anniversary, the series Dialogue Concerts. Conceptual Research on Architecture and Music presents…

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Louisana Channel: The Voices of a Site

“Architecture is the atmosphere, the story that has been created, and you’re part of it.” In this in-depth video, one of the most significant contemporary architects, the lauded Daniel Libeskind, shares the incredible story of his architectural journey, including the much-debated World Trade Center Master Plan.

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HP: Form and Function

Studio Libeskind shares how the revolutionary HP Z2 Mini helps them design innovative architectural structures like the Kurdistan Museum. Learn more about the Z2 Mini at http://hp.tl/60578ntJz.

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HP: Small but Powerful

There are 5 million designers that shape the world for 7 billion people. Though small in number, you are incredibly powerful. Just like the HP Z2 Mini. Learn more at hp.com/go/Z2mini.

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BBC Radio: Private Passions

The 15th anniversary of 9/11, Michael Berkeley’s guest Daniel Libeskind, a world-renowned architect, known for concert halls, opera sets, museums, hotels and universities, speaks about the World Trade Center’s “sacred site.”

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Daniel Libeskind Nowness : In Residence

For the Polish-born architect Daniel Libeskind, the crossroads of west Tribeca in lower Manhattan have been the nexus of his private and professional life for over a decade: his 2,100-square-foot loft sits just five blocks north of ground zero, and in 2003, Libeskind won the competition to be the Master Plan architect for the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site, which today stands in finished form.

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Museum of Jewish Heritage – Live Storytelling Event: Stories of Regeneration from the Second Generation

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Museum of Jewish Heritage hosted a live storytelling event of children of Holocaust survivors recollecting what it was like to grow up in the shadow of the Shoah. Storytellers included Daniel Libeskind, architect; Joseph Berger, former New York Times reporter and author of Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust; Esther Perel, therapist and author; Sam Norich, publisher, Jewish Daily Forward; Museum Trustee Jack Kliger, chairman/CEO, British Heritage Magazine; Ruth Lichtenstein, publisher, Hamodia, founder/director Project Witness; Eva Fogelman, psychologist, author, filmmaker, and co-director of the International Study of…

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Childhood ReCollections: Memory in Design featuring Daniel Libeskind | Roca London Gallery

On November 6, 2015, Daniel Libeskind discussed memory, creativity and legacy with architectural historian Gillian Darley at the Roca London Gallery. The talk coincided with both the Death and Memory: Soane and the Architecture of Legacy at the Sir John Soane’s Museum and Childhood ReCollections: Memory in Design exhibition at the Roca London Gallery – where Libeskind’s formative memories were being presented. “From early childhood, Libeskind was aware of the void left by the Holocaust, and this childhood experience of death and personal loss found expression in his Jewish Museum in Berlin,” said Roca curator Clare Farrow. “Libeskind sees memory, not in terms…

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Soho House New York Sapphire Event

Daniel Libeskind appeared at the Soho House New York to talk about his latest project,Sapphire, his new residential structure in the Mitte district of Berlin. He was joined in conversation by Felix Burrichter of Pin Up Magazine, where he talked about switching from designing major cultural projects to designing private apartment complexes.

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Eating Out with Daniel Libeskind and Marina Abramovic

The performance art pioneer and one of the most important architects on the international scene meet on the stage of the Aula Magna for a debate on the theme of Food. The dialogue is accompanied by a gallery of images selected by the two, to share their personal visions of nutrition with the public. A prototype will be shown of the furnishings (in collaboration with Moroso) designed by Daniel Libeskind for the performance, in the Abramovic Method, entitled “Rice Counting” held from 1 to 11 May in Geneva, where participants are asked to sit down to count two different types…

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Robert Storr and Daniel Libeskind on Picasso and Giacometti

This Fall, the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University will host a unique exhibition guest-curated by art historian and Yale School of Art dean Robert Storr that will bring together the works of modern masters including Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti with contemporary artists in order to examine the scope of their influence into the present day. As part of the museum’s 25th anniversary celebration, the exhibition will feature works taken from the personal collection of Leslie and Abigail Wexner, two of the museum’s major benefactors, that includes some of the most important figures in postwar art…

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Jewish Museum Berlin – Spirit of Space

The Jewish Museum in Berlin is hard to forget. Its poignant impression pierces the memory and expands shortly after its initial puncture. Standing in stark contrast to the original Baroque building, its expression is immediately felt. Further, this project’s ripple has touched two additional spaces. Since the original opening in 2001, Studio Daniel Libeskind designed the Museum’s Glass Courtyard in 2007, and The Academy was recently completed and opened in 2013. Thus, it’s a fitting time to take another look at the original project that began building the relationship between the Museum and Daniel Libeskind. Materials weather and age with…

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Daniel Libeskind: On Drawing

Acclaimed architect Daniel Libeskind discusses a pair of artists books he created in the early 1980. Copies of “Chamber works: architectural meditations on themes from Heraclitus” (1983) and “Theatrum mundi: through the green membranes of space” (1985) are both included in the collection of WUSTL’s Kranzberg Art & Architecture Library. (Washington University of St. Louis)

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Architecture for freedom: Daniel Libeskind at TEDxViadellaConciliazione

Daniel Libeskind, B.Arch. M.A. BDA AIA, is an international architect and designer. His practice extends worldwide from museums and concert halls to convention centers, universities, hotels, shopping centers, and residential projects. Born in Łód´z, Poland in 1946, Libeskind was a virtuoso musician at a young age before giving up music to become an architect. He has received numerous awards and designed world-renowned projects including: the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Denver Art Museum, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the Military History Museum in Dresden, and the masterplan for Ground Zero among others. Daniel Libeskind’s commitment to expanding the scope…

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La Ciudad de las Ideas – Dangerous Ideas

Art has a story and many stories to tell ; with architecture is no exception. Daniel Libeskind teaches how it can express the historical feelings of humanity through the explanation of his works at the time. The architect goes on a journey from the bowels of the Jewish Museum in Berlin to Ground Zero in New York City . The City of Ideas is an International Festival of Brilliant Minds based in the city of Puebla, Mexico . Andrés Roemer , President of Civic AC power is the bold festival curator . (Ciudad de las Ideas)

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Daniel Libeskind – Hillman Curtis Artist Series

Directed by Hillman Curtis, Edited by Hillman Curtis & Kristin Bye, Produced by Amanda Ice and Hillman Curtis One of the best Artist Series experiences I’ve had so far. Daniel is a special person, full of depth and positivity…blessed with a gift. Every now and then you come across someone who seems perfectly suited for their position in the world… you can’t imagine them doing anything but what they do, and Daniel is one of those people. (Hillman Curtis)

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Architecture is a Language: Daniel Libeskind at TEDxDUBLIN

TEDxDublin was hosted by Science Gallery at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre on September 8th, 2012. http://www.TEDxDublin.com Daniel Libeskind believes that buildings are crafted with perceptible human energy, and that they address the greater cultural context in which they are built. Best known for designing iconic buildings like the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Libeskind also designed the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre and the masterplan for the new World Trade Center site in New York City. His commitment to expanding the scope of architecture reflects his profound interest and involvement in philosophy, art, literature and…

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Cities of the Future

Starchitect Daniel Libeskind was in Toronto, Canada for the topping off of his latest architectural gem the LTower. The LTower soars to 205 metes with a swooping sculptural gesture to the city. It was a celebration indeed as the 285 million dollar LTower project has resulted in the preservation of The Sony Centre breathing new life into this cultural centre for the Arts by acclaimed Canadian Architect Peter Dickinson. Libeskind met myETVmedia at the ROM where he designed the Michael-Lee Chin Crystal to discuss his vision of cities in the future and his current projects including the LTower. (myETVmedia)

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Rebirth – Spirit of Space

Interviews with Nina and Daniel Libeskind, Carla Swickerath, Yama Karim, and Stefan Blach on three iconic Libeskind projects: The Jewish Museum Berlin, The redesign of the World Trade Center in New York City, and The Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany.

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Daniel Libeskind’s 17 Words of Architectural Inspiration

Daniel Libeskind builds on very big ideas. Here, he shares 17 words that underlie his vision for architecture — raw, risky, emotional, radical — and that offer inspiration for any bold creative pursuit. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on…

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