In this exhibition, Major Silence, a twenty-meter track extends from the entry, past the glass wall and into the rear of the garden, upon which a disc two meters in diameter shuttles slowly to one end of the track and back again.  The device is entitled, “Line and Wheel”. Beside the track at the center of the exhibition space is another object, resembling a giant automatic weighing scale.  Six discs of different sizes have been inserted into the slightly slanted top of its aluminum-clad cylinder, enabling the aluminum model to revolve. These two objects, moving nowhere noiselessly, seem somehow to cry out…

The history of architecture includes countless plans and ideas that were never completed. Some were unrealistic or impractical, some limited by social issues of the time, others abandoned to focus on renovating existing buildings. Unfinished buildings, however, still encapsulate the artists’ and architects’ dreams and ideas. This exhibition looks at what became “impossible,” focusing on unfinished architecture in Japan and overseas from the 20th century and beyond. Blueprints and scale models by 40 architects and artists are on show, including Makoto Aida, Tadao Ando, ​​Archigram, ARAKAWA + Madeline GINS, Yakov Chernikhov, Yona Friedman, Sou Fujimoto, Mark Foster Gage, Pierre Jean Giloux,…

Part of the collection at the Hiroshima MoCA, “The Agonic Line of Architecture” was shown in the 30th anniversary exhibition entitled the Seven Lamps of the Art Museum.  The exhibition is from March 9–May 26, 2019

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…

Light and the Space of the Void SANDRA GERING INC July 9 – September 12, 2015 SANDRA GERING INC. is pleased to present Light and the Space of the Void , an exhibition curated by architect and author Alexander Gorlin. The exhibition takes as its inspiration Gorlin’s 2013 publication Kabbalah in Art and Architecture, an engrossing look at the author’s perspectives on how aspects of Kabbalah can be seen, either directly or indirectly, in many modern and contemporary works. Specifically, the exhibition’s focus is on the aspects of ‘light’ and its relationship to ‘void’ in various forms. Although many artists throughout history have…

Fiftieth anniversary of Le Corbusier’s passing Homage to Le Corbusier 05/06/2015 – 27/09/2015 On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Le Corbusier (1887-1965), ten architects among the most important of our time propose their vision of a project for the extension of the Villa “Le Lac”. Daniel Libeskind, Mario Botta, Zaha Hadid, Toyo Ito, SANAA, Rudy Ricciotti, Bernard Tschumi, Gigon/Guyer, Rafael Moneo et Alvaro Siza lent themselves to this stimulating competition for ideas and imagination. The exhibition displays their contributions as well as some superb drawings of the Villa “Le Lac” by Le Corbusier, and photographs…

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)

Architectural Meditations on Themes from Heraclitus A set of 28 Drawings done by Daniel Libeskind while he was the head of the Architecture Department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.