Synopses & Reviews
Architect Daniel Libeskind, known for his dynamic, fractured compositions, is also recognized for introducing a new critical discourse to architecture. In an enormous variety of projects around the world—major cultural institutions, convention centers, universities, hotels, commercial centers, and residential work—he has manifested his commitment to expanding the horizons of architecture and urbanism.
Counterpoint: Daniel Libeskind is the first comprehensive portrait of the work of Studio Daniel Libeskind, which was established in Berlin in 1989 and moved to New York in 2003 after winning the World Trade Center design competition.
Drawn from a series of interviews with celebrated architecture critic Paul Goldberger, Counterpoint exemplifies Libeskind's multidisciplinary approach, which reflects a profound interest in philosophy, art, music, literature, theater, and film. Along with Memory Foundations, the master plan for the World Trade Center site, featured projects include the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Royal Ontario Museum, the extension to the Denver Art Museum, the MGM Mirage CityCenter in Las Vegas, a multi-building complex in Busan, South Korea, and projects in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Israel, Mexico, Japan, and China.
About the Author
Daniel Libeskind is the founder and principal of Studio Daniel Libeskind, founded in Berlin in 1989.
Paul Goldberger is the architecture critic for the New Yorker. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at the New School in New York City. He began his career at the New York Times, and in 1984, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism. He is the author of several books, most recently his chronicle of the process of rebuilding Ground Zero, Up From Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York. The author lives in New York.
Table of Contents
Counterpoint: Daniel Libeskind in Conversation with Paul Goldberger
Jewish Museum Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Editoriale Bresciana Tower
Brescia, Italy
Westside Shopping and Leisure Center
Brunnen, Switzerland
Haeundae Udong Hyundai IPark
Busan, South Korea
Danish Jewish Museum
Copenhagen, Denmark
The Ascent at Roeblings Bridge
Covington, Kentucky
Extension to the Denver Art Museum, Frederic C. Hamilton Building
Denver, Colorado
Denver Art Museum Residences
Denver, Colorado
Military History Museum
Dresden, Germany
Grand Canal Square Theatre and Commercial Development
Dublin, Ireland
Roedingsmarkt
Hamburg, Germany
Creative Media Centre
Hong Kong
Riverstone
Incheon, South Korea
Jerusalem Oriya
Jerusalem, Israel
Reflections
Keppel Bay, Singapore
MGM Mirage CityCenter
Las Vegas, Nevada
London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre
London, England
Extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum
London, England
Imperial War Museum North
Manchester, England
Fiera Milano
Milan, Italy
18.36.54
New Milford, Connecticut
Memory Foundations
New York, New York
New York Tower
New York, New York
Felix Nussbaum Haus
Osnabrück, Germany
Memoria e Luce
Padua, Italy
Tour Signal, La Défense
Paris, France
Studio Weil
Port dAndratx, Spain
Proportion
The Wohl Centre
Ramat Gan, Israel
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
San Francisco, California
Tangent
Seoul, South Korea
Gazprom Headquarters
St. Petersburg, Russia
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, Canada
The L Tower and Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
Toronto, Canada
Hermitage-Guggenheim Vilnius Museim
Vilnius, Lithuania
Zlota 44
Warsaw, Poland
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