Daniel Libeskind Jewish Museum Berlin

by Libeskind, Daniel Archer

• ISBN13: 9783791320755
• ISBN10: 3791320750
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Prestel Pub
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Summary

In Daniel Libeskind's own words the building is "an attempt to give a voice to a common fate -- the inevitable integration of Jewish/Berlin history despite the contradictions of the ordered and disordered, the chosen and not chosen, the vocal and silent, the living and the dead. (...) The Void and the invisible are the structural features that have been gathered in the space of Berlin." (Daniel Libeskind: radix-matrix, p. 34). To underline the extraordinary architectural importance of this expressive structure, the building will initially be opened to the public in 1999 without the museum collection. The fully installed museum will open in the fall of 2000.