Breaking Ground: Adventures in Life and Architecture - Rilegato

Libeskind, Daniel

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ISBN 10: 0719566541 ISBN 13: 9780719566547

Casa editrice: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2004

Riassunto

Born in communist Poland to Jewish Holocaust survivors, Daniel Libeskind has designed iconic buildings around the world - including the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester and the V&A 'Spiral'. Now he has been chosen as the Master Plan architect for New York's World Trade Center reconstruction - a city of which he has long become, since his boyhood emigration, an adopted son. This is a book about the adventure life can offer each of us if we seize it, and about the powerful forces of tragedy, memory and hope. For Daniel Libeskind, life's adventure has been through architecture, which he has found has the power to reshape human experience. Although often relating to the past, his buildings are about the future. This memoir of one man's journey brings together history, personal experience, our physical environment and a fresh international vision. The world is painfully aware of the World Trade Center tragedy; here are ideas that could form the germ of our emotional, creative and practical response to it - a response that could have truly positive implications for humanity.

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His is a brave attempt to reinvent architecture - and one that has succeeded beyond all expectations ... Libeskind likes getting his teeth into the Big Themes ... Which he does, expertly (Guardian)

Mr Libeskind is at his best here. (The Art Newspaper)

What fuels Libeskind is passion. This is what makes him so skilled at storytelling. (Glasgow Herald)

A global star of architecture ... [Breaking Ground] shows the same combination of sharp intelligence ... and straight sentimentality ... that has endeared him to many (Time Literary Supplement)

Just as Libeskind's mind effortlessly zaps back and forth between concrete references and abstract conceptualising, he is as populist as he is highbrow . . . Uplifting and fascinating reading (Observer)

Sprightly and often fascinating ... A witty insider's take on the convoluted bureaucracy and rampant egos that bedevil any serious contemporary architecture (Scotland on Sunday)

One of the most celebrated - and controversial - architects alive. ... He has produced a readable, compelling and highly unorthodox book - part polemic, part celebrity autobiography, part credo ... He really is - as many New Yorkers have come to believe - an architectural visionary. (Sunday Telegraph)

Libeskind ... is a brilliant populist ... [His] genius ... is never more clearly expressed than here in his own words (Scottish Sunday Herald)

Never have I come across such a lively, totally original, and provocative account of one man's struggle at the cutting edge of architecture. (The Spectator)

This reader was seduced by the clearly unique philosophy of a man who may one day be viewed, without dispute, as a great architect. (Blueprint)

L'autore:

Daniel Libeskind is a renowned international figure in architecture and urban design. Born in Poland in 1946, he became an American citizen in 1965. A gifted musician in his childhood, he first studied music in Israel then architecture in New York and at Essex University. His practice in public architecture began with the building of the Jewish Museum Berlin, completed to great acclaim in 2001. In 2002, the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester was opened to the public. He lives with his wife Nina and three children in New York City.

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• Editore: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0719566541
• ISBN 13: 9780719566547
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 304