As part of ECC's Time-Space-Existence exhibition during the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, Daniel Libeskind will be unveiling a new architectural sculpture that explores the connections between climate, time, space and existence. Facing Gaia, as it is called, is inspired by ancient forms and will feature a convex mirrored center, bound to its steel structure with pioneering GRIP Metal™ technology.
“The Biennale is an important opportunity to explore meaning and metaphor in architectural space and form,” said the seminal architect. “This moment in time, the very idea of human existence is in question. What is the future of technology? Nature? Humanity? Facing Gaia focuses on the tension of these relationships while inviting open-ended questions and interaction,” he added.
Born in Lód’z, Poland, in 1946, Libeskind immigrated to the United States as a teenager. Studio Libeskind was founded in 1989 after winning an international competition to build the Jewish Museum in Berlin. A series of influential museum commissions followed, including the Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück; Imperial War Museum North, Manchester; Denver Art Museum; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Danish Jewish Museum; Royal Ontario Museum; and the Military History Museum, Dresden. Studio Libeskind was also responsible for the master plan for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.
In the above video produced by PLANE—SITE, the unmistakable architect offers insight into his body of work and his philosophical understanding of time—ideas that manifest in this new work to be unveiled at Venice. He also discusses the power of drawing and his work on the memorial at Ground Zero.
The video has been commissioned by the GAA Foundation and funded by the ECC in the run-up to the Time-Space-Existence exhibition during the Venice Architecture Biennale, opening May 2018 in Palazzo Bembo and Palazzo Mora. The series has already featured interviews with both prominent and emerging architects such as Arata Isozaki and Tatiana Bilbao.
Rationally I totally know I shouldn't but somehow I do like his buildings, apparently metal shards are my subconscious guilty pleasure.
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"...a new architectural sculpture that explores the connections between climate, time, space and existence."
In other words, any building at all if looked at by a curious mind. Sheesh.
Now, imagine listening to that for two hours, three times a week, for ten weeks (minus sycophant-led sessions on occasion).
"This moment in time, the very idea of human existence is in question. What is the future of technology? Nature? Humanity?"
The answer is shards. Shards now and forever.
"Fracking shard". Metaphor for taking a dump. Reference: Adult Swim's Robot Chicken.
will it be shiny?
Not sure about that... but we know it'll be pointy!
Rationally I totally know I shouldn't but somehow I do like his buildings, apparently metal shards are my subconscious guilty pleasure.
Ouch!
;) Where blobs and deconstructivism "come" together
"said the seminal architect"
seminal (sĕmˈə-nəl) adj. Of, relating to, containing, or conveying semen or seed.
"Conveying semen" is my new favorite euphemism!
....aaaaaand another entry for the spreadsheet.
LOL citizen.
If it can’t poke you in the eye, it ain’t a liberskind.
Raimund Abraham he is not, or Lebbeus Woods for that matter.
Strange how Libeskin's fallen out of favor when his brand of object architecture is hardly different than those who are championed. Maybe he needs to cozy up to Brad Pitt.
Huh?
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