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Conceptual diagrams in creative architectural practice: the case of Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 July 2012

Fehmi Dogan
Affiliation:
Faculty of ArchitectureIzmir Institute of Technology, Urla, TR-35430, Izmir, Turkey, [email protected]
Nancy J. Nersessian
Affiliation:
School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280, USA, [email protected]

Extract

The Jewish Museum in Berlin is the first major building of Daniel Libeskind [1,2]. The project for the museum has instigated a wealth of discussions in architectural circles and achieved a rare status of attracting the attention of scholars from other disciplines. Kurt W. Forster put the design for the Jewish Museum on a par with Piranesi's Carceri d'Invenzione, an unusual position for any building since very rarely does an architectural design ‘[…] bear this double burden of representing both actual buildings and mental structures, and which therefore have to submit to being measured by both standards: the durability of their ideas and the imaginative faculty of their designer.’

Type
design
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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