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BIOGRAPHIE
BIOGRAPHIE
Photo : Morgane Garcher
Daniel Libeskind est un architecte américain. Après avoir étudié la musique en Israël, Libeskind étudie à la Bronx High School of Science aux États-Unis jusqu'en 1965 puis se tourne vers l'architecture à la Cooper Union School de New York pour finir à l'université d'Essex au Royaume-Uni.
sa volumétrie, sa forme et l’expérience procurée aux visiteurs qui en ressortent marqués. Ses parents étaient d'origine polonaise tout deux ressortissant de la Shoah. C’est ainsi que pour Libeskind, la Shoah ne doit pas être prise à la légère. Il prend en charge alors de nombreux projets en rapport avec le judaïsme et la Shoah comme le musée juif de San Francisco ou encore le centre de la Shoah à Manchester. Récemment, il a conçu le projet du nouveau site du World Trade Center et son mémorial à New-York. Il enseigne aussi à l'université de Californie à Los Angeles et à travers le monde entier également. Finalement, Daniel Libeskind est une figure pluridisciplinaire qui puise ses inspirations au travers de ses expériences et de ses formations distinctes : poète, scénographe d’opéra, musicien, théoricien et passionné des mathématiques.
En 1985, Libeskind gagne le premier prix Leone di Petra à la Biennale de Venise. En 1988, il participe à l'exposition d'architectes déconstructivistes à New York au Museum of Modern Art. Daniel Libeskind fonde sa propre société : le Studio Daniel Libeskind à Berlin. Mondialement connu pour ses bâtiments emblématiques comme le Musée Juif de Berlin sur lequel il travailla de 1988 à 1999. Libeskind travaille la mémoire comme enjeu pour notre société actuelle et celle de demain. Ce bâtiment symbolise très bien son architecture avec son style, • 4•
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INTERVIEW AVEC DANIEL LIBESKIND
BICHE > You are one of those who have contributed over time to respect and interpret the values of history. Why is building true and authentic testimonials of “memory” important to you? DANIEL LIBESKIND > History is the key to understanding our world today It is therefore important to consider the past. What we are today, we are the city, the world is the result of what our ancestors built. The duty of memory is therefore essential to better know our know-how. We must learn from the past. This is a War on Europe on the Europe to the twentieth century, we must never forget so much today. It is a major issue for our current generations than those to come. Hence the primordial role of museums, for example, who are dealing with this period. The atrocities of the last century must never happen again.
B> I had the chance to visit the Dresden Militar History Museum. At the first glance, these two buildings, all opposed by their shape, their materiality and their historicity, offer a technical performance that bring a new dynamism to the existing building. What can you say about this project ? D.L> This museum bears witness to the military history of Germany. There is a symbolic value through this project. This place must represent the country's turbulent past; to make tomorrow's people and the men of tomorrow understand why the Germans followed the body politic was Adolf Hitler? What were their motivations for taking up arms and bringing Europe to war? It is for this reason that we invite to a personal experience in the emotional and humanistic sense. Behind democracy, it is a long-term battle with war with the key to peace and hope for the future. This is the message that I want to convey through these two separate buildings at first glance but that rejoice and intertwine in the end. One is nothing without the other. The story is never ever going on.
B> Your work is part of a particular architectural approach where conventions and expectations in architecture are jostled that is often associated with the deconstructivist Zaha Hadid and Franck Gehry. What do you think about it ? D.L> Architecture is an unconventional art that transmits a message, an ideology, a form of spiritualism that must challenge. From one project to another the meaning changes by style, materiality, shape, dimension, atmosphere but who creates who all this reflection. The project is itself a topic of discussion. A wall should not be summarized as a vertical element or as an angle. A wall is actually a straight line that involves an angle.These are not two distinct elements of each other and the other. They communicate and interact with each other. My work is not deconstructivist. "
B> In the Jewish museum of Berlin, you use strong words : axes of exile, holocaust, voices… Finally do bodies have to react with spaces ? D.L> Indeed, the museum uses a language of space that invites reflection. It aims to produce an experience. I used the power of materials and light. This has aroused a reaction among visitors who have been identified with the suffering of the Jewish people. To do this I used three axes: exhibition spaces; lightning in a series notches in the • 6 •
INTERVIEW AVEC DANIEL LIBESKIND
B> Manys students will read this interview to learn about your experience. Well, which advice would you give to the Ensas’ students ? D.L> Well, if I could give some advices to architecture students; it is important in a first time is a conscience of the stakes of the one of the questions of the ecology, ie the future of the planet. This is not eternal, it must be taken into account. This is this time of the city of the city of the city of the city of the day of the world of the world, August of tomorrow in the world differently. On the other hand, when you are a student, you have to know how to take initiatives and take risks. One must not be afraid to be criticized by others for what he is and that he is done. So, you have to follow your instincts first and foremost in order to forge our minds to move forward.
holocaust with the light in a fire in the fire can be lit another inward guided test reminding the desire to escape outdoors. Thus, the visit of the museum seems to be a global experience that does not leave indifferent the visitors.
B> Why did you become an architect ? After music, mathmetics, painting... Architecture is the continuity ? D.L> In my opinion, architecture is "the mother of art". It is a multidisciplinary field that is practiced in mathematics but also in music, the visual arts but also history. This last essential step has been designed so that the impact is always present. That's why to be an architect is to know how to open our eyes to what surrounds us like the tragedies that are happening in the world, poverty, ecology, etc ... the very principle of art.
Interview : Morgane Garcher Maquette : Coralie Chenard
B> Your Architecture is pretty atypical;
fragmented, geometric buildings with sharp angles with a theatrical style. Today would you be able to design more standardized and formal building ? D.L> The projects that I realized on a form well had. They are all implanted in a particular context. Their shape, their architectural style, their materiality, their reflection were made, appropriate according to the site. Each place is different, its history is not the same. The question of function is therefore important; In Berlin, we commemorated the atrocity of war and spread the message of the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada as soon as possible.
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