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  • Essay / Daniel Libeskind - The Jewish Museum Berlin

    The success of architects is defined not so much by the problems they face as by the action of their creative and practical responses. Situated in once-bombed Berlin, a new architectural language has emerged. He appears with multiple contradictions, but without conflict, between himself and his environment and within his own construction. This is the Jewish Museum in Berlin, proposed by the young Daniel Libeskind as part of a competition aimed at evoking the disreputable history of Berlin, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Western tradition in terms of museum construction is distorted by its expressionist form, and not just by its expressionist form. to house the remains, the relics, the art exhibition, it stands alone, bare, untreated to house the ghost of German Judaism, a rare opportunity to visit an empty building for its prestigious budget. The challenge is to excavate the memory that was already there but suppressed by the medium of strange, contemporary architecture. This essay aims to analyze the capture of a spiritual existence in a part of the Berlin of yesteryear and the museum's ability to address one of the most profoundly tragic events of the 20th century, the Holocaust, in the use of light, materials and structures. construction methods. Furthermore, this study is an attempt to evaluate Libeskind's response to the concept to reveal the implication in its form and spatial quality. This project is also an opportunity to examine the interdisciplinary nature of architecture by combining socio-cultural relationships, psychology, history, theory, music, materials methodology, vision, etc. To be able to do this, the architect's journey and his process operations The problem will soon be studied, then its solution by dealing with the rest of the paper structure ......f, a museum. The only contradiction in contemporary design theory that Libeskind dares to combat is that working in the coming century means working with reduced means. His works cause optimism in the sense that architecture, if filled with satisfactory reasoning and justification with the help of progress in material technology and, above all, creativity, will be able to approach the depth of any project in search of poetry. incarnation. While modern architects have worked to eradicate traces of the history of forms, postmodern architects like Liberskind would embody the traces of history between forms. In the Lisbeskind Jewish Museum, invisibility, implication and embodiment come first, then the advancement of material methodology contributes to the construction of visibility and physical infrastructure..