Daniel Libeskind is a Polish-American architect. He was born in Łódź in 1946, but when he was a boy he moved to New York with his family, who were survivors of Holocaust. His first passion was music, he learned to play an accordin and he was really good at it. He wanted to be an artist but his mum told him that he will be poor as a musican. She said: you can always can be an artist as an architect. He took her advice and now he is one of the best architects in the world. He graduated from New York's Cooper Union School of Architecture in 1970. He began his architecture career as a teacher, with his public talks he speaks about theory of architecture and how it can change the world. In 1988 he won the open architecture competition of designing Berlin Jewish Museum without any building experience. It was his first big project. This building has very unusual design. Daniel Libeskind is an owner of Studio Danel Libeskind where he works with his wife Nina Libeskind. http://ota...
I watched a film “The last of the Mohicans”, I don’t really liked this film but it reminds me about what I saw when I was in New York. We went to the Indian museum to see their art. There was a lot of beautiful clothes (they had such an interesting patterns),tools like tomahawks and symbols or statues of their gods. There weren’t many people, but there was an Indian sitting on the floor (or kneeling) in front of the gods and I think that he was praying. I was very shocked and so sad (I can even feel anger). I know that nowadays aren’t a lot of Native Americans, but even if they are they are totally forgotten. They need to pray (or pay homage) in the museum! It’s very unfair. Also I watched a short movie where Native Americans were talking about what they think about Christopher Columbus. They really hate him, they called him an evil and even started crying while talking. That was very depressing. I can’t understand why we weren’t taught about them more, we know that America was stolen...
Daniel Libeskind also designs sculptures. One of them is 'The Wings' - four giant aluminium sculptures with LED technology. They are situated the four corners of the Piazza Italia in Milan Expo (opened on 1st May 2015 and closed on October 31, 2015. Expo 2015's theme was "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life") The installations of LED lightning animated the public space with a constant flow of pulsating patterns and imagery. The sculptures are a combination between dynamic art and technical innovation. Wings have 10 meters high and dynamic form whitch for me looks like huge tree or growing plant. But name of this sculpture tells us that they can remind us wings maybe butterfly’s wings or bird’s wings. This sculpture reminds people about nature around us. http://libeskind.com/work/the-wings/ https://www.archdaily.com/770935/video-the-wings-studio-daniel-libeskind https://www.urdesignmag.com/art/2015/07/14/the-wings-sculptures-by-daniel-libeskind-for-e...