The Future of Memory Daniel Libeskind [Multimedia content blocked] Listen to a 63 minute recording, or download the file September 11-November 01, 2004 Slought Foundation Vault Reception on Saturday, September 11, 2004

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Slought Foundation, an organization rethinking contemporary arts, re-presents selections from our online repository of recordings in the interdisciplinary "Theorizing" series (1999-2002), organized by Aaron Levy and Gregory Flaxman. The first installment in this series features a DVD of Daniel Libeskind's April 2001 presentation, "Architecture: The Future of Memory."

From 1999-2002, the Theorizing series at the University of Pennyslvania / Kelly Writers House showcased notable developments in theory, continental philosophy, and cultural criticism. 29 events featured architects, theorists and critics such as Daniel Libeskind, Slavoj Zizek, Joseph Masheck, Catherine Liu, Dorothea Olkowski, and Eduardo Cadava--many of whom continue to participate in ongoing Slought Foundation programming. A catalogue and online audio repository for the Theorizing series is available here: http://slought.org/series/Theorizing/

As discursive exchanges addressing contemporary issues, these events influenced the subsequent direction of Slought Foundation. Here we re-present Libeskind's lecture on contempoary architecture, so as to invite a reconsideration of the relevance of his theories to contemporary life in light of current geopolitical developments and the subsequent appointment of Daniel Libeskind as Master Planner for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center.

"Architecture is a poor thing, if you compare it to literature, if you compare it to music, if you compare it to art, [...] and its poverty is actually what makes it so fantastic." -- Daniel Libeskind


Daniel Libeskind (born 1946) opened his architecture practice in Berlin in 1990 after winning the competition for the Extension to the Berlin Museum with the Jewish Collection in 1989, which opened in 1999 as the Jewish Museum Berlin. Projects include the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus in Osnabrück, Germany, a museum dedicated to the life and art of the painter Felix Nussbaum; the Spiral extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Imperial War Museum, Manchester. Most recently, he won the architectural contest for the redesign of the World Trade Center site.

Libeskind graduated from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in NY in 1970, then completed a postgraduate degree in History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Comparative Studies at Essex University in 1972. He founded and directed Architecture Intermundium, a private non-profit Institute for Architecture and Urbanism in Milan, Italy from 1986 to 1989. In 1999, he received the German Architecture Prize and the Goethe Prize. His work has been exhibited extensively in major museums and galleries around the world and is in the collections of institutions such as the MOMA in New York, the MAK in Vienna and LA, the NAi in Rotterdam, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Libeskind has been the subject of numerous international publications in many languages. His ideas have influenced a generation of architects and those interested in the future development of cities and culture.

Organized by Aaron Levy



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MLA Style: Daniel Libeskind. "The Future of Memory." Slought Foundation Online Content. [11 September 2004; Accessed 19 March 2010]. <http://slought.org/content/11235/>.

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