Daniel Leibskind

The Jewish museum in Berlin, Germany was originally opened in 1937. The government realized that this baroque old museum needed up be updated and more modernized to represent the Holocaust in a better more aesthetic way to the Jews. In 1987, the government sent out a request for a new design for the Jewish Museum. This competition was open to anyone. There were around 165 applicants that entered their designed. Only one out of 165 was wo win the competition. Daniel Leibskind was the lucky architect design winner. His design was very different from the others and expressed through his design of the exteriors to the interiors the meanings and representations of what the Jews had went through in the Holocaust. He did not need to do much research on the property of where the building was. He focused more of the absence of the Jewish people and how there were no remaining’s of the people who had past. What pasted has pasted. There was no one …show more content…
The building was build between 1993 to 1998. Leibskind designed the building to be connected to the old building by an underground passage way. The is a great symbol of how jews had to get from place to place by being secretive and they were always trying to hide from the army who were out to kill them. Leibskind designed a stair way from the basement to the third floor. The only large free space in the building. The entire space goes upward. “After compressing the space, the architect expands it. The sequence is classic. The effect is guaranteed but Leibskind only freed space in one direction. Upwards. The staircase is no wider than the underground passage. Contained between two walls that the great concrete beams stabilizing the structure seem to have great difficulty in holding apart.” (Film 19) This part of the museum underlines the meaning of how it was a struggled life the Jews lived but them was a path that would return them to a positive