On April 18, 2015 in Saint Petersburg state university of architecture and civil engineering As a part of the International forum “Architectural seasons – 2015” there was held a meeting with a famous architect from the USA Daniel Libeskind.
Right from the airport Daniel Libeskind arrived at Saint Petersburg state university of architecture and civil engineering, where an assembly hall full of audience – 600 people – was waiting for him. Curious students, graduates of the Faculty of Architecture and professors of our higher education institution came to the meeting in order to take part in the discussion, to ask questions on modern deconstructivism, projects of which were carried out in various parts of the world: Africa, Europe, South and North America.
“It is a great honor for Saint Petersburg state university of architecture and civil engineering to greet a world-wide known architect Daniel Libeskind in this assembly hall. This is a person of unique biography who is interested in various aspects of life” – said in her greeting speech vice-rector for academic activity Irina R. Lugovskaya.
Daniel Libeskind was born in 1946 in Poland. He studied music in Israel and New-York, where he played virtuoso performances. Later music played a remarkable role in architectural design at the stage of concept development. Daniel Libeskind studied architecture in New York and then in England. For many years he practiced graphics, created models, and taught. He became famous as an architect in 1989 when he won the contest of projects of Jewish museum in Berlin. Today Libeskind is one of the brightest figures in world architecture. In addition to developing projects he teaches and reads lectures at universities around the world.
“I am proud to visit Saint Petersburg. In my opinion it is one of the three greatest cities”, - said Daniel in his greeting speech.
The architect told about his professional career, obstacles and difficulties which he faced while working upon projects. In his speech he paid attention to moral and ethical issues of architect’s work, perception of a designed project.
“Architecture is like life as it has to consist of love. It is unpredictable as life. At the same time it is similar to engineering as it has calculations. However first and foremost it is humanity. It is based on humanitarian principles. Architecture is not a corporeity; first of all it is a spiritual dimension”.
Today the architect pays particular attention to modern materials and technologies, which introduce some corrections in architectural design. He doesn’t consider architecture an isolated separate area; in his works he tries to think of another space dimension, of another “light angle”. He is interested in social, human dimension of architecture. It is this aspect that makes his art style unique.
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