The Role Of Rebellion In The Jewish Museum, By Daniel Libeskind

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This is what is fascinating about Berlin. Rebellion for the sake of rebellion rarely leads to much actual growth. Rebellion must come about because one believes there is something better than the past has provided. In the Jewish Museum, by the famous Daniel Libeskind, the same true rebellion as Deniz can be seen albeit in a much more sober context fitting of the tragic history of Berlin’s Jewish community. Rather than reference the past in an obvious manner by simply extending the original baroque museum building, he splits it completely, with no visible connection between the two; from an informed pedestrian perspective, it looks as if there is a snaking zinc monolithic building next to a traditional, symmetrical structure. However, Libeskind

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