Abstract
This essay is published in the Festschrift to art historian Donald Preziosi on his 75th birthday in 2016 and delves into the exploration of architectural perception and semiotic experience. The argument is the following:
Claire Farago and Donald Preziosi once pointed out how recent art museums by architect Daniel Libeskind allow for altered relationships between exhibitions and visitors. Indeed, when Libeskind’s Jewish Museum Berlin was first opened in a vacant state during the years 1999-2001, the building itself provided the exhibit for initiatory visits.
The present study hightlights the fragmentary process of groundbreaking encounters with this building. The text shows how an embodied and reflexive experience of its architectural interiors and dis-courses go beyond the simplistic symbolism one finds in mainstream interpretations of Libe-skind’s architecture as well as in certain discourses by Libeskind himself. In reality, his ext-ra-functional architecture in Berlin and his early presentations of it constitute a kaleidoscopic field of experience in which critical self-reflexion may occur.
Claire Farago and Donald Preziosi once pointed out how recent art museums by architect Daniel Libeskind allow for altered relationships between exhibitions and visitors. Indeed, when Libeskind’s Jewish Museum Berlin was first opened in a vacant state during the years 1999-2001, the building itself provided the exhibit for initiatory visits.
The present study hightlights the fragmentary process of groundbreaking encounters with this building. The text shows how an embodied and reflexive experience of its architectural interiors and dis-courses go beyond the simplistic symbolism one finds in mainstream interpretations of Libe-skind’s architecture as well as in certain discourses by Libeskind himself. In reality, his ext-ra-functional architecture in Berlin and his early presentations of it constitute a kaleidoscopic field of experience in which critical self-reflexion may occur.
| Translated title of the contribution | Om at møde tom arkitektur: Libeskinds Jødisk Museum Berlin |
|---|---|
| Original language | English |
| Article number | 15/HR1 |
| Journal | Journal of Art Historiography |
| Issue number | 15 Tribute to Donald Preziosi on his 75th birthday (Festschrift) |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISSN | 2042-4752 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Faculty of Humanities
- Donald Preziosi (1941-)
- Daniel Libeskind (1946-)
- Jewish Museum Berlin
- Architectural perception
- Architectural representation
- Palimpsest
- Semiotics
- Meaning making
- Anamorphosis
- Photography
- Sequential perception