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provide an "inside baseball" look
at the competitive world of archi-
tecture. Libeskind doesn't hold
back on harsh views of some col-
leagues, and writes openly of his
"forced marriage" to architect
David Childs in working on the
World Trade Center site.
Often the story comes back to
his parents. The Libeskinds
moved to.the United States in
1959, arriving by ship, and he
recalls his first sight of the Statue
of Liberty, already feeling the great
promise of America. He spent his
teen years living in the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers'
Union housing cooperative in the
Bronx, on the western end of the
Grand Concourse — where a
street was recently named in his
honor.
His mother, a direct descendent
of Rabbi Loew of Prague, conjurer
of the Golem, worked in the gar-
ment industry. In the evenings,
she would tackle the live carp they
kept in the bathtub until dinner-
time and bake her husband's
favorite honey cake, all the while
debating literature, history and
philosophy with her son.
It was his mother who pushed
him toward architecture. "You
can always do art in architecture,
but you can't do architecture in
art. You get two fish with the
same hook:' she said.
His father, who worked in the
printing business, guided him to
"trust the invisible' Some of the
stories he retells about his father
read like Chasidic tales, like when
a thief in Israel returns their
stolen belongings, remembering
Nachman's name from their time
together in the gulag.
About his process he writes,

"Sometimes my thoughts are
triggered by a piece of music or a
poem, or simply by the way light
falls on a wall. Sometimes an
idea comes to me from a light
deep in my heart." He listens to
the stones, as he understands
that every public site is a place of
history and memory. For
Libeskind, memory is not nostal-
gia, but what drives the future,
orienting people in space and
time. "I try to build bridges into
the future by staring clear-eyed
into the past:'
After 12 years in Berlin,
Libeskind is delighted to be back
in New York City, living down-
town with his wife and daughter;
they also have two grown sons.
He loves the city best at dawn,
"the most mysterious part of the
day. The romantics prefer sunset.
I like the dawn."
Libeskind is very much at ease
in his Judaism, at home with
Jewish culture and tradition. He
says that he would be very inter-
ested in designing a synagogue.
"There's something Jewish
about committing yourself to
something, to the ethics and
deeper meaning of it, putting
yourself completely into the heart
and soul of it. That's what we're
doing at Ground Zero and at
other projects, and in this book
too." ❑

Book Fair's Second Annual
Irwin Shaw Memorial
Lecture presents architect
Daniel Libeskind 8:15 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 8, at the West
Bloomfield JCC. $5 JCC
members/$8 nonmembers.
(248) 432-5577.

October 27 • 2005 gni