one of the most influ­en­tial archi­tects of our time

AN ECCENT­RIC OF
ARCHI­TEC­TURE

Aside from con­vey­ing con­cep­tu­al mean­ing, Libe­s­kind would also like to sur­prise the view­er with his build­ings. Although Libe­s­kind always dresses him­self from top to bot­tom in black, in his con­cepts he plays with con­trasts and cre­ates the unex­pec­ted. In an inter­view with New York Magazine in 2007, he says, “If a build­ing is good then the sur­prise ele­ment is part of the build­ing, even if you enter it a hun­dred times.”

Because of his multi-faceted con­cepts, Libe­s­kind is some­times thought of as “too much”: too romantic, too vis­ion­ary. The avant-garde how­ever was nev­er the res­ult of mediocre solu­tions. And without extra­vag­ance and uncon­ven­tion­al­ity, Libe­s­kind would not be the fas­cin­at­ing star archi­tect he is today.