Daniel Libeskind in FAF (ph. Enrico Geminiani)

The intellectual adventure of an architect. With these words Daniel Libeskind told his extraordinary experience during an exciting lecture at the Aula Magna (lectures hall) of the Faculty of Architecture in the city of Ferrara. A large audience attended this main event: more than four hundred students, professionals, authorities, and enthusiast connaisseurs, all gathered to pay homage to the roots of his architectural style so unique and penetrating. Daniel Libeskind spoke for over an hour through the images of his buildings. He used a measured and eloquent vocabulary as if his rhetoric language was equal to the one of his architecture.

The story of the places was marked by a sequence of images, drawings and renderings that described his major projects in progress. His lesson was designed as a series of specific categories of architecture: pointed vs blunt, sculptural vs extruded, sound vs silence, new vs old, unexpected vs habitual, open vs closed, dynamic vs static, archipelago vs grid, democratic vs authoritarian. In these pairs we find the grammar of architectural signs and also those "harmonic dissonances," which, through a dialectical process, have made his work famous throughout the world.

Veronica Dal Buono

More informations:

www.daniel-libeskind.com

With the support of Net Engineering International

www.netspa.com

Special thanks to supporters for helping us again on this important occasion.