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Tadao Ando

Peter Eisenman

Daniel Libeskind
(USA)

Daniel Libeskind

'Let your house be opened wide' reaches into the dimension of post-nuclear eloquence. It is old wisdom that a man's house should have a wide entrance on the north, south, east and west. But to become permanently replayed in the 'well,well' is to find the fifth door to the same house. And where to put the extra door?
Mad engineering ends above us. The pull of gravity would not trouble a wall provided it went completely around the stars but was no smaller than a mouth. One who speaks of money's genital, concupiscence, vocalizes his losses by passing them off as clouds. He will appear strident to the wind, calamitous to pure sound - will enter by sliding in all directions at once, suppressing the foregoing.
Supplement to what horses would say to each other were they judged; namely, that a barn must be a meeting place for at least four of them, lest the stablehand opens his jaw too widely - fifth door? - in order to welcome in one direction, evict in the other.

Born in 1946, in Poland. He was granted the "Leone di Pietra" Award of Venice Biennale in 1985. His "Plan for the City Edge" was unanimously adopted at the exhibition of architects in Berlin in 1987, and the building of his design was subsequently constructed. In 1989, he won the Gold Medal in a competition cosponsored by the Berlin Museum and the Jewish Museum.

Neil M. Denari