lecture online

I love and hate the internet. I find things that I'm not looking for, but what I really want--what I'm really frantically searching for (Derrida on Libeskind) can't be found. No--it can be found, but just not accessed. So here's what I did find:

Architecture has been kind of immune to that discourse

because we expect of books and of music deep reflections on memory,

but in architecture we don’t expect it.

Architecture is fundamentally a communicative art.

It’s not just the art of the building, it’s a communicative art

and I believe it’s an art that tells a story.

Daniel Libeskind[1]

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[1] Libsekind delivered these remarks after cpmmenting on the enigmatic nature of time and the representation of memory during a panel discussion reflecting “Monument and Memory” at Columbia University on 31 October, 2002. See citation for Libeskind, “Architecture is a Communicative Art.”

-BW