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🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Daniel Libeskind is one of the world's leading architects. Amongst his many projects, he devised the masterplan for the redevelopment of Ground Zero in New York and designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin. He tells Samira Ahmed about the Albert Einstein House in Jerusalem, a new building which will house Einstein's work and belongings, from his favourite novels, his letters as a peace campaigner, to his papers laying out his famous theory of relativity. He also talks Samira through the many other global projects he is working on, including a museum of anthropology in Iquique, Chile.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service. |
0:08.0 | This is the program that hears from leading creatives globally. |
0:11.0 | I'm Samira Armid and I'm talking to one of the world's |
0:14.1 | most high-profile and exciting architects Daniel Libiskind. You might know Daniel |
0:20.5 | Libiskind as the architect of the World Trade Center master plan. |
0:24.0 | That's the redevelopment of the site in New York that was destroyed by the 9-11 terrorist attacks. |
0:30.0 | And you may have seen his distinctive buildings around the world, such as the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the Century Spire in Manila. |
0:37.0 | He'll be telling me about his moments of inspiration. |
0:41.0 | It has to sparkle with your kind of the eureka moment. It's like hearing a sound of a melody or like seeing suddenly a mountain appear in front of you. |
0:55.0 | He's known for museums and cultural centers, but his work is wide-ranging and his studio is always busy. |
1:02.0 | Sometimes you look at it and you say that's impossible. |
1:04.7 | You can't build such a thing. |
1:06.3 | But that shouldn't stop you. |
1:07.9 | You know, you should never start with what can I build, how much does it cost, how big is |
1:11.6 | it? |
1:12.2 | You should start with it impossible. |
1:14.4 | And I'm hearing about two of the buildings he's working on right now, an anthropological museum |
1:19.5 | in Ickike, Chile, and a real passion project for him, the Einstein House. It's a permanent home for Albert Einstein's |
1:28.8 | archive on the campus of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. It will house everything from his letters, |
1:35.0 | his record collection, to his papers |
1:37.0 | setting out his theory of relativity. |
1:40.0 | It's early spring in the UK |
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