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This 8 page paper considers the architectural work of Daniel Libeskind and how drama, theatre and tragedy can be seen as present in all of his works. Special attention is paid to the Jewish Museum in Berlin, his first design to be constructed, and the Imperial War Museum North built in Manchester and opened in 2002. Thje bibliography cites 13 sources.
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popular architect Daniel Libeskind this is a narrow view, to him architecture is a spiritual and as such there can be seen the sense of drama, theatre and tragedy
in his works. This is an important element of the attitude and culture that has produced some major buildings, from the Jewish Museum in Berlin (Business Week, 2002), to the
recent Imperial War Museum North in Manchester opposite the Lowry Centre ((Powers, 2002). If the background of Libeskind himself is considered there is even a sense of drama in
his biography, born a Polish Jew to survivors of the Holocaust he became an American citizen in 1965 (Glancey, 1996). His first design to be built was only in 1989,
and was Berlins Jewish Museum. There had been previous designs, but none had been constructed, Libeskind described himself as a "late starter" (Business Week, 2002). The decision to move into
architecture occurred after abandoning a career in music and maths (Lidell-King, 1999). The result of his former interests are seen in the way it is the arts that have influenced
the design of this museum, which was built as a result of winning the competition to design the building (Business Week, 2002). The influences are cited as being form
the musical, with Libeskind seeing that the visual and audible as being inseparable, hence the impact of the opera Moses and Aaron the unfinished opera by Schoenberg (Libeskind, 2002). It
is the drama of the opera and its application that crate the sense of theatre in the way the images, proportions, sounds and overall presentation of the Jewish Museum come
together in a tableau. Just as there will be underlying themes and currents in a theatrical or artistic work, meanings that are not immediately apparent. The social context of a
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