Daniel Libeskind Superimposes The Present On The Past At The San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum

摘要

Daniel Libeskind, by happenstance or design, has practically become the official architect of Jewish museums worldwide, but that trajectory was near its beginning when he received the commission, in 1998, for San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM). His Jewish Museum Berlin [record, January 1999, page 76] and Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, in Osnabrueck, Germany, were not yet complete, and his Danish Jewish Museum [record, October 2004, page 140] barely conceived. While those European institutions would rise in the dark shadow of the Holocaust, he and the museum determined that the CJM's building should, instead, celebrate California's far brighter Jewish history.