Scope and Contents

The cover design uses text over text in this book that provides brief, poetic, aphoristic statements about Libeskind's philosophy of life. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This box "Unfolding" was produced for the exhibition "Beyond the Wall 26.36" held in the Netherlands Architecture Institute. It is a dense, visual demonstration of the architectural plans for the new major extension of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. True to Libeskind's innovative constructivistic style, the building twists and folds upon itself on each floor. the plans and drawings are presented in this catalogue in several avant garde modes: a flip book, poster, folder containing architectural renderings of each floor on translucent paper, 2 books simply bound with a single large gromet, large loose sheets of architectural elements folded in book form, a reproduction of the architect's sketchbook and a print that can be cut out and folded to create a model of the building. Libeskind and Balmond won the competition to design this building in 1996, by unanimous approval of the selecting panels. It is stated that Daniel Libeskind's building "combines a revolutionary...