Jewish Musem Berlin - Daniel Libeskind

The Jewish Museum in Berlin is a clever piece of Architecture for many reasons. One of them is that is takes the viewer on a journey of a series of experiences. It is this aspect that I find the most interesting. Libeskind uses simplistic techniques such as the play of light, temperature and materiality to create sensations. For me, the best or perhaps the only way to understand such a dark part of history is though experience, no person can create a clear understanding of what the Jews went through by learning facts, yet, never would we wish to have been there so Libeskind's method of creating experiential spaces to evoke a sense of what it might have been like or to trigger emotions is a clever method of teaching.