When watching Hillman Curtis’ short film on Daniel Libeskind, I immediately recognized him as the master architect for the New World Trade Center. He said that architecture can not be pessimistic. It can’t be just a building. It has to move you.
In the Discovery Channel’s documentary “Rising-Rebuilding Ground Zero”, Libeskind talked about the buildings at ground zero being designed in a spiral like the the flame on the Statue of Liberty. He wanted every part of the new site to represent something. He didn’t want people to forget what happened there. And he wanted the future generations to understand what happened there as well.
Libeskind describes building with the idea of the future being good. I think he means he wants his buildings to not only represent what happened, but also as a warning of this does not need to happen again. His optimism shows in some of his other designs in the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Imperial War Museum North in England.
He also talks about not being a skeptic when designing or building. He says it works in many other fields, but not in architecture. Having that mindset will set you up for failure. You have to believe in a future that is good. All of his points can be put in all aspects of what we are going through in this program. If we tell ourselves that our flash project is garbage or our design is bad, it will reflect in our work. It will reflect when we are presenting. We have to have a positive attitude when working, which will reflect in the final product.