Architecture is a language. Daniel Libeskind in Ostrava.

The Ostrava Architecture Cabinet, after the exhibition of this year's Pritzker Prize laureates, the Japanese studio SANAA, and last year's presentation of the work of the legendary Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (visible from October 5 to December 17, 2010 in the Gallery Sklepení NPÚ-ÚOP in Brno), has chosen another giant of the contemporary global architectural scene. You can learn more about the architectural language of Daniel Libeskind in three languages - Czech, Polish, and English. A trilingual catalog is also available.

The basis of the exhibition consists of panels that remained in Katowice after the exhibition "Daniel Libeskind. Foundations of Memory" at the local Gallery of Architecture in 2007. These have been transported to Ostrava, where they were supplemented with current projects based on communication with the architect. The exhibition is divided into a presentation of unrealized or under-construction designs on the right side of the incoming visitor, and completed projects on the left. A symbolic divide between the two parts is formed by a wall of exhibition panels, folded according to the pattern of the architect's most famous building, the Jewish Museum in Berlin. In addition to the Berlin realization, the exhibition presents museums in Manchester and Denver, complexes in Bern, Las Vegas, and Dublin, a skyscraper in Covington, as well as smaller structures such as the 9/11 Memorial in Padua, Studio Weil in Mallorca, and a prototype from the limited edition of Libeskind's type villa, which can already be classified among the second group of projects. Unrealized or under-construction designs further include a museum in Dresden, building complexes in Milan, Busan, and Singapore, a skyscraper in Warsaw, and the Foundations of Memory project for Ground Zero in New York. Besides architectural and urban planning projects, Libeskind is also represented by the design of the Spirit House chair, the Sawaya & Moroni tea set, and the sets and costumes for the opera Tristan and Isolde. Most projects have short video presentations available on the associated panels, and additional moving images are offered in a niche with a monitor showing a cross-section of the work and video projections of the documentary film Libeskind: The Making of An Architect located at the end of the exhibition hall. A week after the opening of the exhibition, a display case with Dancing Time wristwatches was also added. In the adjacent display case is the only exhibited model, specifically for the type villa project, which will likely remain alone until the continuation of this traveling exhibition in Poland, where the model of the Warsaw skyscraper might also appear.

Daniel Libeskind. Architecture Is Language/ Architecture jako język/ Architektura je řeč
Architecture Cabinet - House of Art, Moravian Ostrava (GVUO)/ September 17 - November 28, 2010
Museum of Architecture in Wrocław, ul. Bernardyńska 5, Wrocław/ March 10 - May 22, 2011