Won Dharma Center by hanrahanMeyers architects (hMa) AD11 Grupo de Arquitectura y Diseño - Guadalajara - Arquitectos. No. 548 - 2012.0201. ArchitectureWeek You tend to take on or win projects with a great deal of emotional symbolism.
Is there anything in particular about your past work or personal history that you think resonates with people? How did this feature, for example, in your design for New York City's Ground Zero Master Plan? Daniel Libeskind My work addresses not just the surface of things, but how architecture, urban space, buildings can really tell a story, and how they can bring hope to often gloomy pasts. As a child of Holocaust survivors who grew up under communist dictatorship in Poland, I didn't have to research these issues in the library; it's part of my own visceral past. I understand what it means to be free, what liberty and open space means.