INDESEM | From the Archives: Daniel Libeskind (1996)

INDESEM - From the archives - A lecture by Daniel Libeskind

When the Polish-Jewish architect Daniel Libeskind gave this lecture in front of an audience at the Technical University of Delft in 1996, his Jewish Museum in Berlin was already being constructed, but far from finished. He started his lecture with his own interpretation of the main subject of the seminar: 'What is the most supreme remoteness?' Later on he links this question to the Jewish Museum:

"You can build all the buildings if you want, you can fill the world with all the volumes and square metres, but you can never fill the emptiness. The Jewish cemetery is empty. There's no one remaining. The absence as a kind of testament. The absence that is so immeasurable that we cannot even see the absence. That's another thing I want to say about remoteness."

What is INDESEM?
INDESEM (International Design Seminar) is a biennale, founded by a group of students in 1964 and reinitiated in 1985 by Herman Hertzberger. For one full week, students from all over the world come together at the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the Delft University of Technology to engage in conversation with tutors, architects and theorists about the current and future position of the architect within our society. The programme of the INDESEM seminar week consists of lectures, excursions and workshops, all organized around a specific contemporary theme.

The lecture by Daniel Libeskind was uploaded from the archives on the occasion of INDESEM '23, that took place from the 29th of May - 2nd of June 2023 in Delft.


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