THEME STATEMENT
by Daniel Libeskind
As architecture and urbanism enter the next millennium, a technical, cultural and spiritual shift is taking place in the perception
and experience of cities and space. The old Cartesian and Newtonian reduction of thought to a coordinate system and the
resulting impoverishment of lived-space are giving way to exciting opportunities for building. The theme of the seminar,
Reinventing Space: Beyond the Boundaries of the Twentieth Century, signifies a dynamic transformation. It bears the
potential for both architecture and the city to no longer be 'boxed-in' by formalistic, cultural or economic prejudices, but rather
to give birth to another architecture, whose consequences shape possible realities and real possibilities for the human being,
providing new spaces and a reinvention of the urban.
