Photo Gallery - Daniel Libeskind Melbourne Festival Lineage. The Architecture of Daniel Libeskind, Jewish Museum of Australia, St Kilda and the National Gallery of Victoria on Russell, until January 2001 Daniel Libeskind prescribes nothing, it is simply the way his mind operates. He designs architecture that vaults life's simple pleasures. Ordinary buildings are designed as objects simply to contain things and function for a purpose.
Buildings can frighten, warm, entertain and lift the spirits - and cater to almost any neurosis.
It expresses the subjective world, where aesthetic, political and cultural themes are invested into the building - like an epic musical composition where the rhythms, harmonies, beats and melodies produce poetry rather than sound. Daniel Libeskind produces architecture as musical composition. Both are museums and both have parts that display nothing but the architecture. Libeskind was a child prodigy musician. In the intervening years he established a reputation as a theoretician, an experimenter and academic, most of which he refutes.