"... Eisenman ha sido descrito de muchas maneras -brillante, iconoclasta, inventivo- , pero nunca nadie lo llamado Mensch*. A pesar de que había sido su alumno, no estaba totalmente preparado para mi primer día de trabajo en el New York’s Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, que él fundó. Yo acababa de terminar mi postgrado en Inglaterra y regrese a Nueva York con Nina en completa bancarrota.
Eisenman no sólo me ofreció un puesto de trabajo, tambien prometió darme un cheque en mi primer día para ayudarnos. Pero cuando me presente, me dio una escoba y me dijo que barriera la oficina. Era una iniciación humillante, un acto de sumisión forzada. Yo estaba allí para hacer la arquitectura, no para barrer, así que me negué.
"¿Quieres el cheque o no?", Preguntó, sosteniéndolo en frente de sí mismo.
"Quedatelo", le dije, y me fui. No volvimos a hablar de nuevo por una década.
Yo era joven, y podría no haber tenido claro mi sentido de lugar en el mundo. Pero sabía que sacar copias sin sentido y barrer pisos no lo eran."
El texto de arriba es un fragmento extraído del libro Breaking Ground (P 41, 42), escrito por Daniel Libeskind y editado por penguin Books.
Despues de esto solo puedo decir que pienso que Eisenman es un completo idiota.
*Mensch significa "una persona con integridad y honor" en Yiddish.
El texto de arriba es un fragmento extraído del libro Breaking Ground (P 41, 42), escrito por Daniel Libeskind y editado por penguin Books.
Despues de esto solo puedo decir que pienso que Eisenman es un completo idiota.
*Mensch significa "una persona con integridad y honor" en Yiddish.
"... Eisenman has been described in many ways—brilliant, iconoclastic, inventive—but no one has ever called him a mensch*. Even though I had been his student, I wasn’t entirely prepared for my first day working for him at New York’s Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, which he founded. I had just finished my postgraduate degree in England and arrived back in New York with Nina, flat broke.
Not only did Eisenman offer me a job, he promised to give me a check on my first day to tide us over. But when I showed up, he handed me a broom and told me to sweep the office. It was a demeaning initiation, a forced act of submission. I was there to do architecture, not sweep, so I refused.
“You want the check—or not?” he asked, holding it up in front of himself.
“Keep it,” I said, and walked out. We didn’t talk for another decade.
I was young, and I may not yet have had a clear sense of my place in the world. But I did know that mindless copying and sweeping floors were not it."
The text above is an excerpt from the book Breaking Ground (P 41, 42), written by Daniel Libeskind and edited by Penguin Books.
After that, I just can say that i think that Eisenman is a complete moron.
“You want the check—or not?” he asked, holding it up in front of himself.
“Keep it,” I said, and walked out. We didn’t talk for another decade.
I was young, and I may not yet have had a clear sense of my place in the world. But I did know that mindless copying and sweeping floors were not it."
The text above is an excerpt from the book Breaking Ground (P 41, 42), written by Daniel Libeskind and edited by Penguin Books.
After that, I just can say that i think that Eisenman is a complete moron.
*Mensch means "a person of integrity and honor" in Yiddish.
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