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...FELIX NUSSBAUM BUILDING, OSNABRUCK, GERMANY This gallery, housing works of an artist who died in Auschwitz, is the first architectural theorist Daniel Libeskind, 52, has finished. Libeskind's ideas on the presence of absence--how to represent something that isn't there--and his fascination with layers and the fractured, broken and diagonal line make for some fabulously strange exhibition spaces (not to mention dangerous windows...
...thought of unsettled religious aims and clamorous politics. Then he thought of the history of the early seventeenth century. In a hazy and clouded storm of religious, political, and feudal quarrels, the Thirty Years' War was given to the history of man, and the cities of Munster and Osnabruck, separated by a few miles of cool night air similar to what the Vagabond now breathed provided conditions creative of the Treaty of Westphalia...
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