Libeskind: Architecture Is About The Long Haul

Architect Daniel Libeskind would seem to be having a bad year. He’s battling with the developer of the WTC site. And his “Spiral” addition to the Victoria & Albert Museum is likely not going to happen. But he’s philosophical: “When you’re a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don’t get fed up too easily. It took 10 years to build the Jewish Museum in Berlin [his first building; overall, a critical success]. Nearly everybody said it would never happen. It was too crazy, too unrealistic. But it did happen.”