Break­ing Ground shows us the inner work­ings of one of the most cre­ative archi­tects of our era. 

Born in post-war Poland to sur­vivor par­ents, Daniel Libe­skind made his way first to Israel and then to New York City in 1959. His book mesh­es auto­bi­og­ra­phy and social/​philosophical trea­tise. Libe­skind wants to explain to us who he is so that we can under­stand how he views life and death, cat­a­stro­phe and destruc­tion, cre­ation, rebirth and mem­o­ry. After that, we can under­stand how he fash­ions his designs.