Daniel Libeskind will appear in San Diego during the 2003 AIA National Convention and Expo to discuss his recently selected plan for rebuilding the World Trade Center site in a panel discussion moderated by Robert Ivy, FAIA, editor in chief of Architectural Record. The Saturday, May 10, panel will focus on issues surrounding the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site, including the political process; challenges in meeting the cultural, spiritual, and economic needs of the many constituents; and the increased visibility of architects and their role in shaping the urban environment.

Libeskind’s practice extends from major cultural institutions to landscape and urban projects; stage design, installations, and exhibitions; and concert halls and museums, such as his widely acclaimed design for the Jewish Museum Berlin. Libeskind’s participation in the panel discussion offers an opportunity to learn more about the 2003 convention theme, “Design Matters—Poetry + Proof,” the ability of architects to design solutions that have greater value and deeper purpose and offer proof about how design enriches lives.

Libeskind will join fellow panelists:
• Paul Goldberger, Hon. AIA, the architecture critic at the New Yorker since 1997. Before joining the magazine, Goldberger spent 25 years writing for The New York Times, where he served as architecture critic, cultural news editor, and chief cultural correspondent. He won the Pulitzer Prize, the highest award in journalism, in 1984. Goldberger has written numerous books, including the recently released The World Trade Center Remembers and Manhattan Unfurled.

• Frances Halsband, FAIA, a native New Yorker and founding partner of R.M. Kliment & Frances Halsband Architects. Halsband is past president of AIA New York and the Architectural League of New York and was a commissioner of the New York City Landmarks Commission. She has served as the dean of the School of Architecture at the Pratt Institute and has taught at the universities of Ball State, California at Berkeley, Cincinnati, Columbia, Harvard, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, North Carolina State, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Rice, and Virginia. She has served on numerous design awards juries and was the 1999 chair of the AIA Committee on Design.

• Stanton Eckstut, FAIA, a founding principal of Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & Kuhn, the firm hired by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as an advisor for the ongoing redevelopment planning of the World Trade Center site. EEK advises both the Port Authority and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) on the design of the World Trade Center site and in facilitating ideas and viewpoints of all parties involved with the redevelopment. In his practice, Eckstut has helped set new directions in the design of retail/entertainment centers, urban waterfronts, transportation centers, schools, universities, and government buildings. His design for Battery Park City was honored by Time magazine as one of the 10 best designs of the decade.

• Moderator Robert Ivy, FAIA. Ivy joined Architectural Record as editor in chief in October 1996, combining two disparate careers—practicing architect and editor. Under his leadership, Architectural Record has emerged as the most widely read professional architecture journal worldwide. A frequent spokesperson for the profession, he travels extensively for the magazine and has broadened its coverage to include more international projects. He is the author of numerous magazine articles, and his book Fay Jones, reissued in 2001, took top honors from the Art Library Society of North America.

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