AND “Ion Mincu ” University for Architecture and Urban Planning

Abstract. The focus lays on multi-storey constructions from the interwar time in Eastern and Mediterranean Europe. These building may need upgrading interventions. Such ones belong in Italy either to the Milanese Novecento movement, or to Italian rationalism, the main representative of which was Giuseppe Terragni. How does one to approach rationalist buildings and what they mean? Daniel Libeskind seems to have seen a way. The author worked in a research studio under the guidance of the world renowned architect in the same year and on the same topic the book Libeskind’s "The space of encounter " was published. It is about memory in architecture and the significance of the space. The lessons from this experience are shown in this paper. Reliance on space is a key concept in architecture. The world-known architect Daniel Libeskind (Jewish Museum in Berlin, World Trade Centre Competition winner) has made of out the value of space a central element of his architecture. The primacy of the space has been theoretically exposed in a book (Libeskind 2001) gathering a sum of the project work of the architect so far, and in the masterpiece of the architect, the Jewish Museum seen by some critics as a museum of spaces