“A building is like a human being”
Structures can have souls, architect Daniel Libeskind told me in an interview.
Ever since I first saw an image of the illustration from Tobias Cohen’s early 18th century medical treatise years ago, the engraving has remained etched in my mind. “A new house,” declares the Hebrew atop the page, which is identified as page 106 by the Hebrew letters on the top, far left corner. Below that page number, a man appears with various parts …