Celebrated Litvak Architect Visits Lithuanian Jewish Community

Celebrated Litvak Architect Visits Lithuanian Jewish Community

By invitation of the Goodwill Foundation and the Lithuanian Jewish Community, world-renowned Litvak architect Massimiliano Fuksas paid a visit to Vilnius this week.

The author of extraordinary projects around the world, Italian Litvak Fuksas and Studio Fuksas director Giovanni Podesta met with the co-chairpeople of the Goodwill Foundation–Lithuanian Jewish Community chairwoman Faina Kukliansky and American Jewish Committee International Jewish Affairs Department director Rabbi Andrew Baker–as well as GWF director Indrė Rutkauskaitė and toured Jewish Vilna, met members of the GWF board of directors, spoke with Israeli Antiquities Authority architect Jon Seligman, met the architects Daina and James Ferguson and also met with Lithuanian ambassador to Italy Dalia Kreivienė and Italian embassy to Lithuania chargé d’affaires Alice Barberis.