DANIEL LIBERSKIND
An international figure in architecture and urban design, Daniel Libeskind's designs are informed by a deep commitment to music, philosophy, literature, and poetry.
Born in Lód’z, Poland, in 1946, Daniel Libeskind came to the United States as a teenager with his family. He received the American-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship before leaving music to study architecture. In 1989 Libeskind won the international competition to build the Jewish Museum in Berlin devoting more than a decade to the completion of this seminal design. A series of influential museum commissions followed, including the Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück; Imperial War Museum North, Manchester; Denver Art Museum; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Danish Jewish Museum, Copenhagen; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; and the Military History Museum, Dresden.
In 2003, Studio Libeskind won the competition to create a master plan for the rebuilding of the World Trade Centre in Lower Manhattan.
Studio Libeskind has since became involved with designing and realizing a large number of commercial centres, such as Westside in Bern, the Crystals at City Centre in Las Vegas, and Ko-Bogen in Düsseldorf, as well as residential towers in Busan, Singapore, Warsaw, Toronto, Manila, and Sao Paulo.
An international figure in architecture and urban design, Daniel Libeskind's designs are informed by a deep commitment to music, philosophy, literature, and poetry.
Born in Lód’z, Poland, in 1946, Daniel Libeskind came to the United States as a teenager with his family. He received the American-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship before leaving music to study architecture. In 1989 Libeskind won the international competition to build the Jewish Museum in Berlin devoting more than a decade to the completion of this seminal design. A series of influential museum commissions followed, including the Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück; Imperial War Museum North, Manchester; Denver Art Museum; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Danish Jewish Museum, Copenhagen; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; and the Military History Museum, Dresden.
In 2003, Studio Libeskind won the competition to create a master plan for the rebuilding of the World Trade Centre in Lower Manhattan.
Studio Libeskind has since became involved with designing and realizing a large number of commercial centres, such as Westside in Bern, the Crystals at City Centre in Las Vegas, and Ko-Bogen in Düsseldorf, as well as residential towers in Busan, Singapore, Warsaw, Toronto, Manila, and Sao Paulo.
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