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Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor and
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. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect. He is known for the design and completion of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, that opened in 2001. On February 27, 2003, Libeskind received further international attention after he won the competition to be the master plan architect for the
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of the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan. Other buildings that he is known for include the extension to the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the
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in
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, the Imperial War Museum North in
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, England, the
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Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum in
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, Canada, the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Germany, the Danish Jewish Museum in
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, Denmark, Reflections in Singapore and the
Wohl Centre The Wohl Centre is a convention center on the main campus of Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel. History Wohl Centre was built between 2001 and 2005 and covers about 42,000 square feet (3,900 square meters). The building, designed by the ...
at the Bar-Ilan University in
Ramat Gan Ramat Gan ( he, רָמַת גַּן or , ) is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, located east of the municipality of Tel Aviv and part of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. It is home to one of the world's major diamond exchanges, and man ...
, Israel. His portfolio also includes several residential projects. Libeskind's work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world, including the
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, the Bauhaus Archives, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Centre Pompidou.


Early life and education

Born in
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, Poland, Libeskind was the second child of Dora and Nachman Libeskind, both Polish Jews and
Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...
survivors. As a young child, Libeskind learned to play the accordion and quickly became a virtuoso, performing on Polish
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in 1953. He won a prestigious
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scholarship in 1959 and played alongside a young Itzhak Perlman. Libeskind lived in Poland for 11 years and can still speak, read, and write Polish. In 1957, the Libeskinds moved to Kibbutz Gvat, Israel and then to Tel Aviv before moving to New York in 1959. In his autobiography, ''Breaking Ground: An Immigrant's Journey from Poland to Ground Zero'', Libeskind spoke of how the kibbutz experience influenced his concern for green architecture. In the summer of 1959, his family moved to New York City on one of the last immigrant boats to the United States. In New York, Libeskind lived in the Amalgamated Housing Cooperative in the northwest
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, a union-sponsored, middle-income cooperative development. He attended the Bronx High School of Science. The print shop where his father worked was on Stone Street in Lower Manhattan, and he watched the original World Trade Center being built in the 1960s. Libeskind became a United States citizen in 1965. Daniel Libeskind was accepted at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and began school there in 1965 where he was taught by John Hejduk and received his professional architectural degree in 1970. In 1968, Libeskind briefly worked as an apprentice to architect Richard Meier. He received a postgraduate degree in history and theory of architecture at the School of Comparative Studies at the University of Essex in 1972. The same year, he was hired to work at Peter Eisenman's New York
Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies The Institute for Architecture & Urban Studies is a non-profit architecture studio and think tank located in Manhattan, New York, United States. IAUS (1967–1984) The Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies was founded in 1967 as a non-pr ...
, but he quit almost immediately.


Career

Libeskind began his career as an architectural theorist and professor, holding positions at various institutions around the world. From 1978 to 1985, Libeskind was the director of the Architecture Department at
Cranbrook Academy of Art The Cranbrook Educational Community is an education, research, and public museum complex in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. This National Historic Landmark was founded in the early 20th century by newspaper mogul George Gough Booth. It consists of C ...
in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. His practical architectural career began in Milan in the late 1980s, where he submitted to architectural competitions and also founded and directed Architecture Intermundium, Institute for Architecture & Urbanism. Libeskind completed his first building at the age of 52, with the opening of the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabruck, Germany in 1998. Prior to this, critics had dismissed his designs as "unbuildable or unduly assertive". In 1987, Libeskind won his first design competition for housing in West Berlin, but the Berlin Wall fell shortly thereafter and the project was cancelled. Libeskind won the first four project competitions he entered including the Jewish Museum Berlin in 1989, which became the first museum dedicated to the Holocaust in WWII and opened to the public in 2001 with international acclaim. This was his first major international success and was one of the first building modifications designed after
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. A glass courtyard was designed by Libeskind and added in 2007. The Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin also designed by Libeskind was completed in 2012. Libeskind was selected by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to oversee the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. The concept for the site, which he titled Memory Foundations, was well-received upon its presentation to the public in 2003, although it was ultimately changed significantly before its execution. He was the first architect to win the Hiroshima Art Prize, awarded to an artist whose work promotes international understanding and peace. Many of his projects look at the deep cultural connections between memory and architecture. Studio Daniel Libeskind is headquartered two blocks south of the World Trade Center site in New York. He has designed numerous cultural and commercial institutions, museums, concert halls, convention centers, universities, residences, hotels, and shopping centers. The studio's most recent completed projects include the MO Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania; Zlota 44, a high-rise residential tower in Warsaw, Poland; the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics at Durham University in Durham, England; the
National Holocaust Monument The National Holocaust Monument ( French: ''Monument national de l'Holocauste'') is a Holocaust memorial A number of organizations, museums and monuments are intended to serve as memorials to the Holocaust, the Nazi Final Solution, and its milli ...
in Ottawa, Canada; and Corals at Keppel Bay in Singapore, adjacent to the studio's previous completed project Reflections at Keppel Bay.


Design objects

In addition to his architectural projects, Libeskind has worked with a number of international design firms to develop objects, furniture, and industrial fixtures for interiors of buildings. He has been commissioned to work with design companies such as Fiam, Artemide,
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, TreP-Tre-Piu, Oliviari, Sawaya & Moroni, Poltrona Frau, Swarovski, and others.


Sculpture and installations

Libeskind's design projects also include sculpture. Several sculptures built in the early 1990s were based on the explorations of his Micromegas and Chamberworks drawings series that he did in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Polderland Garden of Love and Fire in Almere, Netherlands is a permanent installation completed in 1997 and restored on October 4, 2017. Later in his career, Libeskind designed the Life Electric sculpture that was completed in 2015 on Lake Como, Italy. This sculpture is dedicated to the physicist
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.


Opera and verse

Libeskind has designed
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sets for productions such as the Norwegian National Theatre's ''The Architect'' in 1998 and Saarländisches Staatstheater's '' Tristan und Isolde'' in 2001. He also designed the sets and costumes for '' Intolleranza'' by Luigi Nono and for a production of Messiaen's '' Saint Francis of Assisi'' by Deutsche Oper Berlin. He has also written free verse prose, included in his book ''Fishing from the Pavement''.


Academia

Daniel Libeskind was the Head of Architecture at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan from 1978-1985. During his tenure at Cranbrook he explored various themes of space, influenced by theorists like Derrida and he was part of the leading avant-garde in architecture and academia. He produced several writings, artworks and large-scale explorations, including the Reading Machine, Writing Machine and Memory Machine. The machines called the ''Three Lessons in Architecture'' were displayed at the Venice Biennale in 1985 where Libeskind also won a Stone Lion award. Libeskind has taught at numerous universities across the world, including the
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,
Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the w ...
, UCLA, Harvard, the University of London, the Leuphana University Lüneburg in Germany, and the
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. He continues to teach students at various universities including the Catholic University of America.


Criticism

While much of Libeskind's work has been well-received, it has also been the subject of often severe criticism. Critics often describe Libeskind's work as deconstructivist. Critics charge that it reflects a limited architectural vocabulary of jagged edges, sharp angles and tortured geometries, that can fall into cliche, and that it ignores location and context. In 2008 ''
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'' critic Christopher Hawthorne wrote: "Anyone looking for signs that Daniel Libeskind's work might deepen profoundly over time, or shift in some surprising direction, has mostly been doing so in vain." Nicolai Ouroussoff stated in ''The New York Times'' in 2006: "His worst buildings, like a 2002 war museum in England suggesting the shards of a fractured globe, can seem like a caricature of his own aesthetic." In the UK magazine '' Building Design'',
Owen Hatherley Owen Hatherley (born 24 July 1981 in Southampton, England) is a British writer and journalist based in London who writes primarily on architecture, politics and culture. Early life Hatherley was born in Southampton in 1981, growing up in a 1930s ...
wrote of Libeskind's students' union for London Metropolitan University: "All of its vaulting, aggressive gestures were designed to 'put London Met on the map', and to give an image of fearless modernity with, however, little of consequence." William JR Curtis in ''Architectural Review'' called his Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre "a pile-up of Libeskindian clichés without sense, form or meaning" and wrote that his Hyundai Development Corporation Headquarters delivered "a trite and noisy corporate message". In response, Libeskind says he ignores critics: "How can I read them? I have more important things to read."


Work

File:JewishMuseumBerlinAerial.jpg, Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany File:Statute of Liberty and New York.jpg, World Trade Center Master Plan, New York City, US File:FelixNussbaumHaus.jpg, Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabruck, Germany File:Reflections at Keppel Bay.JPG, Reflections at Keppel Bay, Singapore File:2021 Złota 44 z PKiN.jpg, Zlota 44, Warsaw, Poland File:L Tower in April 2016.jpg, L Tower in Toronto, Canada File:Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin.jpg, Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin, Ireland File:Bord Gais Theatre TEDxDublin.jpg, Bord Gais Theatre, Dublin, Ireland File:Studio Weil Sculptures.JPG, Studio Weil, Mallorca, Spain File:Denver Art Museum.JPG, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, US File:Kö-Bogen Düsseldorf.jpg, Kö-Bogen Düsseldorf, Germany File:Kö-Bogen Düsseldorf, Dezember 2013 DSC05573.JPG, Kö-Bogen Düsseldorf, Germany File:Crystals - Exterior East - 2010-03-06.JPG, Crystals at CityCenter, Las Vegas, Nevada, US File:Crystals - Interior02 - 2010-03-06.JPG, Interior at Crystals at CityCenter, Las Vegas, Nevada, US File:Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco (16870725773).jpg, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California, US File:Torri e fontana delle quattro stagioni viste dal piazzale Giulio Cesare a Milano.jpg, PWC tower, CityLife, Milan, Italy File:CityLife Recidences Libeskind (17383220121).jpg, CityLife Residences, Milan, Italy File:Ogden Centre (geograph 5908287).jpg, Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics at Durham University, Durham, England File:Ntl Holocaust Monument 2.jpg, National Holocaust Monument, Ottawa, Canada File:EXPO 2015 Milan (21622848366).jpg, Vanke Pavilion, Expo 2015, Milan, Italy File:Imperial War Museum 2008cropped.jpg, Imperial War Museum North, Trafford, Manchester, England The following projects are listed on the Studio Libeskind website. The first date is the competition, commission, or first presentation date. The second is the completion date or the estimated date of completion.


Completed

* 1989–2001 Jewish Museum Berlin
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, Germany * 1995–1998 Felix Nussbaum HausOsnabrück, Germany * 1997–2001 Imperial War Museum North
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, England, United Kingdom * 1998–2008
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– San Francisco, California, United States * 2000–2003 Studio WeilMajorca, Spain * 2000–2006 Extension to the Denver Art Museum, Frederic C. Hamilton Building –
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,
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, United States * 2000–2006 Denver Art Museum Residences –
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,
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, United States * 2000–2008
Westside Shopping and Leisure Centre The Westside Shopping and Leisure Centre, on the outskirts of Bern, Switzerland, is a multi-use facility with shops, restaurants, a swimming pool, conference spaces, residences, a hotel, fitness centres, and a cinema. It was designed by internat ...
Bern german: Berner(in)french: Bernois(e) it, bernese , neighboring_municipalities = Bremgarten bei Bern, Frauenkappelen, Ittigen, Kirchlindach, Köniz, Mühleberg, Muri bei Bern, Neuenegg, Ostermundigen, Wohlen bei Bern, Zollikofen , website ...
, Switzerland * 2001–2003 Danish Jewish Museum
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, Denmark * 2001–2004 London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre – London, England, United Kingdom * 2001–2005 The
Wohl Centre The Wohl Centre is a convention center on the main campus of Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel. History Wohl Centre was built between 2001 and 2005 and covers about 42,000 square feet (3,900 square meters). The building, designed by the ...
Bar-Ilan University,
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, Israel * 2002–2007 Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, extension to Royal Ontario Museum and renovation of ten of its existing galleries – Toronto,
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, Canada * 2003–2005 Tangent, Facade for
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Development Corporation Headquarters –
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, South Korea * 2004–2005 Memoria e Luce, 9/11 Memorial –
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, Italy * 2004–2007 Glass Courtyard addition to the Jewish Museum Berlin – Berlin, Germany * 2004–2008 The Ascent at Roebling's Bridge, residential condominium building – Covington,
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, United States * 2005–2009 MGM Mirage's CityCenter, retail and public space on the
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,
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* 2004–2010 Grand Canal Square,
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and Commercial Development –
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* 2010 Wheel of Conscience monument, M.S. St. Louis Memorial, Pier 21 – Halifax,
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* 2001–2011 Military History Museum
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, Germany * 2002–2011
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre is an academic building on the campus of the City University of Hong Kong, which was completed in 2011. It was designed by Daniel Libeskind cooperating with Leigh and Orange Ltd., and received several awards ...
at the City University of Hong Kong – Hong Kong * 2006–2011 Reflections at Keppel Bay, high-rise and low-rise villa apartment blocks – Keppel Bay, Singapore * 2007–2008 18.36.54 private residence –
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, United States * 2007–2011 Haeundae I Park Marina, skyscraper complex –
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, South Korea * 2009 Libeskind Villa – prefab smart house – Rheinzink GmbH & Co. KG Global Headquarters, Datteln, Germany * 2010–2012 Jewish Museum Berlin Academy in the Eric F. Ross Building, academy – Berlin, Germany * 2009–2013 Kö-Bogen, Königsallee,
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, Germany * 2012–2015 Mons International Congress XPerience, Mons, Belgium * 2002-ongoing World Trade Center master plan – New York City, New York * 2013-2014 Ohio Holocaust & Liberators Memorial,
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, Ohio * 2014–2015 Life Electric, sculpture – Como, Italy * 2015 Vanke Pavilion, sculpture - Milan, Italy * 2015 Future Flowers, sculpture - Milan, Italy * 2015 Milan Expo Gates, sculpture - Milan, Italy * 2010–2015 Vitra Tower – Sao Paulo, Brazil * 2013-2016 Lotte Mart - Songdo, South Korea * 2005–2016 L Tower and Sony Centre for the Performing Arts Redevelopment – Toronto, Canada * 2013-2016 Corals at Keppel Bay, Singapore * 2012-2016 Sapphire, -
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, Germany * 2007-2017
Złota 44 Złota 44 is a residential skyscraper (192 meters high, 52 stories) in central Warsaw, Poland. It was designed by Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind, in association with Polish architects Architecture. It was developed by US real estate ...
, residential tower -
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, Poland * 2011–2017 Main building and auditorium, Leuphana University of LüneburgLüneburg, Germany * 2015–2017 Odgen Centre for Fundamental Physics at Durham University, Durham, England * 2014-2017
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, Canada *2011-2018 Zhang Zhidong Museum - Wuhan, China * 2017-2018 MO Museum - Vilnius, Lithuania *2013-2019 Century Spire,
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, Philippines *2018-2021
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, Finland


Under construction

* 2004–2020 CityLife (Milan), masterplan – Milan, Italy * 2015-2019 CityLife (Milan), Tower - Milan, Italy *2012-2021, Lotte Mall Songdo & Officetel, Songdo, South Korea *2012-2020 Amsterdam Holocaust Memorial - Amsterdam, Netherlands *2017-2020 Verve, Frankfurt, Germany * 2017-2020 East Thiers Station,
Nice Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative ...
, France *2017–2023 Tampere Central Arena –
Tampere Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population ...
, Finland *2018- 2023, Atrium at Sumner - Brooklyn, New York, US *2019-2023 Artery - Vilnius, Lithuania


Proposed or in design

* 2009–? Archipelago 21, masterplan – Seoul, South Korea * 2009–? Harmony Tower, Seoul, South Korea * 2009–? Dancing Towers, Seoul, South Korea * 2008–? New York Tower, New York City, United States * 2018 –
Great Synagogue of Vilna The Great Synagogue of Vilna, which once stood at the end of Jewish Street (I-2), Vilnius, Lithuania, was built between 1630 and 1633 after permission was granted to construct a synagogue from stone. Standing on the spot of an existing synagogue ...
restoration, Vilnius, Lithuania * 2017-2022 Occitanie Tower,
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, France *2019- Maggie's Centre, London, UK *2019-2024 Ngaren: The Museum of Humankind - Kenya *2020 - Four Seasons Dubai Water Canal Hotel - Dubai, UAE *2021–?
Tree of Life Synagogue In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants with secondary growth, plants that are us ...
, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania *2022-?
Boerentoren The Boerentoren ( en, "Farmer's Tower"; officially the KBC Tower, originally the Torengebouw van Antwerpen) is a historic tall building in Antwerp, Belgium. Constructed between 1929 and 1932 and originally high, it remained the tallest building ...
'crown', Antwerp, Belgium


Libeskind design products

* 2007 Royal Ontario Museum Spirit House Chair, Nienkamper, Toronto, Canada *2009 Tea Set, Sawaya & Moroni * 2009 Denver Door Handle, Olivari * 2011 eL Masterpiece, Zumtobel Group, Sawaya & Moroni * 2012 Torq Armchair and Table, Sawaya & Moroni * 2012 Zohar Street Lamp, Zumtobel Group * 2012 The Idea Door 1 & 2, TRE-Più * 2013 The Wing Mirror, Fiam * 2013 Flow,
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* 2013 Paragon Lamp, Artemide * 2013 Nina Door Handle, Olivari * 2014 Ice Glass Installation *2016 Water Tower, Alessi *2016 Gemma Collection, Moroso *2016 Swarovski Chess Set,
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*2017 Cordoba light, Slamp *2017 Dining and side Table, Citco *2019 Boaz Chair, Wilde + Spieth


Awards and recognition

* First architect to win the Hiroshima Art Prize, awarded to an artist whose work promotes international understanding and peace (2001) *In 2003, he received the Leo Baeck Medal for his humanitarian work promoting tolerance and social justice. *AIANY Merit Award for the National Holocaust Monument, Ottawa, Canada (2018) * MIPIM/''The Architectural Review'' Future Project Award, for L'Occitanie Tower in Toulouse, France (2018) * CTBUH Urban Habitat Award for the World Trade Center Master Plan (2018) *
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National Service Award for the World Trade Center Master Plan (2012) *Fellow for the American Institute of Architects (2016) * RIBA Regional Award for Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics at Durham University (2017) *Received an Honorary Doctorate of Architecture from the University of South Florida. * Doctor Honoris Causa of the New Bulgarian University in 2013 in recognition of his influence on contemporary architectural research and practice *First recipient of
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of Doctor of Fine Art from University of Ulster in recognition of his outstanding services to global architecture and design (2009) * MIPIM award in Best Urban Regeneration Project for KoBogen (2014) *FIABCI Prix d'Excellence Award, Residential for Reflections at Keppel Bay (2013) *European Museum Academy Prize for the Military History Museum (2013) * Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal (2010) *Gold medal for Architecture at the
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(2007) * RIBA International Award for Wohl Centre at Bar-Ilan University (2006) * RIBA International Award for the Imperial War Museum North (2004) * RIBA Award for the London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre (2004) * Appointed as the first Cultural Ambassador for Architecture by the
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(2004) * Honorary member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, England (2004) * Man of the Year Award from the
Tel Aviv Museum of Art Tel Aviv Museum of Art ( he, מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות ''Muzeon Tel Aviv Leomanut'') is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of modern and contemporary art from Israel and aro ...
(2004) * Goethe Medal for cultural contribution by the Goethe Institute (2000) * ''
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'' magazine Best of 1998 Design Awards for the Felix Nussbaum Haus (1998) * Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1996) *
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First Prize Stone Lion Award for Palmanova Project (1985) *
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Design Arts Grant for Studies in Architecture (1983) * American Institute of Architects Medal for Highest Scholastic Achievement (1970)


Personal life

Libeskind met Nina Lewis, his future wife and business partner, at the Bundist-run
Camp Hemshekh Camp Hemshekh ( yi, המשך; "continuation" Literally: Camp "Continuation") was a Jewish summer camp in the United States that was founded in 1959 by Holocaust survivors who were active in the Jewish Labour Bund, a Jewish, socialist workers' ...
in
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in 1966. They married a few years later and, instead of a traditional honeymoon, traveled across the US visiting
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buildings on a Cooper Union fellowship. Nina is co-founder for Studio Daniel Libeskind. She is the daughter of the late-Canadian political leader David Lewis and the sister of former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, Stephen Lewis. Libeskind has lived, among other places, in New York City, Toronto, Michigan, Italy, Germany, and Los Angeles. He is both a U.S. and Israeli citizen. Nina and Daniel Libeskind have three children: Lev, Noam, and Rachel.


Bibliography

* ''Daniel Libeskind: Countersign'' (1992) () * ''Daniel Libeskind Radix-Matrix'' (1997) () * ''Jewish Museum Berlin'' (with Helene Binet) (1999) () * ''Daniel Libeskind: The Space of Encounter'' (2001) () * ''Daniel Libeskind'' (2001) () * ''Breaking Ground'' (2004) () * ''Counterpoint'' (2008) () * ''In the Unlikeliest of Places: How Nachman Libeskind Survived the Nazis, Gulags, and Soviet Communism'' (2014) Annette Libeskind Berkovits; foreword by Daniel Libeskind () *''Edge of Order'' (2018) ()


References


External links

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Daniel Libeskind papers, 1968–1992
Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California
Libeskind Residences
as part of CityLife (Milan) project
Libeskind Tower
as part of CityLife (Milan) project *
Architecture in the 20th Century
Liebeskind in conversation with Richard Weston and Melvyn Bragg, first broadcast March 25, 1999 on BBC4's ''
In Our Time In Our Time may refer to: * ''In Our Time'' (1944 film), a film starring Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid * ''In Our Time'' (1982 film), a Taiwanese anthology film featuring director Edward Yang; considered the beginning of the "New Taiwan Cinema" * ''In ...
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Unbuilding Walls
Libeskind interviewed by Graft Architects. {{DEFAULTSORT:Libeskind, Daniel 1946 births 20th-century Polish Jews 21st-century accordionists Alumni of the University of Essex American architects American people of Polish-Jewish descent Architects from Łódź The Bronx High School of Science alumni Cooper Union alumni Deconstructivism Honorary Members of the Royal Academy Jewish architects Lewis family (Canada) Living people Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin People from the Bronx Polish emigrants to the United States Postmodern architects World Trade Center Fulbright alumni