Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind, born May 12, 1946 in Lódź, Poland, the son of Holocaust survivors, is an architect who became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1965. He is a 1965 alumnus of The Bronx High School of Science. His architecture uses a language of skewed angles, intersecting geometries, shards, voids and punctured lines to communicate feelings of loss, absence and memory whilst addressing the immediate situation, however typical, in a manner that constantly calls attention to itself. He has mainly designed museums and galleries.

His recent projects include:

Completed

• the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany;
• the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus in Osnabrück, Germany, a museum dedicated to the life and art of the painter Felix Nussbaum.
• the Imperial War Museum North in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

Proposed

• 'The Spiral' extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, has now been cancelled following its failure to attract funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
• the 'Frederic C. Hamilton Building' of the Denver Art Museum (under construction)
• 'The Crystal', a major renovation of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, slated for completion in 2006.
• the 'Freedom Tower' and 'Memory Foundations' for the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site in New York.
• major renovations to the Hummingbird Centre in Toronto

External links

• Biography (on Libeskind homepage)
• Projects list (on Libeskind homepage)
• "Architecture is a communicative art" Lecture by Daniel Libeskind