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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1946-05-12 ) May 12, 1946 (age 80) , Łódź , Poland
- Alma mater
- The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art , University of Essex
- Occupation
- Architect
- Spouse
- Nina Lewis Libeskind ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1969 )
- Relatives
- David Lewis (father-in-law) , Stephen Lewis (brother-in-law) , Avi Lewis (nephew)
- Practice
- Studio Daniel Libeskind
- Buildings
- Felix Nussbaum Haus , Jewish Museum Berlin , Imperial War Museum North , Contemporary Jewish Museum , Royal Ontario Museum (expansion), One World Trade Center (2002) , The Ascent at Roebling's Bridge
- Website
- libeskind .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Daniel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Łódź
- Occupation
- lecturer
- Educated at
- Bronx High School of Science
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Dresden Prize
- Notable work
- CityLife
- Field of work
- architecture
- Movement
- postmodern architecture
- Instrument
- accordion
- Official website
- libeskind.com
- Image
- Daniel Libeskind.jpg
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- Commons category
- Daniel Libeskind
- date of birth
- 1946-05-12
- member of
- Academy of Arts, Berlin
- floruit
- 2010-01-01
- name in native language
- Daniel Libeskind
- described at URL
- v2.nl/people/daniel-libeskind
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Encyclopedic overview
Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish and American architect, artist, professor, and set designer. 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. In 2003, Libeskind received further international attention after he won the competition to be the master plan architect for the reconstruction 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 Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin, the Imperial War Museum North in Greater Manchester, England, the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Germany, the Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, Reflections in Singapore and the Wohl Centre at the Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. His portfolio also includes several residential projects. Libeskind's work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Bauhaus Archives, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Centre Pompidou.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Daniel Libeskind” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.