Daniel Libeskind
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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. Since 1989 he lives in Berlin with his wife Nina and their three children. 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)
- major renovations to the Hummingbird Centre in Toronto
Under way
- '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.
- the Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen.
- the private Barbara Weil gallery building in Spain.
In addition to his architectural projects, Libeskind has also worked in the theatre creating set designs for opera. He created the sets for the 2001 production of Tristan and Isolde at Saarbrücken's Saarländisches Staatstheater. The following year he designed the sets for a production of Messiaen's Saint Francis of Assisi by Deutsche Oper in Berlin.
External links
- Biography (on Libeskind homepage) (http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/projects/index.html)
- Projects list (on Libeskind homepage) (http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/projects/index.html)
- "Architecture is a communicative art" Lecture by Daniel Libeskind (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/vforum/02/monument_memory/index.html#danielLibeskind)
- Architecture: the Future of Memory (http://www.othervoices.org/2.2/index.html), video lectureda:Daniel Libeskind
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