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Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect.[1]

Daniel Libeskind
Libeskind in front of his extension to the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, 2011
Born (1946-05-12) May 12, 1946 (age 76)
Łódź, Poland
NationalityPolish–American
Alma materThe Cooper Union
University of Essex
OccupationArchitect
SpouseNina Lewis Libeskind (m. 1969)
Children3
RelativesDavid Lewis (father-in-law)
Stephen Lewis (brother-in-law)
Avi Lewis (nephew)
PracticeStudio Daniel Libeskind
BuildingsFelix 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
Websitelibeskind.com

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 reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan.[2]

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.[3] 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.[4]

Early life and education

Born in Łódź, Poland, Libeskind was the second child of Dora and Nachman Libeskind, both Polish Jews and Holocaust survivors. As a young child, Libeskind learned to play the accordion and quickly became a virtuoso, performing on Polish television in 1953. He won a prestigious America Israel Cultural Foundation 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.[5]

In 1957, the Libeskinds moved to Kibbutz Gvat, Israel and then to Tel Aviv before moving to New York in 1959.[6] 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.[7]

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 Bronx, 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.[8] Libeskind became a United States citizen in 1965.[9]

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.[10] In 1968, Libeskind briefly worked as an apprentice to architect Richard Meier.[10] 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, but he quit almost immediately.[11]

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 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.[12] 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.[13] Prior to this, critics had dismissed his designs as "unbuildable or unduly assertive".[14] 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.[15] This was his first major international success and was one of the first building modifications designed after reunification. 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's addition to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto (2007).

Libeskind was selected by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to oversee the rebuilding of the World Trade Center,[16] 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.[17] 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.[18]

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 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,[19] Artemide,[20] Jacuzzi,[21] TreP-Tre-Piu,[22] Oliviari,[23] Sawaya & Moroni,[24] Poltrona Frau,[25] Swarovski,[26] and others.[27]

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.[28] 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 Alessandro Volta.

Opera and verse

Libeskind has designed opera 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.[29]

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.[30] The machines called the Three Lessons in Architecture were displayed at the Venice Biennale in 1985 where Libeskind also won a Stone Lion award.[31] Libeskind has taught at numerous universities across the world, including the University of Kentucky, Yale University, UCLA, Harvard, the University of London, the Leuphana University Lüneburg in Germany, and the University of Pennsylvania.[9] He continues to teach students at various universities including the Catholic University of America.[32]

Criticism

 
Libeskind's building for the London Metropolitan University has been the subject of criticism

While much of Libeskind's work has been well-received, it has also been the subject of often severe criticism.[33] Critics often describe Libeskind's work as deconstructivist.[34] Critics charge that it reflects a limited architectural vocabulary of jagged edges, sharp angles and tortured geometries,[35] that can fall into cliche, and that it ignores location and context.[36] In 2008 Los Angeles Times 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."[37] 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."[35] In the UK magazine Building Design, Owen Hatherley 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."[38] 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".[36]

In response, Libeskind says he ignores critics: "How can I read them? I have more important things to read."[39]

Work

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

Under construction

  • 2004–2020 CityLife (Milan), masterplan – Milan, Italy
  • 2015-2019 CityLife (Milan), Tower - Milan, Italy[42]
  • 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, France
  • 2017–2023 Tampere Central Arena – Tampere, Finland
  • 2018- 2023, Atrium at Sumner - Brooklyn, New York, US
  • 2019-2023 Artery - Vilnius, Lithuania[43][44]

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 restoration, Vilnius, Lithuania[45]
  • 2017-2022 Occitanie Tower, Toulouse, 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, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • 2022-? Boerentoren 'crown', Antwerp, Belgium

Libeskind design products

  •  
    "The Wings" - sculpture in Munich
    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, Jacuzzi
  • 2013 Paragon Lamp, Artemide
  • 2013 Nina Door Handle, Olivari
  • 2014 Ice Glass Installation[46]
  • 2016 Water Tower, Alessi
  • 2016 Gemma Collection, Moroso
  • 2016 Swarovski Chess Set, Swarovski
  • 2017 Cordoba light, Slamp
  • 2017 Dining and side Table, Citco
  • 2019 Boaz Chair, Wilde + Spieth

Awards and recognition

Personal life

Libeskind met Nina Lewis, his future wife and business partner, at the Bundist-run Camp Hemshekh in upstate New York in 1966. They married a few years later and, instead of a traditional honeymoon, traveled across the US visiting Frank Lloyd Wright buildings on a Cooper Union fellowship.[51] 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.[51] He is both a U.S. and Israeli citizen.[52]

Nina and Daniel Libeskind have three children: Lev, Noam, and Rachel.[53]

Bibliography

  • Daniel Libeskind: Countersign (1992) (ISBN 0-8478-1478-5)
  • Daniel Libeskind Radix-Matrix (1997) (ISBN 3-7913-1727-X)
  • Jewish Museum Berlin (with Helene Binet) (1999) (ISBN 90-5701-252-9)
  • Daniel Libeskind: The Space of Encounter (2001) (ISBN 978-0789304834)
  • Daniel Libeskind (2001) (ISBN 0-7893-0496-1)
  • Breaking Ground (2004) (ISBN 1-57322-292-5)
  • Counterpoint (2008) (ISBN 1-58093-206-1)
  • In the Unlikeliest of Places: How Nachman Libeskind Survived the Nazis, Gulags, and Soviet Communism (2014) Annette Libeskind Berkovits; foreword by Daniel Libeskind (ISBN 978-1-77112-0661)
  • Edge of Order (2018) (ISBN 978-0451497352)

References

  1. ^ Libeskind, Daniel (2004). Breaking Ground. New York: Riverhead Books. p. 88. ISBN 1-57322-292-5.
  2. ^ Rochan, Lisa (February 28, 2003; updated April 16, 2018). "Libeskind shows genius for complexity". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  3. ^ . Archived from the original on May 11, 2008. Retrieved June 12, 2008.
  4. ^ . Archived from the original on May 11, 2008. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
  5. ^ Marek, Michael (February 18, 2010). "Architect Libeskind took unusual path to an international career". Deutsche Welle. dw.com. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  6. ^ (press release). Royal Ontario Museum. May 22, 2007. Archived from the original on April 2, 2012. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  7. ^ Breaking Ground: An Immigrant's Journey from Poland to Ground Zero By Daniel Libeskind
  8. ^ Libeskind, Daniel (2004). Breaking Ground. New York: Riverhead Books. pp. 11, 10, 35. ISBN 1-57322-292-5.
  9. ^ a b "Studio Daniel Libeskind: Daniel Libeskind". Retrieved June 12, 2008.
  10. ^ a b "Urban Warriors". The New Yorker. September 8, 2003. Retrieved September 1, 2021.
  11. ^ Libeskind, Daniel (2004). Breaking Ground. New York: Riverhead Books. p. 41. ISBN 1-57322-292-5.
  12. ^ "History - Cranbrook Academy of Art". September 11, 2018.
  13. ^ Yu, Myung-hee (2007). Daniel Libeskind. OPUS 1946-present. South Korea: I-Park. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-57322-292-1.
  14. ^ Pearman, Hugh (August 1, 1998). "Walls hold back the forgetting". Zeitgeist. pp. 26–27.
  15. ^ Hooper, John; Connolly, Kate (September 8, 2001). "Empty museum evokes suffering of Jews". The Guardian. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
  16. ^ . United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. September 13, 2007. Archived from the original on December 1, 2010.
  17. ^ Dupré, Judith (2016). One World Trade Center: Biography of the Building (First ed.). New York. ISBN 978-0-316-33631-4. OCLC 871319123.
  18. ^ "Leading architect Daniel Libeskind talks on how buildings are associated with commemoration". Oxford Brookes University.
  19. ^ . Fiamitalia.it. Archived from the original on April 18, 2017. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  20. ^ "daniel libeskind structures paragon table lamp for artemide". Designboom.com. April 9, 2013. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  21. ^ . Jacuzzi.co.uk. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  22. ^ . - TreP-TrePiù (in Italian). Archived from the original on July 23, 2015.
  23. ^ "Olivari B. - Daniel Libeskind". archive.is. June 16, 2013. Archived from the original on June 16, 2013.
  24. ^ "Sawaya & Moroni". Sawayamoroni.com. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  25. ^ "Poltrona Frau". Pfgroupcontract.com. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  26. ^ "Articles - Daniel Libeskind | Atelier Swarovski". atelierswarovski.com. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
  27. ^ "Daniel Libeskind Exhibits Six New Design Objects At Salone Del Mobile". Architizer.com. April 12, 2013. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  28. ^ "Daniel Libeskind: Polderland Garden of Love and Fire (1997)". landartflevoland.nl. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
  29. ^ Davies, Colin. "Fishing From the Pavement – Book Reviews", "The Architectural Review", April 1998
  30. ^ "Libeskind's Machines". Lebbeus Woods. November 24, 2009. Retrieved September 1, 2021.
  31. ^ "Historical Archives | Gli Archi di Aldo Rossi". La Biennale di Venezia. June 13, 2017. Retrieved September 1, 2021.
  32. ^ Hines, Mary McCarthy. "Students Learn from Master Architect Daniel Libeskind". The Catholic University of America. Retrieved September 1, 2021.
  33. ^ Kyle MacMillian. "Pro-Libeskind forces fire back". The Denver Post. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  34. ^ Erbacher, Doris and Kubitz, Peter Paul. "'You appear to have something against right angles", The Guardian, October 11, 2007
  35. ^ a b Nicolai Ouroussof (October 12, 2006). "A Razor-Sharp Profile Cuts Into a Mile-High Cityscape". The New York Times. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  36. ^ a b Curtis, William Jr. (September 21, 2011). "Daniel Libeskind (1946- ) | Thinkpiece". Architectural Review. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  37. ^ "Slash and yearn". Los Angeles Times. June 4, 2008. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  38. ^ Hatherley, Owen (November 7, 2013). "Whatever happened to student housing? | Analysis". Building Design. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  39. ^ . Architects' Journal. June 20, 2013. Archived from the original on June 20, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  40. ^ Rago, Danielle (May 26, 2015). "Detail: The Tiles of Studio Libeskind's Vanke Pavilion". Architect Magazine.
  41. ^ "Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics, Durham - RIBAJ". ribaj.com.
  42. ^ . Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  43. ^ "Downtown Tower - Libeskind". Libeskind. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
  44. ^ . Vilnius MIPIM2018. Archived from the original on October 7, 2018. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
  45. ^ "Peres invited to advise on restoration of Vilnius synagogue", Times of Israel.
  46. ^ "Lasvit – glass installations, sculptures and design lighting". Lasvit.com. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  47. ^ . Archived from the original on September 19, 2008. Retrieved August 3, 2008.
  48. ^ "Daniel Libeskind". April 8, 2015.
  49. ^ University of Ulster Honours World-Leading Architect Daniel Libeskind April 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine University of Ulster News Release, November 11, 2009
  50. ^ . July 10, 2011. Archived from the original on July 10, 2011.
  51. ^ a b Davidson, Justin (October 8, 2007). "The Liberation of Daniel Libeskind". New York. pp. 56–64.
  52. ^ See, Frequent Flyer. When the Wife is a Lucky Charm, Don't Leave Home Without Her. The New York Times, Tuesday, August 9, 2011, p. B6.
  53. ^ . Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved February 25, 2009.

External links

  • Official website
  • Daniel Libeskind papers, 1968–1992 Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California
  • as part of CityLife (Milan) project
  • Libeskind Tower as part of CityLife (Milan) project
  • Daniel Libeskind at TED  
  • 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.
  • Unbuilding Walls Libeskind interviewed by Graft Architects.

daniel, libeskind, born, 1946, polish, american, architect, artist, professor, designer, libeskind, founded, studio, 1989, with, wife, nina, principal, design, architect, libeskind, front, extension, bundeswehr, military, history, museum, dresden, 2011born, 19. Daniel Libeskind born May 12 1946 is a Polish American architect artist professor and set designer Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife Nina and is its principal design architect 1 Daniel LibeskindLibeskind in front of his extension to the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden 2011Born 1946 05 12 May 12 1946 age 76 Lodz PolandNationalityPolish AmericanAlma materThe Cooper UnionUniversity of EssexOccupationArchitectSpouseNina Lewis Libeskind m 1969 Children3RelativesDavid Lewis father in law Stephen Lewis brother in law Avi Lewis nephew PracticeStudio Daniel LibeskindBuildingsFelix Nussbaum HausJewish Museum BerlinImperial War Museum NorthContemporary Jewish MuseumRoyal Ontario Museum expansion One World Trade Center 2002 The Ascent at Roebling s BridgeWebsitelibeskind wbr comHe 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 reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan 2 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 Osnabruck Germany the Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen Denmark Reflections in Singapore and the Wohl Centre at the Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan Israel 3 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 4 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 Design objects 2 2 Sculpture and installations 2 3 Opera and verse 3 Academia 4 Criticism 5 Work 5 1 Completed 5 2 Under construction 5 3 Proposed or in design 5 4 Libeskind design products 6 Awards and recognition 7 Personal life 8 Bibliography 9 References 10 External linksEarly life and education EditBorn in Lodz Poland Libeskind was the second child of Dora and Nachman Libeskind both Polish Jews and Holocaust survivors As a young child Libeskind learned to play the accordion and quickly became a virtuoso performing on Polish television in 1953 He won a prestigious America Israel Cultural Foundation 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 5 In 1957 the Libeskinds moved to Kibbutz Gvat Israel and then to Tel Aviv before moving to New York in 1959 6 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 7 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 Bronx 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 8 Libeskind became a United States citizen in 1965 9 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 10 In 1968 Libeskind briefly worked as an apprentice to architect Richard Meier 10 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 but he quit almost immediately 11 Career EditLibeskind 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 in Bloomfield Hills Michigan 12 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 amp Urbanism Felix Nussbaum Haus 1998 Osnabruck Germany Libeskind completed his first building at the age of 52 with the opening of the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabruck Germany in 1998 13 Prior to this critics had dismissed his designs as unbuildable or unduly assertive 14 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 15 This was his first major international success and was one of the first building modifications designed after reunification 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 s addition to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto 2007 Libeskind was selected by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to oversee the rebuilding of the World Trade Center 16 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 17 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 18 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 in Ottawa Canada and Corals at Keppel Bay in Singapore adjacent to the studio s previous completed project Reflections at Keppel Bay Design objects Edit 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 19 Artemide 20 Jacuzzi 21 TreP Tre Piu 22 Oliviari 23 Sawaya amp Moroni 24 Poltrona Frau 25 Swarovski 26 and others 27 Sculpture and installations Edit 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 28 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 Alessandro Volta Opera and verse Edit Libeskind has designed opera sets for productions such as the Norwegian National Theatre s The Architect in 1998 and Saarlandisches 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 29 Academia EditDaniel 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 30 The machines called the Three Lessons in Architecture were displayed at the Venice Biennale in 1985 where Libeskind also won a Stone Lion award 31 Libeskind has taught at numerous universities across the world including the University of Kentucky Yale University UCLA Harvard the University of London the Leuphana University Luneburg in Germany and the University of Pennsylvania 9 He continues to teach students at various universities including the Catholic University of America 32 Criticism Edit Libeskind s building for the London Metropolitan University has been the subject of criticism While much of Libeskind s work has been well received it has also been the subject of often severe criticism 33 Critics often describe Libeskind s work as deconstructivist 34 Critics charge that it reflects a limited architectural vocabulary of jagged edges sharp angles and tortured geometries 35 that can fall into cliche and that it ignores location and context 36 In 2008 Los Angeles Times 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 37 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 35 In the UK magazine Building Design Owen Hatherley 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 38 William JR Curtis in Architectural Review called his Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre a pile up of Libeskindian cliches without sense form or meaning and wrote that his Hyundai Development Corporation Headquarters delivered a trite and noisy corporate message 36 In response Libeskind says he ignores critics How can I read them I have more important things to read 39 Work Edit Jewish Museum Berlin Germany World Trade Center Master Plan New York City US Felix Nussbaum Haus Osnabruck Germany Reflections at Keppel Bay Singapore Zlota 44 Warsaw Poland L Tower in Toronto Canada Bord Gais Energy Theatre Dublin Ireland Bord Gais Theatre Dublin Ireland Studio Weil Mallorca Spain Denver Art Museum Denver Colorado US Ko Bogen Dusseldorf Germany Ko Bogen Dusseldorf Germany Crystals at CityCenter Las Vegas Nevada US Interior at Crystals at CityCenter Las Vegas Nevada US Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco California US PWC tower CityLife Milan Italy CityLife Residences Milan Italy Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics at Durham University Durham England National Holocaust Monument Ottawa Canada Vanke Pavilion Expo 2015 Milan Italy Imperial War Museum North Trafford Manchester EnglandThe 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 Edit Jewish Museum Berlin 1999 1989 2001 Jewish Museum Berlin Berlin Germany 1995 1998 Felix Nussbaum Haus Osnabruck Germany 1997 2001 Imperial War Museum North Greater Manchester England United Kingdom 1998 2008 Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco California United States 2000 2003 Studio Weil Majorca Spain 2000 2006 Extension to the Denver Art Museum Frederic C Hamilton Building Denver Colorado United States 2000 2006 Denver Art Museum Residences Denver Colorado United States 2000 2008 Westside Shopping and Leisure Centre Bern Switzerland 2001 2003 Danish Jewish Museum Copenhagen Denmark 2001 2004 London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre London England United Kingdom 2001 2005 The Wohl Centre Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan Israel 2002 2007 Michael Lee Chin Crystal extension to Royal Ontario Museum and renovation of ten of its existing galleries Toronto Ontario Canada 2003 2005 Tangent Facade for Hyundai Development Corporation Headquarters Seoul South Korea 2004 2005 Memoria e Luce 9 11 Memorial Padua Italy 2004 2007 Glass Courtyard addition to the Jewish Museum Berlin Berlin Germany The Ascent at Roebling s Bridge 2008 Covington Kentucky 2004 2008 The Ascent at Roebling s Bridge residential condominium building Covington Kentucky United States 2005 2009 MGM Mirage s CityCenter retail and public space on the Las Vegas Strip Paradise Nevada 2004 2010 Grand Canal Square Grand Canal Theatre and Commercial Development Dublin Ireland 2010 Wheel of Conscience monument M S St Louis Memorial Pier 21 Halifax Canada Military History Museum 2010 Dresden 2001 2011 Military History Museum Dresden Germany 2002 2011 Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre 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 Connecticut United States 2007 2011 Haeundae I Park Marina skyscraper complex Busan South Korea 2009 Libeskind Villa prefab smart house Rheinzink GmbH amp Co KG Global Headquarters Datteln Germany 2010 2012 Jewish Museum Berlin Academy in the Eric F Ross Building academy Berlin Germany 2009 2013 Ko Bogen Konigsallee Dusseldorf 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 amp Liberators Memorial Columbus Ohio 2014 2015 Life Electric sculpture Como Italy 2015 Vanke Pavilion sculpture Milan Italy 40 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 Berlin Germany 2007 2017 Zlota 44 residential tower Warsaw Poland 2011 2017 Main building and auditorium Leuphana University of Luneburg Luneburg Germany 2015 2017 Odgen Centre for Fundamental Physics at Durham University Durham England 41 National Holocaust Monument 2017 Ottawa2014 2017 National Holocaust Monument Ottawa Canada 2011 2018 Zhang Zhidong Museum Wuhan China 2017 2018 MO Museum Vilnius Lithuania 2013 2019 Century Spire Manila Philippines 2018 2021 Tampere Deck Arena Tampere FinlandUnder construction Edit 2004 2020 CityLife Milan masterplan Milan Italy 2015 2019 CityLife Milan Tower Milan Italy 42 2012 2021 Lotte Mall Songdo amp Officetel Songdo South Korea 2012 2020 Amsterdam Holocaust Memorial Amsterdam Netherlands 2017 2020 Verve Frankfurt Germany 2017 2020 East Thiers Station Nice France 2017 2023 Tampere Central Arena Tampere Finland 2018 2023 Atrium at Sumner Brooklyn New York US 2019 2023 Artery Vilnius Lithuania 43 44 Proposed or in design Edit 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 restoration Vilnius Lithuania 45 2017 2022 Occitanie Tower Toulouse 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 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 2022 Boerentoren crown Antwerp BelgiumLibeskind design products Edit The Wings sculpture in Munich 2007 Royal Ontario Museum Spirit House Chair Nienkamper Toronto Canada 2009 Tea Set Sawaya amp Moroni 2009 Denver Door Handle Olivari 2011 eL Masterpiece Zumtobel Group Sawaya amp Moroni 2012 Torq Armchair and Table Sawaya amp Moroni 2012 Zohar Street Lamp Zumtobel Group 2012 The Idea Door 1 amp 2 TRE Piu 2013 The Wing Mirror Fiam 2013 Flow Jacuzzi 2013 Paragon Lamp Artemide 2013 Nina Door Handle Olivari 2014 Ice Glass Installation 46 2016 Water Tower Alessi 2016 Gemma Collection Moroso 2016 Swarovski Chess Set Swarovski 2017 Cordoba light Slamp 2017 Dining and side Table Citco 2019 Boaz Chair Wilde SpiethAwards and recognition EditFirst architect to win the Hiroshima Art Prize awarded to an artist whose work promotes international understanding and peace 2001 47 In 2003 he received the Leo Baeck Medal for his humanitarian work promoting tolerance and social justice 48 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 American Institute of Architects 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 honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Art from University of Ulster in recognition of his outstanding services to global architecture and design 2009 49 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 National Arts Club 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 U S Department of State 2004 50 Honorary member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London England 2004 Man of the Year Award from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2004 Goethe Medal for cultural contribution by the Goethe Institute 2000 Time magazine Best of 1998 Design Awards for the Felix Nussbaum Haus 1998 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters 1996 Venice Biennale First Prize Stone Lion Award for Palmanova Project 1985 National Endowment for the Arts Design Arts Grant for Studies in Architecture 1983 American Institute of Architects Medal for Highest Scholastic Achievement 1970 Personal life EditLibeskind met Nina Lewis his future wife and business partner at the Bundist run Camp Hemshekh in upstate New York in 1966 They married a few years later and instead of a traditional honeymoon traveled across the US visiting Frank Lloyd Wright buildings on a Cooper Union fellowship 51 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 51 He is both a U S and Israeli citizen 52 Nina and Daniel Libeskind have three children Lev Noam and Rachel 53 Bibliography EditDaniel Libeskind Countersign 1992 ISBN 0 8478 1478 5 Daniel Libeskind Radix Matrix 1997 ISBN 3 7913 1727 X Jewish Museum Berlin with Helene Binet 1999 ISBN 90 5701 252 9 Daniel Libeskind The Space of Encounter 2001 ISBN 978 0789304834 Daniel Libeskind 2001 ISBN 0 7893 0496 1 Breaking Ground 2004 ISBN 1 57322 292 5 Counterpoint 2008 ISBN 1 58093 206 1 In the Unlikeliest of Places How Nachman Libeskind Survived the Nazis Gulags and Soviet Communism 2014 Annette Libeskind Berkovits foreword by Daniel Libeskind ISBN 978 1 77112 0661 Edge of Order 2018 ISBN 978 0451497352 References Edit Libeskind Daniel 2004 Breaking Ground New York Riverhead Books p 88 ISBN 1 57322 292 5 Rochan Lisa February 28 2003 updated April 16 2018 Libeskind shows genius for complexity The Globe and Mail Retrieved July 5 2019 Projects Archived from the original on May 11 2008 Retrieved June 12 2008 Exhibitions Archived from the original on May 11 2008 Retrieved July 29 2008 Marek Michael February 18 2010 Architect Libeskind took unusual path to an international career Deutsche Welle dw com Retrieved July 5 2019 Hiroshi Sugimoto Daniel Libeskind The Conversation press release Royal Ontario Museum May 22 2007 Archived from the original on April 2 2012 Retrieved July 5 2019 Breaking Ground An Immigrant s Journey from Poland to Ground Zero By Daniel Libeskind Libeskind Daniel 2004 Breaking Ground New York Riverhead Books pp 11 10 35 ISBN 1 57322 292 5 a b Studio Daniel Libeskind Daniel Libeskind Retrieved June 12 2008 a b Urban Warriors The New Yorker September 8 2003 Retrieved September 1 2021 Libeskind Daniel 2004 Breaking Ground New York Riverhead Books p 41 ISBN 1 57322 292 5 History Cranbrook Academy of Art September 11 2018 Yu Myung hee 2007 Daniel Libeskind OPUS 1946 present South Korea I Park p 34 ISBN 978 1 57322 292 1 Pearman Hugh August 1 1998 Walls hold back the forgetting Zeitgeist pp 26 27 Hooper John Connolly Kate September 8 2001 Empty museum evokes suffering of Jews The Guardian Retrieved July 19 2018 Voices on Antisemitism interview with Daniel Libeskind United States Holocaust Memorial Museum September 13 2007 Archived from the original on December 1 2010 Dupre Judith 2016 One World Trade Center Biography of the Building First ed New York ISBN 978 0 316 33631 4 OCLC 871319123 Leading architect Daniel Libeskind talks on how buildings are associated with commemoration Oxford Brookes University Fiam Daniel Libeskind Fiamitalia it Archived from the original on April 18 2017 Retrieved March 13 2017 daniel libeskind structures paragon table lamp for artemide Designboom com April 9 2013 Retrieved March 13 2017 Jacuzzi and Daniel Libeskind together at Fuorisalone 2013 Jacuzzi co uk Archived from the original on November 7 2017 Retrieved March 13 2017 Idea TreP TrePiu in Italian Archived from the original on July 23 2015 Olivari B Daniel Libeskind archive is June 16 2013 Archived from the original on June 16 2013 Sawaya amp Moroni Sawayamoroni com Retrieved March 13 2017 Poltrona Frau Pfgroupcontract com Retrieved March 13 2017 Articles Daniel Libeskind Atelier Swarovski atelierswarovski com Retrieved July 19 2018 Daniel Libeskind Exhibits Six New Design Objects At Salone Del Mobile Architizer com April 12 2013 Retrieved March 13 2017 Daniel Libeskind Polderland Garden of Love and Fire 1997 landartflevoland nl Retrieved July 19 2018 Davies Colin Fishing From the Pavement Book Reviews The Architectural Review April 1998 Libeskind s Machines Lebbeus Woods November 24 2009 Retrieved September 1 2021 Historical Archives Gli Archi di Aldo Rossi La Biennale di Venezia June 13 2017 Retrieved September 1 2021 Hines Mary McCarthy Students Learn from Master Architect Daniel Libeskind The Catholic University of America Retrieved September 1 2021 Kyle MacMillian Pro Libeskind forces fire back The Denver Post Retrieved March 13 2017 Erbacher Doris and Kubitz Peter Paul You appear to have something against right angles The Guardian October 11 2007 a b Nicolai Ouroussof October 12 2006 A Razor Sharp Profile Cuts Into a Mile High Cityscape The New York Times Retrieved March 13 2017 a b Curtis William Jr September 21 2011 Daniel Libeskind 1946 Thinkpiece Architectural Review Retrieved March 13 2017 Slash and yearn Los Angeles Times June 4 2008 Retrieved March 13 2017 Hatherley Owen November 7 2013 Whatever happened to student housing Analysis Building Design Retrieved March 13 2017 Daniel Libeskind I m not interested in building gleaming streets for despots Architects Journal June 20 2013 Archived from the original on June 20 2013 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link Rago Danielle May 26 2015 Detail The Tiles of Studio Libeskind s Vanke Pavilion Architect Magazine Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics Durham RIBAJ ribaj com Libeskind Tower now under construction after the completion of Isozaki and Zaha Hadid s projects Archived from the original on November 7 2017 Retrieved November 6 2017 Downtown Tower Libeskind Libeskind Retrieved October 6 2018 K18B A Class Office and Radisson RED Lifestyle Hotel Complex Vilnius MIPIM2018 Vilnius MIPIM2018 Archived from the original on October 7 2018 Retrieved October 6 2018 Peres invited to advise on restoration of Vilnius synagogue Times of Israel Lasvit glass installations sculptures and design lighting Lasvit com Retrieved March 13 2017 General Description of the Hiroshima Art Prize Archived from the original on September 19 2008 Retrieved August 3 2008 Daniel Libeskind April 8 2015 University of Ulster Honours World Leading Architect Daniel Libeskind Archived April 5 2012 at the Wayback Machine University of Ulster News Release November 11 2009 Document not found July 10 2011 Archived from the original on July 10 2011 a b Davidson Justin October 8 2007 The Liberation of Daniel Libeskind New York pp 56 64 See Frequent Flyer When the Wife is a Lucky Charm Don t Leave Home Without Her The New York Times Tuesday August 9 2011 p B6 Jewish Museum Berlin Daniel Libeskind Archived from the original on October 13 2007 Retrieved February 25 2009 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Daniel Libeskind Official website 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 Daniel Libeskind at TED 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 Unbuilding Walls Libeskind interviewed by Graft Architects Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Daniel Libeskind amp oldid 1128916005, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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