Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind in front of his extension to the Denver Art Museum.
Born May 12, 1946 (1946-05-12) (age 65)
Łódź, Poland
Nationality American
Work
Practice Studio Daniel Libeskind
Buildings

Jewish Museum Berlin

Imperial War Museum North
Contemporary Jewish Museum
Royal Ontario Museum (expansion)

Daniel Libeskind, (born May 12, 1946 in Lodz, Poland) is an American architect, artist, and set designer of Polish-Jewish descent. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect.[1] His buildings include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the extension to the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin, the Imperial War Museum North in Salford Quays, 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, and the Wohl Centre at the Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel.[2] 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.[3] On February 27, 2003, Libeskind won the competition to be the master plan architect for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan.[4]

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Personal life

Libeskind's addition to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto (2007).

Born in Łódź, Poland on May 12, 1946, 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.[5] That summer, the Libeskinds 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 Libeskind watched the original World Trade Center being built in the 1960s.[6]

Libeskind became a United States citizen in 1965.[7] In 1970, he received his professional architectural degree from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; he received a postgraduate degree in History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Comparative Studies at Essex University in 1972.

In 1968, Libeskind briefly worked as an apprentice to architect Richard Meier. In 1972, he was hired to work at Peter Eisenman's New York Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, but he quit almost immediately.[8]

Daniel 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 United States visiting Frank Lloyd Wright buildings on a Cooper Union fellowship.[9]

Since then, Libeskind has lived, among other places, in New York, Toronto, Michigan, Italy, Germany, and Los Angeles,[9] and has taught at numerous universities across the world, including the University of Kentucky, Yale University, and the University of Pennsylvania.[7] Since 2007, Libeskind is visiting professor at the Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany. He is both a U.S. and Israeli citizen[10].


Nina and Daniel Libeskind have three children, Lev, Noam and Rachel.[11]

Career

Though he had been an architectural theorist and professor for many years, Libeskind completed his first building at the age of 52, with the opening of the Felix Nussbaum Haus in 1998.[12] Prior to this, critics had dismissed his designs as "unbuildable or unduly assertive."[13] The first design competition that Libeskind won was in 1987 for housing in West Berlin, but soon thereafter the Berlin Wall fell and the project was canceled. Libeskind won the first four projects he entered into competition for.

The Jewish Museum Berlin, completed in 1999, was Libeskind's first major international success and was one of the first buildings designed after reunification. Libeskind has also designed cultural and commercial institutions, museums, concert halls, convention centers, universities, residences, hotels, and shopping centers. Critics often describe Libeskind's work as deconstructivist.[14]

Libeskind is perhaps most famous for being 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. He titled his concept for the site Memory Foundations.

Studio Daniel Libeskind, headquartered two blocks south of the World Trade Center site in New York, is currently working on over 40 projects across the world. The studio's most recent completed projects include the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, California, The Ascent at Roebling's Bridge in Covington, Kentucky, and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ontario.

In addition to his architectural projects, Libeskind also designs 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.[15]

Work

The following projects are listed on the Studio Daniel 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

Jewish Museum Berlin, 1999
Westside interior, 2008
London Metropolitan University, London
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, 2011

Under construction

Proposed/In Design

  • 2004–2010 New Center for Arts and Culture - Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • 2004–2014 CityLife (Milan) - Milan, Italy
  • 2005–? Edwards Condominiums, urban infill residential and commercial spaces - Edwards, Colorado, United States
  • 2006–? Ørestad Downtown Master Plan, urban development - just south of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2006–? Rejuvenation, Forest Heights Boys and Girls Club - Gulfport, Mississippi, United States
  • 2006–2011 Haeundae Udong Hyundai I'Park, five waterfront towers - Busan, South Korea
  • 2006–2013 New Songdo City, shopping mall, department store, cinema, ice rink, food court in Riverstone complex - Incheon, South Korea
  • 2004–2010 Editoriale Bresciana Tower, 23-story office and luxury apartment building - Brescia, Italy
  • 2007–2009 18.36.54, residence - Connecticut, United States
  • 2010–2013 Tampere Central Arena - Tampere, Finland
  • 2011–2015 Beth Shalom, liberal Synagogue - Munich, Germany
  • 2011–2015 Convention Center of Mons, Belgium

Unbuilt

Recognition

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Libeskind, Daniel (2004). Breaking Ground. New York: Riverhead Books. p. 88. ISBN 1-57322-292-5. 
  2. ^ Studio Daniel Libeskind. "Projects". http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/projects/show-all/. Retrieved June 12, 2008. 
  3. ^ Studio Daniel Libeskind. "Exhibitions". http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/studio/exhibitions/. Retrieved July 29, 2008. 
  4. ^ Rochan, Lisa. "Libeskind shows genius for complexity", "The Globe and Mail", February 28, 2003
  5. ^ Royal Ontario Museum. "Hiroshi Sugimoto-Daniel Libeskind: The Conversation". http://www.rom.on.ca/news/releases/public.php?mediakey=2zo8f8skvj. Retrieved June 12, 2008. 
  6. ^ Libeskind, Daniel (2004). Breaking Ground. New York: Riverhead Books. pp. 11, 10, 35. ISBN 1-57322-292-5. 
  7. ^ a b Studio Daniel Libeskind. "Studio Daniel Libeskind: Daniel Libeskind". http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/studio/daniel-libeskind/. Retrieved June 12, 2008. 
  8. ^ Libeskind, Daniel (2004). Breaking Ground. New York: Riverhead Books. p. 41. ISBN 1-57322-292-5. 
  9. ^ a b Davidson, Justin (October 8, 2007). "The Liberation of Daniel Libeskind". New York Magazine. pp. 56–64. 
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Jewish Museum Berlin. "Jewish Museum Berlin - Daniel Libeskind". Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071013202822/http://www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de/site/EN/05-About-The-Museum/03-Libeskind-Building/07-Libeskind/daniel-libeskind.php. Retrieved February 25, 2009. 
  12. ^ Yu, Myung-hee (2007). Daniel Libeskind. OPUS 1946-present. South Korea: I-Park. p. 34. ISBN 1-57322-292-5. 
  13. ^ Pearman, Hugh (July 27 - August 1, 1998). "Walls hold back the forgetting". Zeitgeist. pp. 26–27. 
  14. ^ Erbacher, Doris and Kubitz, Peter Paul. "'You appear to have something against right angles", "The Guardian", October 11, 2007
  15. ^ Davies, Colin. "Fishing From the Pavement – Book Reviews", "The Architectural Review", April 1998
  16. ^ Sinoo, Ola europe-re.com[dead link] "What's the Added Value of Architecture?", "Europe Real Estate Yearbook", 2008
  17. ^ Hiroshima City. "General Description of the Hiroshima Art Prize". http://www.city.hiroshima.jp/e/overview/add/hap/hap.html. Retrieved August 3, 2008. 
  18. ^ University of Ulster Honours World-Leading Architect Daniel Libeskind University of Ulster News Release, November 11, 2009

External links

The Libeskind papers, 1970–1992, are composed of architectural drawings, notebooks, sketches, models, letters, press clippings, transparencies and videotapes which document Libeskind's design for the Jewish Museum extension to the Berlin Museum (Jüdisches Museum im Berlin Museum), 1988–1992. Libeskind called this project Between the Lines. The archive also contains 14 other design projects (1970–1991), materials related to Libeskind's teaching at the Cranbrook Academy of Art (1978–1985), manuscripts for publications and lectures, and photographs and transparencies related to these activities.

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