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DANIEL LIBESKIND, B.Arch. M.A. BDA
Daniel Libeskind is an international figure in architectural practice and urban design. He is well-known for introducing a new critical discourse into architecture and for his multidisciplinary approach. His practice extends from building major cultural institutions including museums and concert halls, landscape and urban projects, to stage design, installations and exhibitions.
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Born in postwar Poland in 1946, Libeskind became an American citizen in 1965. Daniel Libeskind studied music in Israel (on the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship) and in New York becoming a virtuoso performer. He left music to study architecture receiving his professional architectural degree at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1970 in New York City and a postgraduate degree in History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Comparative Studies at Essex University in 1972. He is registered as an architect in Germany with the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA).
Daniel Libeskind won the competition for the Jewish Museum Berlin in 1989, which opened to the public in September 2001 to wide public acclaim. The city museum of Osnabrück, Germany, The Felix Nussbaum Haus, opened in July 1998. Most recently, in July 2002, the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester opened to the public. He is presently designing and constructing The Spiral Extension to the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Jewish Museum in San Francisco, U.S.A; the JVC University - Colleges of Public Administration, Education and Art & Architecture, Guadalajara, Mexico; Maurice Wohl Convention Centre, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv; Atelier Weil, a private atelier/gallery in Mallorca, Spain; a department store for developer Wohnbau Nordwest in Dresden, Germany, the largest shopping center in Europe outside of Bern, Switzerland for the developer MIGROS, the Extension to the Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, a post graduate student center for the London Metropolitan University and the Extension to the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. Most recently Studio Daniel Libeskind is one of the six design teams participating in the World Trade Center Design Study for which the decision is still pending.
Libeskind has taught and lectured at many universities worldwide. Currently he is the Frank O. Gehry Chair at the University of Toronto; a Professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany and the Cret Chair at the University of Pennsylvania. He was appointed a member of the European Academy of Arts and Letters, and has been the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the 2001 Hiroshima Art Prize, the first architect so awarded, an award given to an artist whose work promotes international understanding and peace. He was awarded the 1999 Deutsche Architekturpreis (German Architecture Prize) for the Jewish Museum Berlin; also the 2000 Goethe Medaillon for cultural contribution; in 1996 the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Architecture and in the same year the Berlin Cultural Prize; in 1997 an Honorary Doctorate from Humboldt Universität, Berlin; also in 1999 an Honorary Doctorate from the College of Arts and Humanities, Essex University, England; and most recently in 2002 an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Edingburgh and an Honorary Dorctorate from DePaul University, Chicago. His work has been exhibited extensively in major museums and galleries around the world and has also been the subject of numerous international publications in many languages. His ideas have influenced a new generation of architects and those interested in the future development of cities and culture.
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