Daniel Libeskind - Definition and Overview

The aluminium clad east face of the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester.

The Jewish Museum in Berlin

Daniel Libeskind, born May 12, 1946 in Lódź, Poland, the son of Holocaust survivors, is an architect who became a U.S. citizen in 1965. He is a 1965 alumnus of The Bronx High School of Science. 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)
• '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.
• major renovations to the Hummingbird Centre in Toronto

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)