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in Manchester.]] 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
- '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 Museum of Art (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.
External links
- Biography (on Libeskind homepage)
- Projects list (on Libeskind homepage)
- "Architecture is a communicative art" Lecture by Daniel Libeskind
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