Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind was born in Lodz, Poland in 1946. He came to the United States in 1959, becoming a citizen in 1965. His career began as a teacher and theorist of architecture. However, beginning in 1987 with the City Edge Project in Berlin, Libeskind has become better known for putting these theories into practice. His buildings include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Felix Nussbaum Museum in Osnabrück Germany, the Imperial War Museum in Manchester, England, the Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen, the Wohl Convention Center in Tel Aviv, the office tower for the Hyundai Development Corporation in Seoul 2005, and extensions to Canada’s Royal Ontario Museum and the Denver Art Museum. Perhaps his use of fragments, slashing lines, and sense of emptiness in these spaces made Libeskind the obvious choice for imagining a replacement to the World Trade Center in New York. The titles of his books tell the story of his architectural approach: Between Zero and Infinity (1981), Countersign (1992), The Space of Encounter (2001), and his memoir, Breaking Ground (2004).
