Editing Daniel Libeskind

{{short description|American architect}}
{{Infobox architect
| name = Daniel Libeskind
| image = Daniel Libeskind 2011.jpg
| caption = Libeskind in front of his extension to the [[Bundeswehr Military History Museum]] in [[Dresden]], 2011
| nationality =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1946|05|12}}
| birth_place = [[Łódź]], Poland
| death_date = 
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| spouse = {{marriage|Nina Lewis Libeskind|1969}}
| children = 3
| alma_mater = [[The Cooper Union]]<br />[[University of Essex]]
| practice = Studio Daniel Libeskind
| significant_buildings = [[Felix Nussbaum Haus]]<br />[[Jewish Museum Berlin]]<br />[[Imperial War Museum North]]<br />[[Contemporary Jewish Museum]]<br />[[Royal Ontario Museum]] (expansion)<br />[[One World Trade Center]] (2002) <br /> [[The Ascent at Roebling's Bridge]]
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| awards = 
| relatives = [[David Lewis (Canadian politician)|David Lewis]] (father-in-law) <br> [[Stephen Lewis]] (brother-in-law) <br> [[Avi Lewis]] (nephew)
| website = {{URL|https://libeskind.com/}}
}}

'''Daniel Libeskind''' (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor and [[set designer]]. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect.<ref>{{cite book |last=Libeskind |first=Daniel |title=Breaking Ground |publisher=[[Riverhead Books]] |location=New York |year=2004 |page=[https://archive.org/details/breakinggroundad00libe/page/88 88] |isbn=1-57322-292-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/breakinggroundad00libe/page/88}}</ref>

He is known for the design and completion of the [[Jewish Museum Berlin|Jewish Museum]] in Berlin, Germany, that opened in 2001.  On February 27, 2003, Libeskind received further international attention after he won the competition to be the master plan architect for the [[World Trade Center (2001–present)|reconstruction]] of the [[World Trade Center site]] in [[Lower Manhattan]].<ref>Rochan, Lisa (February 28, 2003; updated April 16, 2018).  "[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/libeskind-shows-genius-for-complexity/article18284577/ Libeskind shows genius for complexity]". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]''. Retrieved July 5, 2019.</ref>

Other buildings that he is known for include the extension to the [[Denver Art Museum]] in the United States, the [[Grand Canal Theatre]] in [[Dublin]], the [[Imperial War Museum North]] in [[Greater Manchester]], 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, [[Reflections at Keppel Bay|Reflections]] in Singapore and the [[Wohl Centre]] at the [[Bar-Ilan University]] in [[Ramat Gan]], Israel.<ref>{{cite web |title=Projects |url=http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/projects/show-all/ |access-date=June 12, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511162240/http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/projects/show-all/ |archive-date=May 11, 2008}}</ref> 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 Archive]]s, the [[Art Institute of Chicago]], and the [[Centre Pompidou]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/studio/exhibitions/ |access-date=July 29, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511204601/http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/studio/exhibitions/ |archive-date=May 11, 2008}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Born in [[Łódź]], Poland, 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 [[Telewizja Polska|Polish television]] in 1953. He won a [[America Israel Cultural Foundation]] scholarship in 1959 and played alongside a young [[Itzhak Perlman]]. Libeskind lived in Poland for 11 years and says "I can still speak, read and write Polish."<ref name="Dw">{{cite news |last=Marek |first=Michael |date=February 18, 2010 |title=Architect Libeskind took unusual path to an international career |publisher=[[Deutsche Welle]]. dw.com |url=https://www.dw.com/en/architect-libeskind-took-unusual-path-to-an-international-career/a-5238598 |access-date=July 5, 2019}}</ref>

In 1957, the Libeskinds moved to Kibbutz Gvat, Israel and then to Tel Aviv before moving to New York in 1959.<ref>{{cite web |date=May 22, 2007 |title=Hiroshi Sugimoto-Daniel Libeskind: The Conversation |url=http://www.rom.on.ca/news/releases/public.php?mediakey=2zo8f8skvj |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402212205/http://www.rom.on.ca/news/releases/public.php?mediakey=2zo8f8skvj |archive-date=April 2, 2012 |access-date=July 5, 2019 |publisher=Royal Ontario Museum |type=press release}}</ref> In his autobiography, ''Breaking Ground: An Immigrant's Journey from Poland to Ground Zero'', Libeskind spoke of how the kibbutz experience influenced his concern for green architecture.<ref>Breaking Ground: An Immigrant's Journey from Poland to Ground Zero  By Daniel Libeskind</ref>

In the summer of 1959, his family 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 [[printing|print]] shop where his father worked was on Stone Street in [[Lower Manhattan]], and he watched the original World Trade Center being built in the 1960s.<ref>{{cite book |last=Libeskind |first=Daniel |url=https://archive.org/details/breakinggroundad00libe/page/11 |title=Breaking Ground |publisher=[[Riverhead Books]] |year=2004 |isbn=1-57322-292-5 |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/breakinggroundad00libe/page/11 11, 10, 35]}}</ref> Libeskind became a United States citizen in 1965.<ref name="Studio Daniel Libeskind" />

Daniel Libeskind was accepted at [[Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art]] and began school there in 1965 where he was taught by [[John Hejduk]] and received his [[Bachelor of Architecture|professional architectural degree]] in 1970.<ref name=":0">{{Cite magazine |date=September 8, 2003 |title=Urban Warriors |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/09/15/urban-warriors |access-date=September 1, 2021 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |language=en-US}}</ref> In 1968, Libeskind briefly worked as an apprentice to architect [[Richard Meier]].<ref name=":0" />  He  received a postgraduate degree in history and [[Architectural theory|theory of architecture]] at the School of Comparative Studies at the [[University of Essex]] in 1972. The same year, he was hired to work at [[Peter Eisenman]]'s New York [[The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies|Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies]], but he quit almost immediately.<ref>{{cite book |last=Libeskind |first=Daniel |url=https://archive.org/details/breakinggroundad00libe/page/41 |title=Breaking Ground |publisher=[[Riverhead Books]] |year=2004 |isbn=1-57322-292-5 |location=New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/breakinggroundad00libe/page/41 41]}}</ref>

==Career==
Libeskind began his career as an architectural theorist and professor, holding positions at various institutions around the world.  From 1978 to 1985, Libeskind was the director of the Architecture Department at [[Cranbrook Academy of Art]] in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cranbrookart.edu/about/history/ |title=History - Cranbrook Academy of Art |date=September 11, 2018}}</ref> His practical architectural career began in Milan in the late 1980s, where he submitted to architectural competitions and also founded and directed Architecture Intermundium, Institute for Architecture & Urbanism.  
[[File:Asymmetrische Fenster.JPG|thumb|[[Felix Nussbaum Haus]] (1998),  [[Osnabrück]], Germany]]
Libeskind completed his first building at the age of 52, with the opening of the [[Felix Nussbaum Haus]] in Osnabrück, Germany in 1998.<ref>{{cite book |title=Daniel Libeskind. OPUS 1946-present |last=Yu |first=Myung-hee |publisher=[[I-Park]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-57322-292-1 |location=South Korea |page=[https://archive.org/details/breakinggroundad00libe/page/34 34] |url=https://archive.org/details/breakinggroundad00libe/page/34}}</ref> Prior to this, critics had dismissed his designs as "unbuildable or unduly assertive".<ref>{{cite news |title=Walls hold back the forgetting |last=Pearman |first=Hugh |date=August 1, 1998 |publisher=Zeitgeist |pages=26–27}}</ref> In 1987, Libeskind won his first design competition for housing in West Berlin, but the [[Berlin Wall]] fell shortly thereafter and the project was cancelled. Libeskind won the first four project competitions he entered including the Jewish Museum Berlin in 1989, which became the first museum dedicated to the Holocaust in WWII and opened to the public in 2001 with international acclaim.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/08/johnhooper.kateconnolly |title=Empty museum evokes suffering of Jews |last1=Hooper |first1=John |last2=Connolly |first2=Kate |date=September 8, 2001 |website=The Guardian |language=en |access-date=July 19, 2018}}</ref>  This was his first major international success and was one of the first building modifications designed after [[German reunification|reunification]].  A glass courtyard was designed by Libeskind and added in 2007.  The Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin also designed by Libeskind was completed in 2012.
[[File:ROMCrystal3.jpg|thumb|Libeskind's addition to the [[Royal Ontario Museum]] in Toronto (2007)]]
Libeskind was selected by the [[Lower Manhattan Development Corporation]] to oversee the rebuilding of the [[World Trade Center (2001&ndash;present)|World Trade Center]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/antisemitism/voices/transcript/index.php?content=20070913 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201150641/http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/antisemitism/voices/transcript/index.php?content=20070913 |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 1, 2010 |title=Voices on Antisemitism interview with Daniel Libeskind |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |date=September 13, 2007}}</ref> which was destroyed in the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]].  The concept for the site, which he titled [[Memory Foundations]], was well-received upon its presentation to the public in 2003, although it was ultimately changed significantly before its execution.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dupré |first=Judith |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/871319123 |title=One World Trade Center: Biography of the Building |date=2016 |isbn=978-0-316-33631-4 |edition=First |location=New York |oclc=871319123}}</ref> He was the first architect to win the Hiroshima Art Prize, awarded to an artist whose work promotes international understanding and peace.  Many of his projects look at the deep cultural connections between memory and architecture.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/news/leading-architect-daniel-libeskind-talks-on-how-buildings-are-associated-with-commemoration/ |title=Leading architect Daniel Libeskind talks on how buildings are associated with commemoration |website=Oxford Brookes University |access-date=2019-06-25 |archive-date=2022-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012102237/https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/news/leading-architect-daniel-libeskind-talks-on-how-buildings-are-associated-with-commemoration/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Studio Daniel Libeskind is headquartered two blocks south of the [[World Trade Center site]] in New York. He has designed numerous cultural and commercial institutions, museums, concert halls, convention centers, universities, residences, hotels, and shopping centers. The studio's most recent completed projects include the [[MO Museum]] in Vilnius, Lithuania; Zlota 44, a high-rise residential tower in Warsaw, Poland; the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics at [[Durham University Department of Physics|Durham University]] in Durham, England; the [[National Holocaust Monument]] in Ottawa, Canada; and Corals at Keppel Bay in Singapore, adjacent to the studio's previous completed project [[Reflections at Keppel Bay|Reflections]] at Keppel Bay.

=== Design objects ===
In addition to his architectural projects, Libeskind has worked with a number of international design firms to develop objects, furniture, and industrial fixtures for interiors of buildings. He has been commissioned to work with design companies such as Fiam,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fiamitalia.it/en/designers/67.aspx |title=Fiam - Daniel Libeskind |website=Fiamitalia.it |access-date=March 13, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418200115/http://www.fiamitalia.it/en/designers/67.aspx |archive-date=April 18, 2017}}</ref> [[Artemide]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.designboom.com/design/daniel-libeskind-paragon-table-lamp-for-artemide/ |title=daniel libeskind structures paragon table lamp for artemide |website=Designboom.com |date=April 9, 2013 |access-date=March 13, 2017}}</ref> [[Jacuzzi]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jacuzzi.co.uk/news/daniel%20libeskind |title=Jacuzzi® and Daniel Libeskind together at Fuorisalone 2013 |website=Jacuzzi.co.uk |access-date=March 13, 2017 |archive-date=November 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107061452/https://www.jacuzzi.co.uk/news/daniel%20libeskind |url-status=dead }}</ref> TreP-Tre-Piu,<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723085215/http://www.trep-trepiu.com/linee2.aspx?IDC=2309 |url=http://www.trep-trepiu.com/linee2.aspx?IDC=2309 |title=Idea |website=- TreP-TrePiù |language=it |archive-date=July 23, 2015}}</ref> Oliviari,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olivari.org/main/designer.aspx?d=4&lang=EN |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130616003808/http://www.olivari.org/main/designer.aspx?d=4&lang=EN |url-status=dead |title=Olivari B. - Daniel Libeskind |date=June 16, 2013 |archive-date=June 16, 2013 |website=archive.is}}</ref> Sawaya & Moroni,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sawayamoroni.com/ |title=Sawaya & Moroni |website=Sawayamoroni.com |access-date=March 13, 2017}}</ref> Poltrona Frau,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pfgroupcontract.com/en/contract_division/architect_leaf/126 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420120522/http://www.pfgroupcontract.com/en/contract_division/architect_leaf/126 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=April 20, 2013 |title=Poltrona Frau |website=Pfgroupcontract.com |access-date=March 13, 2017}}</ref> Swarovski,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.atelierswarovski.com/articles/Daniel-Libeskind |title=Articles - Daniel Libeskind {{!}} Atelier Swarovski|website=atelierswarovski.com|language=en|access-date=July 19, 2018}}</ref> and others.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/82881/daniel-libeskind-exhibits-six-new-design-objects-at-salone-del-mobile/#.UZuzDbVOR8E |title=Daniel Libeskind Exhibits Six New Design Objects At Salone Del Mobile |website=Architizer.com |date=April 12, 2013 |access-date=March 13, 2017}}</ref>

=== Sculpture and installations ===
Libeskind's design projects also include sculpture.  Several sculptures built in the early 1990s were based on the explorations of his Micromegas and Chamberworks drawings series that he did in the late 1970s and early 1980s.  The Polderland Garden of Love and Fire in Almere, Netherlands is a permanent installation completed in 1997 and restored on October 4, 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.landartflevoland.nl/permanent-installations/daniel-libeskind-polderland-garden-of-love-and-fire-1997/ |title=Daniel Libeskind: Polderland Garden of Love and Fire (1997) |website=landartflevoland.nl |language=en |access-date=July 19, 2018 |archive-date=July 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190731104548/http://www.landartflevoland.nl/permanent-installations/daniel-libeskind-polderland-garden-of-love-and-fire-1997/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Later in his career, Libeskind designed the [[Life Electric]] sculpture that was completed in 2015 on Lake Como, Italy. This sculpture is dedicated to the physicist [[Alessandro Volta]].

=== Opera and verse ===
Libeskind has designed [[opera]] sets for productions such as the [[Nationaltheatret|Norwegian National Theatre]]'s ''The Architect'' in 1998 and [[Theater Saarbrücken|Saarländisches Staatstheater]]'s ''[[Tristan und Isolde]]'' in 2001. He also designed the sets and costumes for ''[[Intolleranza 1960|Intolleranza]]'' by [[Luigi Nono (composer)|Luigi Nono]] and for a production of [[Olivier Messiaen|Messiaen's]] ''[[Saint François d'Assise|Saint Francis of Assisi]]'' by [[Deutsche Oper Berlin]]. He has also written [[free verse]] prose, included in his book ''Fishing from the Pavement''.<ref>Davies, Colin. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3575/is_n1214_v203/ai_20901459 "Fishing From the Pavement – Book Reviews"], "The Architectural Review", April 1998</ref>

== Academia ==
Daniel Libeskind was the Head of Architecture at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan from 1978-1985.  During his tenure at Cranbrook he explored various themes of space, influenced by theorists like Derrida and he was part of the leading avant-garde in architecture and academia. He produced several writings, artworks and large-scale explorations, including the Reading Machine, Writing Machine and Memory Machine.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 24, 2009 |title=Libeskind's Machines |url=https://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/libeskinds-machines/ |access-date=September 1, 2021 |website=Lebbeus Woods |language=en}}</ref>   The machines called the ''Three Lessons in Architecture'' were displayed at the Venice Biennale in 1985 where Libeskind also won a Stone Lion award.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 13, 2017 |title=Historical Archives {{!}} Gli Archi di Aldo Rossi|url=https://www.labiennale.org/en/asac/activities/gli-archi-di-aldo-rossi|access-date=September 1, 2021|website=La Biennale di Venezia|language=en}}</ref>  Libeskind has taught at numerous universities across the world, including the [[University of Kentucky]], [[Yale University]], UCLA, Harvard, the University of London, and the [[University of Pennsylvania]].<ref name="Studio Daniel Libeskind">{{cite web |title=Studio Daniel Libeskind: Daniel Libeskind |url=http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/studio/daniel-libeskind/ |access-date=June 12, 2008}}</ref> He continues to teach students at various universities including the Catholic University of America.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hines |first=Mary McCarthy |title=Students Learn from Master Architect Daniel Libeskind |url=https://communications.catholic.edu//news/spotlight/master-architect.html |access-date=September 1, 2021 |website=The Catholic University of America |language=en}}</ref>

==Criticism==
[[File:Libeskind LonMetUni.jpg|thumb|Libeskind's building for the [[London Metropolitan University]] has been the subject of criticism.]]
While much of Libeskind's work has been well-received, it has also been the subject of often severe criticism.<ref>{{cite news |author=Kyle MacMillian |url=http://www.denverpost.com/ci_5139329 |title=Pro-Libeskind forces fire back |newspaper=[[The Denver Post]] |access-date=March 13, 2017}}</ref> Critics often describe Libeskind's work as [[deconstructivist]].<ref>Erbacher, Doris and Kubitz, Peter Paul. [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2007/oct/11/architecture "'You appear to have something against right angles"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', October 11, 2007</ref>  Critics charge that it reflects a limited architectural vocabulary of jagged edges, sharp angles and tortured geometries,<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news |author=Nicolai Ouroussof |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/12/arts/design/12libe.html |title=A Razor-Sharp Profile Cuts Into a Mile-High Cityscape |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 12, 2006 |access-date=March 13, 2017}}</ref> that can fall into cliche, and that it ignores location and context.<ref name="architectural-review.com">{{cite web | last=Curtis | first=William Jr. |url=http://www.architectural-review.com/reviews/reputations/daniel-libeskind/8620025.article |title=Daniel Libeskind (1946- ) &#124; Thinkpiece |website=Architectural Review |date=September 21, 2011 |access-date=March 13, 2017}}</ref> In 2008 ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' critic [[Christopher Hawthorne (journalist)|Christopher Hawthorne]] wrote: "Anyone looking for signs that Daniel Libeskind's work might deepen profoundly over time, or shift in some surprising direction, has mostly been doing so in vain."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-04-et-jewish4-story.html |title=Slash and yearn |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=June 4, 2008 |access-date=March 13, 2017}}</ref> [[Nicolai Ouroussoff]] stated in ''The New York Times'' in 2006: "His worst buildings, like a 2002 war museum in England suggesting the shards of a fractured globe, can seem like a caricature of his own aesthetic."<ref name="nytimes.com" /> In the UK magazine ''[[Building Design]]'', [[Owen Hatherley]] wrote of Libeskind's students' union for [[London Metropolitan University]]: "All of its vaulting, aggressive gestures were designed to 'put London Met on the map', and to give an image of fearless modernity with, however, little of consequence."<ref>{{cite web |last=Hatherley |first=Owen |url=http://www.bdonline.co.uk/whatever-happened-to-student-housing?/5063213.article |title=Whatever happened to student housing? &#124; Analysis |website=[[Building Design]] |date=November 7, 2013 |access-date=March 13, 2017}}</ref> William JR Curtis in ''Architectural Review'' called his Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre "a pile-up of Libeskindian clichés without sense, form or meaning" and wrote that his Hyundai Development Corporation Headquarters delivered "a trite and noisy corporate message".<ref name="architectural-review.com" />

In response, Libeskind says he ignores critics: "How can I read them? I have more important things to read."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/daniel-libeskind-im-not-interested-in-building-gleaming-streets-for-despots/8643134.article |title=Daniel Libeskind: 'I'm not interested in building gleaming streets for despots' |work=[[Architects' Journal]] |date=June 20, 2013 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620085940/http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/daniel-libeskind-im-not-interested-in-building-gleaming-streets-for-despots/8643134.article |archive-date=June 20, 2013}}</ref>
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==Work==
<gallery>
File:JewishMuseumBerlinAerial.jpg|Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany
File:FelixNussbaumHaus.jpg|Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabruck, Germany
File:Reflections at Keppel Bay.JPG|Reflections at Keppel Bay, Singapore
File:2021 Złota 44 z PKiN.jpg|Zlota 44, Warsaw, Poland
File:L Tower in April 2016.jpg|L Tower in Toronto, Canada
File:Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin.jpg|Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
File:Bord Gais Theatre TEDxDublin.jpg|Bord Gais Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
File:Studio Weil Sculptures.JPG|Studio Weil, Mallorca, Spain
File:Denver Art Museum.JPG|Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, US
File:Kö-Bogen Düsseldorf.jpg|Kö-Bogen Düsseldorf, Germany
File:Kö-Bogen Düsseldorf, Dezember 2013 DSC05573.JPG|Kö-Bogen Düsseldorf, Germany
File:Crystals - Exterior East - 2010-03-06.JPG|Crystals at CityCenter, Las Vegas, Nevada, US
File:Crystals - Interior02 - 2010-03-06.JPG|Interior at Crystals at CityCenter, Las Vegas, Nevada, US
File:Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco (16870725773).jpg|Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California, US
File:Libeskind Tower Il Curvo.jpg|PWC tower, CityLife, Milan, Italy
File:CityLife Recidences Libeskind (17383220121).jpg|CityLife Residences, Milan, Italy
File:Ogden Centre (geograph 5908287).jpg|Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics at Durham University, Durham, England
File:Ntl Holocaust Monument 2.jpg|National Holocaust Monument, Ottawa, Canada
File:EXPO 2015 Milan (21622848366).jpg|Vanke Pavilion, Expo 2015, Milan, Italy
File:Imperial War Museum 2008cropped.jpg|Imperial War Museum North, Trafford, Manchester, England
</gallery>

The following projects are listed on the Studio 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===
[[File:JewishMuseumBerlin.jpg|thumb|[[Jewish Museum Berlin]] (1999)]]
* 1989–2001 [[Jewish Museum Berlin]] – [[Berlin]], Germany
* 1995–1998 [[Felix Nussbaum Haus]] – [[Osnabrück]], Germany
* 1997–2001 [[Imperial War Museum North]] – [[Greater Manchester]], England, United Kingdom
* 1998–2008 [[Contemporary Jewish Museum]] – San Francisco, California, United States
* 2000–2003 [[Barbara Weil#Studio Weil|Studio Weil]] – [[Majorca]], Spain
* 2000–2006 Extension to the [[Denver Art Museum]], Frederic C. Hamilton Building – [[Denver, Colorado|Denver]], [[Colorado]], United States
* 2000–2006 Denver Art Museum Residences – [[Denver, Colorado|Denver]], [[Colorado]], United States
* 2000–2008 [[Westside Shopping and Leisure Centre]] – [[Bern]], Switzerland
* 2001–2003 [[Danish Jewish Museum]] – [[Copenhagen]], Denmark
* 2001–2004 [[London Metropolitan University]] Graduate Centre – London, England, United Kingdom
* 2001–2005 The [[Wohl Centre]] – [[Bar-Ilan University]], [[Ramat Gan]], Israel
* 2002–2007 Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, extension to [[Royal Ontario Museum]] and renovation of ten of its existing galleries – Toronto, [[Ontario]], Canada
* 2003–2005 Tangent, Facade for [[Hyundai Development Company|Hyundai]] Development Corporation Headquarters – [[Seoul]], South Korea
* 2004–2005 Memoria e Luce, 9/11 Memorial – [[Padua]], Italy
* 2004–2007 Glass Courtyard addition to the [[Jewish Museum Berlin]] – Berlin, Germany
* [[File:AscentAtRB.jpg|thumb|[[The Ascent at Roebling's Bridge]] (2008) [[Covington, Kentucky]]|alt=]] 2004–2008 [[The Ascent at Roebling's Bridge]], residential condominium building – [[Covington, Kentucky|Covington]], [[Kentucky]], United States
* 2005–2009 [[MGM Mirage]]'s [[CityCenter]], retail and public space on the [[Las Vegas Strip]] – [[Paradise, Nevada|Paradise]], [[Nevada]]
* 2004–2010 Grand Canal Square, [[Grand Canal Theatre]] and Commercial Development – [[Dublin]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]
* 2010 Wheel of Conscience monument, M.S. St. Louis Memorial, Pier 21 – [[Halifax Regional Municipality|Halifax]], [[Canada]]
* [[File:Dresden-MHM-Baustelle.jpg|thumb|[[Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr|Military History Museum]] (2010), [[Dresden]] ]]2001–2011 [[Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr|Military History Museum]] – [[Dresden]], Germany
* 2002–2011 [[Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre]] at the [[City University of Hong Kong]] – Hong Kong
* 2006–2011 [[Reflections at Keppel Bay]], high-rise and low-rise villa apartment blocks – [[Keppel Bay]], Singapore
* 2007–2008 18.36.54 private residence – [[Connecticut]], United States
* 2007–2011 [[Haeundae I Park Marina]], skyscraper complex – [[Busan]], South Korea
* 2009 Libeskind Villa – prefab smart house – Rheinzink GmbH & Co. KG Global Headquarters, [[Datteln, Germany]]
* 2010–2012 Jewish Museum Berlin Academy in the Eric F. Ross Building, academy – Berlin, Germany
* 2009–2013 Kö-Bogen, [[Königsallee]], [[Düsseldorf]], Germany
* 2012–2015 Mons International Congress XPerience, [[Mons, Belgium|Mons]], Belgium
* 2013-2014 [[Ohio Holocaust and Liberators Memorial|Ohio Holocaust & Liberators Memorial]], [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]], Ohio
* 2014–2015 [[Life Electric]], sculpture – Como, Italy
* 2015  Vanke Pavilion, sculpture - Milan, Italy<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/detail/detail-the-tiles-of-studio-libeskinds-vanke-pavilion_o |title=Detail: The Tiles of Studio Libeskind's Vanke Pavilion |website=Architect Magazine |last=Rago |first=Danielle |date=May 26, 2015}}</ref>
* 2015 Future Flowers, sculpture - Milan, Italy
* 2015 Milan Expo Gates, sculpture - Milan, Italy
* 2010–2015 Vitra Tower – Sao Paulo, Brazil
* 2013-2016 Lotte Mart - [[Songdo International Business District|Songdo]], South Korea
* 2005–2016 [[L Tower]] and [[Sony Centre for the Performing Arts]] Redevelopment – Toronto, Canada
* 2013-2016 Corals at Keppel Bay, Singapore
* 2012-2016 Sapphire, - [[Berlin]], Germany
* 2007-2017 [[Złota 44]], residential tower - [[Warsaw]], Poland
* 2011–2017 Main building and auditorium, [[Leuphana University of Lüneburg]] – [[Lüneburg]], Germany
* 2015–2017 Odgen Centre for Fundamental Physics at [[Durham University]], [[Durham, England|Durham]], England<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ribaj.com/buildings/ogden-centre-for-fundamental-physics-durham-studio-libeskind-riba-awards-2017-north-east |title=Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics, Durham - RIBAJ |website=ribaj.com|date=19 May 2017 }}</ref>
* [[File:Ntl_Holocaust_Monument_2.jpg|thumb|[[National Holocaust Monument]] (2017), Ottawa]]2014-2017 [[National Holocaust Monument]] - [[Ottawa]], Canada
*2011-2018 Zhang Zhidong Museum - [[Wuhan]], China
* 2017-2018 [[MO Museum]] - [[Vilnius]], Lithuania
*2013-2019 [[Century Spire]], [[Manila]], Philippines
*2013-2021- [[National Holocaust Names Memorial (Amsterdam)]], Amsterdam, the Netherlands
*2018-2021 [[Tampere Deck Arena]], [[Tampere]], Finland
* 2015-2019 [[CityLife (Milan)]], Tower - Milan, Italy<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elledecor.it/en/news/citylife-milano-tower-libeskind |title=Libeskind Tower: now under construction after the completion of Isozaki and Zaha Hadid's projects |access-date=November 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107021007/http://www.elledecor.it/en/news/citylife-milano-tower-libeskind |archive-date=November 7, 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Under construction===
* 2002-ongoing [[World Trade Center (2001–present)|World Trade Center]] master plan – New York City, New York
* 2004–2020 [[CityLife (Milan)]], masterplan – Milan, Italy
*2012-2021 [[Lotte Mall Songdo & Officetel]], Songdo, South Korea
*2012-2020 Amsterdam Holocaust Memorial - Amsterdam, Netherlands
*2017-2020 Verve, Frankfurt, Germany
* 2017-2020 East Thiers Station, [[Nice]], France
*2018- 2023 Atrium at Sumner - Brooklyn, New York, US
*2019-2023 Artery - Vilnius, Lithuania<ref>{{Cite news |title=Downtown Tower - Libeskind |language=en-US |work=Libeskind |url=https://libeskind.com/work/downtown-tower/ |access-date=October 6, 2018 |archive-date=October 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012102235/https://libeskind.com/work/downtown-tower/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=K18B – A-Class Office and Radisson RED Lifestyle Hotel Complex - Vilnius MIPIM2018 |language=en-US |work=Vilnius MIPIM2018 |url=https://www.vilniusatmipim.lt/portfolio/k18b/ |url-status=dead |access-date=October 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007044709/https://www.vilniusatmipim.lt/portfolio/k18b/ |archive-date=October 7, 2018}}</ref>
* 2003- 2023 Maggie's Centre at the Royal Free, London, UK<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dezeen.com/2019/07/18/daniel-libeskind-maggies-centre-hampstead-london-cancer/ | title=Daniel Libeskind unveils design for a Maggie's Centre in London | date=18 July 2019 }}</ref>

===Proposed or in design===
* 2009–? Archipelago 21, masterplan – Seoul, South Korea
* 2009–? Harmony Tower, Seoul, South Korea
* 2009–? Dancing Towers, Seoul, South Korea
* 2008–? New York Tower, New York City, United States
* 2018 – [[Great Synagogue of Vilna]] restoration, [[Vilnius]], Lithuania<ref>[http://www.timesofisrael.com/peres-invited-to-advise-on-restoration-of-vilnius-synagogue/ "Peres invited to advise on restoration of Vilnius synagogue"], ''[[Times of Israel]]''.</ref>
* 2017-2022 Occitanie Tower, [[Toulouse]], France
*2019-2024 Ngaren: The Museum of Humankind - Kenya
*2020-? Baccaratt Hotel and Residences - Dubai, UAE
*2021–? [[Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation|Tree of Life Synagogue]], Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
*2022-? [[Boerentoren]] 'crown', Antwerp, Belgium
*2025 Museo Regional de Tarapaca, Iquique, Chile
*2025  Fan d'Issy, Paris, France

===Libeskind design products===
* [[File:The Wings, Siemens HQ Munich, April 2017.jpg|thumb|"The Wings" - sculpture in [[Munich]]]] 2007 [[Royal Ontario Museum]] Spirit House Chair, Nienkamper, Toronto, Canada
*2009 Tea Set, Sawaya & Moroni
* 2009 Denver Door Handle, Olivari
* 2011 eL Masterpiece, [[Zumtobel Group]], Sawaya & Moroni
* 2012 Torq Armchair and Table, Sawaya & Moroni
* 2012 Zohar Street Lamp, [[Zumtobel Group]]
* 2012 The Idea Door 1 & 2, TRE-Più
* 2013 The Wing Mirror, Fiam
* 2013 Flow, [[Jacuzzi]]
* 2013 Paragon Lamp, [[Artemide]]
* 2013 Nina Door Handle, Olivari
* 2014 Ice Glass Installation<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lasvit.com/ |title=Lasvit – glass installations, sculptures and design lighting |website=Lasvit.com |access-date=March 13, 2017}}</ref>
*2016 Water Tower, [[Alessi (Italian company)|Alessi]]
*2016 Gemma Collection, Moroso
*2016 Swarovski Chess Set, [[Swarovski]]
*2017 Cordoba light, Slamp
*2017 Dining and side Table, Citco
*2019 Boaz Chair, Wilde + Spieth

==Awards and recognition==
* Alexander Hamilton Immigrant Achievement Award (2025)
* First architect to receive the Jan Kaplicky Lifetime Achievement Award (2023)
* First architect to receive the Dresden International Peace Prize (2023)
* First architect to win the Hiroshima Art Prize, awarded to an artist whose work promotes international understanding and peace (2001)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.city.hiroshima.jp/e/overview/add/hap/hap.html |title=General Description of the Hiroshima Art Prize |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919184949/http://www.city.hiroshima.jp/e/overview/add/hap/hap.html |archive-date=September 19, 2008 |url-status=dead |access-date=August 3, 2008}}</ref>
*In 2003, he received the [[Leo Baeck Medal]] for his humanitarian work promoting tolerance and social justice.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://forward.com/series/forward-50/2011/daniel-libeskind/ |title=Daniel Libeskind |date=October 5, 2024}}</ref>
*AIANY Merit Award for the National Holocaust Monument, Ottawa, Canada (2018)
*[[MIPIM AR Future Projects Award|MIPIM/''The Architectural Review'']] Future Project Award, for L'Occitanie Tower in Toulouse, France (2018)
*[[Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat|CTBUH]] Urban Habitat Award for the World Trade Center Master Plan (2018)
*[[American Institute of Architects]] National Service Award for the World Trade Center Master Plan (2012)
*Fellow for the American Institute of Architects (2016)
*[[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] Regional Award for Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics at Durham University (2017)
*Received an Honorary Doctorate of Architecture from the [[University of South Florida]].
*[[Doctor Honoris Causa]] of the [[New Bulgarian University]] in 2013 in recognition of his influence on contemporary architectural research and practice
*First recipient of [[honorary degree]] of Doctor of Fine Art from [[University of Ulster]] in recognition of his outstanding services to global architecture and design (2009)<ref>[http://news.ulster.ac.uk/releases/2009/4676.html University of Ulster Honours World-Leading Architect Daniel Libeskind] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405140619/http://news.ulster.ac.uk/releases/2009/4676.html|date=April 5, 2012}} University of Ulster News Release, November 11, 2009</ref>
*MIPIM award in Best Urban Regeneration Project for KoBogen (2014)
*FIABCI Prix d'Excellence Award, Residential for Reflections at Keppel Bay (2013)
*European Museum Academy Prize for the Military History Museum (2013)
*[[Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal]] (2010)
*Gold medal for Architecture at the [[National Arts Club]] (2007)
* [[RIBA International Award]] for Wohl Centre at Bar-Ilan University (2006)
* RIBA International Award for the [[Imperial War Museum North]] (2004)
* [[RIBA]] Award for the London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre (2004)
* Appointed as the first Cultural Ambassador for Architecture by the [[United States Department of State|U.S. Department of State]] (2004)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.europe-re.com/libeskind |title=Document not found |date=July 10, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710205036/http://www.europe-re.com/libeskind |archive-date=July 10, 2011}}</ref>
* Honorary member of the [[Royal Academy of Arts]] in London, England (2004)
* Man of the Year Award from the [[Tel Aviv Museum of Art]] (2004)
* [[Goethe Medal]] for cultural contribution by the [[Goethe Institute]] (2000)
* ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine Best of 1998 Design Awards for the Felix Nussbaum Haus (1998)
* Elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]] (1996)
* [[Venice Biennale]] First Prize Stone Lion Award for Palmanova Project (1985)
* [[National Endowment for the Arts]] Design Arts Grant for Studies in Architecture (1983)
* American Institute of Architects Medal for Highest Scholastic Achievement (1970)

==Personal life==
Libeskind met Nina Lewis, his future wife and business partner, at the [[Bundism|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 US visiting [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] buildings on a Cooper Union fellowship.<ref name="Davidson">{{cite news |last=Davidson |first=Justin |date=October 8, 2007 |title=The Liberation of Daniel Libeskind |pages=56–64 |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]}}</ref> Nina is co-founder for Studio Daniel Libeskind. She is the daughter of the late-Canadian political leader [[David Lewis (Canadian politician)|David Lewis]] and the sister of former [[Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations]], [[Stephen Lewis]].

Libeskind has lived, among other places, in New York City, Toronto, Michigan, Italy, Germany, and Los Angeles.<ref name="Davidson" /> He is both a U.S. and Israeli citizen.<ref>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.</ref>

Nina and Daniel Libeskind have three children: Lev, Noam, and Rachel.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jewish Museum Berlin – Daniel Libeskind |url=http://www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de/site/EN/05-About-The-Museum/03-Libeskind-Building/07-Libeskind/daniel-libeskind.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://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 |archive-date=October 13, 2007 |access-date=February 25, 2009}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* ''Daniel Libeskind: Countersign'' (1992) ({{ISBN|0-8478-1478-5}})
* ''Daniel Libeskind Radix-Matrix'' (1997) ({{ISBN|3-7913-1727-X}})
* ''Jewish Museum Berlin'' (with Helene Binet) (1999) ({{ISBN|90-5701-252-9}})
* ''Daniel Libeskind: The Space of Encounter'' (2001) ({{ISBN|978-0789304834|}})
* ''Daniel Libeskind'' (2001) ({{ISBN|0-7893-0496-1}})
* ''Breaking Ground'' (2004) ({{ISBN|1-57322-292-5}})
* ''Counterpoint'' (2008) ({{ISBN|1-58093-206-1}})
* ''In the Unlikeliest of Places: How Nachman Libeskind Survived the Nazis, Gulags, and Soviet Communism'' (2014) Annette Libeskind Berkovits; foreword by Daniel Libeskind ({{ISBN|978-1-77112-0661}})
*''Edge of Order'' (2018) ({{ISBN|978-0451497352|}})

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{Official website|https://libeskind.com/}}
* {{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20121213000419/http://library.getty.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=268944 Daniel Libeskind papers, 1968–1992]}} Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014183822/http://www.city-life.it/en/residenze-libeskind/ Libeskind Residences]}} as part of [[CityLife (Milan)]] project
* [http://www.city-life.it/en/uffici-retail/torre-libeskind/ Libeskind Tower] as part of [[CityLife (Milan)]] project
* {{TED speaker}}
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00545fm Architecture in the 20th Century] Liebeskind in conversation with Richard Weston and Melvyn Bragg, first broadcast March 25, 1999 on BBC4's ''[[In Our Time (radio series)|In Our Time]]''.
*[https://blog.degruyter.com/unbuilding-walls-interview-with-daniel-libeskind/ Unbuilding Walls] Libeskind interviewed by [[Graft (architects)|Graft Architects]].

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