Daniel Libeskind, born May 12, 1946 in Ldź, 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.
'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)
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)
DanielLibeskind, (born May 12, 1946 in Łódź, Poland) is an architect who rocketed to fame in 2003 after receiving a commission to create the master plan for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center.
One of the leading contemporary architects of today, DanielLibeskind is the son of Holocaust survivors and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1965.
Libeskind thumbed his nose at a request to place it in a more rentable location next to the World Trade Center (PATH station) and instead placed it a block west because in profile it would line up and resemble the Statue of Liberty.
Libeskind's design, focusing on the pit and its bleak walls, has sustained a groundswell of support that began almost as soon as it was unveiled in December.
Libeskind is likely to focus on the memorial area, preparing guidelines for the memorial competition, which is scheduled to begin in the next couple of months.
Libeskind featured two ground-level parks as well, one of which is positioned to capture a wedge of sunlight each year on Sept. 11, from the time that the first plane hit the trade center's north tower until the time that tower fell, the second of the two to collapse.
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