Daniel Libeskind 

The internationally renowned architect and urban planner Daniel Libeskind has introduced a new critical discourse and a multidisciplinary approach to architecture. His creations range from large cultural establishments, such as museums and concert halls, to landscape and urban planning and the design of stage settings, installations and exhibitions.

Daniel Libeskind was born in 1946 in Lódz, Poland. He obtained American citizenship in 1965. He studied Music in Israel and the USA, followed by Architecture at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York until 1970. In 1972, he was awarded a post-graduate degree in History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Comparative Studies in Essex.

In 1989, Daniel Libeskind won the contest to design the Jewish Museum in Berlin, which was opened in 1999. His museum for the City of Osnabrück – the Felix Nussbaum Hause – was inaugurated in July 1998. He is a member of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA).

Libeskind has won numerous awards, including the 1999 German Architect Award for the Jewish Museum in Berlin as well as the Goethe Medal in the same year. In 1996, he also received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Architecture, as well as the Berliner Culture Award. In 1997, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Humboldt University in Berlin, followed by an honorary doctorate from the College of Arts and Humanities at Essex University in 1999.

His works have been exhibited in large museums and galleries throughout the world, and have been the subject of numerous international publications in many languages. His ideas have influenced a new generation of architects. Libeskind is considered one of the most important representatives, theoreticians and teachers of deconstructivism.