31 Facts About Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind is known for the design and completion of the 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 reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan.

Daniel Libeskind's work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Bauhaus Archives, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Centre Pompidou.

Daniel Libeskind won a America Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship in 1959 and played alongside a young Itzhak Perlman.

Daniel Libeskind lived in Poland for 11 years and can still speak, read, and write Polish.

In New York, Daniel Libeskind lived in the Amalgamated Housing Cooperative in the northwest Bronx, a union-sponsored, middle-income cooperative development.

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 professional architectural degree in 1970.

In 1968, Daniel Libeskind briefly worked as an apprentice to architect Richard Meier.

Daniel Libeskind received a postgraduate degree in history and theory of architecture at the School of Comparative Studies at the University of Essex in 1972.

Daniel Libeskind began his career as an architectural theorist and professor, holding positions at various institutions around the world.

From 1978 to 1985, Daniel Libeskind was the director of the Architecture Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Daniel Libeskind completed his first building at the age of 52, with the opening of the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabruck, Germany in 1998.

In 1987, Daniel Libeskind won his first design competition for housing in West Berlin, but the Berlin Wall fell shortly thereafter and the project was cancelled.

Daniel 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.

The Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin designed by Daniel Libeskind was completed in 2012.

Daniel Libeskind was selected by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to oversee the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the September 11,2001 attacks.

Daniel Libeskind was the first architect to win the Hiroshima Art Prize, awarded to an artist whose work promotes international understanding and peace.

Studio Daniel Libeskind is headquartered two blocks south of the World Trade Center site in New York.

Daniel Libeskind has designed numerous cultural and commercial institutions, museums, concert halls, convention centers, universities, residences, hotels, and shopping centers.

Later in his career, Daniel Libeskind designed the Life Electric sculpture that was completed in 2015 on Lake Como, Italy.

Daniel Libeskind has designed opera sets for productions such as the Norwegian National Theatre's The Architect in 1998 and Saarlandisches Staatstheater's Tristan und Isolde in 2001.

Daniel Libeskind designed the sets and costumes for Intolleranza by Luigi Nono and for a production of Messiaen's Saint Francis of Assisi by Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Daniel Libeskind has written free verse prose, included in his book Fishing from the Pavement.

Daniel Libeskind produced several writings, artworks and large-scale explorations, including the Reading Machine, Writing Machine and Memory Machine.

The machines called the Three Lessons in Architecture were displayed at the Venice Biennale in 1985 where Daniel Libeskind won a Stone Lion award.

Daniel Libeskind has taught at numerous universities across the world, including the University of Kentucky, Yale University, UCLA, Harvard, the University of London, the Leuphana University Luneburg in Germany, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Daniel Libeskind continues to teach students at various universities including the Catholic University of America.

Daniel Libeskind met Nina Lewis, his future wife and business partner, at the Bundist-run Camp Hemshekh in upstate New York in 1966.

Daniel Libeskind is the daughter of the late-Canadian political leader David Lewis and the sister of former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, Stephen Lewis.

Daniel Libeskind has lived, among other places, in New York City, Toronto, Michigan, Italy, Germany, and Los Angeles.

Nina and Daniel Libeskind have three children: Lev, Noam, and Rachel.