Daniel Libeskind (born 1946) is a Polish-American architect, artist and teacher, born in Łódź, whose angular, sharply cut buildings are usually placed within deconstructivism. He founded Studio Daniel Libeskind with his wife, Nina, in 1989, and in 2003 he won the competition to draw the master plan for rebuilding the World Trade Center site in New York.
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He is best known for the Jewish Museum Berlin (2001), shaped by the history of Jewish life in the city. A line of empty "voids" about 20 metres tall slices through the building, and three axes stand for continuity, emigration and the Holocaust: one leads to the tilted Garden of Exile, another to the Holocaust Tower, an unheated bare concrete silo lit only through a slit in its roof. The Imperial War Museum North in Manchester (2002) is built as three interlocking shards of an imagined globe broken by conflict, standing for air, earth and water. At the Military History Museum in Dresden (2011), a transparent arrowhead cuts through a former arsenal and points towards where the fire-bombing of the city began. Daniel Libeskind's projects are studied for how form can carry memory.
Felix Nussbaum Haus1998 · Osnabrück
Danish Jewish Museum2004 · Copenhagen
Frederic C. Hamilton Building, Denver Art Museum2006 · Denver
Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, Royal Ontario Museum2007 · Toronto
Bord Gais Energy Theatre2010 · Dublin
Military History Museum2011 · Dresden
Jewish Museum Berlin2001 · Berlin
Imperial War Museum North2002 · Manchester
Wohl Centre2005 · Ramat Gan
Contemporary Jewish Museum2008 · San Francisco
MO Museum2018 · Vilnius