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Architect Day: Daniel Libeskind
The architecture of Daniel Libeskind is striking and characteristic. A man with a great life story, a degree in music and professor of architecture at several universities, had his highest recognition on winning the bid for the new World Trade Center in New York. His repertoire of projects, however, clearly shows his work concepts.
Photos from http://www.daniel-libeskind.com
Daniel Libeskind was born in Lodz in Poland after the war, on 12 May 1946. He is the second son to Dora and Nachman Libeskind, survivors of the Holocaust. As a child he learned to play the accordion, and was even on Polish television at 13 years of age. He studied music in Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship.
In 1959, Libeskind's family moved to New York. There Daniel continued to study music becoming a virtuoso. He studied at the Bronx High School of Science and in 1965 became an American citizen. Completing his studies, he graduated in 1970 from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and received his post-graduate degree in 1972 in History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Comparative Studies at Essex University.
Influences
Libeskind worked briefly as an apprentice to Richard Meyer and was hired by Peter Eisenman, but didn't stay long.
He met his future wife and working partner in 1966. After a few years, they married and traveled to the United States, visiting the works of Frank Lloy Wright. After that, Daniel taught at several universities around the world. Since this was his main activity for a long time, he only finalized his first project at age 52, the Felix Nussbaum Haus.
Works
Early on Libeskind was labeled as the architect whose designs were impossible to be built. He won his first competition in 1987, a house in Berlin, but was never built. The Jewish Museum Berlin was the first major project to be built, with greater recognition, but became more famous after winning the tender for the reconstruction of the area of the former World Trade Center, destroyed in the attack of September 11, a project that was named as Memory Foundations.
Studio Daniel Libeskind is two blocks from the WTC site, and has projects in all corners of the world. In addition to building some securities, Daniel also designs stages for theaters and operas, where there is a clear relationship to his architecture.
“Ever since I began architecture, I had an abhorrence to conventional architecture offices. There was something about the atmosphere of redundancy, routine and production that made me allergic to all forms of specialization and so-called professionalism. Ten years ago we founded our office in Berlin as a result of a decision, an accident, a rumor on the street and began an unimaginable journey down a path on which we are still traveling.”
18.36.54, Connecticut, USA
The Ascent at Roebling’s Bridge, Kentucky, USA.
Cape Grace, Monaco
Contemporary Jewish Museum, California, USA
Danish Jewish Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dream Hub, Seoul, South Korea
Extension to the Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA
Denver Art Museum Residences, Denver, Colorado, USA
Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück, Germany
Fiera Milano, Milan, Italy
Glass Courtyard, Berlin, Germany
Grand Canal Square Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
Imperial War Museum North, Manchester, England
Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
London Metroplitan University Graduate Centre, London, England
Memorial Foundations, New York, New York, USA
New York Tower, New York, New York, USA
Riverstone, Incheon, South Korea
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
Studio Weil, Mallorca, Spain
Tangent, Seoul, South Korea
The Villa, Worldwide
Westside Shopping and Leisure Centre, Bern, Switzerland
The Wohl Centre, Ramat-Gan, Israel
23 Comments
Just one word to say: AMAZING!
i m speechless!
That's amazing :) Great work... Really impressive!
Omg !!! This's very amazing.
Wah, pourquoi tout les immeubles ne sont pas comme ça :(
Love how complex and beautiful these are. Amazing work.
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i really should visit berlin after the many breath-taking buildings shown in the architect-threads..
massively impressive!!!! it gave me a headache :D
The Ascent at Roeblings Bridge is near where I live, and here is a link to the Google street view spot. Quite impressive! All of his works are impressive! http://bit.ly/64oGH1
Gravity defying architecture, can't figure out how some of these buildings are able to stand.....simply brilliant
If the Royal Ontario Museum is a typical example, these projects look better in pictures than in real life. In real life the ROM looks cheap and ugly. Everybody here in Toronto hates it.
Like Libeskind's work from long time. Like the project Jewish Museum Berlin. it's interior & the concept is great.
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ohh great post!
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very cool, I like the Denver Museum alot! :)
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wow amazing structures this man rocks
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He truly does have amazing work. I live in Denver so I have the privilege of seeing his work anytime I wish. :)
Beautiful post! The Denver Art Museum is so tight! The engineering that went into that building is absolutely staggering.
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it's interesting to see how his modern touch reaches all corners of the globe. i visioned the world 100 years from now and it looks magnificent-
Speechless, these are amazing!
I live in Denver, not far from the Art Museum Libeskind designed. My ex-girlfriend, an architecture student, never had enough bad things to say about Libeskind, especially that he doesn't think enough about the region where he's putting a building. It seems that the Art Museum roof leaks all the time. I've seen construction workers on that roof doing various repairs every year since the building was built. Inside the museum, Libeskind explained (in a poster) that his idea for the museum came from crumpling up a napkin. The whole "napkin" thing makes me think he'd fit in really well with the characters from Zoolander. I imagine him crumpling up a napkin, then, in a thick european accent declaring "there is your museum!" and then demanding millions of dollars for his work.
I find Libeskind's work to be pretentious. His museum in Toronto was recently voted one of the world's top ten ugliest buildings of all time.
Libeskind is a big fake and a lying cheat. First of all he is so incompetent he had to pay another architect to design his residence (a little apartment in New York). Then he lied to the New York Times by trying to cover up that fact by saying he designed it himself. - Here's the link in case you don't believe it from me.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/magazine/21wwln_domains.1.html
All he does is stupid doodles on a napkin but has to collaborate with professional architects to get anything built. And when the design fails he's quick to point the finger at his colleagues. He is the worst kind of disgusting person you can imagine.
I find it to be cheap, self-indulgent crap. Libeskind's work is all about his ego and about creating disharmony rather than unity. Any fool can make buildings look different or have weird shapes. This approach might be OK in an amusement park, but it is irresponsible and selfish in a shared urban context. And his work might seem glossy and slick in long-distance night photos with all the razzle dazzle lighting, but up close, Libeskind's work is badly-assembled junk. All flash and no substance. That's probably why he got kicked off the Ground Zero project and never even got asked to design even a bus shelter there. People don't need to work with a selfish, obnoxious moron. (Even his own wife wanted another architect to design their home in NY.)
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