Born in postwar Poland in 1946, Libeskind became an American citizen in 1965.
He studied music in Israel (on the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship) and in New York.
He left music to study architecture, receiving his professional architectural degree in 1970 from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.
He received a postgraduate degree in History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Comparative Studies at Essex University (England) in 1972.
From 1986 to 89, he was the founder and Director of Architecture Intermundium in Milan, Italy.
Libeskind has taught and lectured at many universities worldwide. He has held such positions as the Frank O. Gehry Chair at the University of Toronto, Professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany, and the Cret Chair at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Louis Kahn Chair at Yale University.
He has received numerous awards, including the 2001 Hiroshima Art Prize - an award given to an artist whose work promotes international understanding and peace, never before given to an architect.
Projects:
(The first date is the competition date. The second is the estimated completion date)
. 1989-1999 The Jewish Museum Berlin - Berlin, Germany;
. 1995-1998 Felix Nussbaum Haus - Osnabrück, Germany;
. 1996-2004 The Danish Jewish Museum - Copenhagen, Denmark;
. 1997-2002 Imperial War Museum North - Manchester, Trafford, England;
. 1998-2003 Studio Weil - Port d'Andratx, Mallorca, Spain;
. 1998-2007 The Contemporary Jewish Museum - San Francisco, California;
. 2000-2005 The Wohl Centre - Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel;
. 2000-2006 Extension to the Denver Art Museum - Denver, Colorado;
. 2000-2006 The Museum Residences - Denver, Colorado;
. 2000-2009 WESTside - Bern, Switzerland;
. 2001-2003 London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre - London, England;
. 2002-2006 Michael Lee Chin Crystal, Royal Ontario Museum - Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
. 2002-2008 Creative Media Centre - Hong Kong;
. 2003-2005 Facade for Hyundai Development Corporation Headquarters - Seoul, South Korea;
. 2003-2008 Militärhistorisches Museum - Dresden, Germany;
. 2004-2005 Memoria e Luce - Padua, Italy;
. 2004-2007 Epic - Sacramento, USA;
. 2004-2007 The Ascent at Roebling's Bridge - Covington, Kentucky;
. 2004-2008 Grand Canal Performing Arts Centre and Galleria - Dublin, Ireland;
. 2004-2008 New Center for Arts and Culture - Boston, Massachusetts;
. 2004-2014 Fiera Milano - Milan, Italy;
. 2005-2006 Jewish War Veterans Memorial - Toronto, Canada;
. 2005-2007 Aura - Sacramento, California;
. 2005-2007 The Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts - Toronto, Canada;
. 2005 Union City Condominiums - Union City, New Jersey.
Completed:
. The Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany;
. The 'Frederic C. Hamilton Building' of theDenver Art Museum;
. The Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabruck, Germany, a museum dedicated to the life and art of the painter Felix Nussbaum;
. The Imperial War Museum North in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom;
. The London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre on the Holloway Road north London;
. The Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen;
. Studio Weil, Mallorca, the private Barbara Weil gallery building in Spain;
. Tangent, Hyundai Development Company Headquarters, Seoul, South Korea;
. Memoria e Luce, 9/11 Memorial, Padua, Italy.
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