The Architect

His practice in architecture began with the building of the Jewish Museum Berlin, a competition he won in 1989. The museum opened to great critical acclaim in September 2001. His museum for the city of Osnabrück, Germany, The Felix Nussbaum Museum, opened in July 1998. And in July 2002, the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester was opened to the public. Since 1989 Libeskind lived and worked in Berlin. He is a registered architect in Germany with the Architektenkammer Berlin and is in the society of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA).

He is presently designing The Spiral Extension to the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; "Westside" an urban scale entertainment and shopping center in Brünnen, Switzerland; the Maurice Wohl Convention Centre at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv; Atelier Weil, a private atelier / gallery in Mallorca, Spain; the Extension to the Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; the Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen; a Post-Graduate Centre at London Metropolitan University; the Extension to the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, and the Military Museum in Dresden. He is also designing the sets for Wagner's "Ring" at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in London.

Daniel Libeskind has taught and lectured at many universities worldwide. Currently he is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the Frank O. Gehry Chair at the University of Toronto. Daniel Libeskind has been the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the Hiroshima Art Prize, given to an artist whose work promotes peace; in 1999 the Deutscher Architekturpreis (German Architecture Prize) for the Jewish Museum Berlin; in 2000 the Goethe Medaillon; in 1996 the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Architecture and in the same year the Berlin Cultural Prize. He has received numerous honorary doctorates: in 1997 an Honorary Doctorate from Humboldt Universität, Berlin; in 1999 an Honorary Doctorate from the Essex University, England; most recently an Honorary Degree of Doctor from the University of Edinburgh and an Honorary Degree of Doctor from DePaul University, Chicago.

His work has been exhibited extensively in major museums and galleries around the world and has also been the subject of numerous international publications in many languages. His ideas have influenced a new generation of architects and those interested in the future development of cities and culture.

Daniel Libeskind is married to Nina Libeskind and has three children, Lev, Noam and Rachel. The family had been living in Berlin for thirteen years. They moved to New York City in early 2003.

Source: Jewish Museum Berlin