Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind (Łódź, May 12, 1946) is an American architect, born in Poland, son of two survivors of the Nazi extermination camps, one of the main exponents of deconstructivism in American architecture.
He spent his childhood in Poland, where he cultivated a passion for music, which he continued in Tel Aviv, Israel, where he moved with his family after completing his initial studies in Poland. In 1960, he received a scholarship from the America Israel Cultural Foundation, which allowed him to move to New York.

In the Big Apple, Libeskind lives in the Housing Amalgamated Cooperative in the northwest Bronx and attends Bronx High School of Science. The printing shop where his father worked was on Stone Street in Lower Manhattan, from where Libeskind could see the World Trade Center under construction in the 60s.

He enrolled in the architecture department at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Cooper Union is a privately funded university and, unlike "normal" American universities, offers free tuition to students with limited financial resources.

After graduating in 1970, Libeskind decided to further his studies and, on the advice of Peter Eisenman, moved to London to specialize in the History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Essex. After completing his studies, he began teaching in London (at the Architectural Association), the United States, and also at various European universities and in Japan.
Since 1978, he has served as director of the Department of Architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Design, the school of Eliel and Eero Saarinen. Here, he first designed a tilted building that subverted geometric rules for a competition to redevelop an abandoned area of ​​the Potsdamer Güterbahnhof in Berlin.

In 1985, he concluded his work and left for Milan, where in 1986 he founded an experimental nonprofit educational laboratory, Architecture Intermundium, which he directed until 1989. After only four years, Libeskind decided to leave Italy, describing it as a beautiful country where it was impossible to practice architecture, and accepted an invitation from the Paul Getty Foundation to work as a Senior Scholar at the Center for the Arts and the Humanities in Los Angeles.
From here, Libeskind embarked on a career that would lead to fame. He designed what would become the unrealized icon of deconstructivism, the City Edge in Berlin, winning first prize in the IBA City Edge Competition.
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