Daniel libeskind

A POLISH AMERICAN ARCHITECT,

ARTIST,
PROFESSOr
SET DESIGNER of polish jewish decent.

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born: 12 may, 1946

Libeskind was a musical virtuoso as a child.

as a young adult, he shifted his focus to architecture and earned his
architecture degree from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of
Science and Art in New York City in 1970.
his postgraduate degree in History and Theory of Architecture at
the School of Comparative Studies at Essex University in England
two years later.
Libeskind began his career as an architectural theorist and
professor.
Since 2007, Libeskind has been a visiting professor at
the Leuphana University Lneburg .
His practical architectural career began in Milan in the late 1980s
 Philosophy
Achitecture tells a story about the world, our desires and dreams.
Architecture, and the buildings, are much more than a place, they are
destinations meant to evoke emotion and to make you think about the world we
all live in.
Buildings and urban projects are crafted with perceptible human energy and
that they speak to the larger cultural community in which they are built.

Design characteristics:
Deconstructivist style

Layering angular organic chaos

(curvilinear)
Organic (curvilinear):

Chaos:
Venke pavallion

Crystals at city centre

angular:

Essentially consist of complicated composition of hybrid volumes

With acute angle.
The Jewish Museum Berlin, completed in 1999, was Libeskind's first major
international success

Design The Jewish Museum

essentially consists of two buildings
a baroque old building (that formerly
housed the Berlin Museum).
a new deconstructivist-style building
by Libeskind

The two buildings have no visible connection above ground and the new one is
accessible only via an underground passage from the old building. No entry
from new building
In the basement, visitors first encounter three intersecting, slanting
corridors named the Axes.
The basement further divided into three areas with different meanings.
The three axes symbolize three paths of Jewish life in Germany :-
Continuity in German history (permanent museum)
Emigration from Germany (leads to the garden of exile)
The Holocaust (the dead end)

The first axis ends at a long staircase that leads to the permanent
exhibition. Main museum Staircase
 Holocaust emmigration

continuity

All three of the underground axes intersect, symbolizing the connection

between the three realities of Jewish life in Germany.
Recognitions....
Gold medal for Architecture at the National Arts Club (2007)
RIBA International Award for Wohl Centre at Bar-Ilan University (2006)
RIBA International Award for the Imperi War Museum North (2004)
First architect to win the Hiroshima Art Prize, awarded to an artist whose
work promotes international understanding and peace (2001)
Time Magazine Best of 1998 Design Awards for the Felix Nussbaum Haus
(1998)
Doctor Honoris Causa of the New Bulgarian University from 2013 in
recognition of his influence on the contemporary architectural research and
practice
Venice Biennale First Prize Stone Lion Award for Palmanova Project (1985)
First architect to win the Hiroshima Art Prize, awarded to an artist whose
work promotes international understanding and peace (2001)
 Zohar lamp
Spirit house chair
Gemma collection
Includes chairs,sofa.

Enigma shelf
Time maze clock

Ice
Tea set