Prof. Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind is an internationally renowned architect who has developed groundbreaking architectural concepts and designs all over the world. His major architectural works include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Felix Nussbaum House in Osnabrück, the Denver Art Museum, and the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester. In 2003, Libeskind won the competition to be the master plan architect for the reconstruction of Ground Zero in New York City.

In the summer of 2007, Libeskind accepted his appointment as a Visiting Professor at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, providing a permanent enrichment of a university whose profile in teaching and research has long been marked by an interdisciplinary focus. His commitment to campus aesthetics is not restricted to his teaching activities: he also developed the design for the new central building.

Vita

• Since 2007: Visiting Professor at Leuphana University of Lüneburg
• Winter semester 2006-07: Lectureship at Leuphana (Aesthetics in Learning and University Space) 
• 1989: Founded architecture office in Berlin
• In 1970, he earned his degree in Architecture from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, and in 1972, he received a postgraduate degree in History and Theory of Architecture in Essex. 
• Studied music in Israel (on a scholarship from the America Israel Cultural Foundation) and in New York; became a professional musician and, later on, switched from music to architecture. 
• 1965: American citizenship
• 1946: Born in Poland 

Selected Architectural Work

• Zlotta 44 Residential Tower, Warsaw; start of construction: 2007
• Fiera Milano, Trade Fair Center, Milan; start of construction: 2007
• World Trade Center Design, Master Plan, New York, USA; time of completion: 2010
• Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, 2006 (picture)
• Maurice Wohl Convention Centre, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2005
• London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre, 2004
• Imperial War Museum North, Manchester, England, 2002
• Jewish Museum, Berlin, 2001
• Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück, 1998
• Selected Teaching Experience
• Frank O. Gehry Chair at the University of Toronto
• Professor at the University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe
• Louis Kahn Chair at Yale University
• Professor for Architectural Design at Leuphana University

Selected Honors and Awards

• 2004 - RIBA Awards for the London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre and the Imperial War Museum; Honorary Doctorate from the University of Toronto; First Cultural Ambassador for Architecture, U.S. Department of State
• 2000 - Goethe Medallion for Cultural Contribution
• 1999 - German Architecture Prize; Honorary Doctorate from the Humboldt University of Berlin