Daniel Libeskind

Name

Libeskind, Daniel

Personal Information

Birth/Death:    
Occupation:    American architect
Location (state):    NY

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AIA Affiliation

Member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2004-

Biographical Sources

Biographical information:
Contributed by the Getty Research Institute, Research Library
Polish-born American architect Daniel Libeskind studied architecture at Cooper Union with John Hejduk and Peter Eisenman, and at Essex University, England. Libeskind's projects reflect his readings in philosophy, his study of music, and, in the Jewish Museum Extension to the Berlin Museum (Jüdisches Museum im Berlin Museum), his connection to the Jewish diaspora and the Holocaust.

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Archival Holdings

The American Institute of Architects Archives
      Membership files of living persons are not available.
Getty Research Institute, Research Library
Daniel Libeskind papers, 1968-1992, Accession no. 920061
The archive contains 15 design projects (1970-1991), materials related to Libeskind's teaching at the Cranbrook Academy of Art (1980-1984), manuscripts and publications (1970-1990) and photographs, slides and transparencies (ca. 1968-1990). The Jewish Museum in Berlin (also called Between the Lines in this archive) is the most extensively documented of his designs.
For further information, see catalog record

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