丹尼尔·里伯斯金

生平

丹尼尔·里伯斯金在1946年5月12日出生于波兰共和国罗兹的一个波兰犹太人家庭，是家中的第二个孩子。他少年时曾学过手风琴，并曾于1953年在波兰的电视台上演奏。1959年获得美国以色列文化基金会奖学金。 他在波兰生活了13年，因此通晓波兰语。

1959年夏移民到美国纽约市，住在布朗克斯区北部，于布朗克斯科技高中读书。里伯斯金亲年目睹了1960年代最早的世贸中心的建成。 1965年成为美国公民，此外他也是以色列公民。 1966年在纽约上州夏令营时遇到了未来的妻子兼商业伙伴妮娜·路易斯（Nina Lewis）。数年之后结婚，蜜月期间周游美国参观弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特的建筑。

1968年，里伯斯金曾在理查德·迈耶手下当过一段时间的学徒，但很快就离开了。1970年获得柯柏联盟学院颁发的建筑学学士学位，1972年自埃塞克斯大学获得硕士学位。同年受雇于彼得·艾森曼的建筑和都市研究学院（The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies），但随即就辞职走人。 在这之后他曾在美国、加拿大、意大利、德国等各国工作， 并在肯塔基大学、耶鲁大学、宾夕法尼亚大学、建筑联盟学院轮流执教。 2007年成为德国吕讷堡大学的访问教授。

家庭

他与妻子育有三个孩子，即列弗（Lev）、诺曼（Noam）和雷切尔（Rachel）。

Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish and American architect, artist, professor, and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect. He is known for the design and completion of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, that opened in 2001. In 2003, Libeskind received further international attention after he won the competition to be the master plan architect for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan.

Other buildings that he is known for include the extension to the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin, the Imperial War Museum North in Greater Manchester, England, the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Germany, the Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, Reflections in Singapore and the Wohl Centre at the Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. His portfolio also includes several residential projects. Libeskind's work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Bauhaus Archives, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Centre Pompidou.

Early life and education

Daniel Libeskind was born May 12, 1946, in Łódź, Poland. He is the second child of Dora and Nachman Libeskind, both Polish Jews and Holocaust survivors. As a young child, Libeskind learned to play the accordion and quickly became a virtuoso, performing on Polish television in 1953. He won a America Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship in 1959 and played alongside a young Itzhak Perlman.……

Career

Libeskind began his career as an architectural theorist and professor, holding positions at various institutions around the world. From 1978 to 1985, Libeskind was the director of the Architecture Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.……

Academia

Daniel Libeskind was the Head of the Architecture Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan from 1978 to 1985. He produced exhibitions, several essays and books, suites of drawings, and large-scale explorations like the three machines (Reading Machine, Writing Machine and Memory Machine).……

Criticism

His work is inscribed within the loosely-defined style of deconstructivism. While much of Libeskind's work has been well-received, it has also been the subject of often severe criticism. Critics charge that it reflects a limited architectural vocabulary of jagged edges, sharp angles and tortured geometries, that can fall into cliche, and that it ignores location and context.……

Work

The following projects are listed on the Studio Libeskind website. The first date is the competition, commission, or first presentation date. The second is the completion date or the estimated date of completion.

Completed

• 1989–2001 Jewish Museum Berlin – Berlin, Germany
• 1995–1998 Felix Nussbaum Haus – Osnabrück, Germany

1997–2001 Imperial War Museum North – Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Awards and recognition

Praemium Imperiale in the category Architecture (2026)

Alexander Hamilton Immigrant Achievement Award (2025)

First architect to receive the Jan Kaplicky Lifetime Achievement Award (2023)

First architect to receive the Dresden International Peace Prize (2023)

First architect to win the Hiroshima Art Prize, awarded to an artist whose work promotes international understanding and peace (2001)

Personal life

Libeskind met Nina Lewis, his future wife and business partner, at the Bundist-run Camp Hemshekh in upstate New York in 1966. They married a few years later and, instead of a traditional honeymoon, traveled across the US visiting Frank Lloyd Wright buildings on a Cooper Union fellowship. Nina is co-founder for Studio Daniel Libeskind.……