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Daniel Libeskind

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Daniel Libeskind · Arts & Literature

What

Architect of the Jewish Museum Berlin (2001) and master planner of the World Trade Center reconstruction

When

1946, Łódź, Poland

Where

Poland · Israel · United States

Biography

Daniel Libeskind is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Architect of the Jewish Museum Berlin (2001) and master planner of the World Trade Center reconstruction

How & why

Daniel Libeskind is a Polish-American architect known for the Jewish Museum Berlin (opened 2001), whose fractured, void-pierced form became a model for memorial architecture, and for winning the master plan for the World Trade Center rebuilding in New York. His deeply symbolic designs often engage themes of memory and loss. He is Jewish, born in Łódź to Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivors.

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Source: Wikipedia (born in Łódź to Holocaust-survivor parents); Moment Magazine — 50 Jewish Innovators

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Architect of the Jewish Museum Berlin (2001) and master planner of the World Trade Center reconstruction

2001

Source: Wikipedia (born in Łódź to Holocaust-survivor parents); Moment Magazine — 50 Jewish Innovators