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33-524: Wohl Centre was built between 2001 and 2005 and covers about 42,000 square feet (3,900 square meters). The building, designed by the internationally renowned Daniel Libeskind and a local architecture firm, the Heder Partnership, has been noted for its stark exterior and uncluttered interior. In 2006, the Wohl Centre won a RIBA International Award for its architecture. The building was designated in 2019

66-1005: A 2002 war museum in England suggesting the shards of a fractured globe, can seem like a caricature of his own aesthetic." In the UK magazine Building Design , Owen Hatherley wrote of Libeskind's students' union for London Metropolitan University : "All of its vaulting, aggressive gestures were designed to 'put London Met on the map', and to give an image of fearless modernity with, however, little of consequence." William JR Curtis in Architectural Review called his Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre "a pile-up of Libeskindian clichés without sense, form or meaning" and wrote that his Hyundai Development Corporation Headquarters delivered "a trite and noisy corporate message". In response, Libeskind says he ignores critics: "How can I read them? I have more important things to read." The following projects are listed on

99-527: A B-class site for conservation. The building, which was Daniel Libeskind's first in Israel, was built on a relatively small budget. The ILS 43 million ($ 7.2 million) it cost to construct the center came in part from British philanthropist Maurice Wohl . Three long rectangular "bars" comprise the building's base, above which rests a 1,000-seat auditorium. The center's angular form evokes an open book and, according to Libeskind, embodies "the interrelation between

132-654: A Cooper Union fellowship. Nina is co-founder for Studio Daniel Libeskind. She is the daughter of the late-Canadian political leader David Lewis and the sister of former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations , Stephen Lewis . Libeskind has lived, among other places, in New York City, Toronto, Michigan, Italy, Germany, and Los Angeles. He is both a U.S. and Israeli citizen. Nina and Daniel Libeskind have three children: Lev, Noam, and Rachel. Amalgamated Housing Cooperative The Amalgamated Housing Cooperative

165-418: A number of international design firms to develop objects, furniture, and industrial fixtures for interiors of buildings. He has been commissioned to work with design companies such as Fiam, Artemide , Jacuzzi , TreP-Tre-Piu, Oliviari, Sawaya & Moroni, Poltrona Frau, Swarovski, and others. Libeskind's design projects also include sculpture. Several sculptures built in the early 1990s were based on

198-507: A postgraduate degree in history and theory of architecture at the School of Comparative Studies at the University of Essex in 1972. The same year, he was hired to work at Peter Eisenman 's New York Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies , but he quit almost immediately. Libeskind began his career as an architectural theorist and professor, holding positions at various institutions around

231-668: 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 . Libeskind lived in Poland for 11 years and says "I can still speak, read and write Polish." In 1957, the Libeskinds moved to Kibbutz Gvat, Israel and then to Tel Aviv before moving to New York in 1959. In his autobiography, Breaking Ground: An Immigrant's Journey from Poland to Ground Zero , Libeskind spoke of how

264-605: Is a limited-equity cooperative in New York City . Organized by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (ACW) , a Manhattan-based socialist labor union , the co-op's original cluster of Tudor-style buildings was erected at the southern edge of Van Cortlandt Park in 1927. Additional buildings were added in the post-World War II period, and in the 1970s. The Amalgamated's delivery of attractive, affordable housing for working-class New Yorkers; its remarkable survival through

297-627: Is its principal design architect. He is known for the design and completion of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, that opened in 2001. On February 27, 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

330-780: 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 . Born in Łódź , Poland, Libeskind was the second child of Dora and Nachman Libeskind, both Polish Jews and Holocaust survivors. As

363-752: The Great Depression ; and its continued success and growth earned it praise from Franklin D. Roosevelt , among others. While it first served as a proof-of-concept for a self-help model of urban affordable housing, it later became a model for the much larger, state-sponsored limited-equity housing co-ops built in New York City during the post-World War II period. These included its sister co-op, Park Reservoir (the state's first Mitchell-Lama co-op, with buildings on Sedgwick and Orloff Avenues); as well as Penn South in Manhattan, Rochdale Village in Queens, Co-op City in

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396-849: The MO Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania; Zlota 44, a high-rise residential tower in Warsaw, Poland; the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics at Durham University in Durham, England; the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, Canada; and Corals at Keppel Bay in Singapore, adjacent to the studio's previous completed project Reflections at Keppel Bay. In addition to his architectural projects, Libeskind has worked with

429-790: The Three Lessons in Architecture were displayed at the Venice Biennale in 1985 where Libeskind also won a Stone Lion award. Libeskind has taught at numerous universities across the world, including the University of Kentucky , Yale University , UCLA, Harvard, the University of London, and the University of Pennsylvania . He continues to teach students at various universities including the Catholic University of America. While much of Libeskind's work has been well-received, it has also been

462-630: The Bronx, and others. Amid the decline and abandonment that plagued much of the West Bronx in the 1970s and 1980s, the Amalgamated remained an anchor of stability. As of 2024, the Amalgamated comprised 11 residential buildings, with 1,468 units, ranging from studio to five-bedroom apartments. It forms the core of the Van Cortlandt Village section of the Bronx , situated between Van Cortlandt Park, to

495-582: The Jewish Museum Berlin in 1989, which became the first museum dedicated to the Holocaust in WWII and opened to the public in 2001 with international acclaim. This was his first major international success and was one of the first building modifications designed after reunification . A glass courtyard was designed by Libeskind and added in 2007. The Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin also designed by Libeskind

528-528: The Lower East Side was the center of the union's membership, its overcrowded blocks of aging tenements presented few opportunities for new development. Instead, Kazan and ACW president Sidney Hillman chose a canvas in the northwest Bronx, on the suburban outskirts of Van Cortlandt Park. Financed with a combination of union funds and a $ 1.2 million loan from Metropolitan Life Insurance , the first units were completed and occupied in 1927. The Amalgamated Co-op

561-658: The New York State legislature to enact a framework that would facilitate construction of affordable new apartments, which came to fruition in 1926 with the Limited Dividend Housing Act, providing 20-year tax abatements to new buildings aimed at low-income tenants, with profits limited to six percent. ACW leaders established the Amalgamated Housing Corporation to take advantage of the new law, to develop housing for qualifying union members. Although

594-690: The Pavement . Daniel Libeskind was the Head of Architecture at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan from 1978-1985. During his tenure at Cranbrook he explored various themes of space, influenced by theorists like Derrida and he was part of the leading avant-garde in architecture and academia. He produced several writings, artworks and large-scale explorations, including the Reading Machine, Writing Machine and Memory Machine. The machines called

627-600: 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. 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

660-628: The age of 52, with the opening of the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Germany in 1998. Prior to this, critics had dismissed his designs as "unbuildable or unduly assertive". In 1987, Libeskind won his first design competition for housing in West Berlin, but the Berlin Wall fell shortly thereafter and the project was cancelled. Libeskind won the first four project competitions he entered including

693-498: The dynamics of knowledge and the unifying role of faith." Hebrew letters inspired the shapes of the windows, which cut across a gold-colored aluminum exterior. 32°04′17″N 34°50′48″E  /  32.07148079°N 34.84669176°E  / 32.07148079; 34.84669176 Daniel Libeskind Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor and set designer . Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and

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726-510: The explorations of his Micromegas and Chamberworks drawings series that he did in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Polderland Garden of Love and Fire in Almere, Netherlands is a permanent installation completed in 1997 and restored on October 4, 2017. Later in his career, Libeskind designed the Life Electric sculpture that was completed in 2015 on Lake Como, Italy. This sculpture is dedicated to

759-1151: 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

792-562: The kibbutz experience influenced his concern for green architecture. In the summer of 1959, his family moved to New York City on one of the last immigrant boats to the United States. In New York, Libeskind lived in the Amalgamated Housing Cooperative in the northwest Bronx , a union-sponsored, middle-income cooperative development. He attended the Bronx High School of Science . The print shop where his father worked

825-653: The north, and the Jerome Park Reservoir , to the south and east. In the 1920s, Abraham Kazan served as president of the ACW's cooperative credit union. The son of Jewish immigrants from Russia, Kazan had grown up on the Lower East Side . An ambitious labor activist, he sought to apply a version of the Rochdale principles to the urgent need for affordable housing in New York City. Along with other labor leaders, Kazan lobbied

858-534: The physicist Alessandro Volta . Libeskind has designed opera sets for productions such as the Norwegian National Theatre 's The Architect in 1998 and Saarländisches Staatstheater 's Tristan und Isolde in 2001. He also designed the sets and costumes for Intolleranza by Luigi Nono and for a production of Messiaen's Saint Francis of Assisi by Deutsche Oper Berlin . He has also written free verse prose, included in his book Fishing from

891-474: The post-war era, in partnership with Abraham Kazan and (at times) with strong support from the controversial New York urban planning power broker, Robert Moses . It has been suggested that the scale of these later developments, and their state sponsorship, may have diluted the communitarian and self-governing characteristics that had contributed to the early success of the Amalgamated. The Amalgamated, itself, grew from an original 300 units in its initial phase to

924-678: The subject of often severe criticism. Critics often describe Libeskind's work as deconstructivist . 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. In 2008 Los Angeles Times critic Christopher Hawthorne wrote: "Anyone looking for signs that Daniel Libeskind's work might deepen profoundly over time, or shift in some surprising direction, has mostly been doing so in vain." Nicolai Ouroussoff stated in The New York Times in 2006: "His worst buildings, like

957-528: The world. From 1978 to 1985, Libeskind was the director of the Architecture Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. His practical architectural career began in Milan in the late 1980s, where he submitted to architectural competitions and also founded and directed Architecture Intermundium, Institute for Architecture & Urbanism. Libeskind completed his first building at

990-544: Was completed in 2012. Libeskind was selected by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to oversee the rebuilding of the World Trade Center , which was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks . The concept for the site, which he titled Memory Foundations , was well-received upon its presentation to the public in 2003, although it was ultimately changed significantly before its execution. He

1023-536: Was on Stone Street in Lower Manhattan , and he watched the original World Trade Center being built in the 1960s. Libeskind became a United States citizen in 1965. Daniel Libeskind was accepted at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and began school there in 1965 where he was taught by John Hejduk and received his professional architectural degree in 1970. In 1968, Libeskind briefly worked as an apprentice to architect Richard Meier . He received

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1056-663: Was the first architect to win the Hiroshima Art Prize, awarded to an artist whose work promotes international understanding and peace. Many of his projects look at the deep cultural connections between memory and architecture. Studio Daniel Libeskind is headquartered two blocks south of the World Trade Center site in New York. He has designed numerous cultural and commercial institutions, museums, concert halls, convention centers, universities, residences, hotels, and shopping centers. The studio's most recent completed projects include

1089-484: Was the first housing complex in the United States founded under limited equity rules -- a model that would ultimately be used to develop more than 40,000 units of affordable, owner-occupied and self-governing apartment co-ops in Greater New York. The original buildings were designed by an architectural team that included Herman Jessor , who would go on to design the bulk of the New York City's housing cooperatives in

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