Studio Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind, an international figure in architectural practice and urban design, was born in postwar Poland in 1946, and became an American citizen in 1965. He studied music in Israel and in New York, before leaving music to study architecture receiving his professional architectural degree at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1970 in New York City and a postgraduate degree in History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Comparative Studies at Essex University in 1972.

Daniel Libeskind won the competition for the Jewish Museum Berlin in 1989, which opened to the public in January 1999 without any exhibits. Over the last two years over 450,000 people visited the empty building. In September 2001 the Jewish Museum finally opened to the public with a full exhibition.