Daniel Libeskind
Our Judaism was an everyday thing... It was in the way that you saw the world, and the way you talked about it; it was the way you reacted to other people and the way you embraced realities that are often rejected by others.
Brief audio excerpts from Liebeskind’s interview for Jewish Sages of Today
Images and more
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Images of Libeskind’s work
More than 140,000 images of Libeskind’s work and related subject matter available on this Google Images search: scroll over each image for more information.
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Jewish Museum in Berlin
Images of the Libeskind-designed museum
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17 Words of Architectural Inspiration Video
February 2009 TED lecture
(18 min)
Selected books by and about Libeskind and his work; for a more complete listing, click here
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Counterpoint: Daniel Libeskind in Conversation with Paul Goldberger
(The Monacelli Press, 2008)
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Breaking Ground: An Immigrant's Journey from Poland to Ground Zero
by Daniel Libeskind (Riverhead Trade, 2005)
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Daniel Libeskind: The Space of Encounter
by Daniel Libeskind (Universe, 2001)
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Daniel Libeskind: Jewish Museum Berlin
by Christian Brensing and Bernhard Schneider (Prestel Publishing, 1999)
Related to Liebeskind’s work
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Studio Daniel Libeskind
Official website of Studio Daniel Libeskind, including project archives, biography, exhibitions, and texts by the architect.
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Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
In 1998, the Contemporary Jewish Museum selected Libeskind to design its new home. Unveiled in 2005, Daniel Libeskind's design for the new museum, his first commissioned project in North America, reflects the museum's mission to celebrate Jewish culture, history, art, and ideas.
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Jewish Museum Berlin
In 1989 Libeskind won the Berlin Museum’s architecture competition for the design of the Jewish museum. His plan, which includes a Garden of Exile, Glass Courtyard, and Holocaust Tower, was realized when the museum opened on September 9, 2001 – today it is one of Germany’s most visited sites.
Interviews with Libeskind, reviews of his work, and more
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A Conversation with Daniel Libeskind Video
2008 Penn State Public Broadcasting Lobby Talks Series
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2003 interview on the website designboom
Includes brief but personal insights into Libeskind’s personality, quicktime clips, and photographs of Libeskind’s work
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The Architecture Week Great Buildings Collection
Includes several Architecture Week articles regarding Libeskind’s work
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Defying Gravity (DVD, 2006)
Three documentaries on the design, construction and installation of Libeskind’s design for the Frederic C. Hamilton Building at the Denver Art Museum