Presented By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning
WALLENBERG LECTURE: DANIEL LIBESKIND
The Language of Architecture
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents the 2015 Wallenberg Lecture by Daniel Libeskind.
Mr. Daniel Libeskind, a Polish-American architect born in 1946, is the founder of Studio Daniel Libeskind. As a child, Mr. Libeskind was a talented musician and performed on Polish television. In 1959, at 13 years old, Libeskind was the recipient of the American-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship to study music in Israel. He moved to New York with his family where he continued to foster his musical talent and performer. He later left the world of music to study architecture and received his professional architectural degree in 1970 from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. He received a postgraduate degree in History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Comparative Studies at Essex University in England in 1972.
Mr. Libeskind has lived in New York, Toronto, Michigan, Italy, Germany, and Los Angeles and has taught at numerous universities including, the University of Kentucky, Yale University, and the University of Pennsylvania, and is a visiting professor at the Leuphana University Luenburg in Lüneburg, Germany.
He has received numerous awards and designed world-renowned projects including: the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Denver Art Museum, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the Military History Museum in Dresden, and the master plan for Ground Zero among others. Several of Daniel Libeskind’s projects are currently under construction, among which CityLife, project of re-qualification of the old fairgrounds district in Milan, which includes a new urban park, as well as residential, office, retail and cultural areas, and Zlota 44; a residential high-rise tower in Warsaw, Poland.
This lecture marks the 20-year anniversary of Daniel Libeskind's 1995 Raoul Wallenberg lecture.
Lecture made possible by the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Benard L. Maas Foundation, and generous donors to the Raoul Wallenberg Lecture Fund.
5pm reception at the Michigan Union Ballroom
Mr. Daniel Libeskind, a Polish-American architect born in 1946, is the founder of Studio Daniel Libeskind. As a child, Mr. Libeskind was a talented musician and performed on Polish television. In 1959, at 13 years old, Libeskind was the recipient of the American-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship to study music in Israel. He moved to New York with his family where he continued to foster his musical talent and performer. He later left the world of music to study architecture and received his professional architectural degree in 1970 from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. He received a postgraduate degree in History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Comparative Studies at Essex University in England in 1972.
Mr. Libeskind has lived in New York, Toronto, Michigan, Italy, Germany, and Los Angeles and has taught at numerous universities including, the University of Kentucky, Yale University, and the University of Pennsylvania, and is a visiting professor at the Leuphana University Luenburg in Lüneburg, Germany.
He has received numerous awards and designed world-renowned projects including: the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Denver Art Museum, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the Military History Museum in Dresden, and the master plan for Ground Zero among others. Several of Daniel Libeskind’s projects are currently under construction, among which CityLife, project of re-qualification of the old fairgrounds district in Milan, which includes a new urban park, as well as residential, office, retail and cultural areas, and Zlota 44; a residential high-rise tower in Warsaw, Poland.
This lecture marks the 20-year anniversary of Daniel Libeskind's 1995 Raoul Wallenberg lecture.
Lecture made possible by the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Benard L. Maas Foundation, and generous donors to the Raoul Wallenberg Lecture Fund.
5pm reception at the Michigan Union Ballroom
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