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Daniel libeskind presents his book breaking ground adventures in life and architecture. A new skyline for new york city was a goal set early on by the stakeholder rebuilders of ground zero. He studied music seriously as a teenager, but at age 19 decided to pursue architecture, enrolling at cooper union in new york. A gifted musician in his childhood, he first studied music in israel then architecture. Daniel libeskind daniel libeskind was born in communist poland to jewish holocaust survivors. Image 1 of 4 from gallery of luneburg universitys libeskind building daniel libeskind. Daniel libeskind je izabran za obnovu svjetskog trgovackog centra u new yorku. Introduction background born in 1946, daniel libeskind is an american architect that has founded his own firms, studio. In his addition to the jewish museum berlin, completed in 1999, daniel libeskind communicates the displacement and disassociation of the jewish people in germa ny through his use of metaphor, fragmentation, void, and disorientation.
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