Daniel Libeskind will celebrate his 65th birthday tomorrow

Washington/Praha - On May 12, American architect of Polish origin Daniel Libeskind celebrates his sixty-fifth birthday, who is among the world's architectural stars. Among his most famous projects are the Jewish Museum in San Francisco, the City Museum in Osnabrück, the new wing of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and extensions to museums in Denver and Toronto. His plans also led to the creation of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, and he is the author behind the reconstruction of Ground Zero, where the skyscrapers of New York's World Trade Center (WTC) stood until September 2001. However, he distanced himself from this project due to later interventions.
     Daniel Libeskind was born on May 12, 1946, in Lodz, Poland, in a Jewish family that survived the Holocaust. In 1957, he moved with his parents to Israel, and after three years, they all relocated to New York. He originally studied music and earned money playing in bars. In 1970, he graduated from the renowned Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, and he also studied in Essex and London. Libeskind has lectured at numerous universities around the world and has received many awards and honorary doctorates. He and his wife Nina have three children.