Daniel Libeskind, 1776 Freedom Tower


Item Number: 127

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: $500

Online Close: Oct 4, 2024 11:59 PM EDT

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Description

Limited Edition Print (150)


24 x 18 inches (unframed)


An international figure in architecture and urban design, Daniel Libeskind is renowned for his ability to evoke cultural memory in buildings. Informed by a deep commitment to music, philosophy, literature, and poetry, Mr. Libeskind aims to create resonant, unique, and sustainable architecture.


Born in Lód’z, Poland, in 1946, Mr. Libeskind immigrated to the United States as a teenager and, with his family, settled in the Bronx. He received his degree in architecture from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1970 and a postgraduate degree from the School of Comparative Studies at Essex University in England in 1972.


In 1989, Mr. Libeskind won the international competition to build the Jewish Museum in Berlin. He moved his young family to Berlin and devoted more than a decade to the completion of this seminal design.


In 2003, Studio Libeskind won another historic competition—to create a master plan for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.  In addition to a towering spire of 1,776 feet, the Libeskind design study proposed a complex program encompassing a memorial, an underground museum, the integration of the slurry wall, a unique transit hub, and four office towers.