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UofM’s The Humanities Institute Great Speaker Series: Daniel Libeskind
April 13, 2005—Northrop Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Daniel LibeskindAlready one of the world’s leading architects, Daniel Libeskind’s profile has taken a dramatic leap forward with his selection as the lead architect on the rebuilding of the World Trade Center Site, the most important American architectural project in decades. His winning proposal features a tower 1,776 feet tall, for the year of American independence, that will demonstrate “the durability of democracy.” The top levels will hold indoor gardens that will be a “confirmation of life.”
Born in postwar Poland in 1946, Daniel Libeskind became an American citizen in 1965. He received his professional architectural degree at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1970 in New York City and a postgraduate degree in History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Comparative Studies at Essex University in 1972. In addition to his work on the World Trade Center Site, his other major projects include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, and the extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
This event is co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and the American Institute of Architects.
