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Daniel Libeskind

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Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor, and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect. He is known for the design and completion of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, that opened in 2001. On February 27, 2003, Libeskind received further international attention after he won the competition to be the master plan architect for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Daniel Libeskind is the 90th most popular architect (down from 79th in 2019), the 195th most popular biography from Poland (down from 166th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Architect.

Daniel Libeskind is most famous for his design of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, which opened in 2001. He is also known for his design of the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, England, which opened in 2002.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Daniel Libeskind ranks 90 out of 518. Before him are Robert Venturi, Giuliano da Sangallo, Louis Kahn, Richard Rogers, Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, and Lluís Domènech i Montaner. After him are Senenmut, Frei Otto, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Hector Guimard, Mnesikles, and Gottfried Semper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Daniel Libeskind ranks 100. Before him are Gerard 't Hooft, Birutė Galdikas, John C. Mather, Ahmed Zewail, Brian Cox, and Catharine MacKinnon. After him are Frank Marshall, Lasse Hallström, Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, Jochen Mass, John Paul Jones, and Steve Biko.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Daniel Libeskind ranks 195 out of 1,694. Before him are Jerzy Kosiński (1933), Marian Rejewski (1905), Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885), Helena Rubinstein (1872), Heinrich Rickert (1863), and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915). After him are Ernst Kummer (1810), Samuel Reshevsky (1911), Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770), Stanisław Dziwisz (1939), Siegbert Tarrasch (1862), and Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Poland

Among architects born in Poland, Daniel Libeskind ranks 2. Before him are Erich Mendelsohn (1887). After him are Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732), Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (1699), Marian Spychalski (1906), Friedrich Gilly (1772), Wojciech Zabłocki (1930), Max Berg (1870), and Elizabeth Diller (1958).

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