Background & History

Daniel Libeskind was born in Lodz, Poland in 1946, where he started his musical career starting from the age 6. In his teens, Daniel, has immigrated to the united states where he abandoned his music career to pursue his passion to art into architecture.
After completing his education, he briefly held jobs with standard architectural firms, but he felt stifled by what he viewed as a conformist attitude in such offices. He did not want to imitate other people's design ideas and architectural theories-he wanted instead to develop his own notions and encourage other young architects to think independently as well. 
Libeskind moved to Milan, Italy, to have his own small school, Daniel wanted the school to offer "an alternative to traditional school or to the traditional way to work in an office.... The school was between two worlds, neither the world of practice nor of academia." Libeskind was the only professor at his school, teaching about a dozen students at a time.

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