Daniel Libeskind Illustration of the Jewish Museum in Berlin,

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Polish-American architect associated with the Deconstructivism movement in architecture. Born in Lodz to parents who survived the Holocaust and studied music as a child. The family immigrated to Israel in 1957 and moved to New York in 1960. Rose to fame with his design for the Jewish Museum Berlin, among the first public buildings built after the reunification of the city. He planned the extension to the Royal Ontario Museum; the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, and oversaw the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site in New York, constructed after the terror attacks of the September 11.