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Breaking Ground: An Immigrant's Journey from Poland to Ground Zero
Author(s): Daniel Libeskind (Author)
- Publisher: Riverhead Books
- Publication Date: October 4, 2005
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 1594481326
- ISBN-13: 9781594481321
Book Description
A noted architect shares his iconoclastic approach to the creation of public space, his ideas about tragedy and hope and the ways in which architecture can shape and memorialize human experience, and his unique vision for the construction of the 1776 Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site. Reprint.
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About the Author
Born in Poland to Holocaust survivors, Daniel Libeskind immigrated with his family to Israel in 1957, and settled in New York City in 1959. He is currently building museums in Denver, Boston, Toronto, and San Francisco, as well as commercial and cultural projects in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, England, and Ireland. He is principal design architect in Studio Daniel Libeskind, which he founded in 1990. In February 2003, Libeskind was chosen as master plan architect for the World Trade Center reconstruction site.
Daniel Libeskind is principal design architect in Studio Daniel Libeskind, which he founded in 1990.
