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Daniel Libeskind is an international figure in architecture and urban design. In February 2003, Daniel Libeskind was chosen as the Master Plan Architect for the World Trade Center reconstruction. A virtuoso musician before studying architecture, Libeskind has designed iconic buildings around the world, including the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Imperial War Museum in Manchester, England. Born in 1946 to Holocaust survivors in Poland, Daniel Libeskind draws on his uncommon background and global perspective to explore ideas about tragedy and hope, and the way in which architecture can memorialize and reshape human experience.

Interviewed by Inga Saffron, Architecture Critic, Phladelphia Inquirer