Award-winning architect Daniel Libeskind, who is designing the master plan for the new World Trade Center at Ground Zero in New York City, will be honoured with a special exhibition at the zigzag-shaped Berlin Jewish Museum he designed.

The temporary exhibition, "Counterpoint: The Architecture of Daniel Libeskind" opens on September 10, 2003. The original New York Trade Center was destroyed in terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

Models, design plans, sketches, films, photographs, and audio recordings for fifteen of Daniel Libeskind's projects will be presented in a museum space that exceeds 600 m². Daniel Libeskind's model for Ground Zero and the World Trade Center will be displayed in Germany for the first time.

Alongside famous buildings including the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, and the Imperial War Museum in Manchester, the exhibition will also present less-known buildings such as the Atelier Weil on Mallorca as well as projects still at the planning stage like the "MUSICON" concert hall in Bremen and the "Spiral" extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Daniel Libeskind's designs for Potsdamer Platz, Alexanderplatz, and the Sachsenhausen Memorial Site in Oranienburg were competition entries which were never realized but reveal the architect's vision for Berlin and commemorative culture in Germany.

Daniel Libeskind has been called a visionary who broke fresh ground through his multidisciplinary approach. Libeskind's work sparked a new critical discourse in the architectural world. Libeskind's philosophical approach connects architecture and city planning with their societal function and develops them through constant dialogue with the people. Daniel Libeskind is a musician who takes his inspiration from Bach through Schönberg to Messiaen and who staged an opera for the first time last year: "Saint François D'Assise" at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.

Daniel Libeskind was born in Poland and grew up also in Israel and the USA. He lived in Berlin for thirteen years and has recently moved with his family to New York.

Visitors can learn about Daniel Libeskind's achievements, ideas, and life at the exhibition "Counterpoint: The Architecture of Daniel Libeskind" from 10 September to 14 December 2003 at the Jewish Museum in Berlin.

See photos of Libeskind's design for the Jewish Museum in Berlin.

See photos of Libeskind's World Trade Center plans.