Studio Libeskind is involved in designing and realizing a diverse array of urban, cultural and commercial projects around the globe. Our Studio is a collaboration of architects, builders, designers, urban planners and thinkers that believe architecture is a practice of optimism. Studio Libeskind’s architecture emerges from the idea that a building should be expressive and reflect contemporary life. We approach our projects with the attitude that to make great places, you must believe in the future, but also remember the past.

In today’s complex world of global economy, information flow, and shrinking natural resources, architecture must be able to push cultures forward, rather than responding only to the past or present; it holds the responsibility to progress our race toward a better future. The focus of the architectural project must go beyond the quick solution of a single problem so often constructed in the mass-produced market of our time. This reduction of architecture to product sales has a critical impact on society which affects the health of culture and the well being of the human environment. The current role of the architect must escape the containment of servitude to profit-minded production and return to inspiring the artistic want of humanity while maintaining a stewardship of our planet. The architect must operate outside the bounds of society in order to sustain a vision of possible tomorrows. In this sense, he or she becomes an observer, studying all patterns of knowledge and information enabling him or her to make critical insertions into the fabric of society. It is these interruptions which have the capability of altering one’s perspective. Using perception as an interactive medium, it is my ambition to explore the realms of idea, image and habitable space with the intention of adjusting the viewpoint.