Since leaving a career in classical music to focus solely on architecture, Daniel Libeskind's highly unconventional approach to building has thrilled architects, students and commentators around the world.
Libeskind's constant interaction with students, his numerous awards and the offices he has maintained in various cities all play their part in assuring an avid readership for one of the most high-profile architects of our time.
Here is a generous and intelligent selection of Libeskind's drawings and full-colour images of his built work and projects in progress and, for the first time in print, his project proposal texts, letters to and from colleagues and friends, excerpts from speeches, and articles from international newspapers and magazines - beginning with his first major project in 1979 and moving ahead to the year 2005.
Daniel Libeskind is currently First Louis Kahn Professor at Yale University School of Architecture. Construction will soon commence on his controversial Spiral extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum.