Daniel Libeskind Quotes

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• To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.
• We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.
• Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
• Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every…
• What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.
• I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a…
• The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines…
• And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I…
• Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future
• I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains
• I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline
• I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and…
• Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built
• There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here
• And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city
• Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more…
• And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that…
• The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding
• Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.
• Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

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