"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody……" — Daniel Libeskind

"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it."

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38 Quotes by Daniel Libeskind

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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…
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…
The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me…
And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the…
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a…
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…
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built

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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat… — Alvar Aalto
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and… — Alvar Aalto
A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split… — Alvar Aalto
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. — Constantin Brancusi
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit… — Alvar Aalto
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in… — Dan Brown
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases.… — Dan Brown

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