Daniel Libeskind Quotes

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Daniel Libeskind

Profession : Architect

Birth : May 12, 1946

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 complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

Daniel Libeskind

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

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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 saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.

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Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

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We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.

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And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city.

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I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

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There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private.

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When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

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Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

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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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It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

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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 is really the design as a whole.

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Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site.

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Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is.

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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.

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The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

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The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play.

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Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.

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It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.

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