I studied architecture in New York. So,... by Daniel Libeskind

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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 profundity of it means to all of us.

- Daniel Libeskind

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Life

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

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

- Daniel Libeskind

Space Voice

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.

- Daniel Libeskind

Mountains Faith

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

- Daniel Libeskind

History Life

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

- Daniel Libeskind

Design

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.

- Daniel Libeskind

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- Daniel Libeskind

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Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

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

- Daniel Libeskind