Daniel Libeskind Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• We will work with everybody for the good of New York.

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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

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• It’s a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment.

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

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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.

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• I don’t get to sleep when I’m in New York. Really. I’m living on adrenaline.

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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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Daniel Libeskind (26)

Birth:	12th May, 1946
Nationality:	American, Polish
Profession:	Architect, Designer, Professor

About

Daniel Libeskind was born in Łódź, Poland. He is a Polish-born American architect, professor and set designer. His buildings include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the extension to the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin, the Imperial War Museum North in Greater Manchester, England, the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Germany, the Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the Wohl Centre at the Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel. On February 27, 2003, Libeskind won the competition to be the master plan architect for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan. Since 2007, Libeskind has been a visiting professor at the Leuphana University Lüneburg in Lüneburg, Germany.

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