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Daniel Libeskind, born on May 12, 1946, is a renowned architect known for his distinctive architectural style, which primarily focuses on modernism and postmodernism. His works are spread across the globe, characterized by innovative spatial and formal design, as well as a respect for history and culture.

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“We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can't just think about abstract ideas.”

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Author:Daniel Libeskind

“The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it also depends on interpretation. It's very similar to how you grow a master plan: it's an objective document, but at the same time it is a lyrical document which allows through interpretation to become a harmonious work of art.”

Way Writing Art Grows Plans Masters Depends Truth Is Objectives Code Interpretation Works Of Art Documents Precise Harmonious Lyrical

Author:Daniel Libeskind

“You cannot suddenly make Lower Manhattan into a sad place because we saw such a dramatic loss of life. You have to balance the memory, which is so important, and use it as a kind of Archimedean Point to create a lively, incredibly interesting, and culturally significant piece of a city and neighborhood.”

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“Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?”

Should Looks Spiritual Term Answers Architecture Superficial Short Term Deep Spiritual

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“Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!”

Risk Tested Innovative

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“Young people have the advantage because they have their whole lives open to be astonished.”

People Whole Young Advantage Whole Life

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

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“We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.”

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“Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.”

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“Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every single space that we have, in every intimacy that we possess.”

Needs Believe Inspiration Desire Motivation I Believe Space Emotion Our Lives Intellectual Mirrors Complexes Architecture Intimacy Complexity

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“What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.”

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“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 metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197”

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Book:Traces of the Unborn

Source: Traces of the Unborn

“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 of thinking, organization and relationship. One is a straight line, but broken into many fragments, the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely.”

Thinking Two Names Lines Broken Projects Organization Officials Museums Continuing Fragments Straight Lines Between The Lines

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

Humans Europe Void Berlin Acknowledgment Jewish Life

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

Knows Moving Mountain Drs Move Mountains Candide

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“I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline.”

Sleep New York Living On Adrenaline

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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.”

Trying Mean New York Moved Architecture Resonance Profundity

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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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“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.”

People Spirit Strong Terrorist Manhattan Terrorist Attacks Strong Spirit

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

Courses Interesting Cities Berlin

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

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“Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.”

Should Vision Berlin

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“Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.”

Humanity Cities Creation Architecture

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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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“In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It becomes part of a new dynamic: how people will occupy it, use it, think about it.”

People Thinking Way Use Building Strange Finished Architecture New Life Unfinished

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“Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.”

Moments Next Fashion Architecture Magazines Fashion Magazines

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“I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.”

Thinking Easy Creative Path Be Creative

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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.”

Kids Artistic Feds Yearning Fed Up Bronx

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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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“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.”

Thinking Knows Wells Voice Space Millions Site Memorial

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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.”

Beautiful Moving Tree Streets Competition Protected Memorial Very Beautiful Beautiful Places Very Moving

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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.”

Want Wanted Paid Planning Zero Towers Holding On Larry Fees Holding Back Ground Zero

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“And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans.”

Heart Soul Moving Special Development Site Very Moving

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“Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.”

Space Memorial Retail

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“And, yes, I love the process of building.”

Process Building

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About the Author

Born: May 12, 1946
Known for: Architect
Quotes: 38

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