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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.

~Daniel Libeskind

Topics: About Calculations Complex Experience Interesting Just Life More Obvious Participation Series Something Statistics Sum Sum Total Than Total

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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.

~Daniel Libeskind

Topics: America American American Dream Came Concrete Dream Glass Immigrant Just Know Liberty Really Remember Representation Saw Ship Skyline Statue Statue Of Liberty Steel Substance Through You I Came

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

~Daniel Libeskind

Topics: Architecture Articulate History Meaningful Parody Provide

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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.

~Daniel Libeskind

Topics: Beautiful Beautiful Place Because Become Below Competition Developed Memorial Moving Place Planting Private Protected Something Streets Then Trees Very Will

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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.

~Daniel Libeskind

Topics: Awareness Buildings Century Civic Concert Design Halls How Important Live Museums New Think Where I Think 21St Century

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Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

~Daniel Libeskind

Topics: Cities Creations Greatest Humanity

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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.

~Daniel Libeskind

Topics: Architecture Built Cent Competition Get Idea Just Never Ninety-Nine Oblivion Per Ticket Winning

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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.

~Daniel Libeskind

Topics: Artistic Bronx Brought Easily Fed Fed Up Get Kid Too Up You

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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.

~Daniel Libeskind

Topics: Because Came Invent Know Memorial Million Really See Site Space Speaking Think Us Voice Well You I Think

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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.

~Daniel Libeskind

Topics: Bottom City Create Democratic Forever Foundation Held Look People Power Really Reminder Site Sky Sort Up Want Wanted Well Which Would

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Type: Architect

Born: May 12th, 1946

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