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Daniel Libeskind [1946-0] Polish

Rank: 104
Architect

Daniel Libeskind is a Polish-American architect, artist, professor and set designer of Polish Jewish descent. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect.

Architecture, Design, Experience, History, Space

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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.	Architecture, History	101
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.	Experience	102
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.		103
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.	Architecture	104
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.		105
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.	Design	106
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.	Architecture	107
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.		108
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.		109
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.		110
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.	Space	111
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.		112
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.	Architecture	113
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.		114
The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.		115
It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment.		116
When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.		117
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.		118
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.		119
I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline.		120
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.	Design	121
And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city.		122
We will work with everybody for the good of New York.		123
We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.		124
It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.		125
I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.		126

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