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
Daniel Libeskind
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
architecture history meaningful parody
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
humanity cities
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 live awareness important
I think it's the greatest form of art, to create a residential building,.. 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.
people art live beautiful ideas person judge public cities create abstract great form
The public has to understand, it's not just build some buildings. I don't think there has ever been such a project with such urgency and such speed, given the complexity.
speed public understand complexity project
Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.
space
We will work with everybody for the good of New York
work good
I like Larry but, look, it's an evolution. We have to all work together; we have to all find a consensus
evolution work find
Absolutely, that's my commitment, and that's the commitment of New York
commitment
architecture modernity urban-planning
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 faith
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.
people power
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.
life experience
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
life history
The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.
government
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