7 Quotes & Sayings By Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind is an architect, born in Poland and raised in Canada. Daniel began his professional career in 1979, graduating from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Architecture degree. He has also received a Master of Architecture degree from McGill University and a Master's Degree in Urban Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. As an architect and urban designer, Daniel has worked on projects all over the world, including: the Berlin Holocaust Museum, World Trade Center Site (with Richard Rogers), the National Museum of the American Indian (with Michael Graves), Jerusalem Museum (with Moshe Safdie), and Oslo Opera House (with Frank Gehry).

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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. Daniel Libeskind
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Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. Daniel Libeskind
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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
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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. Daniel Libeskind
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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
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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