Daniel Libeskind Quotes About Architecture

Quotes about: Architecture

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

  Daniel Libeskind

  Badass, Bad Ass, Steel

• Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Winning, Ninety Nine, Ideas

  "Rebuilding the rubble" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2002.

• 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

  New York, Mean, Trying

  "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.

• 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.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Thinking, People, New Life

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

  Daniel Libeskind

  Meaningful, Badass, Bad Ass

• Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Cities, Humanity, Architecture

  "The rise and rise of the skyscraper". edition.cnn.com. July 4, 2005.

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

  Daniel Libeskind

  Fashion, Magazines, Next

  "Ignore the critics – Beethoven was "a failure" in their eyes too, says Daniel Libeskind". Interview with Anna Winston, www.dezeen.com. April 11, 2014.

• 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?

  Daniel Libeskind

  Spiritual, Looks, Answers

• 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.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Motivation, Inspiration, Believe

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