A biography for Daniel Libeskindhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city.”
“I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.”
“It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.”
“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.”
“We will work with everybody for the good of New York.”
“When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.”
“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.”
“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.”
“To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.”
“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.”