"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it."
-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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"Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future."
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"I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains."
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"Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved."
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"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture."
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"First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture."
-Gustav Stickley
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