"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it."
-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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"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture."
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