Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
Daniel LibeskindRead
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.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the resilience and faith of people rebuilding their lives in a challenging environment.
In this quote, Daniel Libeskind speaks to the remarkable human capacity for resilience and courage in the face of adversity. Despite the traumatic events of the terrorist attacks, the growing population of Lower Manhattan represents a collective faith in the community and a strong spirit of rebuilding and moving forward, showcasing the undying strength of humanity even in the most difficult circumstances.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a community gathering to inspire hope and unity.
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.
And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.
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.
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.
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?
Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things
Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith... Long ways to go. Grateful to survive. I's frustrating. Mentally hard. Hard work. I'm trying. Trying so hard to get better. Regain what I've lost... I will get stronger. I will return.
I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
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