"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."

Design, Awareness, Museums

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"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."

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"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."

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"Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance."

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"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

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"I have yet to learn that I am not designed to carry the burden of men. Rather, I am designed to carry the love of God so that I might soothe the burden of men."

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"Often we don't see the majesty of God's design because we're caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs."

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"God did not simply decide to create heaven and earth. He had a vision."

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"Your body is a complete marvel. The more you study its anatomy and how each part works in harmony, the more you will be convinced that you didn't just evolve. You were designed from the beginning by the hand of a Master."

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"Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition."

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"It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century."

Tragedy

"Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future."

History

"It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker."

Project

"The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play."

Act

"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."

Space

"Cities are the greatest creations of humanity."

Cities

"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."

Competition

"And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole."

Design

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

Architecture

"It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment."

Responsibility