I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected.


Traces of the Unborn (ed. University of Michigan College of, 1995)

Daniel Libeskind Quotes

I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, ...

I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, ...

I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, ...

I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, ...