“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.”
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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
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.