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Willa Cather, Daniel Libeskind, and the Creative Destruction of Manhattan
From: The Journal of American Culture
Date: 20050301
Author:Lindner, Christoph
There must be something wonderful coming. When the frenzy is over, when the furnace has cooled, what marvel will be left on Manhattan Island?
-Willa Gather, 1912.
It seems to me that architecture is, in fact, the machine that produces the universe which produces the gods. It does so not fully through theories or reflections, but in the ever non-repeatable and optimistic act of construction.
- Daniel Libeskind, 2004.
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