I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate … - Daniel Libeskind

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I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

Daniel Libeskind

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. -p. 197

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