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Inexplicable vs Understood

"Too often we want to understand everything, but architecture is not the language of words. It's a language, but it is not a language that can be reduced into a series of programatic notes that we can verbally write. Too many buildings that you see outside that are so banal, tell you a story. But the story is very short; it says, 'we have no story to tell you'. The important thing, i think, is to introduce the actual architectural dimensions which might be totally inexplicable in words, because they operate in proportions, in materials, in light. They connect themselves into various sources, into a kind of complex vector matrix that isn't really frontal, but is really imbedded in the lives and in the history of a city and of a people. So again, the notion that a building should just be explicit, i think, is a false notion which has reduced architecture to banality."

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Daniel Libeskind

By Wihan Hendrikz

A transcript of "17 words of Architectural Inspiration" - Daniel Libeskind on TED (2009)