We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.

There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private.

Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

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.