Daniel Libeskind accepting his honorary doctorate from Berlin's Humboldt University

What ineffable - immeasurable power of building in the city! The epiphany of the constructible is the strange sucking of the earth's axis. In the realm of architecture, ideas having stared at Medusa turn to stone.

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