Daily Inspiration Quote by Daniel Libeskind

Libeskind’s compliment lands with the careful modesty of someone talking about a city that has been over-explained for a century. “Of course” is doing the real work: it’s a wink at expectation. If you’re an architect known for building in the long shadow of European trauma, you’re supposed to like Berlin. The phrase acknowledges that Berlin is not a neutral object of taste; it’s a moral, historical, and aesthetic proving ground.

Then he chooses the safest possible adjective: “interesting.” In ordinary conversation, that can be a polite shrug. From Libeskind, it reads as strategic understatement. Berlin is “interesting” the way an exposed scar is interesting: layered, contradictory, impossible to reduce to a postcard identity. The city’s identity is made of ruptures - imperial ambition, fascism, division, reunification, constant rebuilding - and Libeskind’s work has often treated architecture as a container for memory rather than a backdrop to it. Saying less avoids sounding like he’s claiming ownership over Berlin’s narrative.

The repetition - “I like... a lot” followed by “such an interesting city” - also hints at an outsider’s affection that doesn’t pretend to be native certainty. It’s admiration without romanticization. Berlin is the place where modernism, guilt, capital, subculture, and bureaucracy collide, and “interesting” becomes a diplomatic word for volatility: a city whose power comes from never fully settling, and from forcing anyone who builds there to answer a question bigger than style.