"The experience of the mystery of Architecture occupies an important place in the work of Daniel Libeskind. In his view architecture is seen as a spiritual domain, a realm that cannot be visualised, an area of invisible presence since it deals with the unspeakable. Without spiritual content and without a contribution to a deeper understanding of our Being there can be no significance in any building. His work shows us a sensibility that is in agreement with the depths of the human soul. Libeskind has a profound desire for a new time in which the experience of architecture aims at the liberation of space. Here, literature, mathematics, music, astrology, philosophy are all part of the world of human knowledge and it is the task of architecture to map this knowledge and to add something that did not exist previously. We are living in the world after the holocaust and after Hiroshima and "we are all survivors, we have transformed death". It is rational thinking that has led to this endpoint and obviously it failed. Therefore it is the inevitable conclusion that this instrument is not the appropriate one with which one could reach a fundamental insight into human Being. From now on, every human creation will have to come about in a totally different manner. Another way of thinking needs to be started, constructed with different methods and based on different principles. Our relationship with the Spirit should not be reinstated, but reinvented from a different point of view, bearing in mind the experiences of the twentieth century. Although times are dark and complex, there is Hope and we might be at the verge of a tremendous creative era. Libeskind does not search for a synthesis of solutions, rather he tries constantly to intensify the mystery." - Marc Schoonderbeek.