I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

Libeskind links personal formation and civic trauma: having studied architecture in New York, he frames his response to a major event affecting the city as both intimate and collective. The quote suggests that architecture is not merely functional problem-solving but a cultural act capable of “resonance and profundity”—a built expression of shared memory and meaning. His emphasis on being “moved, like everyone else” positions the architect not as a detached auteur but as a participant in a wider community of mourners and citizens, seeking to contribute something commensurate with what the site or event “means to all of us.”