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Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie
Israeli Architect
Born: Jul 14, 1938
Architecture Buildings Design Think World You
Related authors: Antoni Gaudi Frank Gehry Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Kahn Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Maya Lin Walter Gropius Zaha Hadid
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance. Moshe Safdie
Truth Joy Arrogance Beauty Fall Considers Find Vanity Seeks Shall He Disappointed Fellow Himself Self-Expression His Pit Order Who Beings Gratification Servant
I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different. Moshe Safdie
You Culture Building Think Resonates Out India City Architect Arkansas Feels Come Like Singapore Because Understand Buildings Essence Different Place Places Create Kansas Kansas City Need
I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past. Moshe Safdie
Future Past Adapting About Take Blend Look Buildings Always Been Trying Want Root
Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work. Moshe Safdie
Work Discipline Design Innovative Cities Most Singapore Exists Canadian American Urban Barely Transportation Strategies
Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless. Moshe Safdie
Fashion Architecture World Joined Passing Timeless
I try firstly to make buildings humane. Moshe Safdie
Try Humane Make Buildings Firstly
Architecture is changing faster than some other professions. Moshe Safdie
Architecture Faster Other Changing Some Than Professions
Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture. Moshe Safdie
History Culture Countries Story Places
I don't think I have a signature style that announces, 'This is a Safdie.' But I think star architects have seized an opportunity to go anywhere in the world to produce meaningless buildings. Moshe Safdie
World Opportunity Style Think Signature Architects Seized Buildings Go Anywhere Produce Meaningless Star
A house is not a machine! It's something else for living - but not a machine. Moshe Safdie
Living Else Machine Something Something Else House
There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts. Moshe Safdie
Architecture Other Arts Different Which Ethic Profound

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