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Moshe Safdie Quotes

Israeli - Architect | July 14, 1938 -

I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.

World Planning Design Authority Most

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.

Beauty Truth Joy Arrogance Fall

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

Time Architecture Past Forward Own

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.

Future Past Trying Buildings Look

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.

Culture City Building Think You

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

Architecture World Fashion Timeless

I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.

Passion Community Real Libraries

I try firstly to make buildings humane.

Buildings Try Make Humane Firstly

We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more light and open and calm.

Live Light World Calm Complicated

Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all.

You Buildings Perfect Sight Begin

I grew up in a country where the environment was very social justice-oriented.

Environment Country Up Social Where

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

Beauty Beautiful Fitness Humanity

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