Moshe Safdie Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about building what is appropriate and about attaining beauty through such an approach. I describe this premise as 'inherent buildability', and I believe it is central to what I do.”
-- Moshe SafdieSource : "Moshe Safdie: Global Citizen". worldarchitecture.org. November 21, 2013.
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“Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.”
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“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 SafdieSource : Moshe Safdie (2009). “Moshe Safdie: Volume 1”, p.11, Images Publishing
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?”
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“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.”
-- Moshe SafdieSource : "Toronto should be more like Singapore, Moshe Safdie says". Interview with Lisa Rochon, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 08, 2011.
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“Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.”
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“We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation”
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“I want my children to be able to meet and play and communicate with many other children on their own, not only when they are driven somewhere. I want them to grow up in an environment that is not just a place where people sleep but where people work.. and where people enjoy themselves.”
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“The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There’s no greater satisfaction.”
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“I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public's identification something very positive.”
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“Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.”
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“Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.”
-- Moshe SafdieSource : "Toronto should be more like Singapore, Moshe Safdie says". Interview with Lisa Rochon, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 08, 2011.
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“Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.”
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“There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.”
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