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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.

From Moshe Safdie

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.

From Moshe Safdie

I try firstly to make buildings humane.

From Moshe Safdie

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.

From Moshe Safdie

Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture.

From Moshe Safdie

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

From Moshe Safdie

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.

From Moshe Safdie

A house is not a machine! It's something else for living - but not a machine.

From Moshe Safdie

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

From Moshe Safdie

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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