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" I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers. "
Moshe Safdie
Real
Passion
Libraries
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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. "
Moshe Safdie
Think
Strong
You
" 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
Culture
Building
City
" A house is not a machine! It's something else for living - but not a machine. "
Moshe Safdie
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Machine
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" 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
Style
Think
Opportunity
" A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have a purpose, that stay there for hundreds of years or decades. "
Moshe Safdie
Society
Stay
Buildings
" I grew up in a country where the environment was very social justice-oriented. "
Moshe Safdie
Environment
Social
Country
" 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. "
Moshe Safdie
Live
World
Try
" My identity is always at the forefront, and I also think that every article that is written about me refers to me as an Israeli architect. "
Moshe Safdie
Think
Always
Architect
" 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 Safdie
World
Planning
Most
" Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. "
Moshe Safdie
Architecture
Looking
Time
" Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture. "
Moshe Safdie
Culture
Places
Story
" Except for the projects in Israel, my being Israeli has contributed negatively to my global activity. It is hard for me, for example, to get projects in the Persian Gulf emirates. "
Moshe Safdie
Activity
Example
Get
" Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function. "
Moshe Safdie
Beautiful
Beauty
Fitness
" I try firstly to make buildings humane. "
Moshe Safdie
Buildings
Try
Make
" Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless. "
Moshe Safdie
Fashion
World
Timeless
" 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
Past
Future
Buildings
" Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work. "
Moshe Safdie
Most
Discipline
Design
" There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts. "
Moshe Safdie
Architecture
Profound
Different
" 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
Arrogance
Fall
" 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. "
Moshe Safdie
Sight
Perfect
Buildings
" Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect? "
Moshe Safdie
Maybe
Talented
Who