Moshe Safdie

I try firstly to make buildings humane.

— Moshe Safdie

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

— Moshe Safdie

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

— Moshe Safdie

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

— Moshe Safdie

Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?

— Moshe Safdie

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

— Moshe Safdie

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

— Moshe Safdie

We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

— Moshe Safdie

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

— Moshe Safdie

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

— Moshe Safdie

My identity is always at the forefront, and I also think that every article that is written about me refers to me…

— Moshe Safdie

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

— Moshe Safdie

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

— Moshe Safdie

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

— 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…

— Moshe Safdie

I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts…

— Moshe Safdie

This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and…

— Moshe Safdie

A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have…

— Moshe Safdie

Except for the projects in Israel, my being Israeli has contributed negatively to my global activity. It is hard for me, for…

— Moshe Safdie

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…

— Moshe Safdie

Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with…

— Moshe Safdie

The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and…

— Moshe Safdie

Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers.…

— Moshe Safdie

He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He…

— Moshe Safdie

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

— Moshe Safdie

I want my children to be able to meet and play and communicate with many other children on their own, not only…

— 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…

— Moshe Safdie

I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it…

— Moshe Safdie