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 Copy Share Image
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… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
A house is not a machine! It's something else for living - but not a machine. — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
I want my children to be able to meet and play and communicate with many other children on their own, not only when they… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts. — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more light and… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
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,… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
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.… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
