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
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 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
