Acoustics Quote by Moshe Safdie

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

— Moshe Safdie

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

— Moshe Safdie

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

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

— Moshe Safdie

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

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

Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?

— 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.…

— Moshe Safdie

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

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

— 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…

— Moshe Safdie

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