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I try firstly to make buildings humane.
Moshe Safdie / Architect
Humane
Buildings
Firstly
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Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?
Moshe Safdie / Architect
Architect
Knows
I Am Who Am
Talented
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Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.
Moshe Safdie / Architect
Architecture
Faster
Profession
Professions
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I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.
Moshe Safdie / Architect
Centers
Libraries
Potentially
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A house is not a machine! It's something else for living - but not a machine.
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Something Else
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I grew up in a country where the environment was very social justice-oriented.
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Environment
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There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.
Moshe Safdie / Architect
Art
Architecture
Different
Profound
Arts
Ethic
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Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.
Moshe Safdie / Architect
Architecture
Future
Looking Forward
Past
Rooted
Looking
Forward
In The Past
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Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.
Moshe Safdie / Architect
Architecture
Fashion
Passing
Timeless
World
Joined
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We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation
Moshe Safdie / Architect
Architecture
Urban
Worthy
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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 / Architect
Architect
Identity
Israeli
Article
Forefront
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Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.
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Fitness
Beautiful
Form
Fulfillment
Humanity
Inspiration
Motivation
Natural
Perfect
Expresses
Object
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Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.
Moshe Safdie / Architect
Design
Cities
Discipline
Innovative
Singapore
Transportation
Urban
Barely
Exists
Strategies
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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 / Architect
Calm
Cities
Complicated
Enormous
Light
Open
Contribute
Vast
Oppressive
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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 / Architect
Activity
Example
Israeli
Persian
Persian Gulf
Projects
For Example
Gulf
Negatively
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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 / Architect
Future
Adapting
Trying
Future Always Past
Blend
Buildings
Future Look Past
Root
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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 / Architect
Society
Decades
Painter
Purpose
Whole
Build
Writer
Affect
Stay
Express
Freely
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Sculptor
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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.
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Meaningless
Produce
Architects
Buildings
Seized
Signature
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The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There’s no greater satisfaction.
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Cutting
Thinking
Umbilical Cord
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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 / Architect
Art
Acoustics
Instruments
Lines
Musical
Perfect
Performing
Performing Arts
Sight
Sublime
Begin
Arts
Buildings
Complex
Failed
Fail
Just Be
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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 / Architect
Hands
Identification
Response
Strong
Thinking
Architectural
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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 / Architect
Agency
Authority
Cutting
Guidelines
Impressed
Planning
Singapore
Taken
Urban
Effective
Review
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This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us.
Moshe Safdie / Architect
Space
Cities
People
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I want my children to be able to meet and play and communicate with many other children on their own, not only when they are driven somewhere. I want them to grow up in an environment that is not just a place where people sleep but where people work.. and where people enjoy themselves.
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Children
Growing Up
Sleep
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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 / Architect
Architect
Arkansas
Essence
Kansas City
Singapore
Thinking
Buildings
Resonates
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Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about building what is appropriate and about attaining beauty through such an approach. I describe this premise as 'inherent buildability', and I believe it is central to what I do.
Moshe Safdie / Architect
Beauty
Money
Believe
Tools
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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 / Architect
Beauty
Truth
Arrogance
Disappointed
Fall
Gratification
Inspiration
Joy
Motivation
Order
Self Expression
Servant
Who
Beings
He
Find
Considers
Fellow
Himself
His
Pit
Seeks
Shall
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