7 Quotes & Sayings By Moshe Safdie

Moshe Safdie was born in Montreal, Canada in 1950. He graduated from McGill University with a degree in architecture. After working for ten years in the architectural field, he turned to design and built his first project in 1978: the Habitat 67 housing complex. He has since built various projects including the Habitat Tower, the Safdie House, The Sainte-Anne Public Library, The Sainte-Thérèse Hospital, and The Daniel Libeskind Museum Read more

He has received numerous awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Governor General's Award in Architecture, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's Gold Medal Award, and the National Design Award.

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Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. Moshe Safdie
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Architecture is changing faster than some other professions. Moshe Safdie
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There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts. Moshe Safdie
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Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless. Moshe Safdie
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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
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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. Moshe Safdie