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Top 10 Moshe Safdie Quotes (2025 Update)

Moshe Safdie Quote: “Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.”

1. “Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.”

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Moshe Safdie Quote: “Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.”

2. “Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.”

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Moshe Safdie Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Moshe Safdie Quote: “Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.”

4. “Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.”

— Moshe Safdie

Moshe Safdie Quote: “There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.”

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

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Moshe Safdie Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— Moshe Safdie

Moshe Safdie Quote: “We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation.”

7. “We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation.”

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Moshe Safdie Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Moshe Safdie Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Moshe Safdie Quote: “Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?”

10. “Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?”

— Moshe Safdie

Moshe Safdie Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Moshe Safdie Quote: “Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.”

12. “Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.”

— Moshe Safdie

Moshe Safdie Quote: “Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.”

13. “Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.”

— Moshe Safdie

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