Moshe Safdie Quotes

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

~ Moshe Safdie

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

~ Moshe Safdie

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

~ Moshe Safdie

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

~ 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 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

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

~ Moshe Safdie