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Moshe Safdie, CC, FAIA is an Israeli-Canadian architect, urban designer, educator, theorist, and author. He is most identified with Habitat 67, which paved the way for his international career.

✵ 14. July 1938
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Moshe Safdie Quotes

“When I got my first commission after Habitat, for a few weeks I couldn't draw.”

Moshe Safdie

CBC television interview, used for many years in CBC Montreal's sign-on montage

Drawing

“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

from lecture Megascale, Order and Complexity held in Emmertal, Germany on July 27, 2008

Money , Beauty

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