“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

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