I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of creating buildings that harmonize with their surroundings and reflect both history and modernity.
Moshe Safdie's quote highlights the architectural philosophy of designing structures that feel organic to their environment, suggesting that buildings should embody a timeless essence rather than merely replicate existing styles. The aim is to create spaces that respect the past while innovating for the future, ultimately resulting in a balanced coexistence of historical and contemporary influences.
In practice
In a speech discussing sustainable architecture, one might say, 'As Moshe Safdie suggested, I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there.'
As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire.
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I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.
They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.
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