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Moshe Safdie: What makes a building unique?

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Uploaded by on Feb 19, 2008

http://www.ted.com Looking back over a long career, architect Moshe Safdie digs deep into four extraordinary projects to talk about the unique choices he made on each building -- choosing where to build, pulling information from the client, and balancing the needs and the vision behind each project. Sketches, plans and models show how these grand public buildings, museums and memorials, slowly take form.

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  • 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 servent of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression

    he who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance

    arrogance is incompatible with nature

    through nature the nature of the universe and the nature of man who shall seek truth (???)

    if we seek truth we shall find beauty

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  • no buffering here.. smooth connection.. :D

  • he didn't show his habitat 67 in Montreal, that one is amazing.

  • I HATE BUFFERING!

  • oh, commononn.

  • Really inspiring. Major influence in my artwork.

    Thanks so much.

  • This looks better than the Bilbao Gugenheim

  • He makes nice architecture

  • Uhhh... this is 7 years old? Any chance of seeing newer talks?

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