Architects in TEDTalks

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 consider himself a servant 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 we shall seek truth
If we seek truth we shall find beauty

– Moshe Safdie, in his presentation on TEDTalks

Wooot~ Talk about architects and sentiments!

Anyway listen Moshe Safdie’s talk in full length, here.

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The Archinerd introduced me to TEDTalks quite recently, which he faithfully downloads for his IPod to keep him awake during the bus rides to work in the mornings.

It’s a series of talks/presentations from TED made available to the public for free. There is a whole collection of interesting talks from “the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers , who are challenged to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes” (quoting the website), sponsored by BMW, Nokia & Autodesk.

There have been quite a few interesting talks that we have came across so far. So you guys should really go check them out on the TEDTalks official website!

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Oh, and you probably should check this one too — Joshua Prince-Ramus, founding partner of OMA New York, on the Seattle Public Library. He talks about the design of the library — how the planning is extremely practical with the diagrams OMA is famous for, and that he designed a space to propose to his then-girlfriend (and she said yes). So yeah, there you go, talk about architects and romance! Har har har.

You can watch Joshua Prince-Ramus’s talk on the website too, here.

So enjoy!