Moshe Safdie
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| Name | Moshe Safdie |
| Nationality | Israeli/Canadian/American |
| Birth date | July 14, 1938 |
| Birth place | Haifa, British Mandate of Palestine |
| Alma mater | McGill University 1961 |
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| Practice | Moshe Safdie and Associates |
| Buildings | Habitat 67, Vancouver Public Library |
| Awards | Order of Canada Gold Medal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada |
Moshe Safdie, CC, FAIA (born July 14, 1938) is an architect and urban designer. He was born in the city of Haifa, British Mandate for Palestine. He moved with his family to Montreal, Canada when he was 15 years old.
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[edit] Career
An excellent student, he studied architecture at McGill University and apprenticed under Louis Kahn in Philadelphia. At age 24, his master's thesis was selected to be constructed as part of the Expo 67 celebration. The Habitat 67 project, a complex of cellular residences that could be lifted into place like Lego blocks, propelled him onto the world stage. In 1967, he returned to Israel, where he was part of the team that refurnished Old Jerusalem. He now resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has Canadian, Israeli, and United States citizenship.
In 1978, he became Director of the Urban Design Program and the Ian Woodner Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His company, Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc. is based out of Somerville, Massachusetts with branch offices in Toronto and Jerusalem.
His son Oren Safdie is a playwright.
His daughter Taal, is an architect in San Diego, and partner of the husband-wife firm, Safdie Rabines Architects.
His nephew is Dov Charney, founder of the clothing company American Apparel.
[edit] Architectural projects
Moshe Safdie's works are known for their dramatic curves, arrays of simple geometric patterns, and usage of windows and open spaces.
- Khalsa Heritage Memorial Complex, Anandpur Sahib, Punjab, India
- Habitat 67 at Expo 67 World's Fair, Montreal, Quebec
- Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
- Telfair Museum of Art, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, Georgia
- The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
- City plan for the city of Modi'in, Israel
- Former Ottawa City Hall, Ottawa, Ontario
- Several major buildings, including the new central museum, opened 2005, at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
- Hebrew Union College, first phase and Merkaz Shimshon expansion, Jerusalem, Israel
- Mamilla Centre and David's Village, Jerusalem, Israel
- Vancouver Library Square, Vancouver, British Columbia
- The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts, Vancouver, British Columbia
- Main Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Airside building of Terminal 3, Ben Gurion International Airport, Israel
- Marina Bay Sands, Singapore's first integrated resort and casino
- Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, Missouri
- West Edge, Kansas City, Missouri
- Terminal 1, Toronto Pearson International Airport, with Skidmore Owings Merrill
- The Class of 1959 Chapel, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- The Grave of Yitzhak and Leah Rabin
- The campus of Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts
- The Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- The 2003, $190+ million redesign of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts[1]
- Eleanor Roosevelt College campus, UC San Diego
- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (scheduled to open in 2010)
- United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. (under construction for completion in 2010)
- The Exploration Place Science Museum in Wichita, Kansas
- Coldspring New Town, Baltimore, Maryland
- Headquarters for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), Washington, D.C.
[edit] Publications
[edit] Safdie
- Beyond Habitat (1970)
- For Everyone A Garden (1974)
- Form & Purpose (1982)
- Beyond Habitat by 20 Years (1987)
- Jerusalem: The Future of the Past (1989)
- The City After the Automobile: An Architect's Vision (1998) [1]
- Yad Vashem - The Architecture of Memory (2006)[2]
[edit] Others
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[edit] External links
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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Moshe Safdie |
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Moshe Safdie |
- The Safdie Hypermedia Archive-- McGill Univ.
- Moshe Safdie and Associates
- CBC Digital archives-- "Moshe Safdie: Hero of Habitat"
- Rabin awaits Safdie, Maayan Magazine, 2006.
- Moshe Safdie at the TED (conference) , 2002
- [894/ Interview with Safdie in The LEaf Review
- Fallout Zvi Elhyani, Maayan Magazine, 2005
- Power People: Moshe Safdie Zvi Elhyani, Volume, 2005
- Salt Lake City Library on ARCHUtah
