Moshe Safdie
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| Moshe Safdie | |
| Born | 1938; Haifa, Israel |
| Firms | Moshe Safdie and Associates |
| Notes | |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/architects/Moshe_Safdie.html |
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[edit] Works
- Habitat '67, at Montreal, Canada, 1967. GreatBuildings page
- National Gallery of Canada, at Ottawa, Canada, 1986 to 1988. GreatBuildings page
- Vancouver Public Library, at Vancouver, British Columbia.
- Salt Lake City Public Library, at Salt Lake City, Utah. Photo at ArchitectureWeek
[edit] Discussion
(b. Haifa, Israel 1938)
Moshe Safdie was born in Haifa, Israel in 1938. He trained at McGill University in Montreal from 1955 until 1961. After working two years in the office of Louis I. Kahn, he started his own practice in Montreal. Later, he moved to the U.S. where he established an practice and taught at Harvard.
Influenced by his graduate thesis, Safdie refined a series of "Habitat" designs which revolved around a cellular housing scheme. Initially his ideas proved expensive and difficult to construct, but Safdie introduced the cellular scheme in several areas including New York and Puerto Rico where his ideas were successfully initiated.
His Israeli period also produced a number of impressive urban insertion projects and various town-planning schemes.
[edit] Details
Moshe Safdie and Associates has the following offices
- Moshe Safdie and Associates, Jerusalum, Israel
- Moshe Safdie and Associates, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- Moshe Safdie and Associates, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
see also: Moshe Safdie
[edit] Publications
- Moshe Safdie (Editor), Irena Zantovska Murray (Editor). Moshe Safdie : Buildings and Projects, 1967-1992. Montreal: McGill Queens University Press, May 1996. Inventory (on CD-ROM) by Laura E. Dent and Percy Johnson. ISBN 0-7735-1510-0. — Book and CD-ROM combo, produced by the Moshe Safdie archives. Available at Amazon.com
- Moshe Safdie. Beyond Habitat. ASIN 0-0021-1580-8.
- Moshe Safdie. Form and Purpose. ASIN 0-3953-1663-4.
[edit] References
- Dennis Sharp. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Quatro Publishing, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. NA40.I45. p133.
- "AIA Honor Awards 2004", by ArchitectureWeek, ArchitectureWeek No. 181, 2003.0211, Salt Lake City Public Library, pN1.2.
- "Moshe Safdie Peabody Essex Addition", by Michael Crosbie, ArchitectureWeek No. 159, 2003.0820, pD1.1.
- "Moshe Safdie in Israel", by Lili Eylon, ArchitectureWeek No. 113, 2002.0904, pC1.1.
[edit] External Links
- msafdie.com — the architect's own web site.
- The Moshe Safdie Project — At McGill University, documenting the Moshe Safdie archives.
