Title: Moshe Safdie
Subject: Structuralism (architecture), Metro Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, The Class of 1959 Chapel, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, August Komendant
(1938-07-14) July 14, 1938
Haifa, Mandatory Palestine
Israeli/Canadian/American
Order of Canada
Gold Medal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
Safdie Architects
Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum
Asian University for Women
Alrov Mamilla Quarter
Moshe Safdie, CC, FAIA (born July 14, 1938) is an Israeli/Canadian/American architect, urban designer, educator, theorist, and author. He is most identified with Habitat 67, which paved the way for his international career.[1]
2 Architecture career
3 Architectural style
4 Awards and recognition
6 Published works
Moshe Safdie was born in Haifa.[2] His family moved to Montreal, Canada, in 1953. In 1959, Safdie married Nina Nusynowicz. The couple had two children, a daughter and a son. His son Oren Safdie is a playwright who has written several plays about architecture including Private Jokes, Public Places.[3] His daughter Taal is an architect in San Diego, a partner of the firm Safdie Rabines Architects.[4] In 1961, Safdie graduated from McGill University with a degree in architecture. In 1981, Safdie married Michal Ronnen, a photographer, with whom he has two daughters, Carmelle and Yasmin. Carmelle Safdie is an artist, and Yasmin Safdie is a social worker. Safdie is the uncle of Dov Charney, founder and CEO of American Apparel.
Architecture career
After apprenticing with Louis Kahn in Philadelphia, Safdie returned to Montreal to oversee the master plan for Expo 67. In 1964, he established his own firm to undertake Habitat 67, an adaptation of his McGill thesis. Habitat 67, which pioneered the design and implementation of three-dimensional, prefabricated units for living, was a central feature of Expo 67 and an important development in architectural history. He was awarded the 1967 Construction Man of the Year Award from the Engineering News Record and the Massey Medal for Architecture in Canada for Habitat 67.[5]
In 1970, Safdie opened a branch office in Jerusalem. Among the projects he has designed in Jerusalem are Yad Vashem and the Alrov Mamilla Quarter, which includes the Mamilla Mall, David's Village luxury condominiums, and the 5-star Mamilla Hotel. In 1978, after teaching at McGill, Ben Gurion, and Yale universities, Safdie moved his main office to Boston and became director of the Urban Design Program at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, until 1984. From 1984 to 1989, he was the Ian Woodner Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Harvard. Since the early 1990s, Safdie, a citizen of Canada, Israel, and the United States, has focused on his architectural practice, Safdie Architects, which is based in Somerville, MA and has branches in Toronto, Jerusalem, and Singapore. Safdie has designed six of Canada's principal public institutions as well as many other notable projects around the world, including the Salt Lake City Main Public Library, the Khalsa Heritage Centre in India, the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort in Singapore, the United States Institute of Peace headquarters in Washington, DC, the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Moshe Safdie's works are known for their dramatic curves, arrays of geometric patterns, use of windows, and key placement of open and green spaces. His writings and designs stress the need to create meaningful, vital, and inclusive spaces that enhance community, with special attention to the essence of a particular locale, geography, and culture.
He is a self-described modernist.
Companion of the Order of Canada
Gold Medal, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
Richard Neutra Award for Professional Excellence
Mt. Scopus Award for Humanitarianism, Jerusalem
In November 2011, Punjab Chief Minister honoured Safdie at the inauguration ceremony of the Khalsa Heritage Museum. He said Safdie had studied Sikh religion for two years before designing the heritage museum. Safdie said he wanted the museum to look 300 years old and he thought he had succeeded in this objective.
Habitat 67, Montreal, 1967
Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum, Jerusalem, 2005
Khalsa Heritage Memorial Complex, Anandpur Sahib, India, 2011
1967 Habitat 67 at Expo 67 World's Fair, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1980 Robina Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia [6]
1981 Coldspring New Town, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
1987 Musée de la Civilisation, Quebec City, Canada
1988 The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
1988 Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem, Israel
1989 City plan for Modi'in, Israel
1989 The Esplanade condominium complex in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
1991 The Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1992 The Class of 1959 Chapel, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
1993 Mamilla Centre and David's Village, Jerusalem, Israel
1994 Former Ottawa City Hall, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1995 Vancouver Library Square, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1995 The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts, Vancouver, British Columbia
2000 The Exploration Place Science Museum in Wichita, Kansas, USA
2002 The campus of Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts, USA
2003 Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, USA[7]
2003 Main Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
2003 Eleanor Roosevelt College campus, UC San Diego, USA
2003 Pantages Tower, Toronto, Canada
2003 Corrour Lodge, Inverness-shire, Scotland
2004 Airside building of Terminal 3, Ben Gurion International Airport, Israel
2005 Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2006 Telfair Museum of Art, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, Georgia, USA
2007 Terminal 1, Toronto Pearson International Airport, Canada, with Skidmore Owings Merrill
2008 United States Federal Courthouse, District of Massachusetts, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
2008 Headquarters for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), Washington, D.C., USA
2009 Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh[8]
2009 Mamilla Mall, Jerusalem, Israel
2010 Yitzhak Rabin Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011 Marina Bay Sands, Singapore's second integrated resort and casino
2011 United States Institute of Peace Headquarters in Washington, D.C., USA
2011 Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
2011 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
2011 Khalsa Heritage Memorial Complex (Virasat-e-Khalsa), Anandpur Sahib, Punjab, India
2012 Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
2012 Altair (Building), Colombo, Sri Lanka
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, Missouri
The Class of 1959 Chapel, Boston, Massachusetts
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
Yitzhak Rabin Center, Tel Aviv
Musée de la Civilisation, Quebec City
Ottawa City Hall, Ottawa
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Salt Lake City Public Library, Utah
Vancouver Library Square, Vancouver, British Columbia
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
United States Institute of Peace Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
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)[9]
Yad Vashem - The Architecture of Memory (2006)[10]
Architecture of Israel
Moshe Safdie Volume I (1st edition 1996/2nd edition 2009)[11]
Moshe Safdie Volume II (2009)[12]
Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie (2010)
Reaching for the Sky: The Marina Bay Sands Singapore (2013)[13]
^ Israeli architecture with eastern promise
^ http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748703674704575234153619245116
^ Safdie Rabines Architects
^ Pound, Richard W. (2005). 'Fitzhenry and Whiteside Book of Canadian Facts and Dates'. Fitzhenry and Whiteside.
^ www.robina.com.au
^ Peabody Essex Museum
^ http://www.asian-university.org/campus/plan.htm
^ http://www.amazon.com/Reaching-Sky-Marina-Sands-Singapore/dp/0981985769/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398963767&sr=8-1&keywords=reaching+for+the+sky+ORO+editions
Moshe Safdie Lecture: In Search of New Typologies
The Safdie Hypermedia Archive-- McGill Univ.
Historic Places in Canada
CBC Digital archives-- "Moshe Safdie: Hero of Habitat"
Moshe Safdie at the TED (conference), 2002
Fallout Zvi Elhyani, Maayan Magazine, 2005
Power People: Moshe Safdie Zvi Elhyani, Volume, 2005
Salt Lake City Library on ARCHUtah
Interview on Charlie Rose August 23, 2011
Kauffmann Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, MO
WorldHeritage articles with VIAF identifiers
VIAF not on Wikidata
Modernist architects
Canadian Jews
Canadian urban planners
Companions of the Order of Canada
Harvard University faculty
Israeli architects
Jewish architects
Israeli Jews
McGill University alumni
Modernist architecture in Canada
People from Haifa
Canadian people of Israeli descent
Urban designers
Urban theorists
Fellows of the American Institute of Architects
Quran, Old City (Jerusalem), State of Palestine, Islam, Jordan
Salem, Massachusetts, East India Marine Society, Asian art, Photography, Architecture
Montreal, Lego, Canada, Philadelphia, Ottawa
Ontario, Quebec City, Quebec, Ottawa, Aboriginal peoples in Canada
Library of Congress, Diana, Princess of Wales, Latin, Oclc, Integrated Authority File
Structuralism (architecture)
Amsterdam, Le Corbusier, Herman Hertzberger, Kenzo Tange, Aldo van Eyck
Metro Center, Springfield, Massachusetts
Interstate 91, Boston, New York City, Brooklyn Nets, American Hockey League
The Class of 1959 Chapel
Harvard Business School, Piano, United States, Acoustics, Boston, Massachusetts
Fisk University, Arkansas, Bentonville, Arkansas, John Singer Sargent, Roy Lichtenstein
August Komendant
Estonia, American Institute of Architects, Kimbell Art Museum, Authority control, Twenty-five Year Award