Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie , CC ( Hebrew משה ספדיה; * July 14, 1938 in Haifa , today Israel ) is an architect and town planner .
biography
As a youth, Safdie and his family moved to Montréal , Canada , a move he disliked being a Zionist and a socialist . He studied architecture at McGill University in Montréal (Canada) and later learned from Louis Kahn . In the first few years after graduating, he worked for Sandy van Ginkel's office . In 1967, when he was 29, his thesis was being built at Expo 67 . The Habitat 67 project made him known all over the world. In 1967 he returned to Israel, where he participated in the renovation and renovation of the old city of Jerusalem . Safdie lives in Jerusalem and Boston and is a Canadian and Israeli citizen.
In 1976 Safdie became a professor at Harvard University . Nearby, in Somerville, Massachusetts , he opened his architectural office. There are branches in Toronto and Jerusalem . In 2013, Mosche Safdie was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design in New York . He has also been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1996 .
buildings
- Habitat 67 at Expo 67, Montreal
- Coldspring New Town, Baltimore
- Musée de la civilization , Québec (1981–1987)
- National Gallery of Canada , Ottawa (1983–1988)
- Vancouver Public Library (1992–1995)
- City map of Modi'in , Israel
- Old Ottawa City Hall
- New Holocaust Memorial, 2005, in Yad Vashem , Jerusalem, Israel
- Telfair Museum of Art (extension), 2006, Savannah (Georgia) , 2006
- Marina Bay Sands , Singapore , 2010
- Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts , Kansas City, Missouri, USA, September 2011
- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art , Bentonville, Arkansas , USA, November 2011
- Khalsa Heritage Memorial Complex (Virasat-e-Khalsa), Anandpur Sahib , India, November 25, 2011
- Raffles City Chongqing , Chongqing , China, 2019
literature
- Dennis Sharp: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. Quatro Publishing, New York 1991, ISBN 0-8230-2539-X . NA40.I45. p. 133.
Web links
- McGill University: The Safdie Hypermedia Archive
- Photos of his construction projects
- Kauffman Center of the Performing Arts, Kansas City, Missouri
- Moshe Safdie on TED.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ McGill: Interview with Moshe Safdie, November 12, 1997
- ↑ Nationalacademy.org: National Academicians: Safdie, Moshe (Vita; Status 2013) ( Memento from March 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians: “S” / Safdie, Moshe, NA 2013 ( Memento of March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Safdie, mosque |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Safdie, Moshe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli architect and city planner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haifa , Palestine, today: Israel |