MOSHE SAFDIE
moshe safdie Moshe Safdie was Israel born architect.Moshe Safdie was born in Haifa, Israel in 1938. He trained at McGill University in Montreal from 1955 until 1961.
His most famous work was: Habitat 67. 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.
References Dennis Sharp. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Quatro Publishing, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. NA40.I45. p133. Details Moshe Safdie and Associates, Boston Office 100 Properzi Way Somerville, MA 02143, USA
617-629-2100 vox
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Vancouver Library Square was one of Moshe work in Canada

Safdie publication :
Beyond Habitat (1970)
For Everyone A Garden (1974)
Beyond Habitat by 20 Years (1987)
The City After the Automobile: An Architect's Vision (1998)
Yad Vashem - The Architecture of Memory (2006)
Moshe Safdie Volume I (1st edition 1996/2nd edition 2009) [3] Moshe Safdie Volume II (2009)

Moshe Safdie's other works
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
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
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.
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