Moshe Safdie
Habitat 67 in Montreal, Quebec
Personal information
Name	Moshe Safdie
Nationality	Israeli/Canadian/American
Birth date	July 14, 1938 (1938-07-14) (age 69)
Birth place	Haifa, israel
Alma mater	McGill University
Work
Practice name	Moshe Safdie and Associates
Significant buildings	Habitat 67
Awards and prizes	Order of Canada

Moshe Safdie, C.C., B. Habitat 67 is a housing complex and landmark located on the Marc-Drouin Quay on the Saint Lawrence River at 2600 Pierre Dupuy Avenue in Montreal, Quebec Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec Events 1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father Philip II of France. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Haifa (חֵיפָה; حَيْفَا) is the largest City in Northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country with For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. Habitat 67 is a housing complex and landmark located on the Marc-Drouin Quay on the Saint Lawrence River at 2600 Pierre Dupuy Avenue in Montreal, Quebec The Order of Canada is the highest civilian honour within the Canadian system of honours, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the order's Latin The Order of Canada is the highest civilian honour within the Canadian system of honours, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the order's Latin Arch. , LL.D. , F. Doctor of Laws ( Latin: Legum Doctor, LLD) is a Doctorate -level Academic degree in Law. R. A. I. C. , FAIA (b. July 14, 1938) is an architect and urban designer. Events 1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father Philip II of France. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. An architect is a licensed individual who leads a design team in the Planning and Design of buildings and participates in oversight of Building Construction Urban design concerns the arrangement appearance and functionality of towns and cities and in particular the shaping and uses of urban Public space. He was born in the town of Haifa, Israel. Haifa (חֵיפָה; حَيْفَا) is the largest City in Northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country with For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. He moved with his family to Montreal, Canada when he was a teenager, a move he disliked as a dedicated Zionist and socialist. Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec History of Zionism|Timeline of Zionism|World Zionist Organization|Zionist political violence Zionism is an international political movement that originally supported the Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution

Career

An excellent student, he studied architecture at McGill University and apprenticed under Louis Kahn in Philadelphia. Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky) ( February 20, 1901 or 1902 &ndash March 17, 1974) was a world-renowned At age 24, his master's thesis was selected to be constructed as part of the Expo 67 celebration. The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, or Expo 67 as it was commonly known was the World's Fair held in Montreal, Canada from April 27 to October The Habitat 67 project, a complex of cellular residences that could be lifted into place like LEGO blocks, propelled him onto the world stage. Habitat 67 is a housing complex and landmark located on the Marc-Drouin Quay on the Saint Lawrence River at 2600 Pierre Dupuy Avenue in Montreal, Quebec Lego, officially trademarked LEGO, is a line of construction Toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately In 1967, he returned to Israel, where he was part of the team that refurnished Old Jerusalem. The Old City (העיר העתיקה HaIr HaAtika, البلدة القديمة al-Balda al-Qadimah) is a 0 He lives in a renovated home in the Old City and has Israeli, U. S. , and Canadian citizenship.

In 1976, he became a professor at Harvard University and set up his firm's head office in nearby Somerville, Massachusetts, where it remains today. Somerville (pronunciation ˈsʌmərvɪl is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, just north of Boston. In 1986, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 2005. The Order of Canada is the highest civilian honour within the Canadian system of honours, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the order's Latin His company, Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc. is based out of Boston with branch offices in Toronto and Jerusalem. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, he-Latn Yerushaláyim; Arabic: ar القُدس, ar-Latn al-Quds) is the

His son Oren Safdie is a playwright. Oren Safdie is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter and the son of architect Moshe Safdie.

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. Dov Charney (born January 31, 1969 in Montreal, Canada) is the founder and CEO of American Apparel ("AA" a clothing American Apparel ( is the largest clothing manufacturer in the United States

Architectual projects

Moshe Safdie's works are known for their dramatic curves, arrays of simple geometric patterns, and usage of windows and open spaces.

Modelled on the Colosseum in Rome, Vancouver Library Square is one of Safdie's most recent Canadian commissions, and one of his most popular

• Habitat 67 at Expo 67 World's Fair, Montreal, Quebec
• Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
• 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
• The Marina Bay Sands, Singapore's first integrated resort and casino
• Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, Missouri
• West Edge, Kansas City, Missouri
• 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 2009)
• United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. (construction scheduled to begin in 2007)
• The Exploration Place Science Museum in Wichita, Kansas
• Coldspring New Town, Baltimore, Maryland

Publications

• The City After the Automobile: An Architect's Vision (1998)
• Beyond Habitat by 20 Years (1987)
• Beyond Habitat (1970)

See also

• Hebrew College

External links

• The Safdie Hypermedia Archive-- McGill Univ.
• Moshe Safdie and Associates
• CBC Digital archives-- "Moshe Safdie: Hero of Habitat"
• Rabin awaits Safdie, Maayan Magazine, 2006. Habitat 67 is a housing complex and landmark located on the Marc-Drouin Quay on the Saint Lawrence River at 2600 Pierre Dupuy Avenue in Montreal, Quebec The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, or Expo 67 as it was commonly known was the World's Fair held in Montreal, Canada from April 27 to October Expo (short for "exposition" and also known as World Fair and World's Fair) is the name given to various large public exhibitions held since the Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec The Skirball Cultural Center is a facility in Los Angeles California devoted to Jewish culture and heritage Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Savannah is a city located in the state of Georgia, United States. 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• Moshe Safdie at the TED (conference) , 2002
• Interview with Safdie in The LEaf Review