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Moshe Safdie. Israel 1938 Works in Israel, North America, Singapore and India. Graduated with honors from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Apprenticed with Louis I. Kahn in Philadelphia. 1964 established an independent firm for the planning of the ‘Habitat 67 project’ in Montreal. 1970 opened an office in Jerusalem, where he was mainly involved in building projects in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, the Western Wall district and the Mamilla District. His design for the Hebrew Union College campus represented Israel at the Venice Biennale in 1991. 1978-1989 served as Director of the Urban Design Program at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. 1980-2006 designed projects in Israel, including the new city of Modi’in; The Children’s Memorial and the new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem. The new terminal at Ben-Gurion airport and the Rabin Center in Tel Aviv. In Canada, he has designed seven national institutions, including the National Gallery of Canada; The Quebec Museum of Civilization; The Vancouver Public Library and the Toronto airport. In the United States, he has planned and built numerous museums, courthouses, libraries and colleges. He is currently planning the U.S. Institute of Peace, to be built on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Safdie has also served as a lecturer and teacher at McGill, Yale and Ben-Gurion Universities. |