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Moshe Safdie CC FRAIC OAA FAIA (Hebrew: משה ספדיה; born July 14, 1938) is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author. He is known for incorporating principles of socially responsible design throughout his six-decade career.
Jul 10, 2024 · Moshe Safdie (born July 14, 1938, Haifa, Palestine [now in Israel]) is an Israeli-Canadian-American architect best known for designing Habitat ’67 at the site of Expo 67, a yearlong international exhibition at Montreal.
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The Graham Foundation is pleased to present a talk by Moshe Safdie in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the architect’s design for Habitat ’67 in Montreal.
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Jun 12, 2023 · Moshe Safdie recounts his extraordinary career and offers a manifesto for the role architecture should play in society
Reacting against the modernist vision for residential housing proposed by the likes of Le Corbusier — exemplified in La Cité Radieuse in Marseilles, an 18-story slab block that redefined high-density living after the World War II — Safdie reimagined the apartment building as a pile of prefabricated concrete boxes piled like children’s ...
Moshe Safdie is an Israeli-Canadian architect best known for designing Habitat ’67 at the site of Expo 67, a year-long international exhibition in Montreal.
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An Israel-born and Canada-educated architect who has maintained practices in Jerusalem, Montreal, Boston, and elsewhere, Moshe Safdie is best known for his internationally recognized modern revisionist project, the Habitat housing experiment for the 1967 World’s Exposition in Montreal.
