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For more than 50 years, architect Moshe Safdie has created some of the most eye-catching and mesmerizing projects across the world. With Habitat ’67 in Montreal, Safdie transformed urban living ...
Moshe Safdie: The original Habitat, the one that didn’t get built because the government decided we were only going to do a little piece, was really a whole community.
Moshe Safdie calls himself a circumstantial architect. If his parents hadn’t immigrated to Canada from Israel, he would have been a farmer. But Canada’s harsh winters did not lend themselves ...
After years in the architectural wilderness, Moshe Safdie isn't about to feign modesty now. Tanned and vigorous, with a white shirt and white mustache, he whirls a visitor through rooms filled ...
Coming and going, there’s no escaping the work of Moshe Safdie. The Boston-based architect has two huge, expensive, in-your-face government office buildings in the District, and both sit at ...
Moshe Safdie In both cases – and throughout Safdie’s career – ideals articulated in the 1960s have been adapted to meet the realities of new sites and clients.