Moshe Safdie: How to reinvent the apartment building
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Moshe Safdie's buildings -- from grand libraries to intimate apartment complexes -- explore the qualities of light and the nature of private and public space. Full bio
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in Noord-Amerika.
woonden hier.
naar buitenwijk
om het goedkoop te houden
mijn eerste reis naar China.
en ontwerpers.
en niet alleen in Azië.
reizen in een helicopter
een stap terug te doen
na te denken over Habitat.
een betere levenskwaliteit
dat het vooral om licht ging.
New York als test te nemen.
zoals het nu is.
rood zijn kantoren en winkels.
opnieuw in elkaar gezet:
waarbij vastgelegd is
drie uur zonlicht moet krijgen,
en parken en dergelijke.
van de stad wordt,
op elk niveau van structuur
hardlooppaden, restaurants,
in vijf minuten.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Moshe Safdie - ArchitectMoshe Safdie's buildings -- from grand libraries to intimate apartment complexes -- explore the qualities of light and the nature of private and public space.
Why you should listen
Moshe Safdie's master's thesis quickly became a cult building: his modular "Habitat '67" apartments for Montreal Expo '67. Within a dizzying pile of concrete, each apartment was carefully sited to have natural light and a tiny, private outdoor space for gardening. These themes have carried forward throughout Safdie's career -- his buildings tend to soak in the light, and to hold cozy, user-friendly spaces inside larger gestures.
He's a triple citizen of Canada, Israel and the United States, three places where the bulk of his buildings can be found: in Canada, the National Gallery in Ottawa, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Vancouver public library. For Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, he designed the Children's Memorial and the Memorial to the Deportees; he's also built airport terminals in Tel Aviv. In the US, he designed the elegant and understated Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Masachusetts, and the Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas.
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