Moshe Safdie: How to reinvent the apartment building
Moshe Safdie: Como reinventar o prédio residencial
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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os prédios de apartamentos.
viagem à China.
e urbanistas.
essa qualidade de vida
basicamente da luz.
mais contato com o exterior?
de construir e mais compactos;
a própria casa
como caso de teste,
de Manhattan.
prédios comerciais, varejo.
seu próprio jardim particular,
onde há uma norma
de renda média, jardins,
densidade extremamente alta,
de ambientes externos e internos,
em cada nível da estrutura,
restaurantes,
em cinco minutos.
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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