Moshe Safdie: How to reinvent the apartment building
Moshe Safdie: Como reinventar o edifício de apartamentos
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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na América do Norte.
torres de habitação,
os prédios de apartamentos.
e, assim, conseguirmos economias.
primeira viagem à China.
arquitetos e urbanizadores.
existia, como cidade.
e não é só na Ásia.
do século XIX.
decidimos voltar atrás
aquela qualidade de vida
o importante é a luz,
com o exterior?
de construir e mais compactos.
conceber as suas casas
como local de teste,
edificada de Manhattan.
o vermelho para escritórios e lojas.
para a comunidade.
têm um jardim privativo
permeável e aberto.
nem uma obstrução na cidade,
do "Habitat"
onde existe um regulamento
para rendimentos médios, jardins,
para fazer uma cidade,
extremamente elevada.
de exterior e interior,
e espaços interiores.
o parque a céu aberto,
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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