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Moshe Safdi (born Moshe Safdie, July 14, 1938, Haifa, Palestine) is a Canadian-Israeli architect and urbanist who now heads the Safdie Architects architectural bureau in Samerville (USA).
Features of the work of architect Moshe Safdi: the first work of Safdi, by and large, the embodiment of his student diploma project, brought the architect recognition and fame. He invented and built for the 1967 Montreal World Exhibition a building assembled from concrete block boxes, but not in a strict order, but as if these blocks were thrown at each other randomly. In fact, the Safdi project was a carefully thought-out way to provide residents of a multi-storey building with private terrace gardens, to combine the advantages of a country villa and a multi-storey building. Now Habitat 67 is one of the icons of modernist architecture and brutalism. The idea to provide a city dweller both at home and in public spaces, raging with greens and oxygen, still worries Safdi more than anyone else. He takes on a skyscraper or airport building - everywhere he plans transformable spaces that turn into a greenhouse in winter, and in summer remain an open-air garden. Safdi is one of the main ideologists and advocates of architecture that fights climate change. He planned and built entire cities in Israel and determined in many ways the architectural appearance of the large cities of Canada.
Famous buildings Moshe Safdi: Habitat 67, central museum building and children's memorial in Yad Vashem (Jerusalem), Marina Bay Sands (Singapore), National Gallery of Canada.
Features of the work of architect Moshe Safdi: the first work of Safdi, by and large, the embodiment of his student diploma project, brought the architect recognition and fame. He invented and built for the 1967 Montreal World Exhibition a building assembled from concrete block boxes, but not in a strict order, but as if these blocks were thrown at each other randomly. In fact, the Safdi project was a carefully thought-out way to provide residents of a multi-storey building with private terrace gardens, to combine the advantages of a country villa and a multi-storey building. Now Habitat 67 is one of the icons of modernist architecture and brutalism. The idea to provide a city dweller both at home and in public spaces, raging with greens and oxygen, still worries Safdi more than anyone else. He takes on a skyscraper or airport building - everywhere he plans transformable spaces that turn into a greenhouse in winter, and in summer remain an open-air garden. Safdi is one of the main ideologists and advocates of architecture that fights climate change. He planned and built entire cities in Israel and determined in many ways the architectural appearance of the large cities of Canada.
Famous buildings Moshe Safdi: Habitat 67, central museum building and children's memorial in Yad Vashem (Jerusalem), Marina Bay Sands (Singapore), National Gallery of Canada.
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