In the history of technology, Moshe Safdie is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Moshe Safdie as Israeli-Canadian architect (born 1938).
Moshe Safdie was born at Haifa in 1938. His recorded nationality is Canada. He was educated at McGill University and Westmount High School.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
The record gives his occupations as architect, urban planner and author.
His affiliations include Harvard University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Louis Kahn.
The work that carried his reputation furthest concerned incorporating principles of socially responsible design throughout his six-decade career. Technical work compounds - each layer makes the next one cheaper to attempt.
The surviving body of work includes Habitat 67, National Gallery of Canada and Musée de la civilisation.
His recorded fields of work are architecture.
The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Wolf Prize in Architecture (2019).
That the work was done from Canada matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Achievements
- Wolf Prize in Architecture — 2019
- Notable work: Habitat 67
- Notable work: National Gallery of Canada
- Notable work: Musée de la civilisation
- Notable work: Beating the Odds Together: 50 Years of Singapore-Israel Ties
- Affiliated with Harvard University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Louis Kahn
- Educated at McGill University and Westmount High School
- Worked as architect, urban planner and author
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