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1 online resource (1 streaming audio file (28 minutes)): sound, color + transcript, images of works |
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Moshe Safdie--The Jerusalem Watershed. Desert & Fertile Plain--Large Model Of Herod's Time--Jewish & Arab Housing--Van Leer House. Restored By Safdie--Van Leer House. Interior--Safdie's Residence In The Old City, Jerusalem--Safdie's Residence In The Old City, Jerusalem. Interior--Safdie's Residence In The Old City, Jerusalem. Domed Terrace--Safdie Design For Habitat Israel--Solar Dome Relationship--Yeshiva Porath Joseph (Rabbinical College). Model--Yeshiva Porath Joseph (Rabbinical College). Use Of Stone--Yeshiva Porath Joseph (Rabbinical College). Dining Room--Yeshiva Porath Joseph (Rabbinical College). Synagogue Lighting--Yeshiva Porath Joseph (Rabbinical College). Prism Stained Glass--Yeshiva Porath Joseph (Rabbinical College). Exterior Views--Mamillah Area Today--Safdie's Mamillah Project. Model--Kotel (Western Wall) Area. As It Is Today--Kotel (Western Wall) Area. Safdie Design Model Superimposed On Site--Kotel (Western Wall) Area. View From Western Wall--Kotel (Western Wall) Area. Geometric Progression--Kotel (Western Wall) Area. Model Seen From The South |
| Summary |
Moshe Safdie's international fame began with his Habitat housing scheme in Montreal, completed for Expo '67. Since then he has worked in many countries other than Canada - USA, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Iran - and has offices in Montreal, Boston, Baltimore and Jerusalem. At the time of this talk he directed the Urban Design Program at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Born and reared in Israel, Safdie returned to that country in 1969. Now Jerusalem boasts a completed monumental building designed by him - the Rabbinical College near the Western Wall - and several lesser works; whilst other important projects have been undertaken since 1979, including the Western Wall Precinct and the outstanding recently completed Yad Vashem (Holocaust Memorial) project. He discusses his work before 1980 in this recording (extracted from a talk he gave to the Royal Institute of British Architects in May 1979) |
| Notes |
Title from publisher's website (viewed April 19, 2021) |
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Architects.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
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Architectural design -- Israel
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Streaming audio
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Safdie, Moshe, 1938-, narrator.
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