Moshe Safdie

ISBN 10: 1854904531 / ISBN 13: 9781854904539

Published by Wiley, 1996

Book is in like new condition with only potential shelf wear. No marking or highlighting. Seller Inventory # EVV.1854904531.LN

Synopsis:

∗ Contributions include critical appraisals by Peter Rowe, Michael Sorkin and Michael Webb
∗ Only book to chronicle the work of this highly respected academic and architect
∗ Features the full range of building types present in his work
∗ Detailed descriptions of his most recent completed project – the Vancouver Library, Canada
∗ Contains almost 800 stunning photographs
∗ Detailed descriptions of his most recent completed

About the Author: Moshe Safdie has run his own architecture practice since 1964, when he established an office in Montreal to design and supervise the construction of Habitat for the Canadian Expo ′67. His main office is currently located in Boston, with branch offices in Jerusalem and Toronto. Safdie has taught at McGill, Yale and Ben Gurion Universities, and was Director of the Urban Design Programme and lan Woodner Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He has written numerous articles and books, most notably Beyond Habitat, Form and Purpose, Jerusalem: The Future of the Past and The City After the Automobile. In addition to receiving many honorary degrees, he has been awarded the Order of Canada, the Governor General′s Gold Medal and the 1995 Gold Medal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. In 1990, McGill University in Montreal established the Moshe Safdie Archive, a collection of drawings, models and sketchbooks from over 125 projects, which is open to the public. Wendy Kohn practises architecture and teaches on the East Coast and in California. She has contributed as editor and writer to many publications, edited Moore Ruble Yudell: Campus and Community, and collaborated with Moshe Safdie to write The City After the Automobile. Michael Sorkin is an architect practicing in New York City and author of numerous writings on architecture. He is also Director of the institut für Städtebau Akademie der Bildenkunst, in Vienna. Witold Rybczynski, the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of the best–selling The Most Beautiful House in the World, Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture, and most recently, City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World. Peter G Rowe is Dean of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design. He has written numerous books, including Design Thinking, Making a Middle Landscape, and Modernity and Housing. Paul Goldberger, the Pulitzer Prize–winning architecture critic, is chief cultural correspondent for The New York Times.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Moshe Safdie
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: like_new