Moshe Safdie   Singapore   Based on the geometry of a torus, the gridshell, supported by 14 tree-like columns, stems from an edge-beam that surrounds the whole airport starting at the fifth floor, marking the transition of the cladding, which goes from aluminum panels to glass

The software developer Epic Games and the visualization firm Neoscape have created an interactive model showing how architect Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67 housing development in Montreal would have appeared had it been fully realized. Epic Games and Neo

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Moshe Safdie (Haifa, 1938) and Robert Stern (New York, 1939) are almost the same age, come from middle-class Jewish families that originated in Europe, and run major practices on the U.S. East Coast, but no modern Plutarch would describe their profes

The Guardian   Rowan Moore   From his 60s utopian housing development to infinity pools in the sky, the Israeli-Canadian architect has always designed larger-than-life buildings. Now 84, he has written a memoir about the obsessional energy that still fuels his career. Once, Mosh

The Richest   Vrushali Padia   Architects who become popular for making iconic monuments make big bucks off their skills. A combination of three disciples of engineering, environmental science, and art, Architecture is an influential career. As the countries continue to grow and h

From the great greenhouses of the 19th century to the ‘climatops’ proposed by Richard Buckminster Fuller in the mid-20th century, taming nature to reproduce it in artificial environments has been one of the major impulses of modernity. So has it been

Wolf Foundation   Over a long and distinguished career spanning 50 years, Moshe Safdie has produced a body of work of great originality and artistry in the field of architecture and urbanism. He is also a distinguished educator and in his numerous publications he has

Moshe Safdie The Israeli, Canadian, and American architect Moshe Safdie has received the 2015 AIA Gold Medal at the age of 77. This prize, given annually by the American Institute of Architects, “honors an individual whose significant body of work ha

Since the year 1907 the American Institute of Architects has given its Gold Medal to professionals deemed influential in architectural theory and practice. The prize for 2015 goes to Moshe Safdie, born in 1938 in Haifa (Israel) but based abroad since

Moshe Safdie   My Life in Architecture