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Safdie, Moshe
(b Haifa, Palestine [now Israel], 14 July 1938). Canadian–Israeli architect. When he was 15 his family moved to Canada where he later studied at McGill University school of architecture (1955–61), Montreal, under the guidance of H. P. D. Van Ginkel. In his thesis, Three Dimensional Modular Building System of 1960 (recalling Le Corbusier’s ‘plug-in concept’), he clearly drew on his early childhood experience combined with the ideas of modern architecture. During his apprenticeship with Louis Kahn in Philadelphia (1962–3), Safdie was impressed by Kahn’s integral use of composition, building materials, space and daylight to create structures that monumentalized the characteristics of regional forms. Also in Philadelphia he had his first introduction to the work of D’Arcy Thompson and his morphological theories of vernacular architecture. Both of these philosophies profoundly influenced Safdie’s future works.
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- Safdie, Moshe
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- Canada, §II, 2: Architecture, 1867 and after
- Canada, §V, 1: Interior design: Architectural
- Canada, §XIII: Museums
- Exhibition architecture, §4: Developments since 1945
- Israel, §II: Architecture
- Montreal, §1: History and urban development
- Rationalized construction, §2: Prefabrication
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