moshe safdie

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Definition of moshe safdie in English English dictionary

born July 14, 1938, Haifa, Palestine Israeli-Canadian architect. Educated at McGill University School of Architecture, Montreal, he began his career in the offices of Louis Kahn. His Habitat '67 was a bold experiment in prefabricated housing using modular units; the design was for a prefabricated concrete housing complex of individual apartment units stacked irregularly along a zigzagged framework that was evocative of an Italian hill town or a pueblo. This aroused intense international interest but failed to catch on as a low-cost housing construction method. Later works include Yeshivat Porat Joseph Rabbinical College in Jerusalem (1971-79) and Coldspring New Town near Baltimore (1971). He served as director of urban design at Harvard University, 1978-84

Hyphenation

Mo·she safdie

Turkish pronunciation

mōşe säfdi

Pronunciation

/mōˈsʜe ˈsafdē/ /moʊˈʃɛ ˈsæfdiː/