5 facts about Moshe Safdie

Moshe Safdie CC FAIA FRAIC OAA (Hebrew: משה ספדיה‎; born July 14, 1938) is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author who claims Israeli, Canadian and American citizenship. Over a 50-year career, Safdie has explored the vital principles of socially held responsible design through a accumulate and selfless design philosophy. Safdie is an important architect of the second half of the twentieth and in front twenty-first century because of his multiculturalism, commitment to geographic, social and cultural elements that define a place, and constant search for typological and technological innovation. Safdie’s projects append cultural, educational, and civic institutions; neighborhoods and public parks; housing; mixed-use urban centers; airports; and master plans for both existing communities and agreed new cities. Safdie has had projects in North and South America, the Middle East, and throughout Asia. He is most identified behind designing Marina Bay Sands and Jewel Changi Airport, as with ease as his debut project, Habitat 67, originally conceived as his thesis at McGill University. This led to his international career. Safdie is considered a thought leader and his exemplary projects have inspired generations of architects and architecture.