MOSHE SAFDIE:

MUSEUM ARCHITECTURE 1971 - 1998

If I forget thee, Jerusalem, Between Memory and Identity

PROJECTS

Exploration Place, Science Center and Children's Museum, Wichita, Kansas

"This is a museum which expresses structural concepts, but I don't know how to express, resolve, or invent them without technology. […] I'm too much of a rationalist, or at least I believe I am, and that influences the way I think."

Ami Ran, "I Like Humor, But I Don't Allow Myself to Joke in My Buildings: An Interview with Moshe Safdie", Israeli Architecture, 24, (1996), p. 8.

 

Client: Exploration Place, Inc.

Date of the competition: 1994

Architects: Moshe Safdie and Associates, Architects; Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey & Associates, Architects

Area: Approx. 27,000 sq. m.

Materials: Bricks, plaster, lead coated copper (for the roofs)

Time of construction: 1997-1999


Moshe Safdie Exhibition

Beginnings

Events

Projects

The Safdie Project

Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery

Israel National Museum of Science