MOSHE SAFDIE:

MUSEUM ARCHITECTURE 1971 - 1998

If I forget thee, Jerusalem, Between Memory and Identity

PROJECTS

Hebrew Union College, King David Street, Jerusalem

"I did not want a group of buildings, but a singular fabric of many parts, like the Armenian Quarter."

Moshe Safdie, Jerusalem: The Future of the Past (Montreal: Optimum, 1984), p. 175.

Hebrew Union College

 

Client: Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio

Purpose: An institute of Jewish studies - education, research, documentation and exhibitions. Also included in the campus area is the Skirball Center for Biblical and Archaeological Research.

Architects: Moshe Safdie and Associates, Architects

Landscape Architect: Ronald Levinger

Exhibition design: Dorit Harel

Environmental sculpture: Vera Ronnen-Wail, Mati Greenberg

Area: 20,000 sq. m.; exhibition spaces - approx. 300 sq. m.

Materials: Stone, concrete, glass, aluminum

Cost: $32 million

Time of construction: 1976-1989


Moshe Safdie Exhibition

Beginnings

Events

Projects

The Safdie Project

Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery

Israel National Museum of Science