MOSHE SAFDIE:

MUSEUM ARCHITECTURE 1971 - 1998

If I forget thee, Jerusalem, Between Memory and Identity

PROJECTS

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal Quebec, Canada:

The New Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion

"The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, of all museums I know, perhaps will be the most urban in its experience."

P. Theberge, "Interview with Moshe Safdie", Musée 13:4 (Montreal, June 1991), p. 19.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

 

Client: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal

Date of competition: 1985

Architects: Moshe Safdie and Associates, Architects

Collaborating Architects: Maurice Desnoyers, Andre Mercure, and Georges Lemay

Lighting consultants: Jules Fisher, Paul Marantz, Charles Stone, Susan Brady

Furniture: Jerry Adamson

Environmental sculpture: Betty Goodwin, in collaboration with the architect Peter Lanken

Area: 23,225 sq. m.

Materials: White Vermont marble, colored granite, limestone, concrete, glass, stainless steel

Cost: $55 million

Time of construction: 1987-1991


Moshe Safdie Exhibition

Beginnings

Events

Projects

The Safdie Project

Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery

Israel National Museum of Science