MOSHE SAFDIE:
MUSEUM ARCHITECTURE 1971 - 1998
If I forget thee, Jerusalem, Between Memory and Identity
PROJECTS
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Paley Center, Youth Wing of the Rockefeller Museum, Jerusalem |
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"[It is] important that the building should not represent an intrusion of a political or aesthetic nature." Meir Ronnen, "Invisible Museum in Jerusalem", The Jerusalem Post, 23 January 1978. p. 5. |
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Client: The Jerusalem Foundation |
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Architects : Moshe Safdie and Associates, Architects |
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Area : 1,380 sq. m. |
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Materials : Local Jerusalem stone, concrete, steel, glass |
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Cost : 6.5 million Israeli pounds |
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Time of construction : 1973-1977 |