MOSHE SAFDIE:

MUSEUM ARCHITECTURE 1971 - 1998

If I forget thee, Jerusalem, Between Memory and Identity

PROJECTS

Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California

"The Skirball Cultural Center is architecture for a city where buildings are experienced at 60 miles per hour."

"An Interview with Moshe Safdie" (Los Angeles: Skirball Cultural Center, 1996), p. 3.

 

Client: Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles

Aim: A museum of American Jewish life.

Architects: Moshe Safdie and Associates, Architects

Interior design: Jean-Jacques Andre, Moshe Safdie

Landscape Architect: Emmet Wemple and Associates

Lighting consultant: Fisher, Marantz, Stone & Associates

Environmental sculpture: Vera Ronnen-Wall

Area: 11,612 sq. m.

Materials: Stainless steel, pink stone, concrete, glass, green slate

Cost: $ 40 million

Time of construction: 1986-1995


Moshe Safdie Exhibition

Beginnings

Events

Projects

The Safdie Project

Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery

Israel National Museum of Science