CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK
ARCHITECTURE LIBRARYMoshe Safdie: Selected Bibliography
Books:Safdie, Moshe. The city after the automobile : an architect's vision. Toronto : Stoddart, 1997.
On Reserve.___________. Moshe Safdie . London : Academy Editions ; Lanham, Md. : Distributed in the
USA by National Book Network, 1996. On Reserve.Moshe Safdie : buildings and projects, 1967-1992. Montreal ; Buffalo : Published for Canadian
Architecture Collection, Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art, McGill University
by McGill-Queen's University Press, c1996. On Reserve.The Harvard Jerusalem Studio : urban designs for the Holy City. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,
c1986. On Reserve.Moshe Safdie : building in context = Moshie Safudei : 1970. Process Architecture no. 56.
Tokyo : Process Architecture Pub. Co., c1985. On Reserve.Moshe Safdie, Canadian architect : a bibliography / Huls, Mary Ellen. Monticello, Ill. : Vance
Bibliographies, <1985>. Ref. NA680 .Z927 no. A-1470. (shelved by Index table)Form & purpose : is the emperor naked? Aspen, Colo. : International Design Education
Foundation, 1980. On Reserve.Beyond Habitat. Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press <1970>. On Reserve.
Habitat; Moshe Safdie interviewed by John Gray. Montreal, Tundra Books <c1967>.
On Reserve.
Books listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library.
Articles (Selected from 1988-2000):
“Library as urban placemaker: a metal box full of ideas for Salt Lake City's new library.” / Brian
Taggart. Competitions. 2000 Summer, p.[40]-53.“Moshe Safdie Associates: Exploration Place science center and children's museum, Wichita,
Kansas.” / Lawrence W. Speck. Architecture2000 Nov., v.89, n.11, p.98-105.“An urban city design with nature in mind.” / Jordan M. Rosenfeld. Urban land 1998 Oct., v.57,
n.10, p.60-63.“Interview with Moshe Safdie.” / John Czarnecki. Crit 1998 Spring, n.41, p.22-25.
“Inhabiting Habitat.” / Joseph Baker. Canadian architect 1997 Aug., v.42, n.8, p.30-32.
“Public-private partnerships revitalize downtown Wichita.” / Jerry Jones. Urban land 1997 Jan.,
v.56, n.1, p.9-11.“City on a hill: Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California.”/ Karen D. Stein. Architectural
record 1996 Aug., v.184, n.8, p.[94]-101.“A theatrical metaphor in lights: Ford Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver, British Columbia.
/ Nayana Currimghoy. Architectural record 1996 Nov., v.184, n.11, suppl., p.[24]-27.“Canadian colossus: Library Square, Vancouver, British Columbia, Moshe Safdie and Associates,
Architect.” / Christopher Thomas. Architecture. 1995 Oct., v.84, n.10, p.72-79.“Civic lessons.” / Trevor Boddy. Canadian architect 1995 Feb., v.40, n.2, p.13-15.
“From systems to architecture.” / Ann C. Sullivan. Architecture 1995 Oct., v.84, n.10, p.101-105.
“Monumental complexity: the new wing of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal.” Canadian architect
1992 June, v.37, no.6, p.28-31.“Unquiet union: Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada,
Moshe Safdie & Associates, Architect.” Architecture 1992 Aug., v.81, n.8, p.68-[73].“Reading Herod's purpose.” / Christopher Hume. Landscape architecture 1990 Sept., v.80, no.9, p.39-40
“Canadian design: with a spectacular grand slam in museum design, Moshe Safdie carves the
cultural future of Canada.” / Karin Tetlow. Interiors 1988 Apr., v.147, no.9, p.103-109.
Articles listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library.
Web Sites of Interest:
Moshe Safdie and Associates. www.msafdie.com/
The Moshe Safdie Hypermedia Archive. At McGill University.
imago.library.mcgill.ca/cac/safdie/. Offers Safdie’s biography, a bibliography,
and project overviews among other information.Moshe Safdie: A Bibliography. An on-line supplement (1997) imago.library.mcgill.ca/blackader/safdbibs.html
Moshe Safdie: Great Buildings Online www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Moshe_Safdie.html
J. Connorton
January 2001