CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK 
ARCHITECTURE LIBRARY

Moshe 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