MOSHE SAFDIE:
MUSEUM ARCHITECTURE 1971 - 1998
If I forget thee, Jerusalem, Between Memory and Identity
PROJECTS
Exploration Place, Science Center and Children's Museum, Wichita, Kansas |
"This is a museum which expresses structural concepts, but I don't know how to express, resolve, or invent them without technology. […] I'm too much of a rationalist, or at least I believe I am, and that influences the way I think." Ami Ran, "I Like Humor, But I Don't Allow Myself to Joke in My Buildings: An Interview with Moshe Safdie", Israeli Architecture, 24, (1996), p. 8. |
Client: Exploration Place, Inc. |
Date of the competition : 1994 |
Architects : Moshe Safdie and Associates, Architects; Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey & Associates, Architects |
Area : Approx. 27,000 sq. m. |
Materials : Bricks, plaster, lead coated copper (for the roofs) |
Time of construction : 1997-1999 |