MOSHE SAFDIE:
MUSEUM ARCHITECTURE 1971 - 1998
If I forget thee, Jerusalem, Between Memory and Identity
PROJECTS
Hebrew Union College, King David Street, Jerusalem |
"I did not want a group of buildings, but a singular fabric of many parts, like the Armenian Quarter." Moshe Safdie, Jerusalem: The Future of the Past (Montreal: Optimum, 1984), p. 175. |
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Client: Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio |
Purpose : An institute of Jewish studies - education, research, documentation and exhibitions. Also included in the campus area is the Skirball Center for Biblical and Archaeological Research. |
Architects : Moshe Safdie and Associates, Architects |
Landscape Architect : Ronald Levinger |
Exhibition design : Dorit Harel |
Environmental sculpture : Vera Ronnen-Wail, Mati Greenberg |
Area : 20,000 sq. m.; exhibition spaces - approx. 300 sq. m. |
Materials : Stone, concrete, glass, aluminum |
Cost : $32 million |
Time of construction : 1976-1989 |