MOSHE SAFDIE:
MUSEUM ARCHITECTURE 1971 - 1998
If I forget thee, Jerusalem, Between Memory and Identity
PROJECTS
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Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California |
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"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. |
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Client: Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles |
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Aim : A museum of American Jewish life. |
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Architects : Moshe Safdie and Associates, Architects |
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Interior design : Jean-Jacques Andre, Moshe Safdie |
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Landscape Architect : Emmet Wemple and Associates |
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Lighting consultant : Fisher, Marantz, Stone & Associates |
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Environmental sculpture : Vera Ronnen-Wall |
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Area : 11,612 sq. m. |
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Materials : Stainless steel, pink stone, concrete, glass, green slate |
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Cost : $ 40 million |
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Time of construction : 1986-1995 |