Moshe Safdie
Biography
Moshe Safdie’s designs embrace the qualities of ritual, ceremony and symbolic practices that have historically been important to public, cultural, and religious life. Safdie is an Israeli born Canadian landscape architect who considers that architecture should be a natural extension of its surroundings, whether the surroundings are urban or rural, ancient or entirely new. He says that architecture “has a responsibility to contribute richly to its setting and enduringly to its community”. With offices in Toronto, Boston and Jerusalem, Moshe Safdie & Asosciates have designed a variety of international projects that celebrate culture including Vancouver Library Square, British Columbia, Canada and the Khalsa Heritage Memorial complex in Punjab, India.
Websites
http://www.msafdie.com/
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature162.htm
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/Safdie/safdie_bio.htm
Valley of the Destroyed Communities
The Valley of Destroyed Communities is a major part of the Yad Vashem complex. Peter Boiger is a sculptor who collaborated with Dan Zur, an Israeli landscape architect to create a maze environment of stone, which commemorates the Jewish communities of Europe who were destroyed by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.
Books
Critical regionalism: architecture and identity in a globalised world - L. Le Lefaivre & A. Tzonis (L)
Article
Valley of the Destroyed Communities (PDF, 1.21 MB) S Egoz, Landscape New Zealand, July/August 2002
Shlomo Aronson
Biography
Schlomo Aronson is the owner and director of Shlomo Aronson and Associates in Jerusalem. The firm is a multi-disciplinary office of landscape architects, architects and town planners. Trained as an architect and landscape architect at Berkeley and Harvard, he has practiced in his home country for 30 years. His projects are often layered within important archeological sites and his have varied from planning the trans-Israeli highway, to a promenade overlooking the old city of Jerusalem. One of his latest works is the Tel Aviv airport which engages people with a deeper understanding of the regional landscape. He is regarded as Israel’s leading landscape architect and has a world-wide reputation.
Websites
http://www.s-aronson.co.il/Projects.html
http://www.s-aronson.co.il/Ben-Gurion-International-Airport.html
Books
Dreaming gardens; landscape architecture and the making of modern Israel - Kenneth Helphand (L)
Making Peace with the Land - Shlomo Aronson (L)
* Key to availability in Canterbury:
A = Alice in Videoland (Christchurch)
C = Canterbury Public Library
L = Lincoln University Library