Moshe Safdie joins the podcast to discuss his new memoir, how he turned his college thesis into Montreal’s Habitat 67, and redefining how people interact with the built environment.
The late architect and former dean of Columbia GSAPP dedicated himself to public projects consistent with his politics, from the Rose Center for Earth and Space at New York’s Natural History Museum to the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock.
This month, ongoing exhibitions include a display of park bench prototypes by Scottish designers on the grounds of Mount Stuart, a palatial 18th century estate on the Isle of Bute.
A dossier of 1960s and ’70s pedagogical experiments from around the world, a new book collects accounts of teaching techniques and organizational models that resonate today.