In accepting the LEAF Lifetime
Achievement Award in London recently,
Moshe Safdie urged the assembled
architects, designers, and educators in
the building profession to turn their
attention to our global cities.
“Humanizing mega scale is the single
most urgent task that awaits us in the
decades to come,” Safdie stated. He
went on to say, “Neither the privacy of a
house, nor the community of a village,
are possible now without major new
inventions which transcend individual
buildings. They demand a new urban
vision.”
Citing the pressing issues that
architects must tackle, Safdie urged the
audience, “At a time where our cities are
both thriving and ailing, proliferating
to accommodate the majority of
humankind, yet increasingly depriving
us from the fundamental qualities of
life, not only light, air and nature, but
the deprivation of mobility; the erosion
and privatization of the public realm;
now is the time to declare, once again,
that it is the cities we create that really
matter.”
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Safdie was recognized for his careerlong commitment to innovations in
housing, urban design and humanistic
architecture. Earlier this year, Moshe
Safdie was named the 2015 Gold Medal
recipient by the American Institute of
Architects. He has been the recipient
of numerous awards, honorary
degrees, and civil honors, including the
Companion of the Order of Canada, the
Gold Medal of the Royal Architectural
Institute of Canada, la Medaille du
Merite from the Order of Architects of
Quebec, Canada, and Israel’s Rechter
Prize.
A special thanks to all of our sponsors
who helped put this fantastic event and
evening celebration together and to
our esteemed judging panel.
To view the LEAF Awards website and
the complete shortlist of entrants
please visit:
www.arena-international.com/
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