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Moshe Safdie has been practicing architecture for almost 60 years. He has designed headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, with satellite offices in Jerusalem, Shanghai and Singapore (and occasionally Toronto). His oeuvre encompasses more than 100 completed buildings, including the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, communities and master plans on five continents and an even greater number of projects and competition entries. It is impossible to discuss all his projects in one lecture, so this presentation will cover those projects which were either designed for Canada or built in Canada.

SPEAKER: Maria Somjen has a B. Env. Des, B. Arch and LL.B. from Dalhousie University. Before her retirement she worked for the government of Canada as a Project Director mostly restoring federal heritage buildings in Ottawa. Her last major project before retirement was the management of the renovation to the Canadian Museum of Nature, which took ten years, and subsequently the planning of the renovation of the Supreme Court of Canada.