In 1990, Moshe Safdie, the McGill-trained architect, author and educator,
generously donated his archives as an on-going bequest to the Canadian
Architecture Collection (CAC) at McGill University. The Safdie Archive, the
largest of the 75 fonds of major Canadian architects administered by the CAC,
is one of the most extensive individual collections of architectural documentation
in Canada. Consisting of more than 100,000 drawings, well over a hundred linear metres
of project files, more than a hundred sketchbooks, extensive photographic documentation,
hundreds of presentation boards and some models, the Archive records the progression of Safdie's career
from his first unpublished university papers and design projects to the present.
Accompanied by extensive audio-visual material, the Safdie Archive provides
numerous opportunities for students and researchers to examine not only the
work of Moshe Safdie, but the nature and scope of contemporary architectural
documentation as well. Updates for more recent competitions and projects in
progress are now also represented in the Moshe Safdie Hypermedia Archive.