Award-Winning Architect Moshe Safdie Focuses On Humanizing High Rises

If you've ever been to the the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem, or the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, or the U.S. federal courthouse in Springfield, you have seen the work of the architect Moshe Safdie.

The Israeli-born, Somerville-based architect has designed some 50 projects around the world over the course of his 50-year career, and has more than 15 additional projects under way right now.

Later this month, he'll receive the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Moshe Safdie, architect, urban planner, educator, theorist and author. He tweets @SafdieArchs.