Article: THE SINGULAR MOSHE SAFDIE A passion for design has brought world acclaim -- and controversy -- to the Boston architect

SOMERVILLE -- Somehow, Canada's favorite architect, designer of practically every major public building up there for the last 10 years, has his office in Somerville. From a converted rattan-chair factory in bad need of a haircut (the brick exterior supports a rank, unweeded garden of English ivy, bittersweet and other, more mysterious, vines) has come the design of Ottawa's City Hall, the Canadian National Gallery, the Quebec Museum of Civilization, the Montreal Museum of Art and the Vancouver Public Library, among other things. And he is Israel's most prominent architect: He has a satellite office in Jerusalem, is planning Modi'in, a new city of 50,000 homes, and the gigantic arrival ...

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