Moshe Safdie will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2016 National Design Awards of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The museum states, ?The Lifetime Achievement Award is given in recognition of a distinguished individual who has made a profound and long-term contribution to the contemporary practice of design.? Safdie and his fellow recipients will be honored at the 17th annual National Design Awards gala in New York in October.

Yad Vashem, Har Hazikaron, Jerusalem, 2005. Image Courtesy of Timothy Hursley

Moshe Safdie will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2016 National Design Awards of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The museum states, ?The Lifetime Achievement Award is given in recognition of a distinguished individual who has made a profound and long-term contribution to the contemporary practice of design.? Safdie and his fellow recipients will be honored at the 17th annual National Design Awards gala in New York in October.
The Lifetime Achievement Award honors recipients in a range of design disciplines, but has previously been won by architects, including James Wines of SITE in 2013 and Michael Graves last year. In describing Safdie's merits for receiving this year's Award, the museum said: Over a celebrated 50-year career, he has continued to explore the essential principles of socially responsible design with a disti...