Opening on March 16 and running until May 22, 2016, a major retrospective explores the work of international architect and 2015 AIA Gold Medal?winner Moshe Safdie. Tracing the trajectory of Safdie?s more than 50-year career, Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie investigates Safdie?s evolving design philosophy and pioneering contributions to the field of architecture through a presentation of models, drawings, films, and photography from more than 30 Safdie Architects projects.
The show focuses on pivotal points in the development of Safdie?s design philosophy, ?progressive contextualism??the belief that a building should be an extension of its physical, historical, and cultural environments. Organized into five sections, the exhibition examines Safdie?s formative years as an undergraduate and the launch of his practice in 1964; the establishment of a branch office and work across Jerusalem in the 1970s; a period of major institutional commissions across North America throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s; a more recent phase of diverse commissions in new global centers in India, Singapore, and China; and examples of his firm?s current mega-scale work confronting the challenges of dense urbanism around the world. Curated by Donald Albrecht, in coordination with local firm NADAAA and Safdie Architects, the exhibition will include large-scale models of built, unbuilt, and in-process projects from throughout the firm?s history, as well as materials from the...