Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie will make its East Coast debut at the National Academy Museum in New York on September 10, 2015. The exhibition, which traces the trajectory of 2015 AIA Gold Medal Recipient Moshe Safdie's life and work over the course of his more than 50-year career, has been specifically updated for the National Academy presentation and features a new focus on projects devoted to issues of dense urbanism, together with an expanded section exploring the firm's recent and ongoing work across Asia. Curated by Donald Albrecht, an independent curator and curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of the City of New York, Global Citizen is on view at the National Academy through January 10, 2016.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the National Academy Museum will sponsor a public conversation on art and architecture, context and culture between Moshe Safdie and acclaimed writer and architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff on Thursday, September 24 at The New York Academy of Medicine. Additional public programs during the course of the installation will be announced early in the fall. An updated iteration of the show will subsequently be presented from February 15–May 13, 2016 at BSA Space, Boston's leading center for architecture and design, and home to the Boston Society of Architects and the BSA Foundation for Architecture.
Comprising more than 175 objects, the revitalized Global Citizen includes significant new content, and a new exhibition design by architect Nader Tehrani, founder of the Boston-based design practice NADAAA. The exhibition is organized into five sections, with each dedicated to 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. For its New York premiere, the show will feature a new, introductory chapter installed in the main lobby of the National Academy. Serving as a preamble to the entire show, this new section explores a selection of projects that bracket Safdie's five- decade commitment to innovative housing: beginning with Habitat '67 in Montreal, the revolutionary complex that launched Safdie's international career; to two unbuilt Habitat schemes for New York City, developed in 1967-68; and culminating with the newly opened Sky Habitat Residential Tower in Bishan, Singapore, a 21st century realization of the Habitat concept, illustrated by a model never before on public view.
To accompany the expanded exhibition, Scala Publishers is reissuing the sold-out exhibition catalogue with new content by Moshe Safdie, including the text of his Gold Medal acceptance speech at AIA 2015 convention, as well as updated project photography. The 160-page catalogue contains essays by Moshe Safdie; Donald Albrecht; and critic, historian, and theorist of modern and contemporary architecture Sarah Williams Goldhagen.
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