Context: The Work of Moshe Safdie and Associates

Catalog of an exhibition on the work of Moshe Safdie & Associates held at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Brookdale Center, from April 26 to June 6, 1982, co-sponsored by the New York Institute for the Humanities, the Samuel Rudin Professorship in the the Humanities of New York University, and Hebrew Union College. Small 4to, 24 unnumbered pages stapled together, printed stiff wraps. As stated in the introduction by Richard Sennett, this is the first in a series of exhibitions sponsored by the New York Institute for the Humanities exploring the relationship between architectural design and the social conditions of cities. Per Sennett, “No architect could more fittingly open this series. Moshe Safdie has been acclaimed internationally for his ability to fuse a bold visual language of his own with the peculiar economic, historical, and political circumstances of cities as diverse as Montreal, Mexico City, Jerusalem, and Boston, and of smaller communities in the Canadian Arctic, Senegal and Australia. His is uniquely an architecture of ‘context’.” Includes notes on about twenty projects: habitats, office towers, schools, a museum, a hotel/casino, condominiums, residences, urban design. Also includes descriptions of photographs present in the exhibition but not reproduced in the catalog. The only listing in the World Catalog, at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, does not mention a separate publication with the photos, so presumably this is the only printed reference to the exhibition. A scarce piece of ephemera associated with an important architect, urban planner, and educator of the late 1960’s and beyond. Light rubbing and toning to extremities