Today, as architecture is reasserting its role in popular culture, the architect Moshe Safdie’s buildings are exemplars of what has been be termed progressive contextualism — an important way of thinking globally about building. Accompanying a traveling exhibition, Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie explores this renowned architect’s buildings and the philosophy that shapes them. Safdie’s canonical works combine the social activism and advanced technologies of modernism, with profound respect for historical and regional context.
