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With Intention to Build: The Unrealized Concepts, Ideas, and Dreams of Moshe Safdie

The exhibit was on display in the McCormick Gallery at the BAC from October 2022 to January 2023.

Date

October 12, 2022 - January 02, 2023

Location

McCormick Gallery

For More Info

McCormickGallery@the-bac.edu

Cost

FREE

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On display at the
McCormick Gallery.

Pompidou Center Competition Model, 1971. Courtesy of Safdie Architects.
Pompidou Center Competition Model, 1971. Courtesy of Safdie Architects.

Focusing on the most seminal of Moshe Safdie’s unbuilt projects, the exhibit by Safdie Architects takes viewers through the evolution of concepts and ideas developed over a 55-year practice. The exhibit showcases materials used in the creative process - models, drawings, sketches - alongside news articles, photographs, commentary, and artifacts, to offer broader context and tell the unpublished stories behind the designs. These ideas converge to show how integral the unbuilt work is to Safdie Architect’s evolving practice. Please join us on October 27, 2022, for a brief gallery talk and reception.

The exhibit was on display in the McCormick Gallery at the BAC from October 2022 to January 2023.

Date

October 12, 2022 - January 02, 2023

Location

McCormick Gallery

For More Info

McCormickGallery@the-bac.edu

Cost

FREE

Categories

Events   Exhibit   McCormick Gallery Exhibit  

On display at the
McCormick Gallery.

As an architect committed to building and impacting the environment, I've always considered designs developed without intention of building to be incomplete statements. So much of reality, be it economics, the force of gravity, or construction feasibility can be ignored as to make such architectural productions less relevant. But there is another category of unrealized designs. These are designs conceived with intention to build, resolving the varied forces that constrain and shape architecture, that then, because of external circumstances of one kind or another, remain on the drawing boards. These projects, numerous for every practicing architect, form a fascinating track through a thought process and a career. In the case of my own practice, some of the most significant works have been designed, detailed, and yet not built; significant in the sense that they embody ideas and concepts of great import.

Moshe Safdie

Exhibits at the McCormick Gallery
Moshe Safdie by Michal Ronnen.
Pompidou Center Competition Model, 1971. Courtesy of Safdie Architects.
McCormick Gallery
Pompidou Center Competition Model, 1971. Courtesy of Safdie Architects.
Pompidou Center Competition Model, 1971. Courtesy of Safdie Architects.
McCormick Gallery
Pompidou Center Competition Model, 1971. Courtesy of Safdie Architects.
Pompidou Center Competition Model, 1971. Courtesy of Safdie Architects.
McCormick Gallery
Pompidou Center Competition Model, 1971. Courtesy of Safdie Architects.

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