Yad Vashem: Moshie Safdie- The Architecture of Memory.

SAFDIE, Moshe.

Item Number: 42068

Jerusalem: Yad Vashem Publications, 2006.

First edition. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To John Rogers with best wishes Moshe Safdie April 24 2015.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Contributors include: Joan Ockman, Moshe Safdie, Avner Shalev and Elie Wiesel.

Yad Vashem was established in 1953. In 1957, a first building opened with administration, archive, and library facilities, followed in 1961 by the ceremonial Hall of Remembrance and a basic exhibit. A museum was inaugurated in 1973, and over the years a series of institutional spaces, memorials, gardens, and artworks were added. This culminated in Spring 2005 with the inauguration of a museum of Holocaust history and ancillary structures, designed by Moshe Safdie. This work explores how architecture copes with commemoration.