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Architects -- Canada -- Biography.
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Safdie, Moshe, 1938-
Architects -- Canada -- Biography.
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If walls could speak : my life in architecture /
Moshe
Safdie
.
by
Safdie
,
Moshe
,
1938-
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022.
Call #:
720.92 S128i
Subjects
Safdie
,
Moshe
,
1938-
Architects -- Canada -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780802158321 (hc.)
Alternate title:
My life in architecture
Edition:
1st ed.
1st Grove Atlantic hardcover ed.
Description:
352 p. : col. ill.; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"Over more than five decades, legendary architect
Moshe
Safdie
has built some of the world's most influential and memorable structures-from the 1967 modular housing scheme in Montreal known as "Habitat" and the Yad Vashem memorial in Israel, to the Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas and the Marina Bay Sands development and extraordinary Jewel Changi airport interior garden and waterfall in Singapore. For
Safdie
, the way a space functions is fundamental; he is deeply committed to architecture as a social force for good, believing that any challenge, including extreme population density and environmental distress, can be addressed with solutions that enhance community and uplift the human spirit.
Safdie
always refers to the "silent client" an architect must ultimately serve: the people who live, work in, or experience a building. If Walls Could Speak takes readers behind the veil of an essential yet mysterious profession to explain through
Safdie
's own experiences how an architect thinks and works-"from the spark of imagination through the design process, the model-making, the politics, the engineering, the materials." Relating memorable stories about what has inspired him-from childhoods in Israel and Montreal to the projects and personalities worldwide that have captured his imagination-Safdie reveals the complex interplay that underpins every project and his vision for the role architecture can and should play in society at large. Illustrated throughout with drawings, sketches, photographs, and documents from his firm's voluminous archives that illuminate his stories, If Walls Could Speak ends with a chapter outlining seven projects
Safdie
would pursue around the world if resources and will were no issue and the choices were his to make. A book like no other, If Walls Could Speak will forever change the way you look at and appreciate any built structure"--From publisher.
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