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If Walls Could Speak - My Life in Architecture (Hardcover)
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If Walls Could Speak - My Life in Architecture (Hardcover)
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One of the world's greatest and most thoughtful architects recounts
his extraordinary career and the iconic structures he has
built--from Habitat in Montreal to Marina Bay Sands in
Singapore--and offers a manifesto for the role architecture should
play in societyOver 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 in, 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.
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