If Walls Could Speak av Moshe Safdie

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<p>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 to the Marina Bay Sands development 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.<br><br><i>If Walls Could Speak </i>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 worl