Safdie, Moshe, 1938- author.

Beyond Habitat / Edited by John Kettle.

[Montreal] Tundra Books of Montreal, 1970.

244 pages illustrations 24 cm

When the apartment complex Habitat (Moshe Safdie, architect) appeared fully formed at Montreal's EXPO 67, it was greeted as a victory for humane values within the human jungle, an urbane solution to the housing crisis in the urban centers of the world. Wolf von Eckhardt wrote that it "answers a need so burning that it simply melts all the ifs and buts.... Safdie has dared a new answer to our urban housing problems.... Habitat may well constitute the first real victory of the modern industrial revolution." Beyond Habitat is a highly personal statement - almost a diary - covering the author's life and career before Habitat, his struggle to transform Habitat from a "design solution" on paper to a living reality, and his general ideas on housing and other matters since its completion. The book is illustrated with halftones of his buildings.the apartment complex Habitat (Moshe Safdie, architect) appeared fully formed at Montreal's EXPO 67, it was greeted as a victory for humane values within the human jungle, an urbane solution to the housing crisis in the urban centers of the world. Wolf von Eckhardt wrote that it "answers a need so burning that it simply melts all the ifs and buts.... Safdie has dared a new answer to our urban housing problems.... Habitat may well constitute the first real victory of the modern industrial revolution." Beyond Habitat is a highly personal statement - almost a diary - covering the author's life and career before Habitat, his struggle to transform Habitat from a "design solution" on paper to a living reality, and his general ideas on housing and other matters since its completion. The book is illustrated with halftones of his buildings.

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Safdie, Moshe, 1938-
Architects Canada Biography.
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Canada
Canadian Architects.
Israeli Architects.
Cluster housing Canada Québec (Province) Montréal 1960-1970.
Multiple dwellings Canada Québec (Province) Montréal 1960-1970.
Modular construction Canada Québec (Province) Montréal 1960-1970.

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Localisation: Bibliothèque main montreal 186754
Cote: NA44.S128.A35 1970
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