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“The public often thinks a building can be functional but ugly as hell. To me, that’s impossible.”
Moshe Safdie is one of the world’s most iconic and inventive living architects, with projects that include Montreal’s famed Habitat 67 housing complex and the prismatic Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem. Safdie has a luminous legacy in the form of his buildings and, at 84, he now also has a memoir: If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture, which is out in October.
Safdie’s life story is studded with personal tragedy—like losing his second child, Dan, to SIDS—and moments of levity: one night, security guards caught Safdie and his then-wife Nina noisily dismantling a much-loathed public sculpture on the Habitat grounds. But If Walls Could Speak is primarily a professional memoir, an account of the complex politics involved in any major building project, and an expression of Safdie’s lifelong belief that architecture can, and must, be a force for social good.
Full interview here
On newsstands now:
A complete guide to our roller-coaster economy
This is a uniquely confusing economic time. Ballooning inflation, mounting debt, a massive labour shortage, a distorted housing market—and have you seen gas prices? How did everything get to be so fiscally wacky, seemingly all at once? And how can we make it all better?
In the September 2022 issue, Maclean’s got 11 big thinkers to break down everything you need to know to understand Canada's economy right now:
- Mike Moffat asks how rent prices got so high
- Vass Bednar eulogizes delivery apps
- Ryan Clements analyzes the crypto implosion
- Gisèle Yasmeen discusses price hikes in the grocery aisles
- And much more!
Also in this issue:
- My impossible life as a family doctor in Canada: A memoir
- Canadians open up about struggles over food insecurity
- Moshe Safdie on the current state of architecture
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