Beyond Habitat
Cambridge, Mass: M.I.T. Press, 1970. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with blue lettering; 244 pp; illustrated in bw. VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso.). Item #184467
ISBN: 9780262190831
"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."-publisher.
OCLC: 96852
Price: $40.00