If Walls Could Speak

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If Walls Could Speak is a revealing, compulsively readable memoir chronicling an extraordinary life?from Haifa to Montreal to Boston and the world?intersecting with global leaders, artistic luminaries, and impossible-to-please and visionary clients alike.No prior book has taken readers so personally into the mind of an architect and behind the scenes of the creation and construction of seminal, world-famous structures. It brings architecture alive as the high-stakes intersection of art, business, and politics.From his first project?the now-legendary ?Habitat? in Montreal in 1967?and in those in the U.S. and on many other continents since, Moshe Safdie has sought to connect inside and outside, the built environment with the natural world.Some of Safdie's projects completed in the United States include the Salt Lake City Public Library in Utah, the Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah, GA, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AK, the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, CA, and the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. He is also designing the new Meta/Facebook office in Menlo Park as of May 2022.His book is also beautifully written, as Safdie has collaborated with acclaimed author and writer Cullen Murphy.If Walls Could Speak is illustrated throughout with some 200 black-and-white photographs, drawings, sketches, and other materials from Safdie's archives. A 16-page insert section contains spectacular color photographs of Safdie's most iconic structures. The jacket and interior are designed by Pentagram, the award-winning design firm with whom Moshe Safdie has worked on numerous of his projects, and the book will be a stunning production.We expect jacket blurbs from a fascinating and diverse group, all close friends of Safdie's, who would never otherwise appear together on a jacket: acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, bestselling author Stephen Greenblatt (The Swerve), former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power (now Administrator of the US Agency for International Development), and noted designer and architect Maya Lin (who designed the Vietnam Memorial, among many others).