If Walls Could Talk: Architect Moshe Safdie Shares his Life in Architecture

Architect Moshe Safdie is joined by Sam Lubell, executive editor of Metropolis Magazine, for a conversation that charts Safdie’s over 50-year-career and his vision for the role architecture can and should play in society at large. The event celebrates the debut of Safdie’s memoir, If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture. Rizzoli Bookstore will sell books at the event.
Safdie has built some of the world’s most influential and memorable structures-from Habitat ’67, the radical modular housing scheme in Montreal; Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel; the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas to extraordinary projects in Singapore such as the iconic integrated resort Marina Bay Sands and Jewel at Changi Airport which features an indoor rainforest and waterfall. 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.