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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.' And The Architects Journal confirmed that it is 'One of the most advanced housing projects ever conceived and certainly the boldest exercise in industrialized building methods attempted to date. [It] puts an end to the myth that industrialized building necessarily gives rise to an architecture of uniformity, monotony, drabness and soulless repetition.'Beyond Habitat is a highly personal statementalmost a diarycovering 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.Safdie's account of how Habitat came to life demonstrates dramatically that building housing appropriate to today's cities is much more than an architectural jobit's also a political one in getting a design approved at several levels of bureaucracy, and a technological one of getting it implemented through the use of massproduction techniques. Safdie's stunning success at EXPO 67 is thus based on his architectural originality, his tenacity as a political infighter, and his receptivity to new methods of industrial production.As for the future, an article in Business Week noted that if Safdie is to extend his housing revolution beyond Habitat, 'He must persuade dozens of government officials, organize scores of disparate trades, sway a swarm of labor unions, and sell his ideas to thousands of apartment huntersa skyscraping order from a young architect. But says one EXPO official, 'He just might do it. He got Habitat builtfrom politics to concrete when he was an unknown 26yearold architect who had never designed a building of his own before.''His book is a search for ways to embody these ideals in realistic and concrete form.
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