{"product_id":"9781864706383","title":"For Everyone a Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003eMoshe Safdie achieved worldwide recognition as an architect when his very first building, Habitat 67, at Expo in Montreal, proved to be eminently livable. He was also enthusiastically praised as a writer on architectural and human values after the publication of his first book, Beyond Habitat (The MIT Press, 1970). He has since added to his luster a number of exciting architectural projects, and now this second book, For Everyone a Garden, goes beyond Beyond Habitat in several ways: it provides further detail and technical specificity of Safdie's experience with industrialized building methods for architects and engineers; it updates the status of ongoing projects; and, best of all, it throws off a cascade of sparkling new ideas about people, building, planning, sites, processes, and their interactions. His readers will be glad to know that he remains as outspoken as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is an integral synthesis of words and pictures. The greater part of its total net area is devoted to illustrations—about 125 drawings, 165 halftones, and 5 color photographs, supported by substantial captions—while the text proper puts these into perspective from four thematic points of view: the idea of the three-dimensional community; the requirements and possibilities of human habitation, ranging in amenity from the minimal to the luxurious; the techniques of building in the factory, with a case study that includes a typical plant layout and simplified flow diagrams; and the attributes of well-planned urban meeting places, whether in Jerusalem, Paris, or San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe specific projects discussed in the book range from a proposal to convert Expo into a viable community of a quarter-million people after the close of the exhibition to his plans for a synagogue and rabbinical college near the Western Wall in Jerusalem. There are also reports on Safdie's more recent commissions, including the following:\u003cbr\u003e—Two projects intended for Manhattan along the East River. In one, the pre-built housing modules were to be suspended from cables. For everyone, a garden and a view.\u003cbr\u003e—The original plans for Habitat Puerto Rico, a cluster of modules clinging to a hillside, and a geometric variation designed to root like a cactus to a rocky peninsula in the Virgin Islands. For everyone, a private garden within a natural community garden.\u003cbr\u003e—Habitat Israel: even near the desert, a garden terrace for every family.\u003cbr\u003e—Habitat Rochester, a community for low- and moderate-income families, with units of minimal size, but all with a small terrace beyond sliding glass doors.\u003cbr\u003e—Coldspring New Town, Baltimore, a Commission of 1971. It promises to be one of the few \"garden cities\" in America to live up to the name in reality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Images Publishing Dist Ac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019103322352,"sku":"9781864706383","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781864706383_p0.jpg?v=1763601341","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781864706383","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}