Early Bloomer.

Safdie's prose shares with his built work a certain disappointing resistance to the notion that lasting works of architecture might be driven as much by intellectual as material concerns. If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture, by Moshe Safdie. After leaving Israel at age 14 for Montreal, where both the long winters and "somber" buildings came as a shock, Safdie enrolled in the architecture program at McGill. [Extracted from the article]