Habitat 67 turns 40 this year. This site has everything you ever wanted to know about that icon of urban housing. I was quite young then but this housing project was just one of many things that made me proud to be a Montrealer during that Expo summer.
Habitat ‘67 developed out of architect Moshe Safdie’s 1961 thesis design project and report ("A Three-Dimensional Modular Building System" and "A Case for City Living" respectively). The building was realized as the main pavilion and thematic mblem for the International World Exposition and its theme, Man and His World, held in Montreal in 1967 (movie).
Born of the socialist ideals of the 1960s, Safdie’s thesis housing project explored new solutions to urban design challenges and high-density living. His ideas evolved into a three-part building system which pioneered the combined use of a three-dimensional urban structure, specific construction techniques (the prefabrication and mass-production of prototypal modules), and the adaptability of these methods to various site conditions for construction conceivably around the world (Safdie would later be commissioned to design other 'Habitat' projects in North America and abroad). More.
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