Habitat '67 was designed by architect Moshe Safdie for the 1967 world's universal exposition in Montreal.
The exposition was entitled "Man and his World" as the title of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece. Housing was one of the main themes of Expo 67. Saint-Exupéry wrote: "We have to make lively this new house that doesn't have a face yet. The truth for one was to build; it is, for the other, to occupy it."
Habitat '67 was designed to integrate the variety and diversity of scattered private homes with the economics and density of a modern apartment building. Modular, interlocking concrete forms define the space. (Montréal, 2006)

   

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